Around a week ago, my iPhone 6s Plus began to become laggy, seemingly struggling with every single task from initiating a phone call to scrolling through a contacts list. Many apps freeze up for the first few seconds after they're opened, then perform as if they're being bottlenecked even though the 6s Plus was performing very smoothly prior.
This experience-breaking issue began when my 6s Plus was low on storage, and struggled to store pictures I had taken. This prompted the device to make it appear as if there were no pictures, emails, or contacts on the device even though the data remained as it attempted to re-index it all into iOS. In an effort to rectify this, I have freed up over 6GB of space on my device. It has processed all of the images and videos back into the Photos app, just yesterday restored contacts on its own, but the email app still struggles. It attempts to download mail from the server, then ends up just display's that there's no mail at all -- when before it had archived years of emails.
Unfortunately the device is still acting just as laggy as it was and has made no progress restoring/downloading emails; I wouldn't even be able to use the keyboard on iOS to type this due to the unresponsiveness. Of course I could just restore it and begin anew, but I'm planning on upgrading to the 7 very soon so it's a bit of a waste of time.
Ironically my iPhone 6 Plus exhibited a similar sort of behavior around the 11-month point, and I had chalked it up to being a one-time issue. While I don't believe this is planned obsolescence as it is more more of a coincidence, it is still odd to see a device go from working perfectly to lagging to the point where it is just about unusable with the only real solution being a complete restore. (I may also try deleting all the email accounts off of the device if the indexing in mail is causing it but I believe it's a deeper system issue, unless somebody has had a similar issue and knows another solution. I doubt it will fix it on its own.)
Edit in title: Had Gone*
This experience-breaking issue began when my 6s Plus was low on storage, and struggled to store pictures I had taken. This prompted the device to make it appear as if there were no pictures, emails, or contacts on the device even though the data remained as it attempted to re-index it all into iOS. In an effort to rectify this, I have freed up over 6GB of space on my device. It has processed all of the images and videos back into the Photos app, just yesterday restored contacts on its own, but the email app still struggles. It attempts to download mail from the server, then ends up just display's that there's no mail at all -- when before it had archived years of emails.
Unfortunately the device is still acting just as laggy as it was and has made no progress restoring/downloading emails; I wouldn't even be able to use the keyboard on iOS to type this due to the unresponsiveness. Of course I could just restore it and begin anew, but I'm planning on upgrading to the 7 very soon so it's a bit of a waste of time.
Ironically my iPhone 6 Plus exhibited a similar sort of behavior around the 11-month point, and I had chalked it up to being a one-time issue. While I don't believe this is planned obsolescence as it is more more of a coincidence, it is still odd to see a device go from working perfectly to lagging to the point where it is just about unusable with the only real solution being a complete restore. (I may also try deleting all the email accounts off of the device if the indexing in mail is causing it but I believe it's a deeper system issue, unless somebody has had a similar issue and knows another solution. I doubt it will fix it on its own.)
Edit in title: Had Gone*
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