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Minor iOS 8.1.3 Update Likely Coming Next Week [Updated]

enough of this ****. My battery barely returned to normal state after calibrating and another small update will come? Fix all bugs and bring the bigger updates.
 
mallwitt said:
Not just gmail, I use Office365 Business (cloud exchange basically) and the same thing happens to me. It's probably the single most annoying thing, and I know it's an iOS 8 bug because it was fine on iOS 7.

I really wish Apple would get off the stick and really make their contact, calendar, reminder, and mail app work with exchange well.
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Or rather perhaps the issue is that Microsoft hasn't updated Exchange to work with IOS. Or even OSX even.

And why would they. They want folks to use all Windows so that is their focus. Same with Google apps etc working best with Android, itunes etc working best on Apple created OS.

also keep in mind that ios is created for the most common denominator and your needs are not part of that. So what you need to be demanding is, perhaps, that Microsoft create an Outlook for iOS that gives you and others of the same ilk the features you want
 
Daiphoneboss said:
No the average user isnt a retard if thats what your trying to say. Changing a few settings is ridiculously easy, tons and tons and tons of people from over the years should be and for the most part are familiar with the settings menu
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We have different views of the average user. My mom can't figure out how to change her lock screen background. My cousin who had an ios device longer than me doesn't know what version is iOS he has. Heck, AirDrop is still a 'new' thing to half of the people in my college. When you have more knowledge of Apple's Operating System, your standards slowly rise. You may know all the new features and improvements in ios 8 but the general public won't know much of it until iOS 9 comes.
 
afsnyder said:
Since they introduced control center its been difficult/wonky to get it up up when the keyboard is present. It was fixed for a moment in iOS 8 betas but returned in subsequent betas.. lousy.

Also the animation sometimes goes wacky when pulled in certain ways that I can't seem to replicate. There's some bug there.

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Lol don't necessarily blame Apple for a bad battery.. sometimes its Apple and sometimes its the battery itself.
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Oh yes, that's true. It happened to me a couple times.
But I wouldn't call it a bug, but a (quite poor) design choice.
I'm usually reporting every bug to Apple, but I didn't for that.
 
Someone please warn me when there´s the IOS Update that will finally kill the iPhone 5. Happened to iPad 1. Gen before... and iPod touch... and so on... :p
 
Anyone else have a bug where, if someone I'm sending a message to has read receipts enabled, messages suddenly hangs like a dangling chad?
 
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Since scott forstall's departure I'm not excited for Apple software update at all. Bring back Scott :(
 
Fzang said:
So basically it's okay if MacRumors manipulates numbers but not if, say, Fox does so? Journalism is journalism.
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Yeah whatever. So what numbers did they "manipulate" exactly? Did you even read the article?

"Over the course of the past week, MacRumors has seen an increase in visits from devices on Apple's networks that identify themselves as running iOS 8.1.3, and as of yesterday, that number jumped significantly......"

And they are showing a graph with some dates and a curve showing the hits. What was manipulated here exactly?
 
So does this suggest that Apple has its employees actively visiting MR? Or has 8.1.3 gone out to devs? I would not be impressed if Apple employees were paid to "visit" MR and post comments as per training.
 
MH01 said:
So does this suggest that Apple has its employees actively visiting MR? Or has 8.1.3 gone out to devs? I would not be impressed if Apple employees were paid to "visit" MR and post comments as per training.
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i get paid to do that all day lol (not on here, thats just me but on SEO sites and social media)
 
By the time they get it right version 9 will be out.

Please Apple move to 2 year upgrade cycle. Release new versions of iOS and OSX in alternate years so we only have to suffer one new OS a year.

Annual iOS updates may help you sell a few more iPhones but they seriously piss off many of your existing user base.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
As I highlighted in that thread on Apple's site, I'm not the only one having this problem. Nor is it isolated to just one kind of iDevice, nor one cellular provider. The only common thread among those with the issue is the switch from iOS 7 to iOS 8. But let me guess: it must be THEIR "particular configurations" too.
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No, it's iOS 8 combined with your (and your fellow sufferers') 'configuration'. It's obviously not just iOS 8, or the number of people complaining would be much higher.

The question is from which percentage of affected users do you call an OS update to be bad? Ten percent? Sure. One percent? Probably. 0.001%? Probably not.

The nice thing about iOS 8 is that it shows how much cellular data and how much power individual apps are using. This should at least allow you to ameliorate your problems by throttling down the apps that consume the most.
 
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Again, appreciate the defense of Apple. If you bothered to click the link and read some of your fellow Apple product consumers issues along these lines, you'd find that it's inconsistent. Some think it's iCloud or iCloud drive. Other think it's location services or app store updating. For me, it shows in Mail usage (me not using Mail nearly as much as the data being charged). In other words, it doesn't appear to be something users can fix other than dramatically changing how we utilize and self-monitor cellular usage... rather than enjoy the "just works" experience to which we've been accustomed until iOS 8.

As to 10% vs. 1% vs. .001%, that's a great argument when you're not in one of those buckets. When you are, hopefully you'll be just as quick to let the corporation off the hook and just deal with it yourself.
 
When I first got my iPhone 6 (w/ iOS 8 of course) my battery life seemed a lot worse then it was on my iPhone 5s running iOS 8. After running diagnostics and some troubleshooting (resetting all settings, erasing all content and settings then setting up as new, erasing all content and settings and restoring from iCloud) I now have pretty good battery life. Nothing was wrong with my iPhone 6, iOS 8 wasn't hogging my battery, it was a lot of corrupt applications that have been installed for a long time (a few since iOS 7). Now I am getting (at 24%) 6 Hours and 12 Minutes of Usage and 22 Hours and 6 Minutes of Standby. Usage contained streaming music from soundcloud (Cellular Only, Two bars), messaging, face time, etc..

Long story short.. I love my battery life after looking into it and not pointing fingers.
 

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Battery life has been stellar for ios 8.1.2

Anyone please check the background apps refresh. Dont turn every apps on. I only turn on whatsapp, the rest are off. Battery life is super. Location services-system service too. Just turn on cell network search, motion calibration and wifi networking. The rest off. Try for yourself
 
charlituna said:
Or rather perhaps the issue is that Microsoft hasn't updated Exchange to work with IOS. Or even OSX even.

And why would they. They want folks to use all Windows so that is their focus. Same with Google apps etc working best with Android, itunes etc working best on Apple created OS.

also keep in mind that ios is created for the most common denominator and your needs are not part of that. So what you need to be demanding is, perhaps, that Microsoft create an Outlook for iOS that gives you and others of the same ilk the features you want
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Oh yes, it couldn't POSSIBLY be Apple's problem could it *rolls eyes*. This kind of attitude is exactly why people hate apple fanboys.

The fact is that this worked just fine in iOS 7 (I notice you cut off the part of my quote that says this), but now has a problem with creating new appointments or editing existing ones and changing the timezone to GMT. It's a bug, and a fairly serious one to those of us who actually try to be productive and dare to use something non-apple. Exchange wipes the floor with iCloud and given that I use it for business (as many people do) I don't really have a choice anyway. It's Apple's software and their todo to make it work correctly, it's not like MS can fix it for them.
 
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