ios 8 - rubbish
Discussion
Church of Noise said:
I've installed 8.0.2 on my iPhone 4S this afternoon.
Where 8.0 was absolute, total and utter drivvel, this minor update brings it back to iOS7 speeds.
Anyone else have this experience?
I'm on a 4S with 8.0 and it runs absolutely fine; maybe a little sluggish, but generally fine. Just seems more robust than iOS7, which in general was possibly one of my worst mobile experiences.Where 8.0 was absolute, total and utter drivvel, this minor update brings it back to iOS7 speeds.
Anyone else have this experience?
The only issue is with the podcast app randomly stopping and the music player starting.
my ipad 2 was struggling with 8.0.2. I tried a couple of settings suggested here and it's now usable but still nowhere near as quick as it was on 7.
Settings/ general /. Accessibility/ reduce motion = ON
Settings / general / spotlight search - turn everything off
Settings / general / background app refresh - turn everything off
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6552856
Settings/ general /. Accessibility/ reduce motion = ON
Settings / general / spotlight search - turn everything off
Settings / general / background app refresh - turn everything off
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6552856
AGK said:
If I'm using Safari or anything really and get a notification banner at the top of the screen it will stay there until I press the home button.
Safari slowed down so much, I use Chrome now, seems quicker. I gave up uploading to Photobucket on Safari, and Photobox which I use a lot for my photographs isnt supported ny Safari, it even says use Chrome.I posted that earlier, but just thought to mention in case you missed it, and it may be of interest.
I have ios 8.0.2 on an iPad Air, an iPad 2, an iPhone 5, my wife's iPhone 4 and iPad 3 - it works fine on all of them. My Air is faster that my 2 but really that's no surprise.
The big difference will Apple is that virtually any other phone manufacturer would only make their new o/s available on their new hardware, it's only really Apple who do it at the scale they do. They could stop with the result that their new phone sales would probably go up since people would buy it to get the new features, it's a laudable tradition with Apple that they do so much to keep old kit up to date.
The big difference will Apple is that virtually any other phone manufacturer would only make their new o/s available on their new hardware, it's only really Apple who do it at the scale they do. They could stop with the result that their new phone sales would probably go up since people would buy it to get the new features, it's a laudable tradition with Apple that they do so much to keep old kit up to date.
My ipad3 slowed down a lot after installing the update, however resetting all settings seems to have resolved this.
Go to settings then:
General > Reset > Reset all settings
With regards to the notifications at the top of the screen, you have to pull it down slightly before pushing it away. If you try it the old way it ends up locked and you have to push the home screen button to shift it.
It runs ok now, but I find the 'improvements' such as changing gestures to get rid of notifications seem needless
Go to settings then:
General > Reset > Reset all settings
With regards to the notifications at the top of the screen, you have to pull it down slightly before pushing it away. If you try it the old way it ends up locked and you have to push the home screen button to shift it.
It runs ok now, but I find the 'improvements' such as changing gestures to get rid of notifications seem needless
Edited by Crush on Wednesday 1st October 09:10
I have an old iPad 2 (30 pin socket) which works well enough on iOS7. It's only really used for amazon prime instant video on apple tv.
From what I see, most of the perceived benefits of iOS8 are the continuity features which aren't available on old kit like this so no point in taking the risk/making a leap into the dark.
From what I see, most of the perceived benefits of iOS8 are the continuity features which aren't available on old kit like this so no point in taking the risk/making a leap into the dark.
Crush said:
My ipad3 slowed down a lot after installing the update, however resetting all settings seems to have resolved this.
Go to settings then:
General > Reset > Reset all settings
With regards to the notifications at the top of the screen, you have to pull it down slightly before pushing it away. If you try it the old way it ends up locked and you have to push the home screen button to shift it.
