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Apple Releases iOS 8.1.1 With Bug Fixes, Performance Improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s
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Yeah, it's really great to be able to slow down your unit beyond usability without the possibility to go back...
(I never tried it before, but my next iPhone will probably stay on the OS it was delivered with)
glad I'm not the only one as the apple "geniuses" tell me I am.
the iMessage fiasco started when I downloaded iOS 8 to my iphone 5, then I bought and returned the 6 because of this. I later switched for the 6 plus and even traded it for a new 6 plus all because Apple said they've never heard of iMessage issues.
#vindicated
Update working fine here on iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2. Touch ID and cellular still working.
BTW, there's also an update for the Apple TV.
Does the new version solve the Safari crash when typing in a text box on an iPad Air 2?
You could use some coffee!
Seriously, people thought I was too serious.. how about we lighten up and loosen up a bit, and not take things so seriously. We know we are looking here for status reports on stability and bugs, but no-one said that looking for those had to be in such a sterile environment.
You missed the following:
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./configure --help
Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions]
--enable and --with options recognized:
--with-coffee coffee supportCheck your release notes. If you didn't see the following:
Code:
creating cache ./config.cache
checking whether to make a coffee while compiling... yes - with milk - please!you have a bug. Try again, or better yet, drain the sink.
BL.
https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-battery/
Fill in your phone's serial number to see if it's eligible for a battery replacement. You have exactly the symptoms of a faulty battery.
Upgrade fixed my Bluetooth issues
When iOS came out, bluetooth on my iPhone 6 was terrible. It would drop out once every 2 minutes or so. And none of the subsequent updates did much to fix it, even though they claimed to. Now with 8.1.1 bluetooth works great again. Definitely recommend this update even if it's not for iPad 2 or iPhone 4s.
When iOS came out, bluetooth on my iPhone 6 was terrible. It would drop out once every 2 minutes or so. And none of the subsequent updates did much to fix it, even though they claimed to. Now with 8.1.1 bluetooth works great again. Definitely recommend this update even if it's not for iPad 2 or iPhone 4s.
Huge difference though between the desktop and mobile worlds in terms of how rapidly the hardware has advanced. The level of performance in mobile processors has increased at a far faster rate since the original iPhone came out, compared to desktop PC processors.
And new versions of iOS come out annually, whereas before Apple went to its current annual update schedule for OS X (and had its own issues with Mavericks and Yosemite), the OS updates for the Macs would take up to 2 1/2 years (the interval between Tiger and Leopard).
The performance gap between the A5 and A8 is huge. Not a perfect comparison, but the Geekbench score for the iPhone 6 is about 8X higher on the single-core test than the 4s. For an iMac, that span of time might yield a 2X to 3X benchmark improvement.
The rate of advance with iOS now occurs much more rapidly than things ever did with Macs. Apple still supports older iOS devices, more so than Android OEMs do. But, it still gets back to the tradeoffs. An older device can take advantage of the security fixes and more current app compatibility by updating to newer versions. Yet, the newer OSes also target devices that are far more powerful, so older devices will inevitably take a performance hit in order to gain those new features.
This is the reason why my older iMac remains on Snow Leopard and I keep my iPad 3 on iOS 6.1.3. I weighed the tradeoffs and chose to stand pat. Whereas with my 5s, I haven't seen any drawbacks at all in going to iOS 8.
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Did you do anything specific to get it to work?I tried uninstalling and signing out of settings and nothing helped. This is both on iPad and iPhone.
Looks like my iPhone is affected. Good thing this replacement is free of charge (seeing as I'm no longer under contract). Thanks!
For my 5S I've noticed severe battery drain issues since 8.0.2! Goes down a few percent in a couple of minutes!
Yeah, but how much does it drain within an hour or two? A "couple of minutes" won't tell you anything.
Also, the battery drain will vary considerably depending on what you do, and what settings you use. I have a couple of games that will completely drain the battery in less than three hours. Yet, if I do web browsing using wi-fi only, I'll use up only about 40% of the battery in four hours.
I've had my 5s for over a year, and it will typically last 5-6 hours on a charge. I haven't noticed any change to this pattern since updating to iOS 8. If I play games, the battery life will go down. If I switch off the cellular antenna and use local apps, the battery life will go up. Again, nothing new.
So in an effort to avoid an inevitable phenomena, you moved to a place where said phenomena occurs at a higher frequency?
Comon sense these days
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Yeah this is true. However it's sort of seems logical because when you switch to the podcast app (that doesn't support landscape) the device expects you to turn it to portrait mode hence why safari will also be in portrait mode. That's also why multitasking view in your scenario will be in portrait mode after you have switched to an app that doesn't support landscape, even if you actually still holding the phone in landscape. I guess the orientation could be more responsive in this situation but maybe it's default behaviour which would make some sort of sense.
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Just tried it. No lag to report. Response was instantaneous. No slow keystrokes in Spotlight either. Maybe some slight juddering on occasion with the animation. But, I saw that in iOS 7 as well, and think the stability and performance have been on par since 8.0.2.
When was the last time you restored your phone as a new device? I make a point of doing that with all major interval iOS updates (primarily to flush the caches and get rid of any garbage data that has accumulated in the "Other" directory), and then restoring the data and apps from a local backup. I do all updates using iTunes, as it seems that major issues seem more commonplace with the OTA delta updates (i.e., the botched iOS 8.0.1 update, which worked fine for devices updated using the full installation file on iTunes).
Yes and I have an iPhone 6 (not a 6+). I just updated to 8.1.1 and no change either.
I'm quite sure he's talking about the OS not actually copying anything to the clipboard and using an older copy when pasting.
