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Apple Engineers in 'War Room' Tracking Down iOS 8 Issues on Social Media

Amazing Iceman said:
Sorry to hear that, but if you are planning to go back, so it now; don't wait long as Apple may restrict going back. Maybe it's time for a new phone if it's within your budget.
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Thing is, I really dig the design of the 4S. To me it's the most minimalist and, in lack of a better word, classy hardware they ever made. Also, I really like the size. So if it can't have the newest OS, so be it, you'll still have to pry it from my dead cold hands… :)
 
I don't know if these have been mentioned.

1. The top bar at the top of my screen (the one with the signal, time, and battery) sticks to the screen and goes on top of everything.

2. When a notification pops up at the top of the screen and I try sliding it up it stops and stays on the screen and then I have to press the home button for it to disappear.
 
I suggest that Apple Engineers never leave the War Room to track down iOS issues. Their presence in the "war room" should be ongoing, not just limited to a recently released major OS revision.
 
Running iOS 8 on my 5s, i noticed a rather annoying bug.
(even after reset, re-download iOS and trying all other things)
see a thread I opened
--Called Wallpaper-setting BUG! (Picture for wallpaper becomes blurred when zooming in

Ray777 said:
When you want to set a new wallpaper, and choose wallpaper/choose a New Wallpaper/ and then choose any picture from your own photo-albums
(Pictures shot with the 5s or uploaded from my Mac)

I 'Can' zoom in... but as soon as you start to zoom in, ...the picture's res doesn't zoom in with it?
Instead they become BLURRED/Pixelated!

On iOS 7 those large-res pics zoomed in, and stopped zooming just before they became unsharp..

But now, on iOS 8, as soon as you start to zoom-in into 'any' picture, inside the set-wallpaper setting, they become blurred/Pixelated!

--I mean Talking about 4K res and even up to almost 6K res pictures, which on iOS 7 could zoom in perfectly, and you could set parts of those pictures as your background in sharp-detail.

Also when you open those same (or any) pictures in the PHOTOS app, they DO zoom in pixel-sharp without problem...??
--but not when/where you want to set them as wallpaper..?

Does anyone else notice this? (on their 5s or any other 4inch devices ..or iPads)
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Someone else also noticed this bug.

aeroalex said:
I've noticed the same! It's pretty shocking. It means that photos shot with my 5s look awful if I want to set them as my wallpaper. :(
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Anyone else checked this out?
 
Biggest bug that I've found (not sure if this is SwiftKey-specific) is with Messages. Sometimes the keyboard doesn't pop up at all when trying to type in a message that you've already sent something to. I've had to force-quit the messages app to get it to work on restart.

Also, the message doesn't scroll when the keyboard pops up, so you can't see the last couple of responses. Manually scrolling doesn't working either; the phone doesn't seem to know that the keyboard has popped up.
 
OtherJesus said:
Safari has taken 26% and I have barely touched it all day. The gear constantly spins at the top left, long after a page has loaded.
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I had this issue too after updating to iOS 8. Close all your tabs then use the task switcher to kill safari. Then start it up again. That fixed it for me.
 
ryansimmons323 said:
Apple employee #8 (literally the 8th ever Apple employee) Chris Espinosa was in charge of Family Sharing and is providing loads of support on his Twitter - https://twitter.com/cdespinosa
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i noticed that. it's one of the plus sides of social media. Before they had to wait for folks to call apple care or go into a store to really get any data.

oh and for the record, EFFA isn't just iOS devices and isn't just launches. They do it on all new devices and will open them at any time they think there is an possible issue. Like right now there is a question of whether a bad batch of iPhone 5S replacement displays got out or if there is an issue with the calibration systems. So they have an EFFA on display issue 'loopers'.
 
