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How buggy is iOS 8.2 for you?

How buggy is iOS 8.2?

  • Not noticably buggy.

    Votes: 149 61.1%

  • Buggy

    Votes: 58 23.8%

  • Very buggy

    Votes: 24 9.8%

  • So buggy it's almost unusable.

    Votes: 13 5.3%
  • Total voters
    244
  • Poll closed .
The PDF search bug is still present in Safari:

If you navigate to an online PDF, and then type in the URL/search bar at the top...it will find zero results when you search the page.
 
Like usual; some fixes, some new bugs.

6+ - fixed GMT and landscape alignment. New I have intermittent times when no keyboard will appear for Spotlight

Mini Retina 2 - fixed GMT. New in email (several accounts) I will read and delete or archive, close email app, and a number of the deleted/archived are back as unread emails.
 
Damolee said:
Battery life has drastically tanked for me. With 3 hrs usage I would have been around 65-70% with mixture of Wifi and 4G. Now I'm 56% with same kind of pattern. That's no small decline seeing as it wasn't all that to start with. This phone won't get me through a day. I can't charge when I need to so I'm afraid Apple have lost a customer. It's no longer fit for purpose.
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Give it a few days before you draw any conclusions about battery life. There's a lot of background activity going on after an iOS update.

Also, if you have not done this in a while, try draining the battery all the way down, and then recharge it all the way back up (without using the phone in between). This will recalibrate the battery.

http://www.appledystopia.com/how-to/calibrate-iphone-battery/
 
Woochifer said:
Give it a few days before you draw any conclusions about battery life. There's a lot of background activity going on after an iOS update.

Also, if you have not done this in a while, try draining the battery all the way down, and then recharge it all the way back up (without using the phone in between). This will recalibrate the battery.

http://www.appledystopia.com/how-to/calibrate-iphone-battery/
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I've been getting noticeably better battery life straight out of the blocks. I didn't need three days to draw any conclusions...
When I first got my 6+ it gave exceptional battery life straight out of the box too, again without it needing three days to get up to speed. I don't buy into this 'background activity' stuff. I'm not saying that Spotlight and whatnot don't do some things but they don't tank your battery for three whole days. Like I said, background activity or not, 8.2 started returning better battery life for me from the get-go.
 
I've noticed a few apps freeze up for a few seconds and then start working, but nothing horrible. My battery actually seems to be doing better on 8.2 the it did before updating.
 
elfary said:
Whenever i do scrolling i can barely tell that i'm using an iPhone 6 because the iOS trademarked smoothness has gone downhill. Stutter happens on native apps not only on 3rd party apps.

Upgrading to 8.2 has not solved it. Nor it has a factory restore as a new unit.

Landscape Music App scrolling is so antijobesque...
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That's surprising. Mine is as smooth as can be. Anyone else having this issue?
 
I've had calendar alerts flash up and then disappear without me cancelling or snoozing them. That's a bug...
 
Just installed it the other day. I've had blue restarts on my 6 Plus. Is this the 64-bit bug resurrected? I never owned an iPhone 5S so I'm not sure what it exactly looks like.

I can't wait to see how buggy the iPhone is when it has to be in constant contact with the Apple Watch now. They really better get their crap together with iOS 9.
 
It's horribly buggy. Sometimes alerts come up upside down, my keyboard crash routinely (reboot required), the music orientation is way off, I dunno... I just got this 6+ last weekend and I am NOT impressed. This was over $900, it needs to work.

Oh, another fun feature, mail is dropping messages from my exchange account. No biggie, just my clients email. Who cares, right? Just wait until the next update, you'll be fine.

And as I typed this, my screen kept flashing. Ios 6 was better than this mess.
 
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mspman said:
It's horribly buggy. Sometimes alerts come up upside down, my keyboard crash routinely (reboot required), the music orientation is way off, I dunno... I just got this 6+ last weekend and I am NOT impressed. This was over $900, it needs to work.

Oh, another fun feature, mail is dropping messages from my exchange account. No biggie, just my clients email. Who cares, right? Just wait until the next update, you'll be fine.

