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I mean is it wrong? It seems plausible to me: we know it does a lot of stuff in the background to make photos searchable, and afaik that's not really synced. Wh

by mort96 3y ago

I mean is it wrong? It seems plausible to me: we know it does a lot of stuff in the background to make photos searchable, and afaik that's not really synced. When a phone is suddenly logged into iCloud and has tens of thousands of photos available, is it that implausible that it'd run hot for a while as it analyzes photos? Not trying to excuse anything here, if you can provide a reason to believe it's not caused by those background processes I'm completely fine with the explanation that iOS is just buggy or the hardware has heat issues. Frankly the behavior does sound pretty bad even if it's "just" the photo analysis thing, the obvious solution would be to 1) make the analysis sync with the photos, and 2) make the background processing slow enough to not notably increase heat/decrease battery life, and 3) have a place in the OS where you can see the progress and tell it to go as fast as possible. Their philosophy of hiding everything from the user doesn't seem to be working well here.

aaomidi 3y ago
A lot of the indexing should preferably happen when you’re sleeping and you’re plugged in.
jeroenhd 3y ago
We didn't accept "it's just indexing" when Windows Vista laptops slowed down after fresh installs and we shouldn't accept it now on phones. As a software developer I find it easy to come up with good explanations for things like these, but as an end user, I don't care. My photos are searchable but I don't think I've ever used that feature, I wouldn't want my phone to get hot and waste battery life indexing a picture of a funny tree I took five years ago. Do that stuff while charging overnight, and keep thermals under control while you do it. You don't need a fancy neural processor to detect that I leave my device plugged in at 100% every night, maybe make use of that obvious excess of downtime and processing power.

by mort96 3y ago

aaomidi 3y ago

A lot of the indexing should preferably happen when you’re sleeping and you’re plugged in.

jeroenhd 3y ago

We didn't accept "it's just indexing" when Windows Vista laptops slowed down after fresh installs and we shouldn't accept it now on phones. As a software developer I find it easy to come up with good explanations for things like these, but as an end user, I don't care. My photos are searchable but I don't think I've ever used that feature, I wouldn't want my phone to get hot and waste battery life indexing a picture of a funny tree I took five years ago. Do that stuff while charging overnight, and keep thermals under control while you do it. You don't need a fancy neural processor to detect that I leave my device plugged in at 100% every night, maybe make use of that obvious excess of downtime and processing power.