Here's a bug - I have Events in iPhoto 9.5.1 on my Mac Mavericks. Each Event orders its photos by date-time. Those Events get synced to my iPhone iOS 8. In Photos, 1) the photos are (apparently) unordered (completely different from iPhoto), 2) the Events are listed (apparently) unordered and not by the title (so 2002 Vacation then 2012 Birthday then 2003 Christmas sort-of-thing).
 
firedept said:
Be nice to have to option to remove some of the Apple apps. I have at least 8-10 apps that I will never use, but Apple insist they stay. Great job them searching social for iOS 8 bugs.
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i agree that there are some like stocks and weather that could go now that we have so many options in the app store. But for now I would settle for being able to restrict them off the screen. I think all apps, even downloaded ones, should be removable. Or even things like being able to lock down certain accounts. So, as weird as it might sound to do, lets say that my kid and I share an iPad. We both have our email on it. He wants to use it so I turn on restrictions and 'mute' my email so he can't see it cause it's got business stuff in there or I don't want to risk him deleting something by accident. this would work best if there was the ability to save restrictions and toggle in and out. Which I also agree would be awesome

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troop231 said:
To me (and others) it is since it is an annoyance that is recurring. ;)
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an annoyance is NOT a bug anymore than an opinion is fact.

yes it might be nice for the small majority that never accidentally delete a photo to not have this feature, but for the vast majority that do it and perhaps often, it's a keen feature to have

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DEXTERITY said:
It would be nice if they fix the ipad 3, which is now running super slow

It reminds me of what ios7 did to the iphone 4
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i have an iPad 3 in the office that was even running the betas and it wasn't particularly slow then and isn't now. The only issue i had was that it was sometimes rebooting on its own and was slow to turn on (like 5 minutes). Otherwise it was no worse on the betas than any other device. And so far has been fine with the public release

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Ludecrasher said:
It's a bug when you absolutely have no way of getting any of those pictures you used to have to post on social media.
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are you certain the issue is with iOS 8 and not with the app you are attempting to use. After all, if the app was coded to look for the camera roll designation which no longer exists . . .

and as for why they made the change, part of it was to reduce the duplication of photos when something came back via photo stream. Not to mention the confusion from the 95% of users who are all tech noobs.

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DoctorKrabs said:
It's a goddamn bug. 3rd party apps that have not been updated
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what a second. You're saying that something that happens in an app that hasn't been updated for IOS 8 is a bug in iOS 8. that isn't logical.
 
Here's a bug - the idiot who chose the way to remove the Camera Roll

1) Arbitrarily, so the majority of users whose life mission isn't to study up on any changes in Apple operating systems gets a shock

2) There were crap photos in the Camera Roll that I didn't want to keep and didn't move to an album after importing to iPhoto - they just remained in the Camera Roll, waiting for the day I would delete them all at once. In the iOS 8, they been moved, out of my control, into the Moments collection. Now I supposed to go through months of photos to weed them out? It wasn't like an album was created that listed them - they just got shoved into the pile.

Either an college-level intern implemented this, or a tyrannical *******.
 
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ZombiPod said:
Thing is, I really dig the design of the 4S. To me it's the most minimalist and, in lack of a better word, classy hardware they ever made. Also, I really like the size. So if it can't have the newest OS, so be it, you'll still have to pry it from my dead cold hands… :)
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I have the 5s, it is my first iPhone, and only because the previous models weren't available under T-Mobile's network. I really like it, but my eyes are starting to fail so I could use the display size of the iPhone 6. As you may have noticed, the 5s is almost like the 4s, just slimmer. Both are beautifully designed phones, even the 6 is. I'm just going to wait for next years' model.
If I was going to upgrade anything, my priority would be getting a new Mac; as you can see below, I still have my faithful 2007 MBP. I'm only trying to replace it because it can only be upgraded to 4GB and that's not enough for Video Editing in HD. Or even handle the 30+ webpages I have opened at one time when doing work research.
 
