Mark, I think I can help you on the battery front. I’m running the 6S+ with 9.1, a 6 with 9.1 and several iPads with 9.1. When you first start out with a device the battery circuits need a bit of celebration. It’s not like the old days where a battery was just a battery. There’s complex little circuits embedded in the batteries that actually control their discharge and manage their operation. These need to calibrate and this is also why you should calibrate your phone once per month or so. Charge and fully discharge the phone a few times and you should see far better battery life. Also, once you install the OS and the phone restarts, reboot it one time further. Use the holding of the home and power buttons to accomplish this. A restart after the phone initially boots has also helped me clear many a drain issue. Once your new installs stabilize I think you’ll find that your battery life has improved. Let me know if this helps at all.
Thanks Scott > On Oct 22, 2015, at 5:30 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Well, last night, I finally installed iOS 9.1 on my 6 Plus. > > For me, there are no proverbial show-stoppers. > > 1. > However, given that I have been in an ongoing dialog with Apple engineers, I > am a little disappointed that the camera app zoom VoiceOver bug still > persist. However, on a positive note, at least, enabling VoiceOver, after > zooming in on an image, no longer cancels the zoom. Baby steps, eh? > (smile). > > 2. > I am surprised at how much I miss having the time announced when waking the > phone. > > 3. > Perhaps it's just me but I swear the quality of Samantha has been greatly > degraded in this version. I just don't understand why, with every major > release since iOS 6.x, the quality of Samantha has been steadily declining. > Of course, this is just my opinion. What I do find interesting is that > Samantha's pronunciation of words that were absolutely correct in iOS 8, has > been changed and are now incorrect in iOS 9.1. > > In iOS 8.x, I found the high quality version of the Samantha voice somewhat > pleasant, in iOS 9.x, I find it unsettling, to say the least. I cannot > imagine having the current Samantha voice reading long stretches of texts, > whereas in the previous iOS, this would not have even been at issue. Is > Apple trying to force everyone to Alex? (Yes, a conspiracy theory). > (Smile). > > 4. > Also, the SMS Reply To dictation feedback problem is very, very annoying. > > For those who disagree, let me say that I respect your opinion. Also, the > feedback is not much of a problem if one dictates using either a Bluetooth > or wired headset. I suppose it is not much of an issue if one only dictates > 1 or 2 words. However, if one attempts to dictate a full sentence, then the > feedback becomes problematic as a kind of feedback loop ensues causing a > great deal of random text to be inserted as Siri, hearing VoiceOver, begins > to dictate to itself. > > 5. > I know this comes up every time a new OS is released but it seems to me as > though my battery drains faster since updating from 8.x to 9.1. I just > turned off a lot of items that were active in the background app refresh > area so I'll see how it goes. However, I can tell you that I updated a > total of three 6 plus phones, yesterday, two from iOS 9.0.2. Now, even > though both of those two phones that were already running 9.x, were plugged > into an outlet at the time of the update, via OTA, both had less charge > after updating than they did, before the update began. I've never seen such > a thing before. > > 6. > As always, I have sent my findings to Apple. > > 7. > Finally, and I want to be clear on this: Updating the OS OTA (over-the-air) > is in no way the same as installing it from iTunes via a USB cable. For > whatever reason, there does seem to be a pattern of more problems when going > from iOS 8.x to 9.x via OTA. > > What is the difference between the OTA method and the iTunes method? In > short, updating OTA does not rewrite the file allocation table and file > structures, just for starters. When you update via iTunes, it is as if you > are doing a fresh install as all of the file tables and data clusters are > actually rewritten to the disk.. > > Want proof of this? No problem, here's how to verify the difference. When > you use the OTA method, you will notice that any custom keyboard shortcuts > you may have added remain, after the update. However, when you update via > iTunes, you will discover that only default keyboard shortcuts exist, > meaning you will have to rewrite your custom keyboard shortcuts. > > I wish I could lay claim to having learned about the difference between the > two methods, independently but I was told of the difference by a senior > Apple iOS design engineer. > > I'll be honest, I have not used the iTunes method since the OTA option > became available but now that I have had several of my recent syncing > problems resolved after having used the iTunes method, I'll probably use it > from now on, when possible. > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
