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[Pyrokai]

Oh man....I am updating the 5C, but I don't think that should change anything.

I think it must have been my fault, because I had some problems at first getting it to update. It sat on the "verrifying connection" screen for over an hour before I finally shut the phone down, thinking it froze. It started back up and everything was normal, went to try and update it again and it proceeded like normal this time (didn't get stuck on that screen--only stayed on it for 5-10 seconds), but it's requiring me to take it to iTunes now.

 

[Ninja Dom]

I reckon that your 5c has downloaded the iOS 8 firmware but then failed to connect with the Apple servers to verify the download and initiate the installation.

Although it's saying plug into iTunes i don't think its that there is anything majorly wrong with the phone and it will be back up and running fairly quickly providing you can plug it into a computer.

Also, seeing as it's a 5C, unless you bought it around the time of initial launch in September 2013, then you'll still be within your 12 month warranty period and Apple can change the phone over for you.

 

[Pyrokai]

Well, update:

I actually did find someone who let me use his computer to plug in my phone (what luck! He had iTunes, too) and....it said the phone was in recovery mode and it will have to be reverted to its original factory settings with the newest OS version.....so all my data is lost

What a pain. But thank goodness I'm totally in the cloud, or I would have been a super, super upset person.

I guess that all I need to do once it is finished updating is download all my apps again, right? My phone was ever-so-perfectly organized. Sigh......

 

[Jin]

Works fine on my iphone 5 and ipad air. But my ipod touch 5 is choppy as hell and sometimes there's a 2-3 second delay when it plays the next track. Just a stuttering mess. Now that Apple has stop signing off on the ios 7 is there anyway to downgrade from 8 to 7?

Quoting my own post. I found some tweaks from reddit that helped my ipod touch 5 choppiness. Go to general -> accessibility-> Increase contrast -> reduce transparency.
While at accessibility menu turn on "reduce motion". These two setting made my ipod more responsive. Almost like iOs 7 level.

 

[Tunesmith]

Well, update:

I actually did find someone who let me use his computer to plug in my phone (what luck! He had iTunes, too) and....it said the phone was in recovery mode and it will have to be reverted to its original factory settings with the newest OS version.....so all my data is lost

What a pain. But thank goodness I'm totally in the cloud, or I would have been a super, super upset person.

I guess that all I need to do once it is finished updating is download all my apps again, right? My phone was ever-so-perfectly organized. Sigh......

Restoring your iCloud backup should retain how you organized your stuff.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

I have to say, I am stunned that Apple still supports the iPad 2 with updates.

 

[samn]

I have to say, I am stunned that Apple still supports the iPad 2 with updates.

Same chip and RAM as the iPad mini 1st gen, which they have to support as it's still being sold. Also, the 2 is popular in education markets which they don't want to piss off.

 

[n64coder]

I have to say, I am stunned that Apple still supports the iPad 2 with updates.

The one problem I have encountered is that my battery no longer charges to 100%. It charges to 91% and is very very slow to get there. This is an IOS 8 issue that other people have reported, right?

 

[mrkgoo]

Does anyone know how I can view my frequent locations data? Under iOS 7 it used to be under privacy -> system -> frequent locations.

But under iOS 8, all I see is a switch.

 

[DarkJC]

Does anyone know how I can view my frequent locations data? Under iOS 7 it used to be under privacy -> system -> frequent locations.

But under iOS 8, all I see is a switch.

I see it under Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services -> Frequent Locations

Has a switch and a list of currently recorded frequent locations.

 

[mrkgoo]

I see it under Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services -> Frequent Locations

Has a switch and a list of currently recorded frequent locations.

Hmmm. Mine is blank.

Maybe it hasn't shown up for me yet?

 

[Ben Morales]

The one problem I have encountered is that my battery no longer charges to 100%. It charges to 91% and is very very slow to get there. This is an IOS 8 issue that other people have reported, right?

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. I was starting to get worried my iPad was dying or something. I have an iPad 3, and my battery stops charging around 91%-97%. I tried draining it to 0% and charging it over night but it still did the same thing. When I check it in the morning, it says, "Not charging." I even went out and bought a new charger but it still happens. The only way to charge it to full now is to make sure the display is turned off. I have to wait a good 30 minutes to an hour in order to get that last 3%. If I try to charge it while off, it turns itself back on. Never had this problem until after iOS 8.

 

[SmackCrackleNPop]

Does anyone know how I can view my frequent locations data? Under iOS 7 it used to be under privacy -> system -> frequent locations.

But under iOS 8, all I see is a switch.

You may need to use the phone for a few days before the history shows up. Need to go to the same place more than once

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (all the way at the bottom) > Frequent Locations >

Should have the switch and frequent history lists below

 

[mrkgoo]

You may need to use the phone for a few days before the history shows up. Need to go to the same place more than once

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (all the way at the bottom) > Frequent Locations >

Should have the switch and frequent history lists below

Yeah I know where it is, never turned it off and used to look at it in ios7.

