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Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig?
kyjellyfish writes I've been using iOS 8 for several days and aside from a few gimmicks and add-ons that attempt to achieve parity with Android, my experience has been overwhelmingly unsatisfactory. My chief complaint is that the vast majority of my apps are slow to boot and noticeably sluggish in operation. I want to point out that all of these apps have been "upgraded" specifically for iOS 8 compatibility. Previous operating system upgrades have been relatively seamless, so I'm asking whether other slashdotters have experienced this degraded performance.
What did you load it on? An iPhone 1? A 4? An Osborne Executive?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
on an iPhone 5. Most of the time is fine, but definitely some issues. The big wins on io8 will be extensions, handoffs, and ApplePay, none of which are ready yet.
On my iPad 3 it works fine.
-- Cheers!
I haven't seen that at all on my iPhone 5!or my iPad 3 ("new iPad"). Some things are snappier, even. What device are you using?
I love it on my iPhone 4S. I can't use ApplePay so I may upgrade to a six, but honestly, my nearly three year old 4S works great and has great battery life. I haven't noticed really anything negative. In fact, it prompted google to upgrade their bad Google Voice app, so that in and of itself is a plus. FaceTime audio is also pretty great.
You need to upgrade to the latest and greatest iphone before your complaints can be rationalized away as post-sale jitters.
Wanted to add - if you have 1700+ pictures (like my wife).... your phone will bog down. Make sure you have the space on your phone. iPhones do notoriously get slow when they start running out of space.
An iPhone user talking up Android and pissing on IOS 8. Smells like a troll.
Regardless, no problems for me on either a 5 or 5S.
I've been happy with it on my iPad Air... No "new" issues thus far.
On ipad2 and iphone 4s. Battery drains faster on iPhone so I will have to turn off all location tracking, fancy graphics and background schizzle services... basically turning it into pure "caca" mode. iOS8 epic fail.
I've been using iOS 8 now since Thursday of last week with no issues whatsoever on an iPhone 5s 32GB model. Of course, I don't have a lot of apps installed - I only keep ones that I absolutely need so maybe I'm not a good case in point. I really like the improved accuracy of Siri and the predictive text input features. I don't care for the recent contacts when using the app switcher so I turned it off. Overall, it's been a pretty good experience ... much better than the transition from iOS 6 to 7.
Works fine on my 5S?
I've been running iOS8 since pre-beta on multiple devices, including phones and iPads. I've had no problem, nothing at all like you describe.
If you're so inclined, I'd try a fresh install and see if that makes things run better. You can always restore from backup later.
I assume there was nothing strange about your iOS7 install, like being jailbroken, right?
For me the keyboard can be helpful, but other than that I don't see much benefit.
I first want to delete the tips app and the health app. But failed.
The YouTube search sometimes has the keyboard coming out in a wrong direction. Using chrome to browse /. you will notice the comment will disappear after the first 2 sec. Using safari is okay though. The list of item in one of my app does not have any content anymore.
If I could, I want to rollback to prev version
Android phone makers avoid this issue by EOLing phones 8 months after they're relesed.
I don't have an iPad 2 but I do have an iPhone 4S and I've not noticed the battery draining faster. I haven't really noticed any performance degration either and I haven't turned anything off. I'm having a good experience, so I'm not sure what the issue could be. The iPad 2 didn't really match the spec of a 4S though. I'm surprised you can use iOS 8 on an iPad 2 even though the 4S and it are only 6 months apart. The iPad 2 has an inferior processor, that may be the difference. My mother in law still has an iPad 2 and I won't upgrade her.
Less filling.
I put it on my iPhone 4S and my experience is that it does stutter - applications starting up don't seem to scroll as smoothly as before. The home button seems to take longer to respond too.
