Apple Releases iOS 8.1.1 With Bug Fixes, Performance Improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s

[kissfan]

It still didn't fix my WiFi issue. Came home yesterday and now my iPhone6+ refuses to reconnect to my home WiFi... which had been working fine for weeks. iOS asks me to re-enter the WiFi password, which is immediately says is wrong. Right... my cut/paste is wrong. All of my other devices, including an iPad3 on 8.1 work just fine. It's just the iP6+/128 (now on 8.1.1) that refuses to connect.

I've even reset the device as new and it wouldn't connect. WTH Apple? I guess I get to play with tech support again.

 

[tech2014]

So far, so good. The iPad 2 is working better with 8.1.1, and the 6 Plus is also working fine. Safari is very responsive, with tabs maintaining their integrity upon returning - portrait and landscape. More to come...

did you do it ota or itunes?

 

[Lancetx]

Because that doesn't solve the initial issue of bad coding. I have 4 cities, and it lags. It's a well known issue and iOS 8 does have performance quirks.

Hmm, I have 4 cities and there is zero lag on mine, doesn't matter if I swipe between them or bounce back and forth between cities from the list mode. I just tried it and there is absolutely no lag at all doing it either way.

 

[baslotto]

Landscape mode bug not fixed!

This has been bothering me for 2 months now.

1 Oper Safari
2 Tilt the screen to horizontal/landscape view (it will work)
3 Switch to any app that doesn't support landscape (App Store, Podcasts)
4 Keep it tilted horizontally and switch back to Safari

Expected result: the screen should tilt back to landscape view

Actual result: the screen stays in vertical view even if the device is in horizontal position


APPLE?!?!

 

[jahall05]

Bluetooth did not turn on by default!

Interestingly, bluetooth didn't turn itself on with the update on either my iPhone 5s or iPad Mini 2 (with retina display).

Moot point, just thought it was interesting.

 

[H3boy]

6+ 64GB, So far so good. Updated using OTA

 

[Kariya]

Seems markedly faster/smoother.

 

[N2PVP]

Coffee

My 6 now makes coffee! If I could just get it to do the dishes. #

 

[Alimar]

did you do it ota or itunes?

OTA for both devices. I overlapped after ten minutes, and they finished at the same time. About twenty minutes total.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Sigh

One minor problem that Apple would likely deem a non-problem but you might find really annoying:

(1) if you've paid for iTunes Match it decides to manage all your music.

I bought iTunes Match it and realized I don't want it managing my individual songs, I want to do that so I leave it off - I should cancel it but haven't.

(2) When I updated to 8.1.1 it turned iTunes Match back on (figuring I probably turned it off in oversight) it wiped out about 3000 songs on my 6+.

The only music remaining is music bought from the iTunes store (219 songs).

(3) Not really a problem, I have two huge IKEA bookcases full of CD's I've encoded and I usually swap 2000-3000 songs out every couple of weeks to switch it up to keep things from getting predictable.

To call me a music fanatic would be understating the case by a good amount.

 

[charlee08]

Safari seems to be running smoother.

Really hoping batter life improves on my 5s. Was losing 20-30% overnight. Only lost around 5-10% on iOS 7.

 

[MikeSmoke]

4s is updated. Took 1/2 hour for the entire process ota. It was okay on 8.1 but 8.1.1 is markedly faster and smoother. Go for it. Wifi does not pause for seconds when going to a new page. It starts immediately and loads faster. Will update iPad mini 2 next.

 

[jaymc]

This has been bothering me for 2 months now.

1 Oper Safari
2 Tilt the screen to horizontal/landscape view (it will work)
3 Switch to any app that doesn't support landscape (App Store, Podcasts)
4 Keep it tilted horizontally and switch back to Safari

Expected result: the screen should tilt back to landscape view

Actual result: the screen stays in vertical view even if the device is in horizontal position


APPLE?!?!

Just did steps 1-4 on my iPhone 6+ and it works fine for me (iOS 8.1.1)

 

[moderately]

I have both a 4s and an iPad 2.

They're not kidding that these devices have been hamstrung by iOS8.

Hoping these do indeed improve performance.

I have been holding off with my iPod Touch 5g. Let me know when you pull the trigger and if it makes things workable. I found a greaat improvement in the later iOS 7s.

 

[Solver]

On iPad 3, the laggy Safari keyboard experienced on some web sites isn't laggy anymore. Even better than the beta.

 

[NMBob]

My 6 now makes coffee! If I could just get it to do the dishes. #

There was a bug. It was making coffee with the dish water. Maybe they'll get it next update.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Avoid like the plague.

Based on what? it's been out 15 minutes? Should probably craislist all your stuff and move on to windows or android..

Pangu

Perhaps you should explain that it's for jailbreak users to avoid then. Nothing to stop people without a jailbreak updating.

 

[Imory]

Hmm, I have 4 cities and there is zero lag on mine, doesn't matter if I swipe between them or bounce back and forth between cities from the list mode. I just tried it and there is absolutely no lag at all doing it either way.

On the 6? No lag or frames dropping when you switch between collapsing/expanding cities?

 

[nj1266]

Same here. I'm hoping to go home and download the update and test the wifi issue. It's been annoying.



I just ordered a Airport Extreme today thinking it might be my router and Asus had said no new firmware was expected.

It is not your router. Others are having wifi issues too. I am having wifi slowdown. Mine is 10 Mbps slower from where it should be. But I am lucky since at 15 Mbps it is still fast enough. I think it is the 5 ghz frequency that is causing the problem. When I installed a D-Link dual frequency router I had atrocious speeds. I went back to my 2.4 Ghz router and it is better. But the slowdown is still there.

 

[bunnicula]

User error by a girl.

But... but...

I AM a girl.

That said... I just discovered that it switched off Siri. Odd. Very odd. Ah well, I fixed that easily enough.

Everything else appears to have remained unchanged.

 

[moderately]

The update is 95.8 MB on the iPod Touch.

Hows it working? My intensive app is Numbers and I havn't dared to upgrade.

 

[yegon]

Although I agree, I think this is more of just an Apple problem in general. Everyone Apple product I've ever owned (iPad, macbook, appletv, iphone) all will drop my wifi. I finally discovered turning wifi off and back on would temporarily fix it until it inevitably dropped it again the next day.

It's just a theory of mine, but I think my cable company gives me a new IP address every day or so and perhaps this causes the issue. My Windows machines never had the same problem though (before switching to Apple exclusively). And the devices never drop wifi all at the same time, which seems to throw a wrench into my theory.

I've had same problem. Doesn't happen all the time, but enough that it's noticable. Experienced it across several wifi setups too. That's across 4 Apple laptops, two Mac Mini's, 4 iPhones, Apple TV (3rd gen) and 3 iPads last 10 years.

Only my old iPhone 5 was a real problem to the point where it was borderline unusable on wifi (was fixed later though).

 

[bunnicula]

Bluetooth doesn't turn itself on automatically after installing this.

Mine did.

 

[dcorban]

It still didn't fix my WiFi issue. Came home yesterday and now my iPhone6+ refuses to reconnect to my home WiFi... which had been working fine for weeks. iOS asks me to re-enter the WiFi password, which is immediately says is wrong. Right... my cut/paste is wrong. All of my other devices, including an iPad3 on 8.1 work just fine. It's just the iP6+/128 (now on 8.1.1) that refuses to connect.

I've even reset the device as new and it wouldn't connect. WTH Apple? I guess I get to play with tech support again.

I am willing to bet that it is your router, not the devices.

 

[joeblow7777]

RIP jailbreak.

For about a week or two, anyway.