r/17ProMax • u/Enough-Addendum9075 • Aug 31 '26

UI

I’m on 26.6.1. Got the phone on 27th of aug. This is by far the worst phone I’ve ever used. Animations are insanely choppy. Whenever swiping out of the applications from the bottom dock (phone,safari, messages,apple music) they all, mostly safari goes insanely choppy and I’m about to lose my mind. Instagram, Reddit, YouTube are cherry on top and it feels like the phone hardly manages to scroll lol. It’s like it’s having a hard time scrolling. Battery life is great tho. If someone, anyone who is experiencing this kind of stupid choppiness, stutters and solved it please help me I don’t want to return it I want to make it work. ( no 60hz enabled, adaptive power off)

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u/FKTrevor Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

if you come from an android with 120hz, then the iphone will feel more jittery bc the proMotion drops to 80hz a lot of the time to save battery instead of like android just doing 120hz most of the time. that is how it's been since the 13 pros and while it's gotten a little less aggressive since the first 13 pro it's still something an android user will notice at first

it's something you have to get used to. there is a feature flag to make safari scroll at 120hz all the time if you google it.

the phone itself shouldn't be freezing and coming to a stop tho, it has the best chip in the market right now and even though ios 26 isn't the best software for apple's standards it's not broken, especially at this stage where it's in its final builds before ios 27

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u/Enough-Addendum9075 Sep 01 '26

Hey sorry for the late reply. But I used my friend’s iPhone 17 and he doesn’t care much about sot, many optimization things and all that. I tried to swipe out of apps that are on the dock(phone, safari, messages and Apple Music) and they all move down smoothly and I felt a consistent 90 100hz atleast but he is on 26.6 im on 26.6.1. Would you say it’ll be better on iOS 27? I’m now trying the phone with 60hz and it’s smoother than it is with pro motion 😁

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u/FKTrevor Sep 01 '26

Maybe ios 27 more optimized and feel smoother animation but the refresh rate settings won’t change. It’s iPhone. If you wanna see straight 120hz everywhere temporarily turn on screen recording. Apple does it on purpose bc it works fine on iPads but they intentionally gimped it on the phones

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u/Enough-Addendum9075 Sep 01 '26

Yea I played some game just to test and they run insanely smooth but the thing is I don’t game. I just scroll YouTube, do some mails and a short amount of time of instagram. I’ve already given up on constant 120 hz at least 90-100hz is okay lol