It runs ok now, but I find the 'improvements' such as changing gestures to get rid of notifications seem needless
Just be careful if you need to reset all settings on iOS8.0.2, apparently it erases your iCloud drive as well...Go to settings then:
General > Reset > Reset all settings
With regards to the notifications at the top of the screen, you have to pull it down slightly before pushing it away. If you try it the old way it ends up locked and you have to push the home screen button to shift it.
It runs ok now, but I find the 'improvements' such as changing gestures to get rid of notifications seem needless
Edited by Crush on Wednesday 1st October 09:10
http://lifehacker.com/ios-8-bug-causes-reset-all-s...
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/29/reset-all-sett...
AGK said:
Seems they've stopped signing 7.1.2 so no more downgrades.
Dire, time to look for a new phone.
My 4S is my works phone, thankfully not my primary. Now I'm finding that the only things that work reliably on it are the core OS features - calling, email, calendar. Don't have many other apps on there, but neither Facebook or Tinder will now load (memory problems if the crash reports are to be believed).Dire, time to look for a new phone.
Edited by AGK on Wednesday 1st October 10:56
The 4S has 512meg. All of the new iPhones are still only on 1gig .... not really a big enough jump, especially now with the 64 bit processors.
At least battery life still seems reasonable, but as soon as "we" (ie. work) decide on our corporate phone policy, I'm getting an upgrade.
AGK said:
Seems they've stopped signing 7.1.2 so no more downgrades.
Dire, time to look for a new phone.
Thats kind of them.Dire, time to look for a new phone.
Edited by AGK on Wednesday 1st October 10:56
They must be assuming everything has been fixed and no issues for anyone anymore.
So no need to downgrade.
A remarkable attitude considering the problems people have had.
Imagine the poor sod who upgrades in his hotel room overnight on holiday.
By the time he gets back with a buggered phone or ipad its too late to gonback.
In apple we trust.
AGK said:
First of all my apps were crashing (they still are) but over the past day it has moved to core things too.
Opening settings takes 2-3 attempts as it keeps bombing out, mail keeps hanging and music....skip a few tracks at a time and you need to do a hard reset.
Joys.
(5S 64GB)
I had regular problems with iOS7, it was suggested that it was best doing a device wipe and run through a totally fresh OS install. That implies that the Apple OS updates aren't perfect. Scandalous suggestion, how dare anyone say that ...Opening settings takes 2-3 attempts as it keeps bombing out, mail keeps hanging and music....skip a few tracks at a time and you need to do a hard reset.
Joys.
(5S 64GB)
Came on today to ask about downgrading my iPad Air - is it true I can no longer do this?
My iPad Air definitely hangs and crashes more than it used to, but let's say that's due to not all apps being upgraded, but...
Battery life has deteriorated hugely - I'd always be surprised when it was time to charge. Last night in chrome/ fb etc as per usual and it dropped 40%! Screen brightness is about half. Loved the iPad but having to charge it every couple of days isn't good enough considering it was once or twice a week. Worried about taking it on a long journey to watch a film etc now.
Seems I'm not the only one either.
There's always been teething issues with iOS updates but this is absolutely shocking from Apple, I'll be honest is is putting me off the no brainer upgrade to the 6 that I've been waiting to do for months but have held off as yet until issues are fixed. Apple won't care though as a 1000 Chinese customers will replace every westerner they've lost.
My iPad Air definitely hangs and crashes more than it used to, but let's say that's due to not all apps being upgraded, but...
Battery life has deteriorated hugely - I'd always be surprised when it was time to charge. Last night in chrome/ fb etc as per usual and it dropped 40%! Screen brightness is about half. Loved the iPad but having to charge it every couple of days isn't good enough considering it was once or twice a week. Worried about taking it on a long journey to watch a film etc now.
Seems I'm not the only one either.
There's always been teething issues with iOS updates but this is absolutely shocking from Apple, I'll be honest is is putting me off the no brainer upgrade to the 6 that I've been waiting to do for months but have held off as yet until issues are fixed. Apple won't care though as a 1000 Chinese customers will replace every westerner they've lost.