And as I typed this, my screen kept flashing. Ios 6 was better than this mess.
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It almost sounds more like there's something wrong with the actual phone that you have.
 
My available storage has dropped from 3.2GB avail down to 530MB, then 232MB & finally 42MB since the upgrade was done couple days ago. I got a notification "storage space too low" at 3am the other day. Later that day (yesterday) it jumped back up to 2.9GB & today is down to 2.8GB.

I have no idea what's going on here. Prior to iOS 8.2 I had 8.1.2 & my storage was always consistent at 3.2GB.

:confused:
 
sunking101 said:
I've been getting noticeably better battery life straight out of the blocks. I didn't need three days to draw any conclusions...
When I first got my 6+ it gave exceptional battery life straight out of the box too, again without it needing three days to get up to speed. I don't buy into this 'background activity' stuff. I'm not saying that Spotlight and whatnot don't do some things but they don't tank your battery for three whole days. Like I said, background activity or not, 8.2 started returning better battery life for me from the get-go.
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Can't draw anything conclusive just based on one discharge cycle, especially the first one after an OS update. If I did that, then I would be reporting increased power drain after EVERY iOS update. Over time, I've noticed that the power drain generally returns back to about where it was before after a few days of normal usage. Ever since I bought my 5s, the battery life has been around 5-6 hours in normal usage, and this has not changed.

Keep in mind that every app also does it own background updating, which increases the read/write activity during the initial use after an update. This is why I said to wait a few days. Not everybody uses all of their commonly used apps during the first discharge cycle.

Also, keep in mind that not everybody updates OTA. In my experience, the storage space recovery seems greater when using the full iOS installation file via iTunes. This indicates that possibly more of the system and/or app caches get purged during the update, and need to be rebuilt afterwards.
 
No bugs yet. The bug I had with landscape and it not letting tap on anything seems to be fix. Fingers crossed it all goes well when I get my apple watch next month lol.
 
flyinmac said:
I can't find anything to complain about other than another useless app being installed. Should be able to download it if we need it, but not be stuck with a program for a device that has zero interest to me.
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Yes I hate having what is essentially Bloatware (Apple Watch App) when I have zero interest in that product. Google doesn't put bloatware on my Nexus Phones and Tablets. For Apple to bash Google is to once again show their hypocrisy.

8.2 worked fine just long enough to be misleading. It was crash free for four days, now it's similar to the crash prone 8.1.3.

Here I thought iPhone's were reliable and "it just works". Guess again. Apple is failing to live up to their very own standard.

It's very revealing, pay a whopping $1,000 for a phone that's put to shame by an Android at Half the price. Only Apple can pull off such shenanigans :eek:
 
So far, so good on my Air. Only been a few days of course but no complaints yet. Safari seems a little smoother. No other major changes are apparent which I supoose is good.
 
My iPhone 5S and Air 2 definitely have improved battery life. Definitely means very definitely. In 8.2 crash logs, there is just 1 log with coretime or something after 4 days. iOS 8.1.3 used to have thousands of crash logs in 4 days.
This is a very good sign.

Btw Air 2 with 2 GB RAM makes the difference between crashprone Safari and crashproof Safari.
 
8.2 smoothed out some 8.1.3 rough edges. The select copy paste which was not usable in 8.1.3 is semi usable in 8.2. Portrait landscape rotate issues seem resolved and autocorrect appears better.

Well done Apple.

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technosix said:
Yes I hate having what is essentially Bloatware (Apple Watch App) when I have zero interest in that product. Google doesn't put bloatware on my Nexus Phones and Tablets. For Apple to bash Google is to once again show their hypocrisy.

8.2 worked fine just long enough to be misleading. It was crash free for four days, now it's similar to the crash prone 8.1.3.

Here I thought iPhone's were reliable and "it just works". Guess again. Apple is failing to live up to their very own standard.

It's very revealing, pay a whopping $1,000 for a phone that's put to shame by an Android at Half the price. Only Apple can pull off such shenanigans :eek:
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Yep, android manufacturers are jealous.
 
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