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iOS 8 Now Installed on 68 Percent of Active iOS Devices
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I am very happy for you that you don't have problems. I do. And those problems cost me dearly.
iP6+ (128GB) was an upgrade from iP4S (my whole business has been running on Apple hardware for 9 years)
I signed up now for MacRumors again as I lost my previous login and changed emails. It was easier to start over.
NYT crashes daily
Dropbox crashes daily
Occasional crashes: United Airlines, FaceBook
Music totally disappeared a few times (in flight over the Pacific, on a train) without apparent reason
Photos disappear or appear out of order
Icons of websites (in Safari) change.
Any random app (including phone, calendar, address book, photo etc) has frozen the phone
Crashes I don't understand (from the log): "dataaccessd - EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)", "ExcResource_MicroMessenger", "FileProvider - EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)", "JetsamEvent" --> I don't understand and don't want to understand if cannot do anything about it.
I went through "setup as a new phone" four times. Not a rant, but also not a pleasant experience.
iOS 8 is running well on my iPhone 5s, iPad 3 and my wife's iPad 2.
Except for Safari: I still get (partly) blank pages when scrolling and have to wait like 5 seconds before the blank is filled. Not a big deal of course but annoying and not a good user experience.
Except for Safari: I still get (partly) blank pages when scrolling and have to wait like 5 seconds before the blank is filled. Not a big deal of course but annoying and not a good user experience.
The statistic is primarily there for developers--that's the purpose of it and that's where it becomes useful.
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Those problems were update problems and not really something specific to iOS 8 itself--basically it could have happened with any version of iOS (and as I recall some similar things did happen once or twice before in some earlier versions). There's nothing iOS 8 specific about them aside that it just happened with an update that was being pushed out for iOS 8.
There are certainly all kinds bugs here and there in iOS 8, as there were in iOS 7 in the early days, and even still after iOS 7.1, but that's not really related to update problems that happened and could happen with any iOS version update.
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I'm actually on the fence, keeping my 4S and iPad Air on iOS 7, but not wanting to come out and say the sky is falling either........right now I'm waiting to see what kind of improvements 8.2 will bring, but might still gamble and move up before it's released.........
LOTS of reports of laggy response with iOS 8 and the A5-based iPad 2 and mini. And no way to revert back if necessary.
The 3rd Gen iPad w/ A5X is a different beast (we have one of those as well) and I wouldn't consider the A5 and A5X to be equal.
Some people will update later on. Like additional people updated when iOS 8.1 came out, probably some more will when iOS 8.2 comes out, and so on.
Remember when reviewers of iOS devices would boast how quickly safari scrolls compared to android devices?!? Sad how times have changed. (I don't have an android device, but I do have the same issue on my iPad 3)
Please explain me how a device should work worse with iOS 8.1
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Maybe because your iPad 3 is a device from 2012 and we are now in 2015 ? Maybe because iOS 8.1 had much more functionalities than iOS 5.1 ?
Hmmm!
I still know allot of iPhone/iPad users who refuse to leave IOS 7.1.2 And a few stuck on IOS 5 and 6, because of hardware limitations.
Their choice I guess.
I still know allot of iPhone/iPad users who refuse to leave IOS 7.1.2 And a few stuck on IOS 5 and 6, because of hardware limitations.
Their choice I guess.
You just answered your own question.
Though 8.1 doesn't work too badly for me. I do get the occasional framerate issues on the Springboard, but it doesn't feel any faster or slower otherwise.
Never encountered a single one of your bug on my iPhone 5S, on my iPad Air or on my new iPhone 6.
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Ok, if they are speaking about 3+ years old devices, it is quite normal.
Did you jailbreak it back in the iOS4 days? If you did, then, it's possible to downgrade it to any iOS version you've jailbroken it under.
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The iPad2 is the only A5+-based device that can be downgraded, assuming it was jailbroken back in the iOS4 times.
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... if it DID stabilize, that is. For example, the iPhone4 is still sometimes (for example, opening the dialer) three(!) times slower under the final version of iOS7 than under iOS6.
"Nice" work, Apple...
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... and have fun having a still fast device, and not a laggy one ...
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A lot of people rightfully hate the, for a given device model, last-available iOS versions. Many models have been (intentionally?) crippled by the last major iOS version released for it - the iPhone 3G, the iPod touch 2G, the iPhone 4, the iPad 1 etc. No wonder people are afraid of upgrading "old" hardware. Noone wants an expensive paperweight.
That's fine. It doesn't change the observation thst I pointed out that various people still will as often happens when a new point release becomes available.
Have the latest iOS 8 on my iPad air & seeing a few bugs. Not life threatening but still pestering the heck out of my existence. Namely the rotation issue and the reboots being the most prominent of them.
When I scroll down I get a blank page in Safari. It takes a few seconds to fill the blank space for the rest of the page. Then when I scroll up the same thing happens again. More people have reported this issue. This is not a real bug of course and for the rest iOS 8 is working OK. But it is annoying and not a great user experience.
Aside from wifi issues that seem to coincide with the initial iOS8 update all OK here too. The flat UI is still not something I prefer but oh well...
1, Apple loves boasting how quickly their users upgrade to iOS8, as opposed to Android. A lot of their Android-bashing WWDC keynotes emphasize this.
2, decent developers don't look at these figures but try supporting as many iOS versions as possible. For example, in my (numerous) iOS apps, I even support iOS 4.3. (And I'd even support iOS 4.2.1 running on armv6 if it still would be possible to include armv6 slices in fat binaries. Unfortunately, since last September, it has not been possible.)