I'm using a 5S and other than the occasional SwiftKey hiccup it's running fine.Lot of horror stories here. Faulty Safari, buggy notification center, alarms that won't shut off, music persisting through calls? What in the world.
5S and iPad 3 owner. I'll wait till this garbage gets sorted out.
Haven't had any issues on iOS 8 so far this past week. I'm running the GM.
I don't own an iOS device but my mom's iPad Mini is slow as hell and my aunt iPhone 4S experienced a random restart. I may have to downgrade their software if it continues.
This year, it seems like the GM is different from the public release. For one thing, only the developer betas and the public version have Shazam integration with Siri.
I'm running the GM and Siri can do Shazam.This year, it seems like the GM is different from the public release. For one thing, only the developer betas and the public version have Shazam integration with Siri.
I'm running the GM and Siri can do Shazam.
Those fools can't even read the GM seed notes.I thought you couldn't? http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/10/siri-what-song-is-this-the-ios-8-gm-doesnt-have-a-clue/.
Those fools can't even read the GM seed notes.
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Just tried it on GM:
I don't own an iOS device but my mom's iPad Mini is slow as hell and my aunt iPhone 4S experienced a random restart. I may have to downgrade their software if it continues.
FWIW, my 4S was slow when I installed the GM a few days ago, but it's almost back to normal now. I have no idea if it's reorganizing or something in the background that causes performance issues.
Not yet to my knowledge but the landscape keyboard on the 6 Plus has cursor keys for positioning...I don't remeber what it's called but there was this keyboard add on I use to have when I was jail broken where you could swipe on the keyboard like a trackpad to move around the cursor when typing which is great since the usual method is pretty cumbersome. Anything on the App Store have a feature like this?
Sorry, but your statement is baseless hyperbole. Hell, it's mostly not even applicable to the other mobile platforms you mentioned as most of the time they won't even GET the new OS revision.
New features use more overhead which taxes older hardware. It's really not rocket science. Frankly complaining in the face of three year old hardware even getting the latest and greatest OS in the first place seems a little self righteous. Does Apple want you to upgrade? Sure I won't deny that. Are they sabotaging you to push you? You may want to loosen up your tin foil hat just a little.
Edit - in regards to the ipod touch, it's basically an iPhone 4s I believe. Yeah Apple has always treated the iPod touch line as baby's first iphone. It sucks, yes. But even though it came out in 2012 your largely using a 2011 iphone. Your 2012 comparison would be an iPhone 5 which runs iOS8 pretty nicely.
Apple is, right now, selling that same iPod Touch for $199-299 and it comes with iOS 8. That's unacceptable. They're selling a device at a high-end price that does not run will with the software that comes on it.
It's not "hyperbole". It's a new reality of forced obsolescence that does not need to exist. "New features more overhead" is an immensely simplistic mindset that is absolutely not a universal truth to operating system development.
Windows Vista to 7 to 8 to 8.1: Every new release used fewer resources and ran faster despite adding a huge number of new features. Today 8.1 can even run on devices with 1GB of ram and 16GB storage, something that Vista couldn't do nearly a decade ago.
Xbox 360 and PS3: New OS releases added a ton of features without slowing them down (out of necessity, of course, but it still refutes the argument of "new features more overhead").
Android 4.4: Improved battery life of existing devices, made older devices run more smoothly. I recognize that older versions of Android were worse about this.
Windows Phone 8.1: Added a boatload of new features, didn't slow down two-year-old devices that shipped with 8.0. Same with 7.5 and 7.8 when 7.0 devices upgraded to it.
Doesn't Apple stop signing anything but the latest release for a device, effectively preventing a downgrade even through DFU because the check with Apple servers will fail?
As a matter of fact, Apple is still signing 7.1.2, so for those who want to downgrade, don't wait to long.Yep. Whoever says that isn't true is a total idiot!
How is Swype different from iOS 8 QuickType, exactly?
Would you say it is worth getting?
Updated my list of issues. Not having a lot of fun as the issues are big.Wasn't as bad as this but they had some pretty dumb stuff. For example, Apple removed the ability to delete single songs or install them from iTunes Music. They do some mindblowingly stupid stuff sometimes.
Yup
So far:
- Keyboard issues (reverting to original keyboard, covering up text messages, not always opening, no dictation button)
- Spotlight search sometimes doesn't load up suggestions
- The battery for me is really really bad (3.5 hours until dead) UPDATE: day 2 and slightly better but still awful.
- Wifi constantly disconnects and reconnects after 4-5 minutes
- Sharing sheets reset their order
- Trying to move the last item in the spotlight search crashes the settings app
- I don't like the swipe to delete function in Mail because of the ease of accidentally removing stuff
- Lag when loading keyboard in Spotlight
- Not a bug but the way widgets are done really stop you from using more than 2-3. Having to scroll through lots of different widgets doesn't work well
- Fast forwarding in videos doesn't work propely at all
- Wifi is sloooow
- It's very easy to accidentally open an app from notifications center
Enable weather the same way as iOS 7, turn on location service for the app. Make sure Today Summary widget is on.Couple of issues
- Swift key is buggy as hell.
- Changing songs on the lock screen doesn't register a lot of the time because the hitbox on the ⏩ button was nerfed
- Battery dying faster
- Why doesn't the regular weather app work in the notification centre
- Couldn't type anything in Safari without closing it because the keyboard wouldnt show up
The only method they can guarantee on any platform is Exchange Push. However this isn't free from MS. So to implement it they have to license it from MS (ActiveSync to be precise). They actually DO enable their own push on other platforms but you then have to use the Gmail app. Of course they could work with Apple and MS to get their own push into those OSes but... Yeah... Not sure anyone is going to work together on that.
So I go to download ios 8, and it requires 4.6 GB of storage? The download shows under 1 GB however...
...wat
I figured it was something along those lines. It was weird to me, because I've never had to clear space for a new ios update to my knowledge.It need space to install in the mean time I guess.
1 GB download
1.5 GB install
2 GB backup
I dunno?!
The best is safari loading blank pages nowUgh, Safari on the iPad is awful. Especially the tab overview.
I was planning to update, but I'll hold back for the meantime. Some of the issues mentioned here are concerning.
New photos app is a fucking disaster.
Perfect example of "fixing" something that wasn't broken, and screwing it up in the process.
Changing the brightness feels so weird.
The logic behind this behavior is obvious - you want to see how bright or dark your actual screen content will be. I find it jarring nevertheless.
- First you open Control Center. The content "behind" (visible above CC) is dimmed.
- You touch the brightness slider. The content is brightened.
- Adjust the brightness as you wish and let go of the slider. The content is dimmed again.
- Close Control Center. The content is brightened again.
Has Chrome been updated with Nitro (Javascript Engine) yet? Apple made this available to all apps with iOS8.