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How buggy is iOS 8.2 for you?
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I went through countless Android devices searching for smoothness. I went from a Note 2 to a iP4 briefly while I determined if I could deal with iOS. My iP5 was perfect except 2 things: Battery life & Simultaneous Voice/LTE.
I wasn't suckered into the 6+ as I saw Apple made the 6 look like a 5 and most thought the 6+ was the 6 size while holding their 5.
My friend still functions on iOS 6 on his launch day iP4!!!
I jumped from JB iOS 6.1.2 to JB 7.1.2 on my iP5 and immediately regretted it. I got a 5S to make it smoother, but it still had quirks. I got my 6 and it runs JB 8.1.2 smoother than my iPad Air 1.
QC seems to be down at Apple over the last several years.
A lot of people are seemingly saying that iOS 9 will be smoother than iOS 8. I wonder if I it will be better or worse for my 6/Air when it is available. But asking that question on the forums is sure to get a loaded answer.
I was hoping that my 6 would be a phone I could keep for 4 years. I dunno though, these quirks are frustrating. Trouble is, I look at Android and everything is enormous.
The iPhone 5 & iOS 6 really was the best thing Apple ever made.
I got opposite results. I'm not sure of my usage habits miraculously changed but I seriously am impressed with this release, especially since I didn't change any settings or anything. My iPhone 6 would typically get 6 and a half hours on a charge. I'm at 7 hours and 40 minutes of use and a day and 7 hours of standby and I'm still at 22%. My iPad typically would get anywhere from 7-9 hours depending on the screen brightness and right now I'm at 12 hours and 12 minutes of use with a day and 7 hours of standby and I'm at 6%.
However, many UI stutters/glitches still exist (especially on iPad) and I still need to restart my mini 2 every couple days because the screen rotation gets god-awful slow. Closing your last tab in safari where the new tab comes into view afterwords seems a bit smoother on my mini 2. No real complaints from my iPhone. Occasionally leaving an app is really really stuttery, especially so on my iPad, but I sadly have sort of gotten used to it.
After a good few days running iOS 8.2, here is my list of 'issues':
Flaky WiFi. It's fine if I have a strong signal but if I'm locked onto a weak signal and it drops, the phone won't automatically log back on a good 60-70% of the time. I'm often in my kitchen where the WiFi signal is weak and occasionally the signal will drop. With my iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, if I moved towards the door a couple of feet the phone would automatically pick the connection up again. Not so with my 6+ and iOS8. I have to manually rejoin the network via the settings menu the vast majority of the time. A definite step backwards.
Safari is *pants*. I have a near constant spinning data wheel whichever website I'm browsing. OK so it might not affect anything but it IS irritating.
I also frequently run into issues where the website hangs 1/3 way through loading. Only force-closing the app cures this problem...until the next time.
Occasionally the icons at the bottom will disappear, meaning that I cannot open a new tab or go to my favourites etc. Force-closing the app cures this.
Copy/paste is broken in Safari.
Portrait/landscape rotation is poor. There is a bug which for some reason makes my task manager/app tray show up in landscape when I was previously in portrait. The system refuses to go back into portrait until I get back to my homescreen.
Calendar notifications frequently flash up at the desired time but then instantly disappear without my having snoozed or cancelled them. This has led me to miss certain reminders.
I've had the stock email app crash on me once.
I've had the whole system freeze on me once. I couldn't do anything for approx 10 seconds.
...and then of course there's the tab and app reloading business. I shan't go into that again.
Flaky WiFi. It's fine if I have a strong signal but if I'm locked onto a weak signal and it drops, the phone won't automatically log back on a good 60-70% of the time. I'm often in my kitchen where the WiFi signal is weak and occasionally the signal will drop. With my iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, if I moved towards the door a couple of feet the phone would automatically pick the connection up again. Not so with my 6+ and iOS8. I have to manually rejoin the network via the settings menu the vast majority of the time. A definite step backwards.
Safari is *pants*. I have a near constant spinning data wheel whichever website I'm browsing. OK so it might not affect anything but it IS irritating.
I also frequently run into issues where the website hangs 1/3 way through loading. Only force-closing the app cures this problem...until the next time.
Occasionally the icons at the bottom will disappear, meaning that I cannot open a new tab or go to my favourites etc. Force-closing the app cures this.
Copy/paste is broken in Safari.
Portrait/landscape rotation is poor. There is a bug which for some reason makes my task manager/app tray show up in landscape when I was previously in portrait. The system refuses to go back into portrait until I get back to my homescreen.
Calendar notifications frequently flash up at the desired time but then instantly disappear without my having snoozed or cancelled them. This has led me to miss certain reminders.
I've had the stock email app crash on me once.
I've had the whole system freeze on me once. I couldn't do anything for approx 10 seconds.
...and then of course there's the tab and app reloading business. I shan't go into that again.
Sounds like 8.2 is improving your user experience albeit at a snails pace. Glad you are seeing something positive though.
The wifi issue, might be indigenous to the iphone. My phone stays connected to wifi on a weak signal also. At some point I just turn off wifi to go to cellular data. It makes it worse, because my ISP has hotspots over well travelled corridors where the phone will pick up a weak signal but not really be able to connect properly. I have just learned to turn off wifi when I know I'll really need cellular data.
Yeah, it's a lot better but still...
As for the WiFi thing, I usually get 2 bars of signal in my kitchen but sometimes it drops to one. I can normally move a couple of feet and the signal will raise to two again, but occasionally it drops off entirely. I'm assuming iOS8 is the culprit but it rarely logs back onto the network again once the signal has dropped. I can go into another area of the house and suddenly realise that I'm on cellular. When I go into my WiFi settings the home network is there with a full signal and I log back in manually. There just seems to be an issue with dropped connections, the phone doesn't automatically reconnect in the majority of instances once the signal comes back. All my previous iPhones have done this automatically 100% of the time.
It does it sometimes.
I don't have a wifi issue in my house. I recently bought a netgear x6 nighthawk router that provides a full signal all over the house. In general I find if I'm a good distance from a hotspot and the # bars drop to 1, wifi is connected but unusable. It seems the iphone (and I don't know if it's hardware, software or both) wants to remain connected to wifi at all costs, until the signal is so weak the phone switches over to cellular data.
I get what you're saying but my issue is a little different. Once a strong, known WiFi network is detected then the phone should connect me 100% of the time. Previous iPhones have done this but my 6+ running any iteration of iOS8 hasn't. It's not a massive issue but it does annoy me at times.
Mostly seems better, faster and smoother. However, since 8.2 I am having the Safari reloading problem for the first time. I rarely have more than 3 tabs open, but it can happen with just one open. Have never had this before.
I know others have, and I thought it was perhaps having a lot of tabs open.
You would think Apple would prioritise fixing well-known bugs in their own core apps.
I can't get Safari to function at all. It is just frozen even after restoring the iPhone from a backup. I can't do a clean install. I'd lose too many important text messages.
Sounds like your backup is corrupted. What's so important about the text messages? Can't you take screen dumps and email them to yourself?