Apple Releases iOS 8 With Continuity, Third Party Access to Keyboards/Touch ID, Family Sharing, and 'Health' App

[DEMinSoCAL]

sounds like you need a 6plus lol

Well, it will be interesting if the bigger screens on the new iPhones will actually give you more real estate, or is everything just bigger?

I guess it would depend on the scaling Apple uses. I, for one, would love more real estate, at the expense of things being smaller. I can see fine, up close.

 

[lockerc18]

iPhone 5 all done. I think this should have been iOS 7.5 though. When I unlocked my phone, nothing looked different. In reality, apart from a few new features, not much has changed. The predictive thing in messaging was annoying. Not sure if that was new or not, but it was on for the first time and I immediately had to turn it off. Too distracting, not to mention taking up space where there is already too little space.

Ditto that. Same on iPhone 5 and iPad 3.

 

[wovel]

Anyone have it in itunes yet?

I connected my iPad to iTunes to make a local backup and it offered to upgrade.

 

[deviant]

The extensions are a huge deal for me. I am a heavy Evernote user, and a heavy 1Password user, and the extensions mean I can both clip from Safari directly, and fill passwords with 1Password directly in Safari (which iCloud Keychain still fails to do about 1/2 the time, and doesn't support multiple logins for the same site). Its awesome.

everybody will find something for them, and that's awesome. for me, iCloud keychain works flawlessly.

 

[X-X]

iPhoto is still working and will remain that way until they release a new photo app next year.

Please don't spread this crap. Research before you regurgitate.

NOT THE iOS VERSION.

Everything you did there is deleted by iOS 8 without any warning.

And you could do stuff there you couldn't do or sync to the Mac version of iPhotos (like journals).

There is no way to get this stuff back.

Not cool to delete an app people paid money for and all of its data without warning.

 

[kappaknight]

Downloaded and install successfully on my 5S, via iTunes. Took around 20 mins.

First thing I tried out: I filled out login fields in Safari using the 1password extension. Very nice!

Mmmm, my 1Password, updated, but unclear how to use the fingerprint unlock, and automatic pairing. Do I actually have to read instructions? Ugh...

 

[The Barron]

Update via iTunes tethered to your computer.

iP5s, needs 5.8 GB free to install iOS 8, which is 1.1 GB. Ok.

This is the workaround. Doing it right now on my iPad w/16GB. No problems

 

[DudeDad]

Is it bad that I put a post-it note on my phone at the point where the progress bar is so that when I see it poke out, I know it's advancing?

 

[sixstrings03]

Did you do a clean install or install from backup?

Just followed the prompts on the phone from 7 to 8 OTA

 

[trustme]

Downloaded. Prepared. Hit Install. Hit Agree. "Verifying update..." Software update unavailable at this time. Try again later.

What to do?

 

[jreal2]

I also received a carrier update, when I was in the about and system update section.

I'm on AT&T, iOS8 GM released to devs.

I did too and I am on AT&T IOS8 last Beta before GM for devs.

 

[NMBob]

OTA might use different servers than iTunes

I'll bet in some cases it's the ISPs that are swamped. Stuff doesn't come straight from Apple to your phone/pad/Mac.

 

[jreal2]

Downloading. No ETA showing, though.

Edit: 24-minutes remaining.

Mine says 6 hours

 

[matttye]

Downloaded. Prepared. Hit Install. Hit Agree. "Verifying update..." Software update unavailable at this time. Try again later.

What to do?

Wait.

 

[vncha]

It's done, and boy, people weren't kidding about the lag on the 5. It's definitely there for me. My brother says he hasn't noticed any though but for me when swipping through screens it's totally noticeable....

 

[Lylyluvda916]

Just downloaded Flesky. Eager to compare some of the keyboards and find the best one.

 

[iamMacPerson]

1.3GB Update on iPad mini Retina OTA. I hopped on about an hour later, 35-40 minutes for iPad mini OTA (60Mbps internet connection mind you).

Got on iTunes, 2GB file will be done in 10 minutes.

 

[jreal2]

Dropbox - Next app release

My Dropbox stopped working and says - "Camera Upload Suspended, Please wait for next app release"

 

[NMBob]

Well, it will be interesting if the bigger screens on the new iPhones will actually give you more real estate, or is everything just bigger?

I guess it would depend on the scaling Apple uses. I, for one, would love more real estate, at the expense of things being smaller. I can see fine, up close.

Your wish is Apple's command. Read the Ars Technica article.

 

[age234]

iPad mini - 10 minutes remaining.

iPhone 4s - Not enough free space. I have a 6 coming Friday, so I'm not going to bother upgrading it.

 

[BerMuc]

Finally back up...same, same but different.

 

[Daalseth]

Mine says 6 hours

Mine too. It has downloaded 224MB of 2.1Gb in the last 45 min or so.
Ugh. I guess everyone in the world is hitting their servers right now.

 

[AbSoluTc]

Mmmm, my 1Password, updated, but unclear how to use the fingerprint unlock, and automatic pairing. Do I actually have to read instructions? Ugh...

Same here. Under settings you have to turn on TouchID support. Even after doing that, it doesn't prompt or ask me. I must be missing something???

 

[Dominicanyor]

yeah, iTunes...

Thanks a lot I will tried that.. I have 4.0 available now.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Just downloaded Flesky. Eager to compare some of the keyboards and find the best one.

Oddly, searching for Fleksy (not Flesky) it seems to think there is a "Fleksy Keyboard - Happy Typing" app, but the app search results do not show it.

On my PC, I can see it in the app store, but on my iPhone 5, it does not come up as a search result. Odd.