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What is your favorite iOS version? and why?

What's your favorite iOS version?

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There's something about iOS 5 that made me very jealous of iPod touch 4th generation owners with all of the extra features. I had just sold my iPod touch 2nd generation that year and was looking forward to the 5th generation. I had to wait an extra year until it was finally released with iOS 6, so I never had a chance to use iOS 5.

I also really like iOS 7, and the features of iOS 8 are nice, just not implemented error-free. I'm really looking forward to iOS 9!
 
Without a doubt, iOS 8. It brought the Continuity, Handoff, fully implemented Pay and Watch functionality.

I see no lag and no crashes in iOS 8. For me, it's incredibly solid.
 
estabya said:
Although not my favorite iteration overall, iOS 8 introduced some of the best features in my opinion. Continuity is amazing. I love being able to text and make phone calls from my Mac.
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I love this feature a lot too. Imagine you can simply pick up the safari tab you are currently browsing on Mac to your phone without waiting cloud tab syncing. Would this be a beautiful thing?
 
dfausty said:
Without a doubt, iOS 8. It brought the Continuity, Handoff, fully implemented Pay and Watch functionality.

I see no lag and no crashes in iOS 8. For me, it's incredibly solid.
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Who cares about a sprinkling of new and let's face it hardly essential features when the core functionality is so flawed? I want to web browse and that's why I bought a 6+. Sadly this thing is a laggy, reloading, crashing and frustrating device that isn't a patch on my old iPhone 5. The only positives are the screen size and the battery life, but who cares about those when the rest of it is such a gigantic letdown?
iOS8 is rubbish, and when it's the o/s on my 6+, my iPhone is rubbish too.
 
sunking101 said:
Who cares about a sprinkling of new and let's face it hardly essential features when the core functionality is so flawed? I want to web browse and that's why I bought a 6+. Sadly this thing is a laggy, reloading, crashing and frustrating device that isn't a patch on my old iPhone 5. The only positives are the screen size and the battery life, but who cares about those when the rest of it is such a gigantic letdown?
iOS8 is rubbish, and when it's the o/s on my 6+, my iPhone is rubbish too.
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You are entitled to your opinion. As I said, I have NO issues with it. No lag, and no crashes. The only flaw is an occasional hang up on rotating landscape to portrait. And I consider Handoff and Continuity essential.
 
dfausty said:
You are entitled to your opinion. As I said, I have NO issues with it. No lag, and no crashes. The only flaw is an occasional hang up on rotating landscape to portrait. And I consider Handoff and Continuity essential.
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I consider a lack of reloading, minimal crashes and old-style iOS 'butter smooth' operation to be essential and it comes before all the bells & whistles for me. I have no issue with what you consider to be essential, but we don't share the same requirements. I couldn't care less about Handoff, Continuity or Apple Pay.
 
Some people don't seem to be able to differentiate features from performance. So because of some new features you would take the super-buggy iOS 8.0 over the much more stable 7.1.2? That makes no sense to me but hey-ho.
 
sunking101 said:
Some people don't seem to be able to differentiate features from performance. So because of some new features you would take the super-buggy iOS 8.0 over the much more stable 7.1.2? That makes no sense to me but hey-ho.
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Well, favorite can have different meanings for people. Some aren't having as many issues and find the new features more useful over the few issues they may encounter.
 
C DM said:
Well, favorite can have different meanings for people. Some aren't having as many issues and find the new features more useful over the few issues they may encounter.
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I just don't understand why iOS8 is 'winning' this poll when for me it's hands-down the worst version of iOS to date by a country mile. App crashes, springboard crashes, app & browser reloading, dreadful Safari performance, UI stutter...o_O
 
sunking101 said:
I just don't understand why iOS8 is 'winning' this poll when for me it's hands-down the worst version of iOS to date by a country mile. App crashes, springboard crashes, app & browser reloading, dreadful Safari performance, UI stutter...o_O
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A lot of people aren't experiencing a lot of those issues, and the few they do might not be bad enough for them to really affect their usage much especially compared to various new features they might be taking advantage of.
 
C DM said:
A lot of people aren't experiencing a lot of those issues, and the few they do might not be bad enough for them to really affect their usage much especially compared to various new features they might be taking advantage of.
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Shhhhh! Don't say that, as it ruins the picture he's trying to paint. :p
 
sunking101 said:
Some people don't seem to be able to differentiate features from performance. So because of some new features you would take the super-buggy iOS 8.0 over the much more stable 7.1.2? That makes no sense to me but hey-ho.
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Again not all people experience the same bugs that people experienced. Again, your logic makes no sense to me either. It seems you can't accept the fact people out there have had good experiences with the latest updates.
 
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MagicHAM said:
Again not all people experience the same bugs that people experienced. Again, your logic makes no sense to me either. It seems you can't accept the fact people out there have had good experiences with the latest updates.
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You're kinda making out that some phones are faulty and that some aren't. I fully appreciate that a lot of people don't care about the odd stutter and the odd app crash. I also appreciate that some people don't attempt to multitask and therefore don't realise that they have insufficient RAM. I also realise that some people aren't heavy web browsers and don't notice the appalling lag and crashing in Safari. However, that doesn't mean that their phones are flawless, it merely means that their usage pattern is different to those of us who do experience these issues.
 
sunking101 said:
You're kinda making out that some phones are faulty and that some aren't. I fully appreciate that a lot of people don't care about the odd stutter and the odd app crash. I also appreciate that some people don't attempt to multitask and therefore don't realise that they have insufficient RAM. I also realise that some people aren't heavy web browsers and don't notice the appalling lag and crashing in Safari. However, that doesn't mean that their phones are flawless, it merely means that their usage pattern is different to those of us who do experience these issues.
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I said I never had that experience with the problems that half of you had on my phone. No phone is flawless, but doesn't mean that everyone else has issues like you did.
 
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