Apple Releases iOS 8.1.2 With Fix for Disappearing Ringtone Issue

[zorinlynx]

Not all ringtones come from music.

Besides, at that point, you already purchased the song, so you're clear there. However, there are people who don't purchase their music or ringtones. And yet those that do need to take a look at themselves??

BL.

There was a time when Apple actually charged you to do this.

Yep, they charged you money to use your computer to edit a file you already have on it into a ringtone.

Luckily, they eventually realized how ridiculous this was and got rid of it.

 

[Maniamac]

After installing this update on my 6+, the dark iOS QWERTY keyboard (the one you see when you want to do a Spotlight search, for instance) consists of all question marks. And the emoji pages are mostly blank. Not jailbroken or anything. Wonderful.

I also have had the issue where the phone crashes constantly if a lot of apps are installed on it. A phone swap doesn't seem to correct the problem. The typically arrogant Apple solution now is, "Don't install so many apps on your phone."

After having owned every generation of iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad, I'm at a point now where too much of my time is being invested trying to get my devices working correctly at the expense of time spent, you know...actually using them.

Oh well.

 

[ksuyen]

I've never even heard about this issues and I hang around Apple-related forums and websites quite a bit. However, I and many others have a ridiculously long laundry list of iOS 8 bugs that haven't even been addressed. How about all the crashing? My 6 Plus many times can't even switch from one Safari tab to the next without the last one reloading when you go back. I don't even remember my original iPhone with 128MB of RAM being that bad. Furthermore there are tons of other glitches, like white text overlaying the black status bar text sometimes, rotating video glitches on the Plus, problems with reachability not activating (sometimes it just stops for several minutes and then works fine), or reachability not even working with quick reply which means I can't reach the send button, or the Touch ID dialog screen sometimes freezes up the phone with a dark overlay that makes it impossible to touch anything, or iCloud Photo Library that has never worked, or the shoddy WiFi issues on the Air 2, or problems with slow-mo videos sometimes not recording in slow-mo, or that my share sheets sometimes still lose the order I've set the icons to, and several other things that I can't even recall at the moment. My iPhone 5 on iOS 7 was much better (software-wise) than my iPhone 6 Plus on iOS 8. Otherwise the 6 Plus has a gorgeous display, amazing camera, and looks really great.

To be honest, none of the problems above exist on my iPhone 6.
1. Crashing. What crashing???
2. Safari tab switching. Smooth as butter.
3. White text overlaying the black status bar text. Never seen that.
4. Rotating video glitches. Rotating video is a bit slow and stop the playback, but once rotated and resumed, it's fine.
5. reachability not activating. Never had that problem.
6. Touch ID dialog screen sometimes freezes up. Never seen that even once.
7. iCloud Photo Library that has never worked. I start to think you are using Samsung at this point
8. shoddy WiFi issues on the Air 2. Nada. Are you even serious?
9. problems with slow-mo videos sometimes not recording in slow-mo. I gave up, all the problems listed are either very circumstantial or you just created them.
10. share sheets sometimes still lose the order I've set the icons to.

 

[Ashtar]

Anybody having battery drain with this update? Mine is horrible now...

 

[mdelvecchio]

Damn, they just can't get iOS 8 right at all. Just imagine next year (software year) when iOS 9 comes out.

huh? new operating system versions, new bugs. it happens and it's normal. do you spend the time reading MS hotfixes and updates and despairing over them? if not, why iOS now?

 

[I7guy]

Seems like wifi has even less lag than 8.1.1. The landscape/portrait issue seems to be (mostly) resolved.

 

[Habakuk]

May iPad Air 2 requires iTunes USB connection on the 8.1.2 update

I won't update my iPhone 6 so soon, still waiting for reports.

