Same here…. not sure why anyone would stay on iOS7 at this point??? We have iOS8 on an iPhone 5, 6 and iPad II with no issues on any of them.
I get the impression there's a very vocal minority that wants to just trash on anything Apple without any merit behind their rants.
Safari negates any comments like this. Safari is complete garbage. I've never used a browser, mobile or otherwise, that crashed, couldn't handle video, has audio dropouts, constantly reloads pages even with only two open and doesn't respond to user input until the page is scrolled up or down at least once. iOS 8 is a buggy mess that still shouldn't be public. Even on my 6 Plus is maddening how terrible it is, and the iPhones lack of RAM is really starting to show because it appears that the entire OS has memory leaks everywhere and it impacts performance. You are two peas in a pod, people like you come out of the woodwork and say people are making things up because
you don't have a problem. That's called being a hypocrite. If I could put iOS 7 on my 6 Plus I'd do it right now and when I had my 5S I waited too late to downgrade. Apple FORCES people to stay on updates so they can make boasts like this, they absolutely do not care about customer experiences being positive otherwise they wouldn't refuse to let people go back to an iOS version they liked. iOS 8 is crap all around and it's full of bugs that drive me up the wall. It shouldn't be public because Apple has failed to do proper QA on iOS for at least three versions now.
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Those are security issues that have affected literally every OS that's ever been made public or for sale, not a slight on iOS 7 specifically. The other iMessage problem is a
service issue, not an OS issue. iOS 8 is full of stupid bugs that Apple aren't fixing, a lot of them that require a restart to stop from happening. I don't use Safari when I don't have to, I'm tired of having Control Center refuse to work on my lock screen, I'm tired of the color of the status bar icons being white on my white background when I close an app, I'm tired of the keyboard not responding sometimes, and I am SICK of the OS making it blatantly clear that Apple refuses to put an adequate amount of RAM in an $800 smartphone. The lack of RAM is starting to really show in iOS 8 and Apple didn't find it important to properly hide that idiotic and cheap limitation from the user. It's become offensively apparent that they'd rather save a buck of a much needed component to make their profit margins higher and it's affecting the user experience in a negative way. If the next iPhone doesn't have at minimum 2gb of RAM and Apple properly writes the OS to make it transparent to the user when it hits the RAM wall then I won't be an iPhone owner anymore. I'm tired of paying premium prices for an experience that's as far from premium as can get. I never had those issues with iOS 7 in its most up to date form.
iOS 8 has made my iPad 3 behave as if its an iPad 1. Apple refuses to let me downgrade to iOS 7 where its sluggishness was tolerable. iOS 8 is a garbage update and I won't buy another iPad because they've made it clear that they want you to buy a $500-700 device and have it useable for only two to three years with no way to go back to a software version you liked/that worked if you decide to try out the newest one. I'm sick of them forcing bad experience on their customers so that they can put pie charts on a screen at conferences.
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iOS 8 is running smoothly for the most part now. Most of the bugs I get are from old 3rd party applications that haven't been updated yet.
Otherwise the only annoying things are that sometimes the screen just won't register my touch for a minute or two, sometimes Control Center won't come up, sometimes when I open the camera app the camera won't start up for a minute.
Your second paragraph sounds like the exact opposite of running smoothly. That sounds to me like it's not running at all for significant chunks of time and that's completely unacceptable no matter how often it does or doesn't happen.
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Gee thanks for signing up just to post that.....and you say that iOS 8 on iP6+ is the worst? What other OS's have you tried on iPhone 6 Plus? Tell us please? My experience is completely different. Tell us about everything that's been going on with your iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 8? I'm waiting...
Saying it's the worst isn't a comparison of that OS to another one running on their phone. Jesus, I swear you people come out of the woodwork just to defend and inanimate object without even bothering to try to understand the words written on your screen.
My experience is completely different
Oh, so that means that ANYONE that says otherwise deserves this kind of stupid response? I've had nothing but issues that shouldn't exist on my 6 Plus, are you going to have some smart ass response to me now? You going to tell me I'm a liar and that there's no way that I could EVER have a different experience than you?
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I always saw this as a not-enough-memory issue. The more images are on a page the worse it gets and don't even think of how it performs with tons of animated gifs. It got worse on my iPad 3 with iOS 8 but it was already bad with iOS 7.
That same happens with Safari in Yosemite. Try loading up reddit with RES enabled and select show all images. It becomes completely unusable after three pages are loaded. Same thing in Chrome doesn't happen. Safari is just not good and borderline broken depending on what you use it for.
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Giving users a choice isn't a bad thing, and giving half the chance, Apple would do this on the desktop if they wanted to.
I'm still running Mavericks and have no intention to upgrade to Yosemite because of bugs, and the only reason i have iOS8 is because i decided to upgrade because i liked extension support.... Realizing i can no longer go back would be *only* other reason for staying with iOS 8, otherwise if i wasn't happy, and i could go back, I would.
The jump to Yosemite is very tame compared to the one between iOS 7 and iOS 8. I upgraded the day it came out and the only bug I've seen besides Safari being an utter waste of time is that the Messages window acts a bit weird when you try to reply to a message right after you get it. It moves the window to wherever you click after it doesn't respond. Other than that Yosemite is actually a great upgrade. Just stay away from safari.
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Actually Apple is the only company really supporting 3+ years old hardware with the new software.
And when you find out the experience is complete garbage, Apple refuses to let
YOU change the software on
YOUR device that
YOU paid for back to a version that works the way YOU want it to. The only course of action they give you is to buy new hardware, or you put up with their updates crippling YOUR device. Apple supports older things by breaking them and then refusing to let you fix it. I'm not happy with a company that won't let me fix what they broke on something I bought. To argue against that and say Apple is doing everyone a favor is quite frankly incredibly stupid.
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I don't understand why you people put so much love on Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall. They were great innovators but they weren't perfect.
No, they were great at stealing ideas and functionality and not giving any credit for their "inspirations" from other people. Those two stole many ideas from jailbreakers outright and gave no instance of credit for it. There's even a widely known term inside the Mac community about Apple taking peoples ideas and presenting them as their own and it's known as being "Sherlock'd". They were not innovators when it came to software and the iOS developer community knows that at any time Apple will take their idea/app functionality and integrate it into their OS without any credit being given.
