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Will iOS 8.1 also be a bag of hurt?

I would be ok if they would just be more dynamic and say hey we are on it and push out small but frequent updates and not bundle them all up into these larger packages. I am sure that might not make some people happy


There is no perfect way to squash bugs except not to let them happen
 
Fix Safari. Also, adding some indication to the stock keyboard that letters are being pressed like every iteration of iOS before would be nice.
 
sphill said:
Just fix the autocorrect!
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I don't think this is possible. I've taken screen captures of the most ridiculous auto corrections.

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Razeus said:
I guess I'm miserable since iOS 8. I mean, the screen doesn't rotate on the dime on the iPhone 6 Plus. The music skips when I switch to the music app. I get overlapping displays when switching from one app to another. Sharing extensions get reset to default.

What I was I thinking? iOS 8 is perfect.

I mean, heaven forbid I voice my opinion right?
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I don't know if I have flakey hardware, but my iP5S does not rotate on a dime on iOS8.x either. If I put it to sleep in landscape mode, it doesn't auto rotate into portrait as fast as it should.*

I've seen much of what you mentioned on 8.1 beta 2.
*Must reset all settings to temporarily fix.
 
dhlizard said:
Of course it's far from perfect. And of course, anyone and everyone can post an opinion.

But when a poster has nothing but negative posts, perhaps they are using the wrong products.

Perhaps you will see improvement with 8.1
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Yeah, this Razeus guy pretty much posts 100% negativity about Apple. I wonder why? I don't know many Mac users going on to Windows forums and whining about the lack of a start button.

Thdre aren't that many bugs in iOS 8. I have seen much buggier versions of Android, especially in the early days.

Most of the people on here complaining about iOS 8 seem to me to be actively searching for things to whine about. And most of their complaints are not genuine bugs and aren't reproducible on my iOS 8 devices, even with the same model number
 
tennisproha said:
I wonder how true this is. I don't have any experience with android so idk. Just out of curiosity, is android really any more stable?
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Most definitely, no.

I've tried a lot of Android devices and each and every time, I reverted back to iOS. Even iOS 8.0 feels very polished compared to Android, which appears to be a product forever in beta.
 
Razeus said:
I know it's in beta and people are reported it stable, but they said the same thing during iOS 8.0 and yet what we got on release as something different. How is iOS 8.1 really? Is it still a bag of hurt?
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One cannot swim against the tide of Apple apologists. I cried on top of my voice when I was testing iOS 8 betas and the GM was far from usable. But guess there will always be people who would enjoy the experience even if Apple slaps dos based command line buggy version of iOS in everyone's iPhones.
 
tennisproha said:
I wonder how true this is. I don't have any experience with android so idk. Just out of curiosity, is android really any more stable?
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Not to start an Android vs ios war here, but as a user of Android (and now back with iOS again) good lord I can tell you that Android is a bug ridden mess as well. Big difference is you, as the end user on Android, can root the device and "fix" a lot of the bugs. Or go to XDA and find someone else who made a fix or work-around.

There is a good reason why XDA has around 50,000 users on its forums at any given time.
 
To me this does feel like the least polished .0 release in a while from Apple as far as iOS. At least for my use cases, I'm noticing more bugs, and at this point, very few new features to justify it. Anxiously awaiting 8.1...
 
With iOS 8.0.x Apple achieved that I don't want to use my iOS devices because of frustration about software bugs. Those devices are not brand-new and they worked quite good already.

Apple better come out with something functional soon. I use Apple devices for about 6 - 8 years now.
 
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Razeus said:
If so, I'll let you guys have at it first. They barely added features to iOS 8, yet it's riddled with bugs.
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People are becoming skeptical of updates for sure, even pro-updaters these days. For good reason.

Even when jailbreak becomes available for iOS8, I'm wondering if I'm going to update my rMini from 7.1.2. Leaning towards maybe not. Fiddled with an Air on iOS8 the other day at apple store, and it seemed laggy.

Apple has become shackled to its hardware releases (like today) and thrown software under the bus.

My atv3 so much stuff broke on the new version. glad i could roll it back to an earlier version oddly still signed.
 
thadoggfather said:
People are becoming skeptical of updates for sure, even pro-updaters these days. For good reason.

Even when jailbreak becomes available for iOS8, I'm wondering if I'm going to update my rMini from 7.1.2. Leaning towards maybe not. Fiddled with an Air on iOS8 the other day at apple store, and it seemed laggy.

Apple has become shackled to its hardware releases (like today) and thrown software under the bus.

My atv3 so much stuff broke on the new version. glad i could roll it back to an earlier version oddly still signed.
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I am still on 7.1.2 so playing the Wait n Watch game. Once 8.1 releases, I will troll hard on internet to make double sure if Air reboot problem and Safari performance issues are fixed before I actually unblock mesu.apple.com in my router.
 
Anybody know if it'll work on 4S models? I'm still waiting on my Unicorn (6 Plus) to be shipped to me.
 
I'll download 8.1 and if there's no improvement over 8.0.2, it's back to the Nexus line for me. Pure Android is more stable than iOS 8 in its current state.

Apple needs to get off the feature bandwagon if they can't figure out how to add stability.
 
sanke1 said:
I am still on 7.1.2 so playing the Wait n Watch game. Once 8.1 releases, I will troll hard on internet to make double sure if Air reboot problem and Safari performance issues are fixed before I actually unblock mesu.apple.com in my router.
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No reboots here on iPad Air with iOS 8.0.2 and Safari much better. Had a lot of springboards on iOS 7.1.x and Safari was pain in the ass. However animation transitions are terrible and performance wise not so smooth as with 7.1.x
 
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