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iOS 8.1 beta 2 Fixes/Changes/Improvements

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This all sounds so awesome. I hope AT&T eventually implements this; it's going to rock at work because deep in the building there's barely any cellular coverage but I have amazing Wifi most days.

EDIT: Oops I need to read more carefully; you said FACETIME calls. Heh. Doesn't change that I want Wifi calling on AT&T though. :)

WilliamG said:
Here's a really great change for 8.1 (BETA 1 and 2).

FaceTime calls initiated over WiFi will now transfer to LTE (and 3G?) just fine when you leave the house. Interestingly, the call will transfer quite smoothly (cuts out for just a second or two) when the call detects the WiFi signal dropping significantly.

If you just turn the WiFi off manually, there's a MUCH longer delay before the call is successfully transferred to LTE, so it appears Apple is switching gracefully from WiFi to LTE when it sees the signal dropping to zero (as it would do as you smoothly move out of range).

However, when you're on LTE and come back to your house, the call will NOT transfer back to WiFi, for some reason. If you hang up the call, your phone will instantly connect to the WiFi. You can, of course, manually force the phone to connect to your WiFi network. This does actually transfer the call over from LTE to WiFi (tested by disabling cellular data).

Either way, prior to 8.1, if you left your WiFi network while on a FaceTime call, the call would drop completely.

This is a welcome change! I'm updating the Wiki to reflect this.
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zorinlynx said:
This all sounds so awesome. I hope AT&T eventually implements this; it's going to rock at work because deep in the building there's barely any cellular coverage but I have amazing Wifi most days.

EDIT: Oops I need to read more carefully; you said FACETIME calls. Heh. Doesn't change that I want Wifi calling on AT&T though. :)
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Why does the WiFi amaze? Or are you saying that it's just a great connection?
 
What about overall choppy animations on iPads and multitasking gestures that randomly stop working? Fixed?????
 
LTE/3G/2G switch is back! :)
 

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Why does the WiFi amaze? Or are you saying that it's just a great connection?
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WiFi Voice on T-Mobile is quite nice -- my office is poor coverage on AT&T and No coverage for T-Mobile indoors (big strong building) -- coverage is fine outside though.

As soon as I walk in the building, call hands off to Wi-Fi, and as soon as I leave, it hands back to Cellular. No drops on T-Mobile, but it does on AT&T.
 
crashoverride77 said:
Me too. What seems to confuse people is that camera roll and photo stream is under ALBUMS tab, so really it's just like a playlist for your music. PHOTO tab (Moments) is like all songs or albums in music, it is everything combined and organised by relevant metadata.
Yet people like to use camera roll, which is basically a "all photos on the device" album and photo stream, which is basically a "all icloud pics" album. Both are NOT sorted by any important metadata and have no real organisation to it and in reality should confuse people even more since pictures are in different locations and duplicated. I thought ios 8 fixed this but apparently people think otherwise, strange world this is :eek:
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You are totally right, Apple should just explain it thru Tips.app to those who are complaining and leave it as it was. Or keep all three folders.. I'll give them feedback.
 
What do u guys say about the battery life when running 8.1 b2?

It's draining the battery really quick.
 
They need to fix Safari.

Damn Safari still has this 1 sec 'pause' before a website is launched from bookmarks. Have several tabs open and try 'rotating' them and the whole app lags 2-3 secs as if the animations are trying to catch up.
 
Does anyone know whether 8.1 addresses issues with WiFi connections dropping (necessitating a restart or reset network settings)?

Also, after using "hey Siri" and getting a command answered, the screen stays on for the duration of the set auto-lock period (1 minute, in my case). Is this a known issue?

I'm on an iPhone 6 Plus running 8.0 and wary of updating to 8.0.2.

Thanks!
 
I really don't like in iOS8 the way you delete applications. You press the X and nothing happen until application is deleted. Sometimes it took time also for small apps. But no evidence of press, then many times I think I don't press correcty and press again the X.
 
laszlo182 said:
You are totally right, Apple should just explain it thru Tips.app to those who are complaining and leave it as it was. Or keep all three folders.. I'll give them feedback.
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Yeah I think the best solution is to just keep all folders. I hardly ever use the album tab anyway so I don't really care but people seem to love their camera roll. Cannot wait for icloud photo library to have my entire library stored, it will be sweet :D
 
gardiboy said:
They need to fix Safari.

Damn Safari still has this 1 sec 'pause' before a website is launched from bookmarks. Have several tabs open and try 'rotating' them and the whole app lags 2-3 secs as if the animations are trying to catch up.
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If the Safari lag is still present in the beta, that's disappointing. Safari is so slow to load pages here, I'm using another browser for the time being.
 
Just loaded beta 2 onto my iPad Air. Everything seems just as smooth as 8.0.2. Initiating Spotlight still drops frames though whereas I don't remember it doing so on 7.1.2. Rotating the keyboard is still choppy as well in places. Things like that are disappointing and should not be happening on a device like this.
 
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