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Aaaand it's fixed... I didn't do anything specific. It took a few hours (?!) after the upgrade. It scored many times low, but now it seems to score at a normal

Aaaand it's fixed... I didn't do anything specific. It took a few hours (?!) after the upgrade. It scored many times low, but now it seems to score at a normal level (3000+). Really wonder what the explanation for all of that is.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Background process doing some sort of migration or other data conversion between versions? Strange the device wouldn't wait until during the night while plugged in, but without context, that might not be an option.
- bigphishy 5y ago
  Kind of sad that we don't have a top or process viewer. Or free -m / open system. This makes me yearn for an open source OS on my phone again, I may have to look into a pine phone.
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  - raspasov 5y ago
    Yes... I remember back in the day I had terminal with root access on a jailbroken iPhone. You could install almost any package on your phone via terminal.
  - lifty 5y ago
    I agree, but it shouldn't be a classic process viewer. It should be a task viewer which has some context or understandable description. Like "photo analysis job" or "iOS 14.5.1 data migration job".
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  - saagarjha 5y ago
    If you connect your iPhone to your Mac you can run Instruments on it to figure out what is going on. I used to recently to figure out that Slack had been making my entire phone slow because it was busy looping in the background.
- tgv 5y ago
  Might explain why my battery dropped that much, too.
- mxcrossb 5y ago
  Stick a fan in it so I can hear if a background process is being run!
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DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
Indexing or rebuilding I guess.
- yardstick 5y ago
  Yeah pretty sure it’s this. Have seen various complaints about both macOS and iOS sluggish performance post upgrade to end up being just temporary while caches / indexes rebuilt, file systems migrated etc
  - raspasov 5y ago
    Likely, yes. The thing is, the phone does not "heat up". Perhaps they throttle the whole phone down globally and let the background update processes run at a slow speed/low priority so they don't heat up the phone too much.
- kwdc 5y ago
  Yet no notification. The goblins inside the ios doing their thing behind closed doors. Even a heads-up saying "hey we're doing some work behind the scenes on your device as part of the upgrade" would do.
  - raspasov 5y ago
    That's potentially a good idea. It could even be hidden in the developer section, since those are the people most likely to notice.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Is there mention of this in any of the dialogs that one is asked to click "I have read and understand" that were not actually read? I remember Photos telling me that it was scanning the library to do their new layout after whatever update that was. That was to that specific app, and not a system wide notification, but it also said it would be paused until it was plugged in. I could see a new something in the Settings that indicates post-OS upgrade showing migration status being useful.
pawsforapplase 5y ago
One of iOS' more annoying quirks is its opacity and lack of user affordances. The volume buttons don't seem to affect haptic noises, but the mute button does. The OS locks up for about a minute when you change passcodes while it re-crypts everything, but from the user's perspective it just looks frozen. The implications of opting into their 'find my...' and iCloud networks are not adequately explained. The devices take 15-30 seconds to actually cut power after they appear to shut down, and during that time they won't respond to any button presses. The list goes on, using a modern iPhone feels like you are constantly negotiating with a disingenuous UI. The OS regularly claims to be done with something while it continues working furiously in the background, and it is full of undocumented exceptions to common settings.
xallarap 5y ago
To slow you down so you can't sudoku faster than the queen bitx. Or maybe to allocate resources to background daemons that attack wielders of non-iphones.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

Background process doing some sort of migration or other data conversion between versions? Strange the device wouldn't wait until during the night while plugged in, but without context, that might not be an option.

bigphishy 5y ago
Kind of sad that we don't have a top or process viewer. Or free -m / open system. This makes me yearn for an open source OS on my phone again, I may have to look into a pine phone.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- raspasov 5y ago
  Yes... I remember back in the day I had terminal with root access on a jailbroken iPhone. You could install almost any package on your phone via terminal.
- lifty 5y ago
  I agree, but it shouldn't be a classic process viewer. It should be a task viewer which has some context or understandable description. Like "photo analysis job" or "iOS 14.5.1 data migration job".
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- saagarjha 5y ago
  If you connect your iPhone to your Mac you can run Instruments on it to figure out what is going on. I used to recently to figure out that Slack had been making my entire phone slow because it was busy looping in the background.
tgv 5y ago
Might explain why my battery dropped that much, too.
mxcrossb 5y ago
Stick a fan in it so I can hear if a background process is being run!
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

DeliriumTrigger 5y ago

Indexing or rebuilding I guess.

yardstick 5y ago
Yeah pretty sure it’s this. Have seen various complaints about both macOS and iOS sluggish performance post upgrade to end up being just temporary while caches / indexes rebuilt, file systems migrated etc
- raspasov 5y ago
  Likely, yes. The thing is, the phone does not "heat up". Perhaps they throttle the whole phone down globally and let the background update processes run at a slow speed/low priority so they don't heat up the phone too much.
kwdc 5y ago
Yet no notification. The goblins inside the ios doing their thing behind closed doors. Even a heads-up saying "hey we're doing some work behind the scenes on your device as part of the upgrade" would do.
- raspasov 5y ago
  That's potentially a good idea. It could even be hidden in the developer section, since those are the people most likely to notice.
- dylan604 5y ago
  Is there mention of this in any of the dialogs that one is asked to click "I have read and understand" that were not actually read? I remember Photos telling me that it was scanning the library to do their new layout after whatever update that was. That was to that specific app, and not a system wide notification, but it also said it would be paused until it was plugged in. I could see a new something in the Settings that indicates post-OS upgrade showing migration status being useful.

pawsforapplase 5y ago

One of iOS' more annoying quirks is its opacity and lack of user affordances. The volume buttons don't seem to affect haptic noises, but the mute button does. The OS locks up for about a minute when you change passcodes while it re-crypts everything, but from the user's perspective it just looks frozen. The implications of opting into their 'find my...' and iCloud networks are not adequately explained. The devices take 15-30 seconds to actually cut power after they appear to shut down, and during that time they won't respond to any button presses. The list goes on, using a modern iPhone feels like you are constantly negotiating with a disingenuous UI. The OS regularly claims to be done with something while it continues working furiously in the background, and it is full of undocumented exceptions to common settings.

xallarap 5y ago

To slow you down so you can't sudoku faster than the queen bitx. Or maybe to allocate resources to background daemons that attack wielders of non-iphones.