Apple Releases iOS 8.1 With Apple Pay Support, SMS Relay, Camera Roll, and More

[639051]

Cell service is active on 8.1 for the AT&T iPhone 6.

 

[yaboyac29]

I assumed that's what this meant:
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https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/

This is available almost everywhere in Canada.

I'm pretty sure there needs to be some sort of configuration from the terminals in the store

 

[gigapocket1]

Succesfully updated to 8.1 No issues here.. Subscribing also to iCloud photo beta


Backing up Pics first lol

 

[Biedz1216]

Currently installing iOS 8.1, on iPhone 6 device it's 127mb.

directly from 8.1 beta 2 (12b407) its 1.9 GB needing 4.3 of storage.



****might i add it was very cool they allowed OTA directly from beta*****

 

[hildeberto]

My, iPhone 6, is almost finished installation

Edit: Second reboot

 

[tlevier]

Download complete, and verified. Installation in progress..... iPhone 6+

 

[justinwebb]

I work for a bank and have been testing Apple pay for quite a while. Hope you all like it works great

 

[Black Magic]

Finished installing.
Not sure what bugs to search for, cause i didn't had any on 8.0.2

Plenty of bugs that you apparently never ran into. A low hanging fruit for you would be third party keyboards.

 

[Sloppy.Joe]

i guess i better clear out 16 Gb of space just to be safe...

 

[MYB]

BT fix... I hope!

I am updating then going directly to my cars to see if it resolves my Bluetooth connection issues.....

 

[Alimar]

Back-up first!

Not a bad idea to do an encrypted back-up of my iOS devices first?

 

[Vertigo50]

Finally finished updating.

So far no obvious bugs. Phone calls work, Wifi and LTE are working.

Things like swipes seem just a little smoother and snappier, but I could be imagining that.

Either way, everything is looking good so far.

EDIT: Wifi still seems pretty slow, though. Is Apple EVER going to figure out simple networking? *sigh*

 

[movieator]

you got it. unplugging and turning off device now.

Appreciate it.

Thanks again.

 

[bozzykid]

So who is right here? This article http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/10/20/apple-pay-is-here-and-its-going-to-be-great-why-the-skeptics-have-it-wrong/ says that all a merchant needs is an NFC reader, and not specifically one that accepts Pay.

Don't believe the people saying Apple Pay is some type of magical service and every single merchant in the US has to update their terminals and software to support it. What makes Apple Pay different is how it works on the backend but it does not require a single change to NFC terminals. Any active NFC terminal in the US will work just fine with Apple Pay.

 

[Biedz1216]

I am updating then going directly to my cars to see if it resolves my Bluetooth connection issues.....

let us knnow!!

 

[fpsphil]

anyone know how to get sms relay working?

 

[xero9]

This is available almost everywhere in Canada.

I'm pretty sure there needs to be some sort of configuration from the terminals in the store

I'll hopefully find out shortly. Going to try to add a US credit card to my Canadian iPhone and use it

 

[Patriot24]

Succesfully updated to 8.1 No issues here.. Subscribing also to iCloud photo beta


Backing up Pics first lol

For what it is worth, iCloud Photo Library has worked flawlessly for me throughout the beta period.

Be sure to leave PhotoStream enabled if you wish to receive your photos in iPhoto on your Mac. Here's to hoping that the new Mac Photos app comes sooner rather than later in 2015.

 

[iolinux333]

How's the battery life?

 

[evilrt]

adding cards. this is freaking awesome.

 

[adampol15]

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[iPhil]

8.1 install is verifying - installing on iP5 16GB install size under 100MB via OTA ..

 

[JAT]

"Preparing Update..." is taking forever.

The download took like 20 seconds. The update has been "preparing" for the past 10 minutes and still has about 20% to go according to the progress bar, which isn't moving. The phone is getting warm though, so it must be doing something.

Finally!! I think mine took 20 minutes on Preparing. Now finishing on black screen.

 

[spangenberg]

Have to have at least 50% power to install it?? Grrrr. I'm nowhere near a charger.

 

[BruiserB]

This is available almost everywhere in Canada.

I'm pretty sure there needs to be some sort of configuration from the terminals in the store

But what most Canadians don't have is a credit card issued by one of the US Banks that go live today. It will be interesting to see if a US Customer can pay with this at a Canadian terminal.