iPhone 6 Plus and iOS 9 major lag

I was in love with my iPhone 6 Plus until 9.0. Now I feel like I have an old Android phone. The smooth transitions and speed is absolutely what sets iOS apart from the rest. I read that it has something to do with iOS running natively at 750p and then upscaling to 1080p on the 6 Plus. IDK what most of that means but I expected way more quality control from Apple. I guess what people are saying is true. Apple is resting on their laurels.

Compared to the iPhone 6, the 6+ model has 1 million more pixels to push and that's why it had to be shipped with more RAM in the first place. iOS 8 could have been just right, but iOS 9 is definitely using more resources and the poor 6+ can't cope with it.

Since first posting in this thread, I turned off transparency and that seemed to have cured the lag for the most part on my iPhone 6 Plus 16GB (iOS 9.1). Yeah, it's not athstetically pleasing, but whatever. If rather have my device perform over looking good. Still having an issue where quick-reply text gets hung up and almost impossible to use. Not sure if that's an app issue or iOS. Still very frustrating to be so unreliable. But now I'm experiencing an issue where my device crashes. The screen turns blank and hardly responds. I have to turn off and back on for it to work "properly" again. I had to restart my device 4 times yesterday. And also the still disappearing keyboard is a problem. Anyone else experiencing these issues? This is by far the worst user experience I've ever had on any iPhone I've ever owned going back to my 3G!

Apple, are you even listening?!?

Finally, I tried second 9.2 beta and no more lag. Seems like next 9.2 GM update will fix the lag issue. If you want to try it, make sure you backup first, in case you would want to switch back to 9.1. Also it takes couple of hours for lag to go away after installation, for some reason. App switcher and message notifications from the top no longer lag, as well as keyboard popup is fluid.

Everything everyone has said here is exactly the same experience I am having on my 6 Plus 128gb. I feel like the lag problems have been happening for a while and have definitely seemed to actually get worse with each new iteration of the iOS. I am at the point now where there are decent stretches of many seconds where my phone will not even respond to touches on the screen or the home button. When suddenly it will "catch up".

As has been stated here many times over, this situation really is disgraceful. I believe that (like him or hate him) Steve Jobs, is probably rolling over in his grave right now knowing that his company is putting out what can only be described as a "Sub-Par" product. I truly believe it's something he would not have stood for. His absence becomes more and more pronounced as time passes.

I have been an iPhone user for many years now, and I am even an Apple Watch owner. For most of that time, I was happy with my choice. But lately with these laggy bug issues and the seeming lack of interest in acknowledging or solving them on Apple's part, the only thing keeping me holding on is the fact that I am so entrenched with the applications that I use. At this point, If I thought that a Windows phone would have all of the applications that I enjoy on my iPhone, I would probably jump ship. I am a PC guy in general anyways.

Until now I have really had nothing bad to say about my Apple products, because they used to ALWAYS work... THAT was the real draw and charm of all of the iPods, iPhones, iPads I have owned (and it's quite a few). The bells and whistles have been great and they make it fun... but the fact that I could DEPEND on my phone to ALWAYS work, was the real "WIN" for Apple.

Bottom line... They aren't "WINNING" any more...

May I point out that ranting, raving or cussing at what a bad product/system/service/company Apple is on these forums will grant you no solution and, maybe, just a little feel good sentiment at having unloaded the poison.

Apple runs these places but does not visit. Just us regular humans who sign up and, maybe, use the products. We can suggest the course of actions we might have taken and might have worked, IF the problems you describe have afflicted us. But by and by, given the traffic on the forums and the fact that several hundreds of millions of the iGadgets have been sold, the earth-shattering cataclysmic worldwide problems might not be quite so.

You're absolutely right, Courcoul. I cannot speak for everyone here but, I am not at all expecting a solution to these issues by voicing my opinions and iOS 9 experiences on this site. It do find it comforting to know others are experiencing the same issues and that I am at least not alone.

I am very envious of you and anyone else who's iOS device hasn't experienced any performance issues going from 8.x to 9.x, and I truly mean that. :-/

Besides myself (former: iPhone 5, current iPhone6+, iPad4), I have colleagues at work totaling 9 other iGadgets. We all are @9.1 and have experienced none of the issues described in this thread, thus my puzzlement as to why it happens. I've always suspected that the carrier has at least some bearing and guilt on the matter (coincidentally, we're all on Mexico's Telcel, with fairly good and reliable 4G/LTE service).

50 posts, some by the same users and some not relevant to the actual problem over a period of more than a month is not something that is going to catch the eye of Apple on here. The ones that Apple may get involved in have hundreds to thousands of posts regarding an issue that Apple is able to reproduce. Your initial best course of action will be to reset your iPhone as new and try to use it without any other apps installed to see if the behavior exists when only stock information is loaded. If it does, then take it to an Apple Store so they can run a diagnostic on it and check into potential hardware issues. If the problem only exists after you load a backup onto the iPhone then there has to be something with your configuration to cause the issue.

I fixed the issue. For those interested. Yesterday, I reset the settings from the bottom at General settings menu -- Reset menu -- Reset All Settings (won't delete nothing, just small stuff, like Notifications config, emojis used daily, and that stufff). The issue was fixed once done. Now, I don't even have reduced transparency enabled and is even smoother than when the reduced transp., was enabled. Is even faster! Trust me!. Try it out. At least it worked for me.

Just wanted to chime in to say I'm now on the 9.2 Public Beta 3, and I'm not experiencing the weird wake-button lag on my iPhone 6 anymore. Looks like iOS 9 might be in a pretty good place before the end of the year, so that's good.

I'm really disappointed with this new iOS 9. It's not acceptable to read, how can you disable some animations and effects, to improve the device 1 year old with new OS. It's true, the new iOS 9 don't have smooth animations, like iOS8. The phone works horrible. I feel cheated because, Apple promised to work in this version, for improve the performance and bugs fix, but in this version, I received more bugs and slow performance than before with ios 8. Please fix this ios version soon, because we do not deserve it. Thank you!

Using iPhone 6 (16gb)

I side with al of you here on this discussion as well. I currently own a iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB version and since the 9.0 original release my phone has been acting like trash. I though Android was laggy and issue corrupt but wow Apple better get their stuff together cause I cannot go on like this much longer. It takes 15 seconds to load my screen from time of fingerprint scan. It also lags from apps, web browsing, network and a wide variety of other problems as well... I will be looking at other phones soon if a patch doesn't fix this cause I am not buying another 1k iPhone for 3D Touch.... & 4K videos... I may not be buying anymore Apple products for a matter of fact due to their inconsistancy of iOS ...

I got my iPhone 6 Plus from Verizon January 2015. It's the 128 GB, Space Gray. It has always been laggy, but I've just "rolled" with it. It's getting worse now. Several times a day, I'll turn my phone on and the screen is frozen or I can start going through Facebook, Clash of Clans, text messages, etc. and then it will suddenly freeze and touch screen doesn't work. I find that just locking the phone and then unlocking it works and allows the touch screen to start working again. Sometimes my phone won't lock though and will just stay lit up and won't go to a blank screen. I'm using the Verizon Edge program. I don't know if I should just go back there and use my insurance to see about getting a new phone or if I should just go to an Apple store and see what they can do. I've been reading some of these posts and they all seem to be because of the update. I don't know if mines related to the update or if I just got a lemon and this is a hardware issue. I got the 128GB because I planned on keeping this phone for awhile, but it's gotten slower, so what's the point of having all this space if it's just going to slow down like a Windows 3.1 computer? Any advice?