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  • Is anyone having issues with iOS 15?

I am one of the people here that stopped using my iphone 8 after i got severe eystrain and headache after updating to 14.8 or something. Now after about 6months of not using an iphone i updated my 8 to 15.2 and have a feeling that something changed and made it somehow better to look at?

In the mean time i did try the 12, 13, 13pro with no success, but the 8 seems somehow better now, curious if i am the only one or more people noticed this?

If you are on 14.6 i would not recommend you to update without saving your blobs for future downgrade :-)

  • bkdo replied to this.

    Icook

    That’s interesting, I wonder if they changed something with 15.2. Do you feel any eye strain at all now?

    I’ll test 15.2 today as well and see if there are any inprovements. I have an iPad that’s already on 15.0, so no harm in upgrading.

      It's incredibly interesting how different we all are. I cannot and will not use my iPad on iOS 15. At this point, there's no harm in updating it to 15.2 to see if it fixes anything.

      • bkdo replied to this.

        Clokwork

        Any impressions of 15.2 so far on your end? I’ve been using my iPad on 15.2 for a little while today, not totally sure if it’s better or not yet.

          I have been testing around the 8 on 15.2 together with the 13mini (gave me terrible headache after 20 min of use) so the 13 mini going to get back to apple, and i am also not sure if it is a relief with 15.2 with the iphone 8 or it was just a feeling that i had in that moment.

            Icook That iPad has auto update turned on now and it's on 15.2. It's not completely unusable, but I still don't feel comfortable using it after trying today.

              HAL9000 I’m the same. I have an iPhone XS and have reduce white point set at 95% then use it at full brightness outdoors, and on lowest in the dark. I’ve tried iPhone 12,13 and 13 pro but the reduce brightness there seems to work differently- it makes everything too dark and I still feel nauseous so I’m back to iPhone XS having just paid £350 for a new screen and battery which they laughed at me for- where I could get a new iPhone 13 for free upgrade! I’ve found iOS 15 + fatiguing and nauseous - for me differentiate without colour- seems to do something that takes away the nausea- I have no idea what!

                  JonnyT I think you and I are very similar symptom wise. My hypothesis is it hast to deal with one or several forms of flicker which is baked into the software. I plan on buying an ultra high speed camera and a flicker meter within the next 4-5 months. Reason why so long? They are quite expensive for me. The camera has to have a high FPS capability and the flicker meter has to read at extreme frequencies to catch everything.

                    I would like to briefly describe my experience. I have been able to use my IPhone 11 for about a year completely without any problems. Pretty much at the same time as I upgraded to iOS 15.2, my eye strain problems started again. I have not noticed this with 15.0 or 15.1.

                    Currently, I consciously and subconsciously avoid long periods of use of my iPhone.

                    I used my iPad on 15.2 for a few hours yesterday, I unfortunately didn't notice any specific reduction in symptoms. Hope you guys have better luck with it though 😃

                    21 days later

                    One more.
                    Translation:
                    Updated one of my iPads (iPad 10.2 2020) to iOS 15.3 and it was terrible.
                    They screwed up something with dithering. Even on a black background, it became difficult to concentrate and read the text. I am not even mentioning a white background. Judging by the fact that many people did not like dithering on the first versions of iOS 15, but everything was ok for me, I conclude that they update the dithering algorithms one by one for different devices, and not for all devices at once. In general, it's good that I could still roll back to 15.2.1

                      My wife upgraded from her iPhone 8 on an older iOS to a new 13 pro. I can't look at it for more than 10 seconds or so. It's on iOS 15.3.

                      I'm surprised that the iPhone and iPads don't offer color profiles. I would love to step down from P3 to RGB and see if that helps. That said, the iPhone 12 and maybe 13 (since I believe are the same panels) were measured at having PWM at 240Hz I believe. If so, that's in the danger zone. Sorry, Archer……

                      9 days later

                      If people aren’t already- try setting reduce white point at 95% and then adjust brightness as needed. I know this goes against rules for PWM but it works for me on my Xs. Having said that it doesn’t do enough on other models.

                        JonnyT White point have little to do both with PWM and with this software problem that comes with update, it helps with another issue

                          I updated an 8+ to ios15.3, this was a mistake. Something appears to have changed and I cant use it for more than a few moments without devloping a headache. Staying on it will get worse and worse. The display is 'displaying' differently, I think they've changed something about how the output is drawn on the screen, like a progressive / interlaced image sort of thing. Perhaps its also made a change to the refresh rate?

                          Even now after only moments of looking at the lock screen and going into settings to confirm the version I'm slightly dizzy. I find it unlikely that anything I had done in the moments before picking up the device was the cause of it, tomorrow if I dont try to use it I will feel fine, if I try to use it the problem will restart.

                          I've tried all the accessibility settings and reduce white point is on.

                          My regular 8 will remain on 14.8, I may try to purcase another 7 or 8 as a backup device as I've now lost mine.

                          (I preferred the smaller size of the normal 8 over the 8 plus which was my backup)

                          my ipad 6 (?) is on ios / ipados 13 as well, my fault for not updating it to 14 when I had chance, I dont think I can update it to 15, cant risk the problem as there is no way to roll back

                          It seems there is no escape from these problems. I am hoping that future ios15 updates may be more suitable? Either way there is no 'official' way for me to downgrade any of my devices to ios14

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