Tried to update iPad 2 Air. Over the Air (via my home WiFi). Downloaded the 25.0 MB and it rebooted (all automatically). Now it wants to connect to iTunes! Never seen that behaviour before since the last four or five iOS updates. Can't do anything against that. Gladly I'm having a Mac with iTunes. It seems that it's the first time that I have to connect my iPad Air 2 via USB. I've done all the initial things via iCloud when I bought it. (I have some friends with iPad Air but without PC/Mac/iTunes; I can't recommend them to update for the time being.)

iTunes tells me (after connecting USB to my iPad Air 2) that I'll have to wait another 26 minutes for the "iPad Software Update". Strange. The only thing I did with my iPad 2 Air yesterday was to change my Game Center account (for being able to play a multiplayer game via Game Center with my iPad Air 1). I'm pretty sure that this behaviour (iTunes connection required) has nothing to do with the Game Center thing. Anyway it was the first time that I changed my Game Center account.

My iPad Air 1: Everything seems to be okay with iOS 8.1.2. It needed 23 minutes all together. Over the Air again. No problems at all so far.

My iPad Air 2: iTunes says it needs another 12 minutes to "load 2 items"…

 

[tennisproha]

The original Mac Rumors news article says "bug fixes" which is what I was repeating.

If the article isn't detailed enough for you take it up with MR. I didn't write the post.

well no you stated 'apple's info text'.

either way, it's whatever.

 

[thalazy]

First update since coming back to ios.

Downloaded and safe to say I have yet to have any issues. I only had one ringtone which I purchased many years ago and it was still there when I back-uped the phone when I puchased my 6+.

 

[ttss6]

The problems with iOS 8 and Yosemite will probably not be likely to happen to the same extent. It's embarrassing for Apple to tout their new products as just working when bugs continue to linger. They will surely with iOS 9 and OS X .11 try to be more rigorous with testing before public release. This can be seen in how the rollout with the iWatch goes

 

[C DM]

The problems with iOS 8 and Yosemite will probably not be likely to happen to the same extent. It's embarrassing for Apple to tout their new products as just working when bugs continue to linger. They will surely with iOS 9 and OS X .11 try to be more rigorous with testing before public release. This can be seen in how the rollout with the iWatch goes

There have pretty much always been some problems for at least some people if not more, and there will be in the future. That's just the reality.

 

[iPadCary]

This definitely sounds like a Scooby Doo episode ....

Sounds more like a "Mike Tyson Mystery", to me.

 

[Tubamajuba]

You must not have been following all the discussions that were going on around iOS 7. Sure, quite a few discussions about aesthetics, but plenty about performance, stability, and bugs. Plenty of people are also not having any issues that are really impacting them with iOS 8. The only elephant in the room is that it's not as "black and white" (to use a phrase) or as surprising/new as various people try to make it out to be.

Exactly. People need to stop worrying about the bugs that others are experiencing and worry about whether or not they are satisfied with their own devices. I certainly believe that iOS 8 has more bugs than past versions, but the extremely vocal minority here makes it seem like a miracle if someone's phone turns on.

If iOS is working fine for you, don't worry. If it's not, either wait for bug fixes or switch to Android or Windows Phone. Not really any other options besides that.

 

[HKZ/MST3K]

To be honest, none of the problems above exist on my iPhone 6.
1. Crashing. What crashing???
2. Safari tab switching. Smooth as butter.
3. White text overlaying the black status bar text. Never seen that.
4. Rotating video glitches. Rotating video is a bit slow and stop the playback, but once rotated and resumed, it's fine.
5. reachability not activating. Never had that problem.
6. Touch ID dialog screen sometimes freezes up. Never seen that even once.
7. iCloud Photo Library that has never worked. I start to think you are using Samsung at this point
8. shoddy WiFi issues on the Air 2. Nada. Are you even serious?
9. problems with slow-mo videos sometimes not recording in slow-mo. I gave up, all the problems listed are either very circumstantial or you just created them.
10. share sheets sometimes still lose the order I've set the icons to.

Ah, yes. The typical Apple forum post where the person claims to never had a single issue and declares that anyone that does MUST be lying or that they really don't own an Apple device. You people are the most annoying people on Apple sites. iOS 8 and the problems that come with it are very well known, you are not the typical use case. iOS 8 is a completely garbage ridden update that still should be listed as an alpha, much less a beta. Matter of fact, it shouldn't have been released at all because of all the BS bugs it contains.

 

[maxsalas]

Anybody know if it fixed the iPad Air 2 speaker popping noise?

It did NOT fix the speaker popping issue.

