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

Still so many stupid things...

Well, iOS8. Overall good on my 5S.

However - getting a rid of Camera Roll and the new stupid iCloud Photostream system is a big step back. Collections & Moments? Still very badly done - so much space wasted.
And why the hell can't I see all of my photos at once in one album? And then decide which one gets to stay on my iCloud and not on my phone?
Give me back Camera Roll!

Music and Video apps - still not perfect. Far from it.

Same old things - Albums are still rolled out. I have an artist with 30 albums. If I want to play some songs form the last album I have to scroll through like 350 songs to get there! It's a horrible experience! When I'm looking at particular artist Albums tab and want to perform Search for some song by that artist - it searches through everything - why not just the particular Artist or tab selected - Songs, Albums, Genres, etc.?

Videos - what is this? Now we have useless grid without any thumbnails. It's even worse than before! Nearly no name fits in. Everything is cut down. Why can't we have just a regular good old list with little thumbnails and one or two lines so the name could be actually read properly?

UI & UX teams - wake up!

Come on, this is not you, Apple.

No point of sending feedback either. Nobody at Apple reads it anyway I think.
 

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bruno7 said:
Well, iOS8. Overall good on my 5S.



However - getting a rid of Camera Roll and the new stupid iCloud Photostream system is a big step back. Collections & Moments? Still very badly done - so much space wasted.

And why the hell can't I see all of my photos at once in one album? And then decide which one gets to stay on my iCloud and not on my phone?

Give me back Camera Roll!
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Camera roll is still there, just called 'recently added'
 
Oh great, the update broke my Music Library! 90% of my album covers are gone! That is ********** annoying!!! How am I supposed to fix that now? Re-download all my music again??? Great job Apple!

Also what happened to the colors and design of many menus, what kind of graphic morons are working at Apple nowadays? The "re-designed" Control Center buttons are missing outlines and look now like some terrible GUI mockup in Balsamiq. Some app icons are skeuomorphic some are not. It is such a big and inconsistent mess!!! :mad: New :apple:watch has again skeuomorphic elements. WTF???

Apple's entire GUI graphic department needs to be fired and send back to graphic design school! :mad:

Many apps keep crashing or are not working properly...
I so deeply regret that I updated from iOS6 back then. It was the most consistent iOS ever!
 
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bruno7 said:
Apparently Recently Added only shows recently added photos, I think for the last 30 days as someone says. Not the same as Camera Roll.
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Just switch to Photos instead of Albums at the bottom and you should have all your photos there.

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PinkyMacGodess said:
None of my devices shows the update yet. From some of the issues though, I'm not sure I want to do it yet...
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The update doesn't show up when you check for it?

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jay22098 said:
ive just installed ios8 on my iphone 5 and the app switcher is really buggy. after i double press on the home button the app switcher pops up for a split second and chenges back to the current screen. i have to keep doing this 2 or 3 times before app switcher stays open so i can close my apps. anyone else having this issue?

also, just realised if i have the numbers keyboard open and send a message, the keyboard does not automatically go back to the normal keyboard like it used to after i press send.
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Not seeing either one of those issues on my iPhone 5.
 
Sloooowwww

Installing through iTunes. Has taken an hour to download 100Mb. Estimated time is 18 hours. Downloading at 30-40KB/sec. :mad:
 
iOS8 queue

I seem to entered a queue from Apple. It says that my request has been accepted and they will tell me when I can install it. Been almost 18 hours now. No clue as to when I can d/l it and install. Anyone else having this problem?
 
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ParanoidDroid said:
Many apps keep crashing or are not working properly...
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Developers at fault here, not Apple.

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mic j said:
Installing through iTunes. Has taken an hour to download 100Mb. Estimated time is 18 hours. Downloading at 30-40KB/sec. :mad:
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Downloaded and installed on my parents iPhones in 20 minutes.
 
Just switch to Photos instead of Albums at the bottom and you should have all your photos there.

Not the same - Photos show those badly designed Moments and Collections divided into days and months and years with all the white space wasted etc.

There is just no place that shows all of your photos at once like Camera Roll did.
 
dmylrea said:
You're saying there is no chance the OS is buggered and causing apps to have issues? It's 100% the developers fault that an app that worked two days ago is no longer working today?
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It's the reason developers have the beta. To test their apps to ensure they work.

I'd say it's 95% chance it's down to the developers.

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bruno7 said:
Just switch to Photos instead of Albums at the bottom and you should have all your photos there.

Not the same - Photos show those badly designed Moments and Collections divided into days and months and years with all the white space wasted etc.

There is just no place that shows all of your photos at once like Camera Roll did.
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I like the way is organised. Easier to locate photos than the old camera roll.
 
