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iOS 8 |OT| Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.
- Thread starter Majine
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Yes, but it's not removable, which is really ludicrously bad.
I guess you didn't see the tip about disabling app notifications yet.
It's disabled. But this sort of crap is exceptionally user unfriendly.
SwiftKey should be.
infiniteloop
Member
need my gif keyboard
Ken Masters
Banned
Can't open on iPad, wonderful
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Wait, Swiftkey is coming to iOS?! The default iOS keyboard is one of my most hated things about iOS so this is great news.
Don't see my self ever using it.
Way too limited in space and I doubt it will ever be as flexible as Dropbox.
Yup. Exciting stuff!
Jayayess1190
Member
So are other keyboards like Touchpal and Swype.
Swiftkey is one of the best things about Android; the fact that it's coming to iOS is fantastic.
It's also very comforting to know that if I ever go back to iOS, I can just load up Swiftkey and use Swiftkey cloud (assuming that it works accross platforms) and not worry about having to retrain it. Swiftkey just knows me. It's eerie.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
I've only ever used the iOS keyboard so I'm interested to see what's so good about some of these other ones
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
But it's not unfriendly at all.
Jsquared77
Member
How do we get contact pics next to names in the messaging app? Or is that a 6 only feature?
LyleLanley
Banned
I think that might be a 6+ only feature.
infiniteloop
Member
6+ only.
Jsquared77
Member
Kinda what I figured. Would make sense cause it's a current ipad feature.
Ken Masters
Banned
What time does iOS 8 go live?
Marty Chinn
Member
Is everything as far as UI goes on the 6+ the same as an iPad, or are they selectively picking situations where they're using the iPhone UI instead the iPad UI and vice versa?
LyleLanley
Banned
At the very least the home screen is different from both the iPad and the smaller iPhones when it's in the landscape orientation.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
I was wondering this too, in the past hasn't it been 18:00 UK time?
iOS 8 will be out around 1pm EST Wednesday, so yeah around 18:00.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Thanks!
The_Inquisitor
Member
LASTPASS update is live for ios8. AW YISS
Ken Masters
Banned
The server crashes and "awaiting for authorization from Apple" wait is going to be fun
Mammoth Jones
Member
In ios can you set the notification for a text thread? I'd love to mute the text alerts for my fantasy football group-text. Mofos text nearly 24/7. But in ios 7 I basically have to turn off the default text tones completely.
I can't wait for mine in October
*shakes fist at ATT*
I can't wait for mine in October
*shakes fist at ATT*
TheChewyWaffles
Member
What the hell happened to my airplay option on my iphone after installing 8? On my iPad (also on 8) it's still there but on my phone it isn't.
Guess it's back...not sure why it was missing...
Guess it's back...not sure why it was missing...
sweetvar26
Member
Guys, for those of you in the Beta, any pros and cons for having iOS8 on iPhone 5?
Hopefully it doesn't reduce my battery level drastically.
Hopefully it doesn't reduce my battery level drastically.
WetPotatoBread
Banned
This being my first major iOS release, Is there a time I should be expecting the update to happen tomorrow?
infiniteloop
Member
around 1pm est
Seems everything that depends on Yosemite is being delayed. If October is the timeframe, that tells me that is the Yosemite release date.
Plus, the feature still has some hiccups to work through. Every time I start my computer, it goes crazy pinging me for every SMS message I received since I last turned it on.
Unfriendly for power users, maybe, and even that's a stretch.
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!
New era of mobile usage baby. So cool.
The next level would be Siri integration with all apps.
Dear lord it would be glorious. Would change everything. Siri is already great and this would make it a killer feature.
Edit: LP update doesn't work yet. Hopefully tomorrow.
infiniteloop
Member
People installing ios 8 apps with extensions right now should read this:
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/16/ios-8-apps-approved-extensions-broken/
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/16/ios-8-apps-approved-extensions-broken/
Ken Masters
Banned
Get the GM build and get out ahead of the mob.
No access to my laptop unfortunately
I have that as well. Also, the notification center got stuck halfway on my lock screen once (iPhone 5s).
Junior Mint
Member
Not sure if this is the right place or if anyone cares but here's a quick overview of iOS 8 keyboards including SwiftKey
http://recode.net/2014/09/16/new-iphone-6-keyboard/
http://recode.net/2014/09/16/new-iphone-6-keyboard/
Both pros and cons are relatively minor for now; for all intents and purposes, it still feels like iOS 7. The major changes to iOS 8 are in the app APIs (for which no apps exist yet) and interaction with OS X (these features are only going live with Yosemite in late October).
You'll see a few tweaks and new features here and there, but nothing that completely transforms the experience, at least until apps are updated to take advantage of the new frameworks, which should be relatively fast.
As far as cons are concerned, iOS8 is significantly more buggy than the latest version of iOS7 is. Most people report improved performance on iPhone 5, but I've personally seen the opposite.
Battery should be more or less the same, as well.
good read, thanks.
I haven't yet, through my iphones, iPads and Nexus 7s, found a keyboard I really feel completely comfortable with. Honestly the closest so far has been Windows phone 8 on my low end Lumia.
anonymous_abc
Member
Yes. Actually I'm not sure, it might be the same, but you can just update in the future from the GM.