For some reasons it's not there. Maybe it cleared itself and started a fresh, but it should be showing something by now.

I turns it off and on again, but found it was crashing the settings app if I changed the atate and tried to go back one menu.

 

[Ermac]

Yeah I know where it is, never turned it off and used to look at it in ios7.

For some reasons it's not there. Maybe it cleared itself and started a fresh, but it should be showing something by now.

I turns it off and on again, but found it was crashing the settings app if I changed the atate and tried to go back one menu.

Have you left the house? lol

 

[mrkgoo]

Have you left the house? lol

Lol yes. It used to show all my places but it no longer does. Maybe it reset after I restored it on 8.0.2 a week ago though.

 

[Tunesmith]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. I was starting to get worried my iPad was dying or something. I have an iPad 3, and my battery stops charging around 91%-97%. I tried draining it to 0% and charging it over night but it still did the same thing. When I check it in the morning, it says, "Not charging." I even went out and bought a new charger but it still happens. The only way to charge it to full now is to make sure the display is turned off. I have to wait a good 30 minutes to an hour in order to get that last 3%. If I try to charge it while off, it turns itself back on. Never had this problem until after iOS 8.

All device batteries behave this way. They cycle/dump the last 10% or so of charge as to not overcharge the battery and cause damage when the device is being continuously charged. Apple just usually cloaks this by displaying 100% when it's really not.

 

[TheDrowningMan]

All device batteries behave this way. They cycle/dump the last 10% or so of charge as to not overcharge the battery and cause damage when the device is being continuously charged. Apple just usually cloaks this by displaying 100% when it's really not.

I got over my battery drain obsessiveness by turning off the %. I spent far too much time scrutinising a battery indicator which is never, ever going to be 100% accurate.

 

[kidfresh718]

my 5s battery life took a big hit with ios8, seemed to drain faster on wifi..

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Put 8.1 beta on my 6. Seems fine so far.

 

[btkadams]

Has anyone installed beta 8.1 onto their 6 Plus? I'm wondering if it fixes some of the laggy animation that people have complained about. My 6 Plus is still in the mail so I am unable to check (or verify the lagginess of iOS 8.0/8.0.2).

 

[Ben Morales]

All device batteries behave this way. They cycle/dump the last 10% or so of charge as to not overcharge the battery and cause damage when the device is being continuously charged. Apple just usually cloaks this by displaying 100% when it's really not.

I know, but I was always able to get a full charge. And now my battery is stuck at 80% and "Not Charging" after 9 hours of uninterrupted charging. Something is wrong.

 

[GWX]

I updated to iOS 8.0.2 when it came out, and it fucked up my steps data:

This is what the "show all data" option shows when I go back to the day I updated:

Very weird, and hella annoying.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I'm having a bunch of wifi issues and I don't know if it is ios8 or my iPhone 6

 

[Christopher]

How do you activate the stepmeter!?

 

[Lord Error]

I updated to iOS 8.0.2 when it came out, and it fucked up my steps data:

This is what the "show all data" option shows when I go back to the day I updated:
Very weird, and hella annoying.

Was the same for me. I solved it by manually adding a piece of data on the day where it was missing, then manually deleting that same data I added. I did this maybe twice as it didn't see to work the first time, but it eventually worked and all the previously recorded data showed up.

 

[GWX]

Was the same for me. I solved it by manually adding a piece of data on the day where it was missing, then manually deleting that same data I added. I did this maybe twice as it didn't see to work the first time, but it eventually worked and all the previously recorded data showed up.

I don't know if I have the patience to do that =( I wish it magically started working again.

 

[Flunkie]

1. My Outlook account isn't receiving any mail on my 5S.
2. Outlook notes are not syncing.

 

[Lord Error]

I don't know if I have the patience to do that =( I wish it magically started working again.

It takes about 30 seconds to do it. I just needed to add and then remove one piece of data for a single day (not for every day!). I may have repeated that twice, but I probably didn't have to. It then showed recorded data for all the days where it was missing.

 

[GWX]

It takes about 30 seconds to do it. I just needed to add and then remove one piece of data for a single day (not for every day!). I may have repeated that twice, but I probably didn't have to. It then showed recorded data for all the days where it was missing.

But I have tons of small bits of data for each day, averaging 10 steps or so =(

edit: I tried to do it, couldn't even finish September 25th (the last day before it bugged with the update), so I just cleared it all... If the next update messes things up again, I'm gonna be mad.

 

[Lord Error]

But I have tons of small bits of data for each day, averaging 10 steps or so =(

Just try it. I had exact same problem and fixed it that way in a very short time.

Go add one piece of data for just one day where it's now not showing data. You will actually see that the data is there, just not being displayed. Then when it starts displaying all the data, just go and delete the piece you added.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, it seems like you were trying to do something I wasn't describing
It is normal that you have thousands of pieces of data with 5-10 steps each. You just needed to manually add one such piece of data for just one single day.

