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BGR has unearthed a new and very useful iPhone 7 Plus feature hidden in the iOS 10.1 beta. Although the beta has been available to developers for over a week, BGR’s Zach Epstein says that he’s surprised that no one else is talking about this particular feature.
When the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were first released, the various speed tests showed that despite having an extra gigabyte of RAM, the iPhone 7 Plus didn’t appear to have a performance advantage over the iPhone 7.
However, that all looks set to change with iOS 10.1, according to Epstein, who notes that in iOS builds prior to iOS 10.1 beta 1, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus frequently flush minimised apps, meaning that when you switch back to the app, it has to be refreshed again because its state hasn’t been saved.
However, Epstein has found that for iPhone 7 Plus units running iOS 10.1 beta 1, this does not happen. Basically, what Epstein and other iPhone 7 Plus users have noticed is that many more apps now have their states saved, leading to faster performance as you don’t have to wait for an app to refresh when you switch to it.
There’s no guarantee that this feature will make it past the beta stages, of course, but fingers crossed.
Source: No one is talking about the game-changing new iPhone 7 Plus feature coming in iOS 10.1