Eddw86 said:
Came on today to ask about downgrading my iPad Air - is it true I can no longer do this?
My iPad Air definitely hangs and crashes more than it used to, but let's say that's due to not all apps being upgraded, but...
Battery life has deteriorated hugely - I'd always be surprised when it was time to charge. Last night in chrome/ fb etc as per usual and it dropped 40%! Screen brightness is about half. Loved the iPad but having to charge it every couple of days isn't good enough considering it was once or twice a week. Worried about taking it on a long journey to watch a film etc now.
Seems I'm not the only one either.
There's always been teething issues with iOS updates but this is absolutely shocking from Apple, I'll be honest is is putting me off the no brainer upgrade to the 6 that I've been waiting to do for months but have held off as yet until issues are fixed. Apple won't care though as a 1000 Chinese customers will replace every westerner they've lost.
Yup, you can't now downgrade - at least not via any official method.My iPad Air definitely hangs and crashes more than it used to, but let's say that's due to not all apps being upgraded, but...
Battery life has deteriorated hugely - I'd always be surprised when it was time to charge. Last night in chrome/ fb etc as per usual and it dropped 40%! Screen brightness is about half. Loved the iPad but having to charge it every couple of days isn't good enough considering it was once or twice a week. Worried about taking it on a long journey to watch a film etc now.
Seems I'm not the only one either.
There's always been teething issues with iOS updates but this is absolutely shocking from Apple, I'll be honest is is putting me off the no brainer upgrade to the 6 that I've been waiting to do for months but have held off as yet until issues are fixed. Apple won't care though as a 1000 Chinese customers will replace every westerner they've lost.
Whilst some of the apps on my 4S absolutely refuse to work (thankfully Spotify is still fine!), battery life seems pretty much unchanged. It'll still happily go through a day or two of normal usage.
It appears to be yet another inconsistent update from Apple.
Debaser said:
The five finger pinch to close an app on my iPad only works sometimes.
The Frequently Visited websites in Safari are annoying. Why can't they be turned off?
Can't get an image URL anymore (ios7 allowed you to copy an image and paste the URL into an address bar).
Slower and more jerky operation overall.
When trying to type something (like a reply on here) the keyboard sometimes only appears for a split second. Also, the box I'm typing in disappears off the top of the screen.
None of these were issues with ios7.
I have an iPad 4 and have the same. Turning the gestures on and off in settings seems to fix it for a while. I find the zooming in safari is horrible as well, if you zoom too far out you end up looking at all your open tabs in a kind of "expose" way like on OS X. I also had it go all glitchy when doing that and couldn't get the website to re-frame correctly so I could read it.The Frequently Visited websites in Safari are annoying. Why can't they be turned off?
Can't get an image URL anymore (ios7 allowed you to copy an image and paste the URL into an address bar).
Slower and more jerky operation overall.
When trying to type something (like a reply on here) the keyboard sometimes only appears for a split second. Also, the box I'm typing in disappears off the top of the screen.
None of these were issues with ios7.
Animations are visibly sluggish too and while i haven't had any problems with the keyboard, switching keyboards is dog slow and half the time, SwiftKey keyboard doesn't even appear leaving me with no input method!
They'll get it fixed in time I am sure, but it does appear to be somewhat half baked in places.
So
When i started this thread a couple of weeks ago i also went onto apple site and contacted customer support with a message about needing to get back to ios 6 as it is where i was before going to ios 8 and the back to 7.
Never received a reply.
Nor have i received any sort of message about how to go back.
Nice.
When i started this thread a couple of weeks ago i also went onto apple site and contacted customer support with a message about needing to get back to ios 6 as it is where i was before going to ios 8 and the back to 7.
Never received a reply.
Nor have i received any sort of message about how to go back.
Nice.
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