 

[HKZ/MST3K]

huh? new operating system versions, new bugs. it happens and it's normal. do you spend the time reading MS hotfixes and updates and despairing over them? if not, why iOS now?

It's true little bugs come with new major updates, but iOS 8 has had more stupid bugs than all other releases combined. My 5S shows the status bar when viewing photos for cripes sake, and when I go back to the springboard the text is white on a white background. Little stupid bugs like that tell me that Apple has absolutely no interest in doing any kind of QA, they just want to push out updates and claim there are 100 new features every year. Apple needs to stop issuing major releases for at least a year and actually hire people to do QA and testing because iOS 8 is steadily getting worse every year. In my opinion iOS 8 still shouldn't be released to the public because it's so bad. I've had Safari crash my entire phone back to rebooting multiple times simply because I've had about 5 tabs open and when switching the entire phone crashes. I'd be willing to bet that if Apple actually spent a little bit of those billions they are sitting on and included more than a paltry gig of RAM in these devices they'd have much better performance. RAM is a huge limiting factor in iOS now and Apple is content to not only do nothing about that, they are selling phones with a piss poor 16gb to try and subtly force people into buying a more expensive phone.

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Exactly. People need to stop worrying about the bugs that others are experiencing and worry about whether or not they are satisfied with their own devices. I certainly believe that iOS 8 has more bugs than past versions, but the extremely vocal minority here makes it seem like a miracle if someone's phone turns on.

If iOS is working fine for you, don't worry. If it's not, either wait for bug fixes or switch to Android or Windows Phone. Not really any other options besides that.

Kind of hard to do that when you're committed to a two year phone contract, or are you living in an alternate version of reality?

 

[GMcKenzie]

Warning - iPhone 4S Yikes!

I just upgraded to 8.1.2 on my iPhone 4S and now all my text messages have vanished, I can't send or receive text messages, and I can't make phone calls. What the hell? When I punch in a phone number or tap a contact in my favourites - nothing happens. I have switched it off and rebooted twice - still nothing. Help!

 

[Tubamajuba]

It's true little bugs come with new major updates, but iOS 8 has had more stupid bugs than all other releases combined. My 5S shows the status bar when viewing photos for cripes sake, and when I go back to the springboard the text is white on a white background. Little stupid bugs like that tell me that Apple has absolutely no interest in doing any kind of QA, they just want to push out updates and claim there are 100 new features every year. Apple needs to stop issuing major releases for at least a year and actually hire people to do QA and testing because iOS 8 is steadily getting worse every year. In my opinion iOS 8 still shouldn't be released to the public because it's so bad. I've had Safari crash my entire phone back to rebooting multiple times simply because I've had about 5 tabs open and when switching the entire phone crashes. I'd be willing to bet that if Apple actually spent a little bit of those billions they are sitting on and included more than a paltry gig of RAM in these devices they'd have much better performance. RAM is a huge limiting factor in iOS now and Apple is content to not only do nothing about that, they are selling phones with a piss poor 16gb to try and subtly force people into buying a more expensive phone.

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Kind of hard to do that when you're committed to a two year phone contract, or are you living in an alternate version of reality?

Certainly, it's difficult and potentially very expensive to break out of a contract. But it's something I would at least try to work out if I was really unhappy with my phone.

 

[sbailey4]

I just upgraded to 8.1.2 on my iPhone 4S and now all my text messages have vanished, I can't send or receive text messages, and I can't make phone calls. What the hell? When I punch in a phone number or tap a contact in my favourites - nothing happens. I have switched it off and rebooted twice - still nothing. Help!

Was this OTA update? What carrier? If Verizon maybe try a *228 send and select option to activate it. Close phone app and Reboot afterwards. Otherwise maybe try iTunes update instead and see if that will solve it. Have to download the ispw file and do the manual update process. OR just restore it (that takes longer though) but one of those options should solve it I would guess.

 

[TMRJIJ]

Ah, yes. The typical Apple forum post where the person claims to never had a single issue and declares that anyone that does MUST be lying or that they really don't own an Apple device. You people are the most annoying people on Apple sites. iOS 8 and the problems that come with it are very well known, you are not the typical use case. iOS 8 is a completely garbage ridden update that still should be listed as an alpha, much less a beta. Matter of fact, it shouldn't have been released at all because of all the BS bugs it contains.