Issues with iOS8

Forgive me if this is a repetitive question but has anyone experienced overheating and crazy battery drain with the new OS? It's a pretty drastic drain and it gets hot to the point I have to turn it off. It's an iPhone 5 if that helps.:confused:
 
elliot73 said:
Yes I read that, hesitated and did it nevertheless. It's not as bad as from iOS6 to 7 on the 4S. I think. It is skipping animation frames at first, but it's not slow. The new features make it worthwhile.
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Okay, thanks for your input. I might go ahead then…
 
bruno7 said:
Just switch to Photos instead of Albums at the bottom and you should have all your photos there.

Not the same - Photos show those badly designed Moments and Collections divided into days and months and years with all the white space wasted etc.

There is just no place that shows all of your photos at once like Camera Roll did.
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Not in the same exact design, no, but a place where all the photos still exist nonetheless (as the initial/main issue people seem to have is seemingly losing access to photos aside from some recent ones).

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Clocksetbyfeel said:
Forgive me if this is a repetitive question but has anyone experienced overheating and crazy battery drain with the new OS? It's a pretty drastic drain and it gets hot to the point I have to turn it off. It's an iPhone 5 if that helps.:confused:
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Sounds like something is stuck in your case. Some process is running or something else going on with the install. It doesn't appear to be a general/widespread iOS 8 issue.
 
It's been over 24 hours for me and I'm still having no luck getting the update to iOS 8. It says downloading, then it'll say something like 33 hours and then a few hours later it'll say there was an error and its done this countless times already. Anyone else having this problem as well? I'm using a iPhone 5 if that helps. Thanks.
 
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JT24 said:
It's been over 24 hours for me and I'm still having no luck getting the update to iOS 8. It says downloading, then it'll say something like 33 hours and then a few hours later it'll say there was an error and its done this countless times already. Anyone else having this problem as well? I'm using a iPhone 5 if that helps. Thanks.
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Tried restarting the device and starting over? Or via iTunes? I've done 12 devices now and the longest took about 50 minutes
 
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JT24 said:
It's been over 24 hours for me and I'm still having no luck getting the update to iOS 8. It says downloading, then it'll say something like 33 hours and then a few hours later it'll say there was an error and its done this countless times already. Anyone else having this problem as well? I'm using a iPhone 5 if that helps. Thanks.
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I feel your pain. Started to attempt the download around 5pm yesterday. Constantly receiving "failure". Left the phone on all night. When it doesn't say failure it says downloading. No status bar or anything.

Just tried connecting through iTunes. After it finally connected to the server it gave a 35 hour estimate.

I've never had this problem before going all the way back to the original iPhone. This is total BS:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
- Actionable Notification : Good :)
- Predicative text .... This never seems to work correctly most of the time, so how can it be even more correct when you haven't started typing the next word yet...
- Hand Off reminds me of Apple making a big deal of something, but honestly, how many users will be actively using this in the "real world", and how many users will just use it "because you can" and "now I can, its cool". "yes i could of easily done this before with this feature, but now i have it, why not ?"

Personally, i think I reckon Apple's over marketing itself here. Yes, people will use it. Yes, people will find it helpful in busy situations, but how many of us will be busy at once time ? not 80% of the world.

- Family sharing = Good.. Its nice to see Apple finally taking an option to parents to say "hey, your kid just bought this." Too bad it came too late, and Apple had (at its own stupid discretion) give parents that money.

Another route i would have also gone was, not to implement the 15 minute window... Apple just set themselves up to backfire on themselves, by introducing this feature they didn't need if they had done it right.

- Share credit card = Good, but use at your own risk :)
- iCloud Drive = Good, but bring to Mavericks too... i wanna use it......

- Third Party Keyboards = Not bad........ but i wanna see if these are hackable first before i can give the gold.


All up, since i won't be needing most of this, Touch ID for third party apps (aka Lastpass) has tickled my funny bone.... I dunno weather this alone is good enough to upgrade to iOS8
 
Holy mother ********* :-D

Have Yosemite... I have iOS 8

My phone rang... So did my iMac with volume on max...

Now I'm freshly showered and I'm wearing new underwear :eek::mad:
 
I have found that the best way to update iPhones and such is to, do a backup to the computer (encrypt if necessary) transfer all purchases (2-3 times, never catches them all for some reason) and then restore and update, and then restore from backup. Did it with a 4s and a 4, worked well.. even tho the 4 still only has 600mb of free space. (8gb model) lol
 
ChazUK said:
All done!

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I've got a 64GB iPhone 4s with a T-Mobile UK SIM card, and after several failed attempts to download and install the iOS8 update, connected it to iTunes on my MacBook Pro Mavericks 10.9.5 where it proceeded smoothly and also downloaded the EE 17.1 carrier file as pictured.
 
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