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iOS 8 Causing Widespread Bluetooth Connectivity Issues in Cars
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Does anyone know what the difference has been between Apple's Bluetooth and everyone else's? I have a Bluetooth GPS that I've used with an iPad2 and it has a switch on the side. One position is for Apple, and the other is for everyone else.
Apple need a new testing department it seems, all these problems recently are becoming a bit of a bad trend.
Support forums and CultOfMac say resetting your iOS 8.0.2 phone will fix the bluetooth car connection issues with a WARNING: you will also lose your iWork files in the cloud so download all your files to your Mac/PC before resetting!!!!
http://www.cultofmac.com/298280/fix-bluetooth-connectivity-car-ios-8-0-2-broke/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6563382?start=0&tstart=0
Edit: Read more on the forum, seems very hit and miss and resetting working for you may depend on what model phone you have, what model car, or any other random parameter (if you eat cheese?). REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR ICLOUD FILES FIRST BEFORE A RESET.
Support forums and CultOfMac say resetting your iOS 8.0.2 phone will fix the bluetooth car connection issues with a WARNING: you will also lose your iWork files in the cloud so download all your files to your Mac/PC before resetting!!!!
http://www.cultofmac.com/298280/fix-bluetooth-connectivity-car-ios-8-0-2-broke/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6563382?start=0&tstart=0
Edit: Read more on the forum, seems very hit and miss and resetting working for you may depend on what model phone you have, what model car, or any other random parameter (if you eat cheese?). REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR ICLOUD FILES FIRST BEFORE A RESET.
I haven't had any issues with iOS 8 in my Mustang with Microsoft Sync. However I did have these issues with pre iOS 7.1 were on occasion it would not connect over bluetooth. All you had to do was turn bluetooth off and on again and then it worked. Seems to me this has been a lingering bug from iOS 7 and Apple just brought it back for some users
Sorry but thats quite extreme. Honestly, most people haven't experienced any of these issues and luckily the major ones were already fixed. I really like all the new features in iOS 8 and imho its is definitely been more than "nothing but garbage"
Dev teams usually don't push out a jailbreak this early, even if they have one. They like to wait until a ew 8.0.x or even 8.x updates come so we're stable BEFORE we get the jailbreak. That way people don't have to decide bug fixes vs jailbreak.
Example: If they release it at 8.0, Apple will rush to release an 8.0.1 to fix any bugs, but Apple will have the hole fixed that allowed the 8.0 jailbreak. By the time you get to an 8.0.3 or 8.1, most bugs are gone so you have a stable OS. If they release the jailbreak at that time you don't have to decide between a stable OS or a jailbreak. You get both.
I blame their obsession with secrecy. They don't want to do public betas for iOS, they don't let anyone see new hardware before it's announced. It's ridiculous.
I understand the desire to keep new stuff secret but if it impacts quality what's the point? And we knew what the iPhone 6 would look like long before it was announced, so their obsession isn't even working.
Get that hardware out there and TEST, damnit!
Apple's online support has not been able to help me with this problem. In my iPad under Bluetooth I see two iPhone 6s. In my iPhone under Bluetooth I see two iPad airs. In each case I can only forget one device, the one that works.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Remember when MS was the largest tech firm? Remember when everyone wanted to be them? Remember when they got too big and little problems started to creep in? Poor decisions were made?
...yeah, that's Apple now. Give it 5 more years and they'll be a tenth in size what they are today.
Time to sell stocks? Perhaps.
Remember when MS was the largest tech firm? Remember when everyone wanted to be them? Remember when they got too big and little problems started to creep in? Poor decisions were made?
...yeah, that's Apple now. Give it 5 more years and they'll be a tenth in size what they are today.
Time to sell stocks? Perhaps.
You should probably use a few Windows machines and devices to experience the hell that comes with them before you start chastising Apple over something minute.
I'll take these minor issues over that ANY day.
As a user of both Windows and OSX, it sounds like you don't know how to use Windows.
As far as the bluetooth issue.. In the two cars I use it in, one has been flawless, the other will have intermittent connectivity issues ranging from a delayed connection, to perhaps not connecting at all. This happens about 10% of the time.