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iPhone 5C

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 9.one, its first major signal update to iOS 9. Apple typically takes a few months to put a coat of polish on its major updates, and this i is dropping unusually quickly — as the chart below shows, iOS nine.i spent much less time in beta and so any OS update since viii.1. OS 9.0 had a adequately quick turnaround as well, particularly considering that Apple promised to evaluate its operation on a wider range of devices and has gradually increased the number of products that each OS runs on.

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Apple's listing of bug fixes and changes for the new operating system is shown beneath:

  • Live Photos now intelligently senses when y'all raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos volition automatically not record these movements
  • Over 150 new emoji characters with full back up for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis
  • Improved stability including CarPlay, Music, Photos, Safari, and Search
  • Improved performance while in Multitasking UI
  • Fixes an outcome that could cause Calendar to become unresponsive in Month view
  • Fixes an issue that prevented Game Center from launching for some users
  • Resolves an issue that zoomed the content of some apps
  • Resolves an issue that could cause an incorrect unread mail count for Pop mail accounts
  • Fixes an issue that prevented users from removing recent contacts from new mail or messages
  • Fixes an issue that caused some messages to not announced in Mail search results
  • Resolves an effect that left a gray bar in the torso of an Audio Message
  • Fixes an issue that caused activation errors on some carriers
  • Fixes an upshot that prevented some apps from updating from the App Store

My own personal phone is an iPhone 5c that I bought in December, 2013. I've been quite happy with the telephone overall, but the last update I installed to it was iOS 7.1. Over the last few months, I've begun to have significant browser stability problems; Safari would ofttimes crash repeatedly when accessing webpages that formerly acquired no issues. Resetting the device and clearing data hadn't solved the problem, and while I don't upgrade to the first version of any operating system, I figured 9.one would be a decent exam case.

The upgrade procedure

Upgrading to iOS 9.1 was more often than not painless, though there were a few snags along the way. After jumping through the usual hoops of immigration enough space on the phone and backing it up, I was prompted to install the latest version of Apple'south iTunes. iTunes has been getting steadily worse for years, and the latest version (12.3.1.23) is no exception. Apple has obviously decided that quaint functions similar menus and playlists were obsolete and stripped the final vestiges of the classic iTunes view out of the application. Playlist view is still available, just no longer the default method of grouping content.

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The iOS 9.1 update crashed halfway through the first time around. I had to restore my phone to manufacturing plant settings before I was able to continue the process. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take hold of a screen shot of the fault — I was too decorated watching a dead progress bar on my telephone and praying to the Update Gods that I hadn't just bricked it. Fortunately, things restarted without incident afterwards that. The unabridged process (including immigration space, restarting the upgrade, and upgrading iTunes) took about ii hours. I restored a backup of previous applications, notes, photos, and video in one case I had iOS 9.one installed, which also added some additional time.

Once I had the phone dorsum upward and running, I was pleasantly surprised. Every scrap of data, downwards to previous session cookies in Safari and Notes I'd written in iOS 7 imported perfectly. The Notes app received a major upgrade in iOS nine, but my old notes were rolled into the new application without incident. Generally speaking, everything has "just worked," and while I'thousand not going to run downwards an exhaustive listing of every difference (especially not since I'yard jumping to iOS 9.1 from iOS 7.one, non iOS 8), the changes and improvements I've seen thus far have been improvements. UI transitions are a hair slower than they were, only I can alive with the divergence…

With two, seemingly related exceptions. And they aren't pocket-size ones.

The keyboard and Bluetooth puzzler

Apple tree's new operating systems typically don't amend the performance of older phones, but these issues are typically confined to app performance or UI transitions. My iPhone 5c has no problems there. Its keyboard performance, however, absolutely tanked. iOS nine.1 enables predictive typing past default, simply it was impossible to type with that fashion enabled; it took one-half a second to a second for the text I typed to announced on-screen.

Leaving Predictive text on caused serious problems for my iPhone 5C

Leaving Predictive text on caused serious bug for my iPhone 5C

Disabling both the "Predictive" pick shown below improved performance, merely in that location's however a noticeable input lag between when I type a cardinal on the default iOS keyboard and when the key appears. This problem becomes particularly noticeable if y'all use a pair of Bluetooth wireless earbuds. Nether iOS ix.1, characteristic keyboard "clicks" aren't transmitted equally quickly as they should be. Instead, they're delayed and often crowd together at the end of a message. Instead of hearing a steady "click-click-click," the sound is transmitted as "click—click—click—clickclickclickclickclick." Combined with the notwithstanding-noticeable delay, it makes typing on iOS ix.ane's default keyboard experience extremely clunky.

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Predictive text can be disabled from the settings card.

The keyboard problem, at least, tin be solved by switching to a 3rd-party awarding. Neither SwiftKey nor Swype suffer from the aforementioned delay, Of the two, I'd recommend Swype — while it costs $0.99, SwiftKey slaps a imprint across already-express screen space begging you to give it full access to everything you type, and locks some of its more useful functions behind that particular permission. Swype does neither.

An unremovable pop-up ad unless you give SwiftKey full access? No thank you.

An unremovable popular-upward advertising unless y'all give SwiftKey full admission? No thanks.

I've been unable to fix the Bluetooth trouble. It's but a problem when typing on the keyboard, other audio, like Netflix or sound streaming, works perfectly. Still, keyboard and sound playback are both fairly basic functions; I'm surprised to see a phone stumbling over these issues as opposed to college-level performance. The update does, yet, announced to have stock-still my Safari crashes — I simply would've preferred not trading my keyboard and Bluetooth back up for information technology.

If you lot choose to update to iOS ix.1, feel gratuitous to sound off with your experience. As upgrades go, this one was fairly painless, but I'one thousand hoping a solution crops upward for the keyboard woes.