iOS 8 is live

[Jessica Lares]

Hmmm. I wonder if there's a log you can look at that shows what's going on. Would Console do that considering it's just for errors?

[FlorenceArt]

I finally upgraded, and now I'm having to painstakingly identify and reset all the preferences that the upgrade messed up. But the worst of it is, the game center harassment has started again. Not only was I logged on again without my knowledge, but now that I managed, not without difficulty, to log off again, I get the game center logon screen every time I open a game app. I hate you, Apple.

[Jessica Lares]

8.1.1 is around the corner. It does fix some stuff. But yeah, not soon enough!

[AlbertaCowboy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Some apps that did not give me notices with iOS 8 nd iOS 8.02 are now working again. Seems 8.1 fixes a number of bugs that never should have made it to 8.0.

Originally Posted by David Munch

If you mean 8.1, then yes, it is still slow.

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Annoying! Thank you for the info.

Any more opinions on whether or not to update the ol' 4S?
I'm seeing reports online that the latest updates have fixed most of the slowness reported, but I'd rather hear it from the fine folks here at MR.
Is anyone happy with their 4S after upgrading to IOS 8.whatever?

I finally updated my iPad mini Retina yesterday. Several apps no longer work due to not being compatible. One got an update today and is working again. But still, it is aggravating that developers don't update their apps in a timely manner.

The process really sucked, as usual. I connected my iPad to my Mac Mini via USB tether to ensure a faster download and install. This is the first time I used the newest version of iTorture iTunes. I backed up my iPad. This took forever! Seriously, they cannot speed this simple write process up? WTF!! Then I selected to upgrade to iOS 8.1.x and was told that my iPad had apps on it that were not backed up. Really, WTF did the backup do? So I selected apps and told it to back them up. A long effing time later...I again selected to upgrade to iOS 8.1.x. It took a painfully long time, but it finally updated. Definitely not going through this with my iPhone 5 any time soon.

And BTW, WTF good is iTunes if it doesn't automatically update the apps when you update them on you iPad or iPhone? That should frigging be standard operating procedures. Why have a cloud that doesn't automatically update apps or photos to iTunes in the background? What a POS. Seriously Apple, get back to function over form, fire IVE and get some good programmers and managers instead.

And then iTunes went on forever after I tethered my iPhone to it to backup. After 30 minutes I finally said screw it and try to cancel the GD backup/sync, but it wouldn't. I finally unplugged the iPhone and did a forced quit of iTorture. Worthless program IMO.

And one more thing, for the ghost of Jobs, the damn WiFi sync is totally useless. Hence the tethering!

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by jswinden

The process really sucked, as usual.

Agreed. I just went through something similar to update my iPhone 6 Plus. In the end I just ignored the warning that some apps haven't been transferred to iTunes, since I just synced the phone and I don't know any other way to transfer them. Also, iTunes has in the past lost track of my apps and refused to sync my iThingies.

[jocampo]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I finally updated my iPad mini Retina yesterday. Several apps no longer work due to not being compatible. One got an update today and is working again. But still, it is aggravating that developers don't update their apps in a timely manner.

The process really sucked, as usual. I connected my iPad to my Mac Mini via USB tether to ensure a faster download and install. This is the first time I used the newest version of iTorture iTunes. I backed up my iPad. This took forever! Seriously, they cannot speed this simple write process up? WTF!! Then I selected to upgrade to iOS 8.1.x and was told that my iPad had apps on it that were not backed up. Really, WTF did the backup do? So I selected apps and told it to back them up. A long effing time later...I again selected to upgrade to iOS 8.1.x. It took a painfully long time, but it finally updated. Definitely not going through this with my iPhone 5 any time soon.

And BTW, WTF good is iTunes if it doesn't automatically update the apps when you update them on you iPad or iPhone? That should frigging be standard operating procedures. Why have a cloud that doesn't automatically update apps or photos to iTunes in the background? What a POS. Seriously Apple, get back to function over form, fire IVE and get some good programmers and managers instead.

And then iTunes went on forever after I tethered my iPhone to it to backup. After 30 minutes I finally said screw it and try to cancel the GD backup/sync, but it wouldn't. I finally unplugged the iPhone and did a forced quit of iTorture. Worthless program IMO.

