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iOS 8 |OT| Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.
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I'm using a 5S and other than the occasional SwiftKey hiccup it's running fine.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
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.
Unless you've saved your shs blobs (I haven't kept up with the jailbreaking scene, so this may not be the case anymore), you can't downgrade...
I'm running the GM and Siri can do Shazam.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
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.
Just tried it on GM:
The update they needed to do to make it available is server-side. Basically they enabled the feature on their servers yesterday.
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.
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?
Every phone is a bit slow at first for spotlight indexing, that could contribute. For the first couple of hours my phone was jerking around when browsing the music library, but it's stopped now.
metsallica
Member
Not yet to my knowledge but the landscape keyboard on the 6 Plus has cursor keys for positioning...
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.
It is probably indexing.
Windows got faster because it was an un-optimized bloated mess.
Mailenstein
Member
As a matter of fact, Apple is still signing 7.1.2, so for those who want to downgrade, don't wait to long.
Just FYI, Apple never closes the signing window for the previous OS version right after they release the newest OS version.
CountBlack
Member
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
- 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
Wind's Howling
Member
I am still looking for allot of things that will make me go and say "wow, this is spectacular!" Despite the whole swype keyboard. I had no idea such a thing would make such a huge difference.
Perhaps when more developers support ios8 I will finally see the potential.
Perhaps when more developers support ios8 I will finally see the potential.
Wind's Howling
Member
It works better for me because the keyboard runs and looks better on my iPhone 5 and Swiftkey seems to somehow struggle a bit more.
Also the added fact that swype is the only one which supports flow at the moment on the iPad makes it the superior version for me.
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CAnt wait for lightbow to get a notification center widget.
EatinOlives
Member
The battery indicator on my 5s is really screwy. Just right now while replying to a different topic I noticed my battery had been sitting at 31% the past hour or so. Then just now I literally saw the battery tick down to 28% in less than 3 minutes.
And I'm definitely getting way worse battery life now. My battery was never this low at the end of the day.
EDIT : THE FUCK. The battery went down to 26 literally just now, in the time it took to write this out!
And I'm definitely getting way worse battery life now. My battery was never this low at the end of the day.
EDIT : THE FUCK. The battery went down to 26 literally just now, in the time it took to write this out!
dark_prinny
Banned
Telegram is not working with the iOS8 update on my iPad.
Updated my list of issues. Not having a lot of fun as the issues are big.
As a side note, with Launcher you can add shortcuts for directions using Google Maps. This is amazing.
Enable weather the same way as iOS 7, turn on location service for the app. Make sure Today Summary widget is on.
Annoying but you can work around it by forwarding from Gmail to something like outlook and using that account for notifications. So you get a notification via push and then if it is something you want to read you can just force a refresh in the native mail app
ShadowsFell
Member
So I go to download ios 8, and it requires 4.6 GB of storage? The download shows under 1 GB however...
...wat
...wat
anonymous_abc
Member
It need space to install in the mean time I guess.
1 GB download
1.5 GB install
2 GB backup
I dunno?!
ShadowsFell
Member
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.
Ken Masters
Banned
These keyboards are so buggy, half the time SwiftKey doesn't even pop up, when iMessage does pop up the predictive word feature isn't even there half the time
Ken Masters
Banned
The best is safari loading blank pages now
But apple has shown over the last year that ios optimization on the ipad is a very low priority
Ken Masters
Banned
It's pretty buggy, iOS 8.1 will be a huge improvement just like iOS 7.1 was, but apple took a long time to release it though
Really? I'm not having any issues. I'm in the iCloud Photo library beta.
EricTheCleric
Member
Im about to go to work in three hours
how painless is this upgrade?
I have a 5S
several different accounts for mail etc. of who two are two-factor authentication
Am I better off doing this over the weekend?
how painless is this upgrade?
I have a 5S
several different accounts for mail etc. of who two are two-factor authentication
Am I better off doing this over the weekend?
Changing the brightness feels so weird.
- 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.
Haha, absolutely agree.
Also, now that we are talking about brightness, the minimum brightness level in the iPad Air is too damn bright. Using it in a dark room is blinding.
LyleLanley
Banned
I really wish widgets in the today view had the ability to disappear if they have no information to share. Calendar and Worldmate are taking up space even though they have nothing to tell me right now.