smokeandmirrors
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iOS 8 |OT| Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.
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ios is reindexing things for spotlight. It'll go away shortly.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Can't download anything now. Servers must be getting hit hard. iTunes Error 5002.
Basically what you want is iCloud Photo Library which sadly won't be out til maybe next month. Right now you just have photo stream which is mostly hit and a little miss, but only with newly taken/saved photos.
Jin
Member
Estimated time: 7 hours on my 50mb Fios :/
ConstructMe
Banned
go it, pretty fucking minimal update lol not worth the fuss i want ios 7 back photos were better then.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Yikes. But, no, I meant I can't download any apps right now. I've been on the GM for a while.
The_Inquisitor
Member
If you're using a 16gb iPhone you may be using up all the space. ITunes is the best way without deleting a bunch of stuff.
It's because they pulled iCloud Photo Library at the last minute. Otherwise photos would be MUCH better now.
The rule is extensions have to be attached to an app.
Expect this to be resolved in iOS 9 or iOS 10.
POWERSPHERE
Member
Thanx. I wonder if it's as useful as Dropbox?
Maninthemirror
Banned
I have to say the photos app is a big mess wow apple why would you make it so complicated??!!
Removed the camera roll fine but the photos tab give you no idea if the photo was actually in the photo stream or saved locally
Does anyone have a good guide. Apple has not turned on the iCloud drive so what happwnedd to the separation between my local photos and the ones saved in Photostream
Of I go into the iCloud setting for photos I see photostreams is enabled but where is it?
Removed the camera roll fine but the photos tab give you no idea if the photo was actually in the photo stream or saved locally
Does anyone have a good guide. Apple has not turned on the iCloud drive so what happwnedd to the separation between my local photos and the ones saved in Photostream
Of I go into the iCloud setting for photos I see photostreams is enabled but where is it?
ConstructMe
Banned
It's because they pulled iCloud Photo Library at the last minute. Otherwise photos would be MUCH better now.
i want full camera roll not recently added bs, too complex now its a phone not a pc too much shit going on in some apps
HUELEN10
Member
I hope not; it's a complete non-issue and keeps everything simple for the user.
Now what they could have is a newsstand-like extensions center.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
There's no browser for iOS yet so it's not as useful... yet. It also lacks other features.
I think the idea is that it's actually supposed to be 'simpler', lol. I mean I can see the concept, it's basically combined camera roll and 'photo stream' so that you have a continuous single library across multiple devices. Of course if you aren't using Photo Stream they would all be local.
It's a little jarring coming from two separate 'albums' though. borghe is probably right in that if iCloud Library was rolled out too it would make it feel more like the 'old' way.
As far as I can tell the only way to tell if the photo is local or not is if you have the favorite heart at the bottom when you are looking at it. (Or hitting "Edit" in which case the phone tells you it will create a local copy).
Maninthemirror
Banned
Also a big change in photos I don't like is that it saves the photos based on exif data rather than photo saved in photos tab so if you have a photo taken last year and you save it it would slot it all the way back in 2013 instead of recently in the Photos tab in case you remove it from most recent tab
Community Forum
Member
Haha photos is a fucking mess.
What's iCloud Photo Library?
I haven't had a problem so far. They did change the Safari button placement around a little, but other than that it's been looking good.
It doesn't vibrate or turn on the screen with dnd set. Dnd isn't a blocker. It does exactly what it says. Does not disturb.
Synced cloud storage for photos on all of your devices. It was probably the biggest feature of iOS 8 before it was pulled from the GM at the last minute.
??? iOS 7 on iPad 4 and 2 was fine. 3 was awful. Anywho I'm typing this from an Air running 8 and haven't noticed much to complain about.
HUELEN10
Member
For those with Camera Roll woes, is this helpful?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myroll-smart-camera-roll-organizer/id513097075?mt=8
I'm on a 3GS, so fuck if I know.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myroll-smart-camera-roll-organizer/id513097075?mt=8
I'm on a 3GS, so fuck if I know.
serenewarfare
Banned
I wonder why Swype has so many 1 star reviews.
