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iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates Just Two and a Half Weeks After Launch
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Regarding space...
For me, on a 32GB iPod Touch, I couldn't do a proper upgrade without wiping my device, even with 10GB free.
I plug the device in to iTunes, shows 12GB of music, 10GB free, and it downloads the upgrade, and goes ahead to install, then at some point, finished ... but here is the kicker:
I had now 4GB of free space, but no music accessible on the device. Mysteriously, my 'other' data was now a bloated 17GB in size, and music was also listed at 8GB, but it hadn't synced everything, and I'm stuck with no music visible on the iPod.
So, needed to wipe it.
For me, on a 32GB iPod Touch, I couldn't do a proper upgrade without wiping my device, even with 10GB free.
I plug the device in to iTunes, shows 12GB of music, 10GB free, and it downloads the upgrade, and goes ahead to install, then at some point, finished ... but here is the kicker:
I had now 4GB of free space, but no music accessible on the device. Mysteriously, my 'other' data was now a bloated 17GB in size, and music was also listed at 8GB, but it hadn't synced everything, and I'm stuck with no music visible on the iPod.
So, needed to wipe it.
I just picked up a used 5 on eBay with iOS 6.1.4 on it (facetime doesn't work on iOS 6 of course as Apple had a security Cert that expired months after 7 came out) and it is amazing how fast and responsive it is (and the obviousness of the user's interactions with UI should be). Got it as something to hang on to...
We have a iPhone 6, 5s, iPad 2, 4 in the house and support a 4s & 5s for offsite relatives...only the 6 is on iOS 8 cause it has to be. I upgraded the 5s to iOS 8 and rolled it back the next day to 7.1.2 and told the supported relatives to hold off. Only the 5s will go to 8 after its really stable (the 4s and iPad's will stay at 7.1.2 for good).
As for the folks thinking 8.1 is going to be great, remember Apple is adding a bunch of unreleased functionality with it (which is causing the glitch problem with 8)....if you have 7.x, I'd wait a while after it comes out before diving in. JMHO...
I really would like to go back to iOS 7 since iOS 8.0.2 has effectively broken or hampered much of the internet capabilities of my iPad.
It absolutely feels like cheating that Apple seems to have made it impossible to downgrade at all.
It feels like there's no purpose in their doing that except to push the iOS 8 portion of that pie chart irrevocably further and further, at the expense of the consumer.
And might I add -- it feels so flipping weird to be writing an "eff you, Apple!" post. But I mean it. I want to fix my iPad and they've pretty much made me stuck with their bugs until or if they release an update that fixes them. Eff you, Apple.
It absolutely feels like cheating that Apple seems to have made it impossible to downgrade at all.
It feels like there's no purpose in their doing that except to push the iOS 8 portion of that pie chart irrevocably further and further, at the expense of the consumer.
And might I add -- it feels so flipping weird to be writing an "eff you, Apple!" post. But I mean it. I want to fix my iPad and they've pretty much made me stuck with their bugs until or if they release an update that fixes them. Eff you, Apple.
I'm still rocking an ipad 2. No way I'm installing ios 8 on that thing. ios 7 works surprisingly well on it.
Having the same rotation issues. Apparently they can be 'fixed' by disabling Reachability. I've tried it and it seems to mostly work, but I kinda would like to have Reachability, seeing as how it's a main new feature, and quite useful when running one-handed.
It should have never been released on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4s to begin with. But I'll probably upgrade to the iPad Air 2 next month.
The 4 can't be upgraded to iOS 8.
8.1 will be released by then.
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- Because new or updated apps typically are released to run on newer OS versions so if you have an old OS you wont be able to get the updates to your current apps, or new ones.
- Because a new OS fixes security issues (hopefully) that are not fixable in an old one.
- Because the higher the percentage of users on the same OS, the better it is for app developers, since they only need to code once to reach most users, unlike Android. And apps form part of the reason for going to iPhone rather than Android.
Have you already forgotten all the random multiple-times-a-day springboard restarts and white screens of death that occurred with 7.0? 7.0 was a disaster.
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/535636/20140123/apple-ios-7-1-update-fix-springboard.htm#.VDQGML5cLy8
8.0 has been far more stable on both my 5S and iPad Air than 7.0 was. 7.1 fixed all my issues with 7.0 though.
Ipad air now decides wether or not to ask for a passcode to gain entry... heading over to the ios8 bugs thread to post it..
-No, it's not 3rd party apps.
Its the same complaints from many others.
Slow Wi-Fi
landscape mode stick
laggy etc etc etc.
I agree, I like the feature as my thumb can't quite reach that top-left back arrow on my 6. I can't imagine that on a 6 Plus.
OTOH, I'm willing to trade that for screen rotation, at least for the short term. Thanks for the tip!
People would still just fill up that 32GB with stuff and be in exactly the same boat.
Its not twisting anything, and neither is your post. All of these are facts.
What is disingenuous is pretending like the numbers are the same by just quoting percentages.
50% of 2, and 50% of 100 are very different things.
In this case we're talking about differences in the hundreds of millions.
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You don't have to disable useful features. All you have to do is have an ounce of patience, and know it will be fixed in a future update.
I wonder how you guys with 5 and 5C are using your phones
I have 2 5C's and both with iOS 8 and both run great
Yea, its a tiny bit slower when compared to iOS 7, but barely noticeable
In normal day usage it doesn't show any slowness
As for the update taking to much space I still don't understand what's the problem to use iTunes to update it It looks like people like to complain just for the sake of complaining
"oh i can't free up 4GB's But i don't want to waste 5 seconds and plug it to my computer, so that's Apple's fault and everything from now on sucks!"
Really?! Geezz
As for the update taking to much space I still don't understand what's the problem to use iTunes to update it It looks like people like to complain just for the sake of complaining
"oh i can't free up 4GB's But i don't want to waste 5 seconds and plug it to my computer, so that's Apple's fault and everything from now on sucks!"
Really?! Geezz
I'm guessing a lot of people don't know they can plug it into iTunes. If the warning came up "Please free up space or connect your iPhone to iTunes to upgrade" maybe things would improve. Don't be surprised if 8.1 adds something like that if adoption rates are still low.