I am so sorry about what the other guy's post was about. Here is a more thoughtful view of how iOS 8 is on my iPhone 6 and my other iOS devices (based my own experience)

To be honest, none of the problems above exist on my iPhone 6.
1. Crashing. - What crashing???
2. Safari tab switching. - Yep.
3. White text overlaying the black status bar text. - Never seen that.
4. Rotating video glitches. - I'll pay attention to that next time
5. reachability not activating. - Never had that problem . . . so far
6. Touch ID dialog screen sometimes freezes up. - Never
7. iCloud Photo Library that has never worked. - I must be lucky then, because I have not seen this issue. Photo stream is another issue.
8. shoddy WiFi issues on the Air 2. - Don't have a Air 2 yet but I'll remember this.
9. problems with slow-mo videos sometimes not recording in slow-mo. - ?
10. share sheets sometimes still lose the order I've set the icons to. - Nope

Now I will write my own:
1. iOS 8 is still a little slow on A5 devices like iPad 2. - Yes
2. Wifi Calling - Yes
3. Music Duplicates appear when syncing with iTunes - yep
4. Handoff feature shows certain Apps below the lock screen even though none of the linked devices to my iPhone even supports Handoff. - WTF

Thanks for reading

 

[Danilo - Italy]

Just to clarify a few points here:

Both on my iPhone 4s and my iPad 4th generation, the download was 16,5 MB.
The update (both updating from 8.1.1) installed flawlessly on both via OTA (even though my iPhone only had 700 MB free space left - so no idea where the 1,2 GB free space required comes from. Maybe on other phones/pads).

And my iPhone now has 1,1 GB free space - so the update actually freed up 400 MBs!
That's the spirit, !

Any speed vantage in iPhone 4S or in iPad 4?

 

[GMcKenzie]

Was this OTA update? What carrier? If Verizon maybe try a *228 send and select option to activate it. Close phone app and Reboot afterwards. Otherwise maybe try iTunes update instead and see if that will solve it. Have to download the ispw file and do the manual update process. OR just restore it (that takes longer though) but one of those options should solve it I would guess.

It was OTS. In Canada on Koodo. I restored from a backup - didn't help. Can't send messages via Contacts either. I will try downloading the ispw file.

 

[iPadCary]

I just upgraded to 8.1.2 on my iPhone 4S and now all my text messages have vanished,
I can't send or receive text messages, and I can't make phone calls.
What the hell?
When I punch in a phone number or tap a contact in my favourites - nothing happens.
I have switched it off and rebooted twice - still nothing. Help!

Holy Jeez .... I hope you get that sorted out, man.
WTF, Apple. I mean, really: WTF?!?

As was said here earlier, Apple severely needs a "Snow Leopard-ing" of iOS.
Never mind having a shiny new iOS to keynote at every WDC.
Just announce one year that you're continuously working to make iOS 8
as rock solid stable as humanly possible.

But, since iOS is on the 2016 trajectory
[i.e., iOS 10/X+OS X=the merging into a single devicewide OS,
to coincide with the opening of the new Apple HQ] this, unfortunately, won't happen.

 

[warnerve]

Ah, yes. The typical Apple forum post where the person claims to never had a single issue and declares that anyone that does MUST be lying or that they really don't own an Apple device. You people are the most annoying people on Apple sites. iOS 8 and the problems that come with it are very well known, you are not the typical use case. iOS 8 is a completely garbage ridden update that still should be listed as an alpha, much less a beta. Matter of fact, it shouldn't have been released at all because of all the BS bugs it contains.

What are you even doing here? I updated my 6 to this new update and im not having these exaggerated bugs also. The only thing that I can add is that sometimes the spotlight wont search web results, thats it. The rest is all fine, butter smooth for me. So what am I? A rare exception?

 

[mtbgtr]

Damn, they just can't get iOS 8 right at all. Just imagine next year (software year) when iOS 9 comes out.

They should skip 9 and go straight to 10. But that's been done already