 

[Sean]

How do you activate the stepmeter!?

In the Health app click the Health Data button in bottom toolbar, then Fitness > Steps and toggle the button to "Show on Dashboard"

 

[insmileoutblood]

I was super excited for SwiftKey, but it seems janky as fuck. No bueno.

 

[GWX]

Just try it. I had exact same problem and fixed it that way in a very short time.

Go add one piece of data for just one day where it's now not showing data. You will actually see that the data is there, just not being displayed. Then when it starts displaying all the data, just go and delete the piece you added.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, it seems like you were trying to do something I wasn't describing
It is normal that you have thousands of pieces of data with 5-10 steps each. You just needed to manually add one such piece of data for just one single day.

I misread what you said, damn. Still, thanks for the help!

 

[Namikaze]

I know, but I was always able to get a full charge. And now my battery is stuck at 80% and "Not Charging" after 9 hours of uninterrupted charging. Something is wrong.

My iPad mini retina does the same thing, but only when I use my AMAZON Lightning cable. I just unplug it and switch it to another lighting cable in the house, it charges up to 100% after that.

 

[A Human Becoming]

Could it be they simply made it so alert 1 is always the earliest one and alert 2 the latter? I personally always tried to make it so alert 1 and alert 2 match "1 day before" and "2 days before"

Except that's not always what happens. Seems like a bug to me.

 

[The Real Abed]

Has a bug with calendar alerts been brought up here? Anyone experiencing the problem of alerts switching? Example: Sometimes Alert 1 and Alert 2 will switch making Alert 1 the later alert. Maybe it doesn't affect the earlier alert, but I haven't checked.

Could it be they simply made it so alert 1 is always the earliest one and alert 2 the latter? I personally always tried to make it so alert 1 and alert 2 match "1 day before" and "2 days before"

The problem I'm having with alerts is different. I have my work schedule in my calendar and set it for a 10 minute drive and 30 minute warning. My Mac on Yosemite alerts me at 40 minutes before like it always has. But my two iOS8 devices do it at 50 minutes for some reason. It's kind of annoying and makes no sense.

 

[yulian]

I have a 5s and an Air and both had the same issue after moving from 7 to 8. Both devices would CONSTANTLY ask me for my iCloud password. Annoying, but a simple fix of logging out of iTunes store in Settings and then logging back in. That might have been mentioned in the past 50 pages...My bad if repeating.

 

[MoodyFog]

Quick question:

I have a 6 and messages all work fine, when I send or receive an image I just see it in the discussion like before.

But on my dad's 5S, he sees the little point with the name of the attached image, and has to click it to actually see the image. But he is on iOS 8 too and should see the images I send just fine..

Anyone had this problem?

 

[Number45]

Have Apple mentioned that they're going to be adding the third location option for *all* apps? Always or never is no use, particularly when some of the system services allow you to define when open. :-/

 

[CraigMcD]

Have Apple mentioned that they're going to be adding the third location option for *all* apps? Always or never is no use, particularly when some of the system services allow you to define when open. :-/

Probably up to the developers to sort.

 

[Tunesmith]

Have Apple mentioned that they're going to be adding the third location option for *all* apps? Always or never is no use, particularly when some of the system services allow you to define when open. :-/

There are three options, it's up to the app developer how they use them

• Always
• While Using
• Never

 

[Number45]

Probably up to the developers to sort.

There are three options, it's up to the app developer how they use them

• Always
• While Using
• Never

Sucks that it's not mandated. :-(

Developers: always or never = never.

 

[mrkgoo]

Have Apple mentioned that they're going to be adding the third location option for *all* apps? Always or never is no use, particularly when some of the system services allow you to define when open. :-/

I imagine that the always/never equates to the old on/off, not that a background app is literally always using gps.

 

[dyergram]

Anybody else having issues with certain websites not working after this update? My girlfriend keeps swearing at me because various sites don't work anymore but I pretty much just browse gaf so it doesn't really affect me.

 

[Tunesmith]

Anybody else having issues with certain websites not working after this update? My girlfriend keeps swearing at me because various sites don't work anymore but I pretty much just browse gaf so it doesn't really affect me.

Sure it's not just the wonky wifi issues that's affecting many many people?

 

[dyergram]

Sure it's not just the wonky wifi issues that's affecting many many people?

Um not sure it just crashes safari most of the time I might just try and un-update the ipad. It's a ipad 3 btw.

 

[Ghazi]

So, I'm at the point where my phone will refuse to sync with iTunes and Touch ID is borked. RIP me.

my 5s battery life took a big hit with ios8, seemed to drain faster on wifi..

Same, my phone's always dead by the end of the day. It really sucks, wish I'd kept 7.

 

[dyergram]

Best ios 8 feature is gif's work now.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I feel like I have been redirected to the App Store while browsing mobileGAF way more on ios8 than ios7, or is it just me?