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Staying on iOS 8 or back to iOS 7.1.2?
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I agree. After suffering through Beta 2, nothing can be worse. (well maybe an Android...) I'm all in!
Lol I can't make up my mind! One day I'm on here posting about how iOS 8 betas suck and the next I'm running them. In addition, even when I have my moments back up on iOS 7, I keep switching between stock and jailbroken. Ahhh, in addition I'm VERY OCD so all of this irregularity in my iOS version is making my mind a living hell. iOS 8, iOS 7 stock, iOS 7 jailbroken...which one, which one?!?!?!
Same here lol. I'm sticking with stock 7.1.2. Most stable on my 4S.
Varies from person to person and what device you're using it on.
On a A1533 iPhone 5s with no big issues. Slight battery drain but seems to be very stable compared to B1 and B2 which was so bad that I went back to 7.1.2.
Beta 5 is a lot better. The only real issue I am having is some 3rd part apps have some wonky keyboard bugs. Some of the OS X continuity, handoff, and SMS/phone calls aren't working right yet either.
I'm pretty happy with iOS 8 now.
I'm pretty happy with iOS 8 now.
I just updated last night and haven't experienced any issues on the 5s. Too early to tell with battery life. Usually it's important to give it a couple cycles before judging.
That's what I want to know too. I have it loaded on my spare iPhone 5 (for testing), which seems to work fine, but it doesn't get service, so everything works great.
I'm interested in loading it on my daily driver 5S to see if it's equally stable.
iOS8 beta 5 is perfect for daily driving. BUT... I'm going back to 7 simply because one or two of my mission critical, business critical apps STILL will not work on iOS 8. I've contacted the authors, but the only response I'm getting is "it will be ready for public release of iOS 8". Buggar.
Why wouldn't a developer want to release during the beta phase, so they have as much time to troubleshoot as possible BEFORE public release?
Why wouldn't a developer want to release during the beta phase, so they have as much time to troubleshoot as possible BEFORE public release?
After some further testing today, I think I'm going to stay with 7.1.2 for my main phone. Some of my mission critical apps like 1Password, Skype, and maybe others aren't working on iOS8 yet, so no go for me.
Also, the developers are working on improving their apps, but there is no point fixing them for beta OS'es because beta OS'es are constantly changing. As some others have pointed out, what worked in an earlier developer release, doesn't necessarily work in the latest developer release. You'd be wasting your time chasing a moving target if you were to code for an evolving OS that hasn't finalized its code/behaviors yet.
It's not stable for me, even if it's a fifth beta. I'm still getting a lot of keyboard bugs with predictive text still not turning off, and this is happening on all of my devices; fresh restored.
If they are building for ios8 they cannot even submit to the app store until it goes live.
Its a very messed up system. You cant make ios8 apps with xcode 5 so you need xcode 6 beta. If you are using xcode 6 beta you cannot submit any apps to the app store. You cant have both xcode 5 and xcode 6(well you can but its pretty tricky).
You pretty much need 2 machines to keep working and do testing.
Understanding what iOS beta releases mean and entail would pretty much answer all those questions.
You can install Xcode 6 Beta's on Mavericks so you can keep using your production machine with Xcode 5 without issue. Only thing that would prevent you from releasing an iOS 8 compatible build in Xcode 5 is if you use any of the new API's that are only available in the new SDK.
It's not really that bad of a system, plus with the amount of changes that occur in the beta process, waiting for GM before releasing anything 'made for iOS 8' is a very good idea.
iOS 8 has been wonderful for me so far. No problems on my iPhone 5 with the latest release. Working like a dream!
I was on 8... but I kept getting facebook messages from people who said their iMessages to me were failing. I could send them, iMessage was on... but yeah.. too many things not working in 8.