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Share Your 8.3 Performance, Stability and Battery Life Observations (Per Device)

iPhone 5s
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: I am not noticing any performance improvements myself. Apps seem to open at the same speed, if faster it's negligible. Keyboard may be faster, idk.

Stability: All of my apps work fine so far; however, I did have the phone go to the reset screen with Apple logo while typing in iMessage. It was strange because the phone came back to the lock screen and both apps (Safari and iMessage), including my typed reply were still intact. :eek: I've NEVER had reboots or issues like that on any iPhone (I started with an iPhone 5 on iOS 6)

Battery Life: Can't report on battery life yet. Seems about the same as 8.2.
 
It fixed many issues I was experiencing with my iPhone 6. Unfortunately, there's still too many frames dropped with my iPad air one. Everything works flawlessly when I turn off translucency in the accessibility settings.
 
Two things I have noticed on my 6+. It's faster (smoother animations, everything seems to be loading quicker) and my third-party keyboard, Switfkey, is finally working the way it should have been all along. I am very satisfied with this release.
 
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iph6 working smooth,faster

and finally come the menu for 2/3/lte (I am on poor 3g, many times 1 bar and unreacheable for incoming calls)
 
8.3 OTA from 8.2
I can't get my iPhone 6 plus to connect via LTE, i can connect to 2G/3G/ but not LTE im on Rogers in Canada... I have reset network in settings still no go... Anyone else with the same problem?
 
My phone is working perfectly fine and has been since the very beginning! I don't like the new update and I want to know how to reinstall the iOS 8
 
Battery is fine. Seems stable, thou settings crashed once for me changing location services settings for a friend in my list.
 
iPhone 6 upgraded OTA to 8.3 from 8.2

Performance impressions: Love it, feels very smooth. Very happy with performance.

Stability: All ok so far, no issues with any crashes.

Battery life: A bit early to tell as its my first day using 8.3 but so far it's awesome. This is where I'm at today:
 

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8.3 OTA from 8.2
I can't get my iPhone 6 plus to connect via LTE, i can connect to 2G/3G/ but not LTE im on Rogers in Canada... I have reset network in settings still no go... Anyone else with the same problem?
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Is your "Voice & data" set to 4G?
 
iPhone 6 Plus
8.3 OTA from 8.3 Beta 4

Performance Impressions: Perfect. I have'nt witnessed/noticed any of the bugs being reported.

Stability: Much more solid build. No more little animation quirks from the beta. WiFi works much better for me.

Battery Life: Better than Beta 4, on par with Beta 3. Currently sitting at 92%, Usage: 1 hr, 43 minutes, Standby: 12 hrs, 53 mins.
 
iPhone 6
8.3 OTA from 8.2

iPhone 5S
8.3 OTA from 8.2

The iPod app crashes instantly on both phones since the update. I did a clean restore on both and the issue is still there. Anyone else have a similar problem?
 
ashkanani said:
iPhone 6
8.3 OTA from 8.2

iPhone 5S
8.3 OTA from 8.2

The iPod app crashes instantly on both phones since the update. I did a clean restore on both and the issue is still there. Anyone else have a similar problem?
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No, I am listening to music fine on my iPhone 6. Seems strange it's on both devices. I would try investigating something you changed in the music settings, rysyncing your music, or disabling and re-enabling iTunes Match if you use the service.
 
iPhone 4s
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: Pretty smooth and responsive, specially NC with widgets. The emoji keyboard looks a bit cluttered but I can deal with that. Music app specifically is much responsive now. App-switching is also very smooth!

Stability: Loving it, no crashes and no stutter.

Battery Life: Seems the same as 8.2 and 8.1
 
original iPad MINI and 5s
updated via iTunes

Seems noticeably faster and WiFi seems "stronger".

Too early to tell about battery life.

My experience with updates is that it seems to take 1/2 to a day for performance to settle down - almost as if devices are indexing or something so if this good now it hopefully will be even better.

