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

[AppleWarMachine]

Ha, my iPad Air needs 6.9 GB of free space. My iPad is 16GB. This should be interesting clearing up space....

tell that to Apple selling all of these brand new iPhone with 16GB

 

[Cloudsurfer]

Of course, the servers are clogged. Cannot download iOS 8 on neither my iPhone and in iTunes.

Guess I'll have to wait for the storm to settle

 

[kameradhund]

I'd like to hear more about this... Anyone download this?!

still not working..

is it version 7.0? or 8.0 too? guess it will still look the same after all, haha..

 

[Canyonero]

Ouch. The 6.6Gb needed for the update on iPad Air is a lot when you have 32Gb device. Had to delete all my video and big apps. Can only imagine what someone with an 8Gb iPhone 5c is gonna go through.

This will also mean fewer people are going to update because people don't want to spend ages making room (some people like my mom don't even know how to) so the 92 % upgrade rate to iOS 7 Apple has been boasting about is not gonna stay for iOS 8.

They really need to rethink this thing. Updating your software isn't painless and easy anymore unless you have 64Gb or 128Gb device.

 

[sjwk]

Is anyone else getting

"Your software update has been received. You will be notified when the update has been downloaded and is ready to install"

Only once. After that just recurring "An error occurred downloading iOS 8.0"...

 

[dagored]

Downloading complete on iP5 and iPad Air. Now says preparing update on both.

Bar is 3/4 way complete. Waiting for the reboots.

 

[applesith]

iOS 8 is slooooowwwwly downloading onto my iPad. Looking forward to my iPhone 6 coming with it pre-installed

 

[Kevsta26]

"The iPhone software update server could not be contacted."

 

[bahndoos]

To everyone excitedly downloading ios 8:

It's month-old still-buggy firmware which will more likely than not reduce your battery life and heat your phone.

Ok, please enjoy.

Love,
Any Random Jaded Dev

Ps. Where TF is 8.01?!?

 

[apolloa]

Sits back, waits for the early testers response before pulling the trigger.......


Anyone got this on a wifi only iPad 3 yet, if so how does it run?

 

[slagathor001]

APPLE TV ios8

still not working..

is it version 7.0? or 8.0 too? guess it will still look the same after all, haha..

Haha yepp. Pretty sure 8.0. I remember reading about the ios8 beta for apple TV I forgot what the updates were (minimal I believe) but I wonder if there are more in the official release

 

[Justin33]

Downloading complete on iP5 and iPad Air. Now days preparing update on both.

Bar is 3/4 way complete. Waiting for the reboots.

On my 5s, the download bar in under the second "p" in Apple.

 

[Dowjohnny]

Over the air update is running, estimated time 22mins

 

[Stuipdboy1000]

still not working..

is it version 7.0? or 8.0 too? guess it will still look the same after all, haha..

Haven't downloaded yet but it is version 7.0 (up from 6.2). Third gen only but 2nd gen was updated with 6.2.1 (probably a final release with bug fixes).

 

[rapicell]

Have it downloading on my iPhone 5 and iPad 3 with about 15 minutes to go on each

 

[Godzilla71]

apple tv-update available too, failed after half a minute though..

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[patent10021]

At least the back of it is way prettier than that of the new phones.

It's been a great warrior. I installed a new battery in January and never need to charge throughout the day. Great design.

 

[Yendog]

yea getting the "iPhone server cannot be contacted" as well.

 

[Milese3]

I'm using the GM. Will the update still show up for me?

 

[kagharaht]

...and this is just one of many reasons why a 16GB iPhone is just not a good idea if you can afford a bigger capacity phone...

Thats true. 32GB is the new minimum capacity. Downloading now and it toggles between 1 to 2 hours...

 

[McPc]

Needed 4.6GB of free space on my 16GB phone which only had 1GB of free space. Really needed to cut a lot including ALL music. Guess it's just some housekeeping and will just wait until I get my iPhoine 6 on Friday to reload a bunch of the apps and music I deleted.

18 minutes remaining on iOS 8 download...

 

[jchiou]

sooo question....since iPhone 6 is going to be iOS 8, does this mean we have to download iOS 8 on our current phones in order for the backup to work on the iPhone 6?

 

[Richardgm]

I'm using the GM. Will the update still show up for me?

No. iOS 8 and the GM are the same.

 

[Northgrove]

advice : don't upgrade to the icloud drive until OSX yosemite comes out.

This... storm is going to be fun to watch for a month until Yosemite is out.

It's a surprising slip by Apple. I think the downsides from upgrading early by far outweigh the upsides and to make matters worse, iOS 8 is kind of pushy about this. "Are you sure you don't want to upgrade to iCloud Drive, really??" People are going to get so confused about "the iOS 8 bug" when everything stops synchronizing via iCloud to their Mac and Windows. "WTF Apple, my iPhone stopped syncing, what to do now?" "Oh sorry, haha, we don't allow downgrades back to normal iCloud, trololol"

The only logical solution to me would be Apple issuing iOS 8.0.1 when Yosemite is done, enabling iCloud Drive.

 

[neuropsychguy]

1.1GB (for iPhone 5s)

1.6 GB for iPad Air but need 6.9 GB free to download and install over the air! Needless to say, I had to delete a lot from my poor 16 GB iPad Air.