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iOS 8 |OT| Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.
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The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Make sure you're on Yosemite PB3 at least (Or whatever the latest DP is I guess)
iOS 8 as well
Make sure BlueTooth is turned on on both devices
And make sure your devices and Macs are all compatible
Then make sure it's enabled in settings and preferences (Not sure if there's a setting on iOS, but it's in General on OS X)
Because it wasn't unorganized. It was chronological. Now I've got a shitload of empty white space because "collections" feels the need to tell me the date and location of pictures.
If you open up my collection right now, there are exactly three pictures visible. I've got to scroll up through more empty white space to see older pictures.
wait for the S8 chip in the next iphone which is a Siri co-processor and allows 'hey siri' when not charging.
Interfectum
Member
I think they did so many 'under the hood' changes that this was inevitable.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yes. All they need is a low power chip designed specifically to listen for voice and process when someone says those two words, then activate the full voice processing when it is sure someone said something.
I just hope it also has all the recognition software built in so it doesn't require a network connection anymore just to figure out what you said. (Or maybe it does that now. Or maybe it just caches common phrases. Because sometimes I have fast recognition, others it takes longer. Then again my network is flakey sometimes.)
I've been running iOS 8 for a week on my iPad mini retina and Safari is significantly slower and jankier.
They also haven't fixed the bug that makes the home button get 'stuck' and activate Siri mode when I press it once. It's not a hardware issue, the Apple store already swapped out my iPad.
They also haven't fixed the bug that makes the home button get 'stuck' and activate Siri mode when I press it once. It's not a hardware issue, the Apple store already swapped out my iPad.
Because it's better.
And I believe you could have looked at collections with iOS 7 if you wanted to. Now you're stuck with only once choice. LAME
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
How is it better? It makes more sense to have it split up into events and places with Collections than just having one single folder with every image in it.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I like you.
I am so analretentive and OCD about my disk organization. Every image Ive ever downloaded and photo I've ever taken in the past 14 years is organized by type or location or content and put in folders/events. I couldn't stand just having it all in one place. Even my porn is organized by year at least.
Mammoth Jones
Member
I completely agree with this. All the features I was looking forward to do not work that well if at all.
Mammoth Jones
Member
But at least you have the option. Arguing over preference is silly. I prefer a single camera roll on my phone because my phone isn't my primary photo viewing platform.
Mammoth Jones
Member
On my iPhone 5 a single press of the home button is being registered as a double press. So when I want to go home the app switcher opens....
Planned obsolescence?
Deaf Spacker
Memb
What's the point of burst mode? I can't seem to be able to delete individual pictures if I use the timer in the default Camera App.
AstroNut325
Member
Can't update apps after iOS 8 on my iPad 2. 
Help!
Help!
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Can't download anything from the App Store on my iPhone 5 at the moment. I'm still on iOS 7 whatever, you guys know whether this is a known issue? Would upgrading to iOS8 solve it?
Oh, so it's just a temporary fuck up with the App Store I assume?Can't update apps after iOS 8 on my iPad 2.
Help!
Yup.
There was no point to removing camera roll. None. You could argue that photo stream became redundant with iCloud Drive, but there's no harm in keeping camera roll. It perfectly mimics a point-and-shoot camera's file management, and guess what device my iPhone replaced?
I also find it funny that people are claiming that camera roll was disorganized. It had the same organization as the default collection (chronological), it was just assumed you were intelligent enough to infer that.
Now it's explicit, and instead of seeing 20+ thumbnails on one screen I'm treated to three thumbnails and a shitload of wasted space.
LyleLanley
Banned
Am I missing something? There isn't a camera roll anymore but all my photos are still in chronological order.
Great except it has a VERY annoying bug where did example entering a url or correcting one the enter button adds a space instead of going to the page. Fucking annoying.
Glass Shark
Banned
It's just a personal preference. My iPhone photo habits are strange and sporadic. I take a lot of screenshots, a lot of things that I need to remember, etc. I'm not taking dozens or hundreds of pictures at the beach that need to be organized into a "Beach Vacation" collection. Camera Roll made the most sense for the way I use my phone.
I have an iPad 2 sitting in a drawer somewhere running some ancient version of iOS. It's not jailbroken or anything. It sounds like iOS 8 is kind of a shitfest and my guess is probably the last iOS version that will run on the iPad 2...if I wanted to do anything with it should I upgrade it to 7 while I still can or should I leave it alone?
No but I keep the Gmail app for the push but then use the regular mail app to check the actual email.
The only problem with that is that if you try to open the email from the lock screen it opens the gmail app.
Death Metalist
Member
My biggest gripe is when I want to send an image over whatsapp, I can't see all my pictures and only the recently added so I don't know do I have to move them to the recently added folder or just choose individual images and send them one by one? shit is infuriating.
I've seen apps which have an option to see all photos in the media picker, besides the recently added option and the other albums. Can't remember which, though, I noticed it sometime last week.
Yeah I disabled it in notification center and just used the vibration and different sounds to know to launch mail.
So wait, with family sharing one person has to pay for everything? That sounds like bullshit. If true, it sounds like family sharing is really just a way for parents to manage their kids' accounts. What if adult family members just want to share each others' stuff but still pay for it on their own?
agreed and agreed. They needed to get the iPhone 6 out, but iOS8 needed at least another month. October (for the iPad release) should be fine.
FoxhoundNL
Member
Anyone else running into blank white (parts of a) webpage(s) in Safari when scrolling (quickly, short swipes) and holding down your finger to stop it from scrolling? Doesn't happen every time. But out of ten times at least once. And sometimes 3x in a row.
Have this since installing iOS8 on my mini retina. Tried a hard reset, but still the same. Don't want to bother with a restore yet. I'll test on my 4S once I find the will to go and get it downstairs.
Have this since installing iOS8 on my mini retina. Tried a hard reset, but still the same. Don't want to bother with a restore yet. I'll test on my 4S once I find the will to go and get it downstairs.
What do you mean by 3 thumbnails? I see a lot of thumbnails.
And they are still sorted by date
Family sharing is "when all else fails". But remember that each Apple ID is an actual apple id. So if an adult member attaches a credit card to their apple id, that is the card that will be used and not the head account. Likewise if you add a gift card to a kid's account, that's what will be used.
Conflicted on Family Sharing primarily because of iTunes Match. We haven't setup my daughter yet because her phone just came today so I've left it alone til this weekend. But right now she has her own icloud account but is connected to my (family-wide) itunes match for songs and add-free radio. So she is saving to her own icloud, contacts, calendars, etc.. but can access all of our music and add-free radio. If putting her on sharing means she no longer has access to our itunes match music... she's not going to be happy... well I mean a huge chunk of our music is actually purchased which she SHOULD get... and I don't know how much of our ripped music she cares about... still seems like a sucky downside...
for my wife there's like zero benefit to setting her up on sharing.. for my daughter.. the benefit is super small.. she gets gift cards.. but right now I just tell her to keep track.. So even if the gift card balance is $0, if she still has $14 left that she hasn't used she can spend $14 without asking permission..
You can open mail from the lock screen?
FoxhoundNL
Member
Use the Launcher widget to pin Mail on the NC
Yup.
Dead in around 4 hours. Really poor. I'm guessing we'll see a fix within a week.
No way I can use this phone in the current state for too long. Way too inconvenient.
4 hours sounds about right. I used to get 6 hours before the update.
Bomber Bob
Banned
Good Lord Dropbox, get your shit together
What's wrong with it?