iPhone How is iOS 8 on the 5s?

[Knockoutjosie]

I want to know if I should leave my jailbreak to upgrade to iOS 8. If it I should just stay on it

 

[Zeeshee]

It's slow. I reverted back to iOS 7 in a day.

 

[merrickdrfc]

It's perfectly fine. Mine seems snappier on GM, but that probably will have been because the beta's were slower than 7.1.

 

[lovewd]

The GM is near perfect

 

[doublex14]

The GM is near perfect

Except battery life is absolute trash. Location services off, low brightness, and what not and I still go down like 2% every 5 minutes

 

[jonnyb098]

Touch ID is faster for sure, but sometimes opening apps pauses for a quick instant before opening as does multitasking.

 

[mangomind]

My general rule of thumb is to stay on the iOS that the phone came with, for the best speed. I'll update to iOS 8 if they speed it up to almost iOS 7.1.2 speed and when some bugs are fixed.

 

[markyr17]

it's buttery smooth!

 

[C DM]

Except battery life is absolute trash. Location services off, low brightness, and what not and I still go down like 2% every 5 minutes

Usually something else might be in play. Try closing all apps and restarting the phone. Check background refresh as well.

That said, after a new install a lot of things are being downloaded if you did is a restore rather than just an upgrade.

 

[Dan70]

The GM is near perfect

So far after a few hours of use, no complaints using the GM.

I did a fresh install as well because I know backups sometimes cause issues.

 

[matttye]

Not as smooth as iOS 7, most notably in messages, but smooth enough not to be annoying.

 

[lovewd]

Except battery life is absolute trash. Location services off, low brightness, and what not and I still go down like 2% every 5 minutes

Battery life is just fine for me. 8hrs of standby and 3hrs of screen on time at 39%

 

[Shaqq]

Touch ID is faster for sure, but sometimes opening apps pauses for a quick instant before opening as does multitasking.

Yeah same has been happening to me.

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Battery is dying fast for me also.

 

[T5BRICK]

So far it doesn't seem noticeably slower than 7.1.2. I feel like my battery is draining a little faster, bit I'm also using my phone more.

 

[Ballis]

I love it. As fast as iOS 7.1.2

 

[Mabus51]

Except battery life is absolute trash. Location services off, low brightness, and what not and I still go down like 2% every 5 minutes

This is happening to my iPhone 5s after a clean install of the GM as well.

 

[doublex14]

This is happening to my iPhone 5s after a clean install of the GM as well.

I don't know what to do!

 

[clukas]

Im running mine on a iP5 and performance wise its almost identical.

 

[haruhiko]

Performance is good, but why is the location icon always on? It drives me mad!

 

[C DM]

Performance is good, but why is the location icon always on? It drives me mad!

Check location services and/or background refresh to see what might be behind it.

 

[haruhiko]

Check location services and/or background refresh to see what might be behind it.

There isn't any purple location icon next to the apps with location services enabled. Weird.

 

[that be me]

Runs pretty smooth, but jumped back to 7.1.2 because the jailbreak is better than iOS 8.

 

[Sirious]

Its perfect IMO

 

[Nolander07]

Performance is good, but why is the location icon always on? It drives me mad!

I found that with spotlight suggestions location on under main system services location menu the location arrow was always on. I turned that off and the arrow went away. Of course, I can't use spotlight as a yelp type service now.....

 

[haruhiko]

I found that with spotlight suggestions location on under main system services location menu the location arrow was always on. I turned that off and the arrow went away. Of course, I can't use spotlight as a yelp type service now.....

I reset the location and privacy settings and the arrow is now gone
But I need to reauthorise every app that requests to have my photos, contacts, location etc. from scratch.