Upgrading to and what's new in IOS8

Upgrading to and what's new in IOS8

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AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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supersport said:
Didn't a load of fools put there iPhones into water after a similar hoax with IOS 7?

You can see why the Nigerians persist with their dodgy emails.
We all make mistakes.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Xaero said:
Anyone know how to find the battery usage screen? The macrumors link says it's in settings somewhere but I can't find it.
settings -> general -> usage -> battery usage



Webber3

1,228 posts

218 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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AB said:
I'm with you - other than being the aforementioned ability to answer my phone on my iPad, it's a st upgrade.
They should have called it 7.2, how is this a major update? Apple developers may see it differently, but for most users there's hardly anything new or that useful.

I've just put it on an iPad Air and I had to check the version number in settings to see if it had updated or not. I was in two minds about putting this on my 4S, but I've decided now. I won't bother. I'm now having second thoughts about buying an iPhone 6 as well.

  • One thing they have fixed, the ability to resize/zoom large wallpapers for your home/lock screens. This broke at some point in iOS 7 I believe. *

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Webber3 said:
AB said:
I'm with you - other than being the aforementioned ability to answer my phone on my iPad, it's a st upgrade.
They should have called it 7.2, how is this a major update? Apple developers may see it differently, but for most users there's hardly anything new or that useful.

I've just put it on an iPad Air and I had to check the version number in settings to see if it had updated or not. I was in two minds about putting this on my 4S, but I've decided now. I won't bother. I'm now having second thoughts about buying an iPhone 6 as well.

  • One thing they have fixed, the ability to resize/zoom large wallpapers for your home/lock screens. This broke at some point in iOS 7 I believe. *
Agreed that it deserves to only be 7.2 or maybe 7.3. Nowhere near enough changes to justify such a big jump.

But it does work considerably better on my 4S than 7 ever did - at least in my limited experience, it really is a worthwhile upgrade for the 4S.

Debaser

5,665 posts

260 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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In addition to the annoying 'frequently visited' websites in Safari, I've noticed on my iPad the multitasking gestures (e.g. five finger pinch to close an app) don't work very reliably.

Webber3

1,228 posts

218 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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djdestiny said:
The family sharing thing is a bit annoying.
Obviously I and my girlfriend have separate apple ID's which we use to make purchases with apps etc, when setting up family sharing it says all app purchases will now be taken from her account. I'd rather we both were able to buy them separately still but be able to share them
You should have opted out when asked. Family sharing is aimed at parents & children. The parent has an Apple account with a credit card attached and the kids generally have no credit card or account credit.

You're going to have to ask your girlfriend's permission every time you want to download a paid app. You might as well be married biggrin

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

217 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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I've not downloaded iOS8 yet, but has anyone tried resizing an image to use for wallpaper?

djdestiny

6,542 posts

177 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Webber3 said:
You should have opted out when asked. Family sharing is aimed at parents & children. The parent has an Apple account with a credit card attached and the kids generally have no credit card or account credit.

You're going to have to ask your girlfriend's permission every time you want to download a paid app. You might as well be married biggrin
I did opt out smile
Its worth noting for those who want to use it, more than one person can have parent status

onyx39

11,109 posts

149 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Echo the comments above about the 4s running better on iOS 8

supersport

4,040 posts

226 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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AB said:
supersport said:
Didn't a load of fools put there iPhones into water after a similar hoax with IOS 7?

You can see why the Nigerians persist with their dodgy emails.
We all make mistakes.
Being rather st at typing doesn't really compare with putting your phone in a bucket or believing obvious ste from the internet!

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Battery use is interesting, seems Safari is a bit of a hog on my ipad

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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supersport said:
Being rather st at typing doesn't really compare with putting your phone in a bucket or believing obvious ste from the internet!
Ok mate.

Zad

12,695 posts

235 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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It is definitely only a 0.1 upgrade to 7! Maybe they are trying to compete with Firefox's major version updates every few days.

The automatic backlight brightness adjustment on my iPhone 5 seems to be broken. Too dark in darkness, too bright in direct light, and adjusting it immediately gets overwritten. I seem to be having apps failing to start too, and not just third party apps like News UK Lite (which often boots up and locks) but even the Apple Settings panel seems reluctant to start and drops out to the "desktop" now and then.

