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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by brundolf on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:30PM (#27132171)
"Background system processes running" wouldn't be obvious to non-technical users. It might even be distressing. If the process isn't something that can easily be explained to a regular user, I can see why Apple wouldn't try and communicate about it.

Though I could see maybe detecting that a user is a developer and showing a message only for those users

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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by nepthar on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:31PM (#27132187)
True, but it could be marketed a bit better: "Update finishing in the background"
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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by stuaxo on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:44PM (#27132322)
People hate updates, it would make them more aware they are happening.
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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by nitrogen on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:57PM (#27132477)
People deserve to know what their digital brains are doing on their behalf.
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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by m45t3r on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:44PM (#27132328)
This is how Android shows it, and I think it is quite good because the phone feels slower while finishing the upgrade.
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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by Dah00n on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:56PM (#27134427)
But unlike this (which is timed in hours) in Android it's done in a minute and then the notification is gone. Maybe Apple should start by doing the update in minutes first.
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Re:My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1 by m45t3r on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:37PM (#27137832)
I find it really bizarre that it takes hours to run whatever background process iOS has after an upgrade, especially because in Android's case this is AFAIK rebuilding the Dalvik bytecode while iOS should use a compiled language (ObjectiveC/Swift).

Does someone knows what is iOS doing at the background?

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