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

Just got my iPhone 6 and configured it as a new phone with 8.1.1. I'm coming from an iPhone 5 with 7.1.2. Overall I'm pretty impressed and don't see "all" the problems people are talking about.

Only one small graphics glitch in the camera app so far. I guess I'll keep using it to see, but definitely doesn't even come close to as bad as some made it out to be.
 
Fzang said:
The issue is not that it's not "instant". The issue is that the exact same features from previously are slow af now, with no apparent addition of new features to warrant this. People are feeling like they're being tricked into installing a killswitch that forces them to upgrade because of lacking performance.
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Pretty sure that's fairly far from reality with almost any major version iOS update, and especially so with iOS 8.
 
Woochifer said:
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).
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I would say maybe a slight lag in the weather app. You really have to look for it to notice it though.
 
C DM said:
Pretty sure that's fairly far from reality with almost any major version iOS update, and especially so with iOS 8.
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Really? Let's take an isolated example then.

Weather from iOS 7 to iOS 8. Previously smooth transitions but now laggy, even on the newest iPhones. Does it secretly calculate chance of precipitation with 18 decimals in the background to warrant this lag, or is the background not a movie but in reality a 4k real-time render?
 
BvizioN said:
I have an iPhone 6 and I been wondering for almost 2 months what on earth are people complaining about iOS 8? What is the issue? I am being dead serious! I been heavily using the phone since I bought it have yet to come across a single issue that relates to the software!!
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Finally someone said it. I completely agree with you pal.

Other than 3-party keyboards misbehaving sometimes, I haven't come across a single issue mentioned all across this boards and I'm also being dead serious. Came from a Samsuck S3 and using my 6 extensively every day since launch day. Not one single problem. Now I'm Jailbroken (old Android habit dies hard it seems) and loving the device. For me it's been flawless really.
 
Fzang said:
Really? Let's take an isolated example then.

Weather from iOS 7 to iOS 8. Previously smooth transitions but now laggy, even on the newest iPhones. Does it secretly calculate chance of precipitation with 18 decimals in the background to warrant this lag, or is the background not a movie but in reality a 4k real-time render?
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No lag issues at all on a 5s with the weather app.
 
dadiduekappa said:
I think Steve Jobs never allowed things like that.
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I wonder when this statement will stop being brandished about, as if everything that came out of Apple between 1997 and 2011 was free of bug or flaw. I'm not inferring that Apple products were somehow better or worse during that time, but to blame bugs and hardware flaws on an absence of Jobs is unfounded and asinine.
 
Balaamsdonkey said:
I wonder when this statement will stop being brandished about, as if everything that came out of Apple between 1997 and 2011 was free of bug or flaw. I'm not inferring that Apple products were somehow better or worse during that time, but to blame bugs and hardware flaws on an absence of Jobs is unfounded and asinine.
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Why not...? Anything from 1997 to 2011, despite being flawed in some ways, they were followed thru and thru... Beyond 2011, everything still haywire despite reaching end of life... Mavericks and iOS 7 are still bug-ridden...
 
proline said:
Fantastic that Apple still cares about people who bought the 4S in 2011. Android OEMs would have abandoned such users years ago.
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Well, a lot of people have bought the 4S this year with a 2-year contract, so of course it has to be supported for a long time to come still. It is not an 'old' device unlike some Android released in 2011 that has not been sold for many years. On the other hand, iPhone 4, which was sold with 2-year contracts in many markets till November 2013, and even till February 2014 in India, is not supported by Apple any more although these recently-bought devices will be in use until 2015 and 2016 respectively. So for these (probably new) customer not only is the hardware underpowered for the software but the support, too, is worse than on any other OEM... which is an interesting business strategy.

And now they killed iPad2's performance with iOS 8 instead of backporting Safari security patches on iOS 7 that ran just fine.
 
I hope that my old 4s that now is my mum's phone will start back again working properly... and my ipad 2 will resurrect... :cool:
 
Just upgraded my ipad mini first gen from iOS 7. It's a lot faster than 8.0, but still a lot slower than 7.
 
Updated my fully charged iPhone 5c last night and when I woke up today my phone was dead..

A few min of panic later I remembered "hard reset" and that worked,
so now it´s alive again.

So far: 8.1.1 = Scary **** :)
 
Woochifer said:
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).
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That's weird why so many get different experiences. The only backups I do is from iCloud which really only syncs messages, contacts etc. So that is as "clean" as it gets without losing everything.

Thing is though I've checked on three different devices with three different accounts and they all have the same problem. There are others as well in a different thread I created so I don't think it boils down to when one restored their device and how they did it.
 
Ah yes, the desperate twisted logic that certain fandroids will go to to justify their beliefs. I expected this.

Mechant Loup said:
iPhone 4, which was sold with 2-year contracts in many markets till November 2013, and even till February 2014 in India, is not supported by Apple any more although these recently-bought devices will be in use until 2015 and 2016 respectively.
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Um no, the iPhone 4 was not sold as new. It was sold as an older model with increasingly steep discounts that exceeded 50% of the initial price by the end. The fact that Android OEMs make 1,000 different models and keep each one on the market for 3 months shouldn't excuse them from leaving their customers behind, particularly when they advertise all their products as new and usually don't provide any updates whatsoever except maybe 1 or 2 to their 'flagship' models.

Mechant Loup said:
So for these (probably new) customer not only is the hardware underpowered for the software but the support, too, is worse than on any other OEM... which is an interesting business strategy.
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Virtually all but the top 5% of Android phones sold use obsolete underpowered hardware, so these customers won't be finding greener pastures where you are. As for support being "worse than on any other OEM"- that's laughable considering that most Android OEMs provide zero support whatsoever.

Mechant Loup said:
And now they killed iPad2's performance with iOS 8 instead of backporting Safari security patches on iOS 7 that ran just fine.
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Nobody 'backports' security patches to obsolete versions of Android to any significant degree. For the most part, old versions of Android simply have known security flaws that will never be patched and make users vulnerable in perpetuity giving hackers all the time in the world.
 
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