The biggest thing though seems to be power consumption. Turning off Bluetooth, GPS and killing all extraneous processes seems to give power consumption around 30-40% higher than in iOS7. The exposure adjustment for the camera is handy, but it is a shame they couldn't put a manual focus control (or at least lock) on there too.


lenats31

438 posts

172 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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I updated my Iphone 5 64GB and Ipad from IOS7 to IOS8 this morning. Everything seems fine except that I now know my VPN codes by heartsmashfuriouscensored

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Zad said:
It is definitely only a 0.1 upgrade to 7! Maybe they are trying to compete with Firefox's major version updates every few days.

The automatic backlight brightness adjustment on my iPhone 5 seems to be broken. Too dark in darkness, too bright in direct light, and adjusting it immediately gets overwritten. I seem to be having apps failing to start too, and not just third party apps like News UK Lite (which often boots up and locks) but even the Apple Settings panel seems reluctant to start and drops out to the "desktop" now and then.

The biggest thing though seems to be power consumption. Turning off Bluetooth, GPS and killing all extraneous processes seems to give power consumption around 30-40% higher than in iOS7. The exposure adjustment for the camera is handy, but it is a shame they couldn't put a manual focus control (or at least lock) on there too.
If they were following the Firefox numbering, they'd be up to iOS19 by now.

Auto backlight adjustment on my 4S is damnably irritating, but thankfully it seems to be the only irritation. Battery life actually seems unchanged. Took it off charge this morning, didn't really use it much (bit of facebook, checked a couple of mails) and it was at about 90% before putting it back in its dock this evening.

wibble cb

3,586 posts

206 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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clonmult said:
Webber3 said:
AB said:
I'm with you - other than being the aforementioned ability to answer my phone on my iPad, it's a st upgrade.
They should have called it 7.2, how is this a major update? Apple developers may see it differently, but for most users there's hardly anything new or that useful.

I've just put it on an iPad Air and I had to check the version number in settings to see if it had updated or not. I was in two minds about putting this on my 4S, but I've decided now. I won't bother. I'm now having second thoughts about buying an iPhone 6 as well.

  • One thing they have fixed, the ability to resize/zoom large wallpapers for your home/lock screens. This broke at some point in iOS 7 I believe. *
Agreed that it deserves to only be 7.2 or maybe 7.3. Nowhere near enough changes to justify such a big jump.

But it does work considerably better on my 4S than 7 ever did - at least in my limited experience, it really is a worthwhile upgrade for the 4S.
I just tried scaling a photo for wallpaper, it still doesn't work, how did you do it?

thanks

Xaero

4,060 posts

214 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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qube_TA said:
Xaero said:
Anyone know how to find the battery usage screen? The macrumors link says it's in settings somewhere but I can't find it.
settings -> general -> usage -> battery usage
Thanks, it's handy to know.

I updated my iPad 3 last night, and all seems ok there too. It really should be iOS 7.x rather than 8 though, it's difficult to find differences. Personally I think they are racing to iOS 10, so then they can call it X and integrate it with the desktop software more.

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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I'm becoming intrigued by what the Health App does.

First off, for anyone considering battery usage, presumably the default activities must be a reasonable drain on resource.

Equally, how amazing that it can know when I'm walking and when I'm commuting on a train. And it takes a seemingly varying number of data points each minute - in one case I counted 23, but it seems to have managed about a dozen each minute.

Why is all this?




gpo746

3,397 posts

129 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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K12beano said:
I'm becoming intrigued by what the Health App does.

First off, for anyone considering battery usage, presumably the default activities must be a reasonable drain on resource.

Equally, how amazing that it can know when I'm walking and when I'm commuting on a train. And it takes a seemingly varying number of data points each minute - in one case I counted 23, but it seems to have managed about a dozen each minute.

Why is all this?
Have you had extra bits added in like plates or even breast inplants ?
biggrin

bad company

18,483 posts

265 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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I just realised that I don't have room for the upgrade on my IPone 5. I guess I should have gone for the 32GB.

I'm off to the states at the weekend so may upgrade the phone there.