The keyboard tap indicator (when Reduce Transparency is enabled) is still not fixed on iPad mini 2 on 8.3. :/ Already reported it to Apple.
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iOS 8.3 (Final) Bug Fixes and Changes
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Safari: YouTube forces a redirect to the YouTube app if installed.
Normally this wouldn't be a big of an issue, but sometimes I use youtube for background audio, but I also want to keep my phone locked, so I usually access the site from Safari.
Normally this wouldn't be a big of an issue, but sometimes I use youtube for background audio, but I also want to keep my phone locked, so I usually access the site from Safari.
I strongly agree. I never thought of that as a bug as much as a cruel joke on the part of the
developers.Messages very buggy
I wish I could change my vote.
At the beginning everything seemed to be working very smoothly.
After a couple days use, messages has issues almost every time I use it. Selecting more than two photos in the photo picker causes a crash, adding a new contact from a conversation causes a momentary freeze, and there are lags and freezes and crashed all around.
But other operations seem to work just fine.
I wish I could change my vote.
At the beginning everything seemed to be working very smoothly.
After a couple days use, messages has issues almost every time I use it. Selecting more than two photos in the photo picker causes a crash, adding a new contact from a conversation causes a momentary freeze, and there are lags and freezes and crashed all around.
But other operations seem to work just fine.
8.2 worked ok for a couple of days and then it went rubbish.
8.3 is wayyyy better than 8.2 but I'm starting to get some lag and strange Safari issues after a couple of days. My WiFi also periodically slows to a crawl and a hard reset makes no difference. I wonder what happens that causes issues to arise after two or three days?
I think the issues were there I just hadn't noticed them yet.
And then once you notice them, you can't help but notice every little time they pop up.
Using an iPhone 5 with 7.1.2, I'm genuinely impressed by how it's almost flawless in terms of smoothness compared to my 6 on 8.3. With 8.2 and 8.3 things have gotten better, but 7.1.2 does still deliver a smoother/more consistent 60 fps experience throughout the OS.
Needless to say, Apple are taking steps in the right direction.
It's also ridiculous how the weather app is vastly smoother on 7.1.2 compared 8.3. The difference in stuttering is just bizarre.
Needless to say, Apple are taking steps in the right direction.
It's also ridiculous how the weather app is vastly smoother on 7.1.2 compared 8.3. The difference in stuttering is just bizarre.
I strongly agree. I never thought of that as a bug as much as a cruel joke on the part of the
Unfortunately with the Google eradication that Apple has done over the years, that sounds like the best explanation.
My fiance's Iphone 6+ has an annoying bug in messages now with 8.3. Say someone sends her a picture MMS. If shes looking at the picture within the message, she can tap on the picture and then you can just directly message or email it to someone. Everytime she tries to do that, it looks like its going to add the picture to a new message, but all that happens is it opens a new message. Picture never gets added.
This works perfectly fine on my iphone 6+. I tried to reinstall 8.3 on my MBP with the full image instead of the OTA update. And then restored from backup. But that didn't work. No way in hell she wants to start fresh all over again just to try to fix this bug.
Anyone have any suggestions?
This works perfectly fine on my iphone 6+. I tried to reinstall 8.3 on my MBP with the full image instead of the OTA update. And then restored from backup. But that didn't work. No way in hell she wants to start fresh all over again just to try to fix this bug.
Anyone have any suggestions?
does anyone else have a problem with the message app? there some message threads where i can't view old messages. I would scroll up, saw the spinning circle and get repeated text. it won't load the old messages. and also some have deleted messages which i did not delete before
Well it could be, but I seem to remember that Chrome does the same.
Honestly how hard would it be for Apple to add more option switches for stuff like that? is there some good reason why everything defaults to enabled?
Yeah, since Apple and Google were not on the best of terms for awhile, the stock YouTube app and stock Google maps got booted. And due to it being a third party app, the YouTube app cannot do background audio when it plays a video. The only way to do this was to play the video in Safari.
Well, technically YouTube doesn't have background audio because of a choice made by Google. Any third party app can have background audio, ProTube is a YouTube client that supports background audio. Also, if there was no third party background audio everybody would hate Spotify, and there would be no way to make a Skype/hangouts call without having the app open and the screen on. That would suck.
Third party apps can do background audio, Google just decided that YouTube isn't allowed to do it (short of some subscription that would allow for it). That's fairly different than Apple doing something.
As for Google taking ownership of their own apps, for the most part that seems to be a good thing--Goole Maps has been a much better app than what it was when Apple was using them for their maps and thus wouldn't allow a Maps app separately from Google. Giving Google ownership allowed them to make more of the apps and update them more frequently than when Apple just put their services into their stock apps that only got updated occasionally, mostly with major iOS updates.
So, not really sure about any actual eradication going on.
They have to(HAVE TO) fix the low frame rate while rotating with the keyboard is up. That has been my biggest pet peeve since 7.0 and it hasn't gotten any better on my iPhone 5. Please Apple fix this in iOS 9, I want 60 fps everywhere!
I have had the same issue on my mini 2 since it was on 7.0.4 or so (that's what my ipad came with). It's annoying because that was the NEWEST hardware out and it still stuttered. 7.1.2 still stuttered in many areas, and now it's even worse.
I have no idea why this is, but now any time I restart my iPad Air 2, my keyboard shortcuts stop working until I add a new one or delete an existing one. What's really weird is I can add a new one on my iPhone and that will get my iPad's shortcuts working (since it syncs via iCloud).
This started with iOS 8.3.
This started with iOS 8.3.