Was going to upgrade to an iPhone X. After this iOS 11 nonsense, I'm honestly considering going back to Android. It's absolutely unforgivable how terrible my iPhone 6S has been running since the update. Same as you: constant crashes, random freezes and reboots, abysmal battery life, not to mention an insane bug where when someone calls you (or you call them), they can't hear you and you can't hear them. This bug persists until you reboot your phone. Like, wtf?

This feels like Apple has crossed the Rubicon. The Steve Jobs era is officially over.

Just for your information, take it for what you will, but I recently purchased a Pixel 2 to try out.

I think Android 8 has some flaws atm that are really kneecapping things. I had constant app crashes. Loading problems. All sorts of little things that seemed to be super buggy. Windows appearing behind other windows, adds not properly being put into their space. I went back to my iPhone 6s.

That said, you might have a better experience, those things might get fixed. I am sure they will be fixed both on iOS and Android. I am just saying, the latest and greatest on Android kind of sucks too.

+1 on the silent call bug (and the others too).

Apple managed to make a smartphone unable to launch apps and make calls. Not sure if incompetence or malice. Regardless, I'm never looking back.

Same here. My 6S quite often freezes. I also sometimes have a network problem that I never had before, no internet connection at all even when I have a full 4G signal, and I have to reboot the phone. Does anyone else experience this issue?

I have a 6S. I suggest doing a DFU and set up as new.

I'm in this boat, was excited about the X but after 11 and the confusing 8 vs X lineup, I'm just not sure what do anymore. At this point, it's a wait and see game

>5. Yesterday I was trying to take a picture and opened the camera. And YES, I mean the native camera app that ships with iOS. I saw the camera UI launch, but there was no "camera". It was just a black screen. I've become accustomed to this type of lag in app loading so i waited for my camera to "boot up". It never did. The camera app was open and there were all the UI components, but it wasn't capturing anything. I have never seen anything like this before.

On iOS 10, I noticed, if I swipe the lock screen left and right really fast where it brings in the camera, it eventually gets stuck. Like half the screen is now black and nothing happens until I hit the reset button. This is reproducible. It seemed to me like a really weird little bug to have on maybe the most popular mobile OS on earth but brushed it off as me being anal about something not even Apple considers a problem. This calculator story is a bit of a waking call that Apple UX quality genuinely did get worse in recent years. It's little things that add up. It's the little annoyances with Android that keep me coming back to iOS but now it seems like they're introducing all kinds of new issues with iOS. Ugly.

"on maybe the most popular mobile OS on earth"

You can't be the most popular if your competitor's market share is ~85%.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os

You can if you mean "most popular" in terms of customer satisfaction - http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

In the USA, which is a pretty small part of the Earth, and where iOS has 45% of the market, compared to 15% worldwide.

Sure, it was just an example of how "most popular" might have nothing to do with market share at all.

I’ve been having the same experience with iOS 11. I often open the phone app to call someone I recently talked to, see their name at the top, click it to call them, only for the phone to call someone else. What’s happening is that someone else had called me in the meantime and iOS showed me the cached image of the screen but registered my touch on the “real”/live view of the screen. Safari does the same thing on both iOS and OSX when you swipe back and interact with the page, and I’m sad to be seeing that behavior leak elsewhere. Super frustrating.

Also, the amount of lag when loading basic apps has increased significantly with this update (I have an iPhone 6s).

Safari on the desktop is very, very bad about doing this. The browser benchmark tests really should include this metric: the average time to ready after navigating back. Showing a cached image but registering a click on a different image just seems like such an obvious thing to avoid.

Having exactly the same issues on my iPhone 6S. Camera randomly takes forever to load, and sometimes doesn't load at all (black screen). Since iOS 11 it's a 50/50 chance that accepting an incoming call works. I press the green button but it keeps ringing until the other person hangs up. Even physical home button becomes unresponsive, many times a day I have to do a forced restart (home button + sleep wake button pressed). This is infuriating!!

> I have the latest iOS installed

If you mean one of the developer betas then that's the cause of ... > [apps take a long time to load]

No, i have tried all versions and currently have the public version. I have given up on developer betas already, I don't trust them anymore. But I expected public OS to work as expected.

So no, the developer beta is not the cause. It happens to me and a lot of my "normal" friends who just upgraded their iOS because it kept bothering them with push notification to upgrade.

With iOS 11 at this moment the developer betas are better than the released alphas.

Many of your problems are not the common ones that people are having with iOS 11. And even ones like 2. which many people are having sounds more extreme for you.

I think you might want to debug this like a problem rather than assume it’s all due to Apple errors. With all that’s going on I’d probably just jump all the way to a full restore.

Come on man, you don't have to go that far. just read rest of the thread and you'll see tons of people complaining about the same thing.

As I mentioned I have multiple devices and I observe these problems everywhere. And I have heard the same from friends too. And all these people on this thread are complaining about it.

Now where is your source on how my problem is just some extreme case and my own fault?

The 50% crash rate on your apps is what made me feel like your experience is the exception not the rule.

On my iPhone 6 I see maybe a crash rate of 2-5% (one in 20-50). There are apps with higher crash rates from time to time that usually get fixed with updates. I don't try to run the latest demanding 3d games and such on the phone, since I don't expect them to be usable on a 3-year-old device.

Maybe you're pushing your devices harder than I do or something but I second the parent's sentiment that your experience is out of the ordinary. But that doesn't mean it's your fault at all, just unusual.

All that being said, I'm overall less happy with iOS 11 than 10 on my phone. But love it on the iPad.

Well, I have iOS 11 on multiple devices and have friends with iOS 11 and I’m seeing (and hearing about) launch lag and the calculator button problem but not your other issues. So this isn’t simply an iOS 11 problem you can do nothing about besides complain on the internet.

I mean, if that’s what you prefer to do, be my guest. I don’t mind at all. I’m just pointing out you might be able to do something about some of the problems.

Also, I didn’t say it was your fault. I get that you’re frustrated, but it doesn’t help to get angry, especially with people who are trying to help you.

I've been getting the camera black screen at least since ios9 on 5s and 6s.