Not so much a bug but rather bad design :

- iPhoto 9.5.1 Mac show photo timestamps only in local time of when the photo was taken e.g. I'm in GMT, the photo was taken in PST at 9 am, iPhoto displays "9am"
- Photos iOS 8 shows photo timestamps adjusted from the local time of when the photo was taken, to the current timezone e.g. for the previous photo, iPhoto displays "5pm"

I think the latter is the mistake. Rather than adjusting the time, Photos should simply append the timezone (in which the photo was taken) to the displayed photo information, if it differs from the current timezone e.g. for the previous photo, iPhoto displays "9am PST"
 
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Mr. Retrofire said:
They should do the same regarding the dGPU problems of the Early-2011 and Late-2011 MBPs.
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And what exactly should they do?
"Hey guys... The GPUs of 2011 MBPs are failing."
"K"

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charlituna said:
i agree that there are some like stocks and weather that could go now that we have so many options in the app store. But for now I would settle for being able to restrict them off the screen. I think all apps, even downloaded ones, should be removable. Or even things like being able to lock down certain accounts. So, as weird as it might sound to do, lets say that my kid and I share an iPad. We both have our email on it. He wants to use it so I turn on restrictions and 'mute' my email so he can't see it cause it's got business stuff in there or I don't want to risk him deleting something by accident. this would work best if there was the ability to save restrictions and toggle in and out. Which I also agree would be awesome

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an annoyance is NOT a bug anymore than an opinion is fact.

yes it might be nice for the small majority that never accidentally delete a photo to not have this feature, but for the vast majority that do it and perhaps often, it's a keen feature to have

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i have an iPad 3 in the office that was even running the betas and it wasn't particularly slow then and isn't now. The only issue i had was that it was sometimes rebooting on its own and was slow to turn on (like 5 minutes). Otherwise it was no worse on the betas than any other device. And so far has been fine with the public release

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are you certain the issue is with iOS 8 and not with the app you are attempting to use. After all, if the app was coded to look for the camera roll designation which no longer exists . . .

and as for why they made the change, part of it was to reduce the duplication of photos when something came back via photo stream. Not to mention the confusion from the 95% of users who are all tech noobs.

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what a second. You're saying that something that happens in an app that hasn't been updated for IOS 8 is a bug in iOS 8. that isn't logical.
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Wouldn't a better solution to just have multiple user accounts on the iPad itself? With automatic login based on TouchID (when available).
Each user could have its own collection of apps, media, and settings.
 
liking it

I am always willing to speak out when Apple screws up but this time I want to offer kudos. ios 8 is good. I have encountered zero problems, which is how Apple updates used to be. Nice work!
 
ThatGuyInLa said:
I've been along with others seeing pretty heavy battery drain. I have BG Refresh off so I don't know what's doing it. It's a substantial drain though. Near Android levels.
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and what does it say under your battery usage

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Ludecrasher said:
It is about that. They switched the Camera Roll for Recently Added. HORRIBLE!! No access to old pics from third party apps or social media,
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which is an issue that despite being told ages ago about these changes the apps haven't been updated by their developers.

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sskhaliq said:
Why don't they run Effa BEFORE rolling out iOS to public if its so damn good? Just a thought. Unless this has been written by a 13 year old?
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it is impossible to test every single possible combination of hardware, software, third party apps etc before launching. EFFA is a way to compensate once they have details from users of what might be going on.

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casperes1996 said:
Wouldn't a better solution to just have multiple user accounts on the iPad itself? With automatic login based on TouchID (when available).
Each user could have its own collection of apps, media, and settings.
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many users around here would say "hell frakking yes Apple MUST do this or its just a toy, blah blah bleech"

I don't see Apple doing it given they haven't in all this time. The closest they might do is this kind of saved restrictions since it is foolish for their 'one per user' stance to include toddlers
 
Is anyone having a problem when you get a sms notification that you don't immediately read you are unable to swipe to reply? Only have the "X" option when i do. The swipe down works when I catch one coming through though?
 
Still no ability to automatically load Mail images based on domain or sender.

Tap the status bar to "scroll to page top" now doesn't work in Mail. On that subject, there still is no "scroll to page bottom" functionality anywhere in iOS.

Also, and IMO this one is just plain sloppy, the iPhone Feedback page hasn't been updated to include 8.0 as an iOS version: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
 
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