anyone else notice stuttering animation on the iphone 5S

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anyone else notice stuttering animation on the iphone 5S

I went from the iphone 5 on ios 7 to the 5S and the animations on the 5S stutter about 50% of the time. specifically opening and closing folders and opening and closing apps.

ios7 on my iphone 5 runs buttery smooth. I thought the 5S is supposed to run better not worse.

anyone else having this issue and any suggestions? I believe that the software version for the 5S is not quite optimized at it should.

ios7 on the 5 went through 6 betas with thousands of developers running the betas reporting bugs. No one had the 5S so maybe its version of ios 7 is not quite finished.

any thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks

iPhone 5s

Posted on Sep 28, 2013 6:17 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 29, 2013 4:08 PM in response to jmco173

Hi !

Happy to hear someone has the same issue... It effectively happens 50% of the time. Even when scrolling the background images in the settings, you can see the animation is sometimes not fluid.

Perfect animations on my iPhone 5 too everywhere/all the time.

As this is the first time I see someone suffering the same issue as me, I hope it's not a hardware issue.

BTW, did you make a fresh install of your 5S or did you use a restore from your iPhone 5 backup ?

Cheers

Seb

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jmco173 Author

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Sep 29, 2013 4:26 PM in response to sebnoumea76

I initially set up the 5S from a 5 backup. After noticing the stuttering I did a full restore and set up as a new phone.

No real difference.

Hopefully a software bug. I would have though that if this was a wide spread issue there would be more written on it.

If future ios7 updates don't fix then I will try to exchange the phone.

JC

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Answer 3

Sep 29, 2013 4:50 PM in response to jmco173

This might not be the same issue you're talking about, but I noticed a little hiccup when returning to the home screen from an app or a folder, as though the screen was jerking/clicking into place for lack of a better description. Fixed it by turning on 'Reduce Motion' in the General/Accessibility menu - this disables the (in my opinion, pointless) parallax effect on the screen and cures the weird little jerking effect when returning to the home screen.

Again, probably not the issue you're talking about but worth a shot!

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Sep 29, 2013 4:55 PM in response to jmco173

Thanks JC for your reply, it saves me a lot of work !

I'll do the same as you if the next 7.x update doesn't resolve the bug.

Cheers

Seb

edit PS : we're not alone : http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1643977

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Answer 5

Sep 29, 2013 4:56 PM in response to Hannibal Chew

Hi Hannibal Chew,

I think you're spot on. That's exactly the same issue I have.

Cheers

Seb

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jmco173 Author

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Sep 29, 2013 5:40 PM in response to sebnoumea76

Seb

The issue that Hannibal Chew is talking about as well as the macrumors forum is different than what I am experiencing.

Although I have noticed this also

What I am experiencing happens wether parallax is on or off. The animation of the folder opening and closing as well as apps opening and closing seems to stutter as it is not one fluid movement like on the 5. The apps still run fine and it does not seem to effect the performance of the phone but it is quite the annoyance. iOS has always been know for its smoothness especially on new hardware.

As I mentioned it does not happen all the time. I placed my 5 next to my 5s and tapped the same folders and apps.

The 5s would stutter on occasion, about 50% more or less while the same action on the 5 would not stutter even once.

Is this the same behavior you are seeing? If not then maybe i just got a bad phone.

Thanks.

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Answer 7

Oct 10, 2013 9:21 AM in response to jmco173

I have the same problem. I think everything was fluent the first few days but now animations like closing apps and folders are stuttering. Whereby not all apps and folders are affected but it's still annoying.

PS: I have the iPhone 5S.

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Answer 8

Oct 10, 2013 2:49 PM in response to jmco173

Hi jmco173,

Sorry I didn't see your last post.

No I don't have this issue. Mine is completely different and is probably related to the sensorgate story...

Cheers

Seb

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Seshtai

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Oct 20, 2013 5:39 AM in response to jmco173

Actually restoring and setting up as a new phone resolved the issue for me. Even I was facing upto 50% stutter but happy to say that its all gone now.

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Answer 10

Oct 21, 2013 7:56 AM in response to Seshtai

I've set up my iPhone 5s as new one when I got it, the issues started maybe one week after that. I don't want to restore it again now, I'll wait for 7.0.1.

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jmco173 Author

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Oct 21, 2013 8:00 AM in response to loligeslol

Hello

I have restored and set up as a new phone twice. Did not resolve the issue. The current software versiosn is 7.0.2 and it has stutterred all 7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2.

I am hoping that 7.1 which should be out soon (hopefully) resolves this.

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Answer 12

Nov 6, 2013 10:36 AM in response to jmco173

Same problems with my 5S.

It really annoys me cause this makes it feel even slower than my girlfriends iPhone 5.

I noticed another bug with the animations that doesnt appear to be present on the iPhone 5/C and 4S:

When I scroll through my multitasking windows (which often lags/stutters as ****) and I then press Home to go back to my main screen, the animation is a little different. If you look closely you will notice that the animation doesnt doesnt stop when the Icons are zoomed into place. With a 1 second delay the Icons seem to pop/stretch into the right position. This is annoying as **** once you noticed it. Happens all the time when quitting multitasking view.

"One annoying example: the zoom-in transition animation that displays when the user opens any app from within the multitasking interface is very smooth up until the last instant. Just as the app screen has zoomed in nearly all the way, there is a brief stutter as the image fills out the last bit of space approaching the edges of the iPhone’s screen." source: bgr.com

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fearz

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Nov 7, 2013 12:38 AM in response to kimthepostman

5S 32GB here...AT&T...SAME ISSUE even after 7.0.3! and YES my 5S feels SLOWER than my iPhone5!

WHAT A SHAME!

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Nov 14, 2013 6:48 AM in response to fearz

Well my Iphone 5s 32 gb is definitely faster than 5 otherwise.. after 7.0.3 update the animation in dialer became smoother( used to stutter before while zooming in) and spotlight search integrated web n wikipedia search ; and last the parallex an all animations can be stopped all together so no unlock and immediately dialing delay;;

But a new bug came up... while zooming in gallery from years to days ..theres a stutter!! Its annoying as it never happened before as it is the only single bug in my flawless handset.

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Answer 15

Nov 14, 2013 9:41 AM in response to jmco173

If they won't fix this until the end of the year I'am going to sell my 5S. I feel like the upgrade from my iPhone 5 to the 5S wasnt worth the extra money. Very disappointing!

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