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New iPad Pro 9.7" stutter ...
- Thread starter TheLondonFella
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Except, you know, Apple has designed their battery management circuitry to precisely manage each cell for the maximum battery lifespan....
There is a reason apple's batteries get rated to 1000 cycles (retaining 80% charge) and actually hold up to them. These guys have put millions of R&D to get their batteries to do exactly what is advertised. Apple has made them idiot proof. Unless you're going to leave your machine plugged into for months at a time just let the hardware do what it was engineered to do and stop worrying about it.
I'm pretty anal about this stuff and fortunately have seen excellent performance so far. It was a clean install. Not by choice, my restore kept failing and it was only later when I slapped my head when I realised I was trying to restore a 9.3 backup to a 9.3.1 Pro, d'oh!
Do see lag when I split the keyboard as the above poster mentions though.
Do see lag when I split the keyboard as the above poster mentions though.
Played with an iPad 9.7 and yep it stutters. Not all the time, but folder openings, control centre, app opening etc all stuttered from time to time. Obviously not the hardware.
Reinforces my choice not to upgrade till Apple fixes this stuff up. I get enough stutter on my iPad 2, (though it took till iOS 8 for that to start happening) that i want my new iPad NOT to stutter.
Reinforces my choice not to upgrade till Apple fixes this stuff up. I get enough stutter on my iPad 2, (though it took till iOS 8 for that to start happening) that i want my new iPad NOT to stutter.
Keyboard has been jacked since iOS 8. iOS 8.0 betas introduced a bug where the split keyboard got graphical glitches (and lags) while splitting or moving. Using the device (scrolling up and down safari) with a split keyboard stutters tremendously, while scrolling has normal performance with the normal keyboard.
Also the bug was introduced that involves the keyboard and Reduce Transparency. If you turn that setting on, there are no key-tap indicators on the light keyboard, dark keyboard is unaffected though.
Oh also, iOS 8 introduced a bug where split keyboards are connected when they pop up at first, then when the animation finishes it abruptly disappears and it looks weird.
I've reported ALL of these bugs to Apple since iOS 8, tons of times through iOS 9 and there have been no responses or bug fixes. Apple doesn't care.
iOS 7 had none of these issues. In fact, the split keyboard was way smoother than the regular one back then on my mini 2. You could have a consistent 60fps keyboard rotation animation with the split keyboard, however with the normal keyboard, stuttery and sluggish like usual. That made sense because less was being blurred, however now it's backwards of what it should be in terms of performance because of shoddy coding.
I don't think I will ever buy another iPad as long as iOS has these stupid inefficiencies. I may as well get a $400 iPad Air 2 if the much more powerful $600 iPad Pro will have all the same stutters due to bad software.
I almost made a new post on this topic before I found this thread. I've had my 9.7 pro for about a week, and there is still very noticeable stutter moving between apps and from apps to the home screen. I also have an Air 1 and side by side the difference is very noticeable - the air is very smooth. Even my wife (who usually can't notice these things) has commented on it as well.
I set the pro up as new and everything in spotlight is disabled.
Has the stutter gotten any better for anyone else?
I set the pro up as new and everything in spotlight is disabled.
Has the stutter gotten any better for anyone else?
I have been noticing a lot of stutter or lag during scrolling on Safari. This is not all pages but many. Thinking of returning iPad because of this. This happened while I was in China with a local SIM card inserted in iPad Pro. Not sure if this is due to SIM card from China or from iPad it's self. Try it again in Hong Kong with 4G SIM card to see if problem persists.
Your stutter would not be because a sim it is because the way iOS is coded the animations are just stutters it sucks and hopefully they fix it but until that glorious day we just have to let it not bother us.
This works! Thanks so much! I hate fade in animation on any device or PC or Mac. You rock for sharing this!