Mad Hatter
Member
It's the same contact. I always have to go and switch it back to swype. It's like once the app has been moved out of memory it forgets which keyboard i was using.
Maninthemirror
Banned
if you want a blocker turn on airplane mode
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
So i decided to download the update on Itunes. It says that 13 hours Remaining......YEA!!!
So I'm kinda confused. Arent the photo moments part of the iCloud?
So I DLed it to my iPad 2 over wifi like I always do. Started install and now it's prompting me to plug into iTunes. I've haven't plugged it into iTunes since the over air updates were available and don't even have a computer at my apt to plug it into if I wanted to. What gives? No other iOS update has asked me to do this in years. My iPad is basically a brick right now. Any ideas Gaf?
Junior Mint
Member
I like the Agenda+ widget that 9to5mac did an article on:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/17/jailb...or-monitoring-your-calendar-weather-and-more/
So much more useful than the stupid Apple calendar/reminders widgets.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/17/jailb...or-monitoring-your-calendar-weather-and-more/
So much more useful than the stupid Apple calendar/reminders widgets.
it can be part of the cloud if you decide you want to make it part of your backup. moments is basically your camera roll with photo stream photos integrated into it.
as I understand it, photo stream has always had a rolling 'limit' before it starts pushing out old photos. It was never really meant for 'storage' even though that's how people thought about it (until they started losing old stuff I'd imagine). iCloud backup is the actual backup/storage.
the new icloud photo library basically pulls out that icloud backup and expands on it so people understand it's the actual 'storage' and work with it instead of it just being some toggle in Settings. Photo stream meanwhile can go on to being what it was meant to be, just a way to have a shared, 'streaming' camera roll between devices, without worrying about what photo stream might lose and when.
Well right. But dnd is more intelligent than that. So VIP contacts (like my daughter or wife) will still ring through. And I can schedule dnd for like bedtime only, etc. Sure airplane mode is the ultimate dnd, but if you want something a little more configurable that still lets the important things through, Apple's built in dnd isn't bad.
Sort of.. ish... Photo stream and iCloud photo sharing were always there. (Well in iOS 7). What was supposed to happen is iOS 8 was that everything in photos was just supposed to be combined into iCloud Photo Library so you would just have one photos section that was shared between all devices. What happened was they delayed iCloud Photo Library but left all the reworkings besides that in. So it's kind of in a crummy state right now. Presumably when they roll it back out next month everything will make more sense.
brianmcdoogle
Member
I am going to get a third party calendar app just so I can get rid of the stupid built in widget and its wasted space. Any suggestions so far or should I just wait until more apps update?
That weather widget is great too, so much easier to read at a glance than the text Apple's has.
Those are all pretty nice. I find Paste+ pretty interesting...
This has never happened to me, and I've updated my phone tonnes of times even through betas.
I don't understand what's going wrong for you guys.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I use do not disturb every night from 11pm-7am. Am I a big stupid idiot, or is it possible you're missing something about why people would choose to do this?
Benefits:
1) I don't need to set it every night, it's automatic
2) I can still fully use my phone on an outgoing basis and no signals are disabled whatsoever
3) On an incoming basis, I can still be contacted by important numbers, and I can still be contacted by all numbers if it's an emergency and they try to reach me multiple times
4) I can still have calls ring while I'm using my phone and still awake, but not when I'm not using my phone.
Why should I use airplane mode instead?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I do this exactly.
Splash Wave
Member
Is there a list out there with all of the relevant changes brought to iOS 8? I'm still having a hard time finding the new stuff.
Josh with a J
Member
I'll try to update in a few hours while everyone is sleeping
Here's the list that Apple includes with the update, if that helps: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/0...s-apples-full-list-of-changes-you-can-expect/