And one more thing, for the ghost of Jobs, the damn WiFi sync is totally useless. Hence the tethering!

I'm always on call, so having my iPhone fully functional is critical. So I thinking may wait a bit more for that.

Having said that, I would like to upgrade my iPad Air. How long do you think that the while process took Jack, 30 min maybe? Also, which apps got broken? Documents (an app to read PDFs) and Kindle are the more important to me.

[dordale]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

Any more opinions on whether or not to update the ol' 4S?
I'm seeing reports online that the latest updates have fixed most of the slowness reported, but I'd rather hear it from the fine folks here at MR.
Is anyone happy with their 4S after upgrading to IOS 8.whatever?

I tried updating my old 4s to ios 8 and now it's totally hosed. Luckily this is an old phone that I was using as an iPod touch, so not critical to me. But ever since the update, it won't connect to wifi--doesn't show any wifi networks at all, even though there are several in my neighborhood. Also, and maybe related, the battery drains very quickly. The 4s is totally unusable. I'm sure my experience is atypical, but for now I'm holding off on updating my 5s and my iPad air to ios 8.

[DaleDe]

I used iTunes to upgrade my 4S to 8.1.1. It works fine after the upgrade. I had to use iTunes to avoid deleting all my apps on my 8 G box. I then used 8.1.2 incrementally and still all is ok. I would suggest reloading it with iTunes. It works a lot different from the WiFi method.

Dale

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by jocampo

I'm always on call, so having my iPhone fully functional is critical. So I thinking may wait a bit more for that.

Having said that, I would like to upgrade my iPad Air. How long do you think that the while process took Jack, 30 min maybe? Also, which apps got broken? Documents (an app to read PDFs) and Kindle are the more important to me.

I did an update on my newly acquired air2, and having just got to setting up with all passwords etc, it promptly forgot the lot and behaved as if it were a completely new ipad air2. And that was with an OTA update. I think I'm going to do a restore and let it use my ipad3 bckup, which I did not, on this time round.

[dordale]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

I used iTunes to upgrade my 4S to 8.1.1. It works fine after the upgrade. I had to use iTunes to avoid deleting all my apps on my 8 G box. I then used 8.1.2 incrementally and still all is ok. I would suggest reloading it with iTunes. It works a lot different from the WiFi method.

Dale

I did the update through iTunes. Shortly after the update--not sure if it was related to the update or not, my the wifi on my iPhone 4s quit working. I'd either get the spinning wheel, showing the iPhone was searching but never finding any wifi networks (there are several by my house) or the wifi would show as grayed out. Followed several suggestions I saw online including resetting wifi, resetting the iPhone, and even putting the phone in the freezer for a period of time. Nothing worked and finally restored the iPhone to factory settings. Still no joy. But I picked it up the other day after not using it for a few days--and wifi connection was working. Not sure if will continue working, but for now it's okay.

[FlorenceArt]

Just got notice that iOS 8.1.2 is ready to install. I don't remember seeing such frequent upgrades before. I might not wait very long to install this one, as I have noticed signs of instability on my iPad lately. I suppose the Game Center will start harassing me again, but anyway I have uninstalled most of the games that support it.

[Jessica Lares]

It's mostly for the iPhone because it fixes disappearing ringtones.

Much safer to install than the OS X update. THAT has wrecked my iTunes syncing with my iPod AND my wifi.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Just got notice that iOS 8.1.2 is ready to install. I don't remember seeing such frequent upgrades before. I might not wait very long to install this one, as I have noticed signs of instability on my iPad lately. I suppose the Game Center will start harassing me again, but anyway I have uninstalled most of the games that support it.

I upgraded to 8.1.2, and have noticed some instability in the audio. I've lost it entirely a few times and have had to reboot to get it back.

[chookie2]

updating 8.0 lost me access to ibooks through my ipad 2, then 8.1 lost me Calibre access to Marvin, now have lost access to opds uploads for my ibooks in Marvin.Doesn't IOS like us to read? GRRR
Being a non- computer nerd I cannot change programs/files etc...i just want to upload my books to read them. I was loving the way both ibooks and Marvin accessed Calibre through itunes now I am totally disappointed in Apple. Maybe I will go buy a non apple reader just to avoid these problems.