No problems with any applications yet.
 
iPhone 5S and iPad 3

iPhone 5S
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: Seems faster and smoother than 8.2.

Stability:
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8.3 has brought a number of issues for me:
1. Crashes to :apple: screen and reboot 2-3 times since upgrading. Twice by double-home to app switcher. Nothing in Diagnostics logs
2. Bluetooth errors and stutters audio then a crash of the BT stack. I re-paired my Jawbone ERA to see if that fixes it.
3. Exchange email not updating, even with pull down to refresh until I kill mail and relaunch - first relaunch will crash mail, but then all is good
4. Slow cell data
5. Safari will crash consistently, like trying to make a numbered list in a MacRumours post.

8.2 wouldn't let me open my address book, at least that's fixed.

Battery Life: was draining fast initially, but that seems normal. Let's wait a few days.

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iPad 3
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: Seems more stable performance-wise

Stability: s'ok so far. Used it pretty heavily in last 18 hours. I haven't gotten the reboots I listed above on the iPhone 5S.

Battery Life: about the same as 8.2.
 
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No issues for me, but it's meh overall.




iPhone 6 Plus
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: Seems a little snappier in transitions from app to app. LOVE that they removed rotation to upside down. Haven't noticed any issues, but the stutter/FPS drop when scrolling still remains.

Stability: no crashes in any apps, but safari still spontaneously reloads and errors out from time to time.

Battery Life: no difference. Still really good.
 
iPhone 6 Plus
8.3 iTunes from 8.1.2 Jailbroken

Performance Impressions: Extremely quick, feels very smooth. Haven't noticed any issues.

Stability: All of my apps work fine, not one stuck app during loading.

Battery Life: Big difference between jailbroken and not, my battery is still at a 100% after 20 minutes of light use. Compared to the same when jailbroken I would be down 5% already. We shall see how the day goes.

Dropped my jailbreak for Apple Watch.
 
iPhone 5S
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: Some things are slightly faster than 8.2. Safari, Music, Weather and Health app are still not really good.

Stability: Overall ok. Spotlight seems to hang and doesn't show results. Safari is still glitchy.

Battery Life: Same as 8.2

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rMini 2
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance Impressions: I gave up on iOS8 and hope the best for iO9. Some animations are still slow as molasses. Translucency seems to be the culprit. Spotlight rotation is slow and so on. Yeah! The Airplay icon bug has been fixed (has been buggy since 8.0 beta 1 or 2).

Stability: Ok. No big issues, but Safari gave me 3 page errors so far.

Battery Life: No difference to 8.2
 
iPhone 6 plus
8.3 OTA from 8.2

Performance: improved safari performance, faster scrolling. Faster app loading animations.

Stability: seems to be better stability with Swiftkey, home screen Search. Overall a safe update.
 
iPhone 5S (VZ)
8.3 OTA from 8.2 OTA from 8.1.2 (did both upgrades right in a row this morning)

Performance: Better in all areas

Stability: TBD, really. Haven't done much on it today. I have the TouchID issue mentioned by others where it doesn't come up in the App Store.

Battery Life: Same as 8.1.2 so far
 
My Impressions

iPhone 6 Plus
8.3 OTA from 8.3 Beta

Performance Impressions: Much better, although I do get jittery animations for the weather app. Safari is noticeably faster, and App launching as well.
Stability: Much better the previous updates. Although I didn't have to many issues here before.
Battery Life: Slight improvement but basically the same as 8.2
 
Share Your 8.3 Performance, Stability and Battery Life Observations (Per Device)

iPhone 6

8.3 OTA from 8.2

Perfomance: overall feel is that performs smoother and faster. Still stutters on iBooks and Music apps when scrolling.

Stability: so far so good

Battery Life: didn't gather enough data yet to assess the matter properly.

I will restore from iTunes tonight. I don't expect any difference though. I'll report back.

This version of iOS is the kind of version that Apple used to roll out in September (prior to iOS 7). It comes 7 months late. Hope they don't rush unfinished stuff out in the future.
 
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