Q: iOS Numbers acting sluggish/freezing on zippy iPhone5
My wife's iPhone5 is used daily to create spreadsheets from the road, as she is a mobile veterinarian. She uses Numbers to create invoices and then email them to her clients on the spot. Her iPhone5 is very fast and snappy with every app and function except Numbers. Numbers loads slow, freezes when trying to scroll through files, and loads files slow (average time 40 seconds to load one file). We freed up 5.5GB of memory by removing all photos and videos and unnecessary programs. Rebooted, restarted using the Home/Sleep button method. Program still acting sluggish. I even turned iCloud on/off and reloaded all data onto phone from iCloud.
She has about 13MB of spreadsheets on there, must be over 100, possibly more.
Is there a software limitation as to how many files iOS Numbers can handle? This has now stopped her mobile business in its tracks, reduced to writing invoices by hand and wasting valuable time between client visits.
I use an iPhone 4S, which has been fine, and her 5 is still very fast and reliable, aside from this one little snag. And we don't feel it necessary to get an iPhone 6S yet. The 4S and 5 are such workhorses, reliable ones at that!
THANK YOU for any help you can offer
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iPhone 5, iOS 9.2.1
Posted on Mar 3, 2016 7:44 AM