Tested it on iPhone 5 and iPad3 and it works great. I liked the call handover feature that forwarded my call from iPhone to iPad. Didn't even have to configure anything. :)
I upgraded a few days ago and I haven't noticed any sluggishness issues. I have an iPhone 5. I also have an iPad Retina that I haven't bothered to upgrade, but I'm hoping it'll work as well as the iPhone.
Put it on a 4s and found it a bit slow. Also, when using waze for car navigation it seems to go into screen lock even when that's disabled in waze's settings. Planned obsolescence to encourage upgrades?
You can't fight in here - this is the war room!
I have an iPhone 5s. I have noticed a slight slow down in some apps. But that's not my overwhelming gripe.
Family sharing just flat out doesn't work. Youtube webpage, has its hiccups. Typing is no easier. Additional keyboards for Germany, switches Z and Y, which is basically useless. Duckduckgo, has such outdated web results that it's also pretty much useless. Apps in general have their hiccups but that happens with every iOS release. Safari crashes more. iCloud still sucks an have never and will never use it.
Really family sharing is the only potentially "cool new thing"
Everything else is just.... ketchup..
Installed across my devices, it seems fine.
iPad 2, 4, air, iPhone 6, 5.
Wow I love how the OP gets called a troll just for asking if Apple's version of iOS is bloaty and mentioning that he's used Android. Then I look at the comments and everybody who agrees that its slow on older hardware is scored low, and everybody who posts that its just fine are scored up. OP this is your fault for blaspheming.
I haven't had the issues described here, but iOS 8 definitely crippled my wifi across several devices, including an iPhone 6+. I'm not alone: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1781815
The lack of any mention of the device he is running it on strongly makes me suspect it is one with a A5 processor. Apple supports even very old devices because it helps the developers a lot having to debug for only a single version of the os, by contrast android development and the short support cycle is a complete nightmare as one has to support accross major and even minor releases. Android app reviews are filled with "It crashes at startup" comments, this is typically not the case for apple users the tradeoff being that their devices might slow down with each new release.
The iOS 8 app upgrades are pretty much for things like being able to target new/any screen sizes. If you're on an existing device, that doesn't mean much. I don't think there is anything in the new SDK that would imply a performance decline in apps that adopt it.
The X.0.0 upgrades are pretty well known for including slower/unoptimized drivers and code paths. Apple is usually in a hurry to get the release out the door and they don't do all the optimizations they should. Usually by X.0.1 or X.1 they get things cleaned up. So it doesn't surprise me that 8.0 is a little pokey. 7.0 had basically the same issues.
3 iPads, one of the two iPad 2s bricked on u/g, had to recover it via iTunes. The iPad air (Wifi, 128 Gb) has turned indeed into a pig. Performance is so poor, I couldn't even Skype with my parents this morning, Has Apple turned into MSoft ?
I've got it on an iPhone 5 and an iPad Air and both work very smoothly. Haven't had any OS crashes or glitches (a couple apps are a bit more crashy but I hope an update from them will fix that) and speed and battery life don't seem to have had any reduction.
So far the things that make iOS 8 really attractive (handoff, continuity, new document picker) are waiting for either Yosemite or updated apps so I wait patiently but am satisfied with the upgrade as far as it goes
My complaint about iOS 8 is that it appears to have broken some (but not all) magazine subscription apps. Numerous people has posted to the Apple Support Community that the Scientific American app crashes. Reinstalling the app does no good -- it simply doesn't work. It will be interesting to see how quickly this issue is addressed.
First of all, is that what iOS 8 is? A few gimmicky features and a pathetic attempt to achieve parity with Android?
iOS 8 is working fine on my iPad mini retina. The only bug I've experienced was in 1Password that crashed on me. It's been since updated.
New features I appreciate: text size in Safari's Reader is adjustable. Lots of similar tweaks that make using the OS more pleasant. App extensions are off to a good start. 1Password's integration with Safari is very helpful
Ex2bot
This is standard practice for Apple. While they will continue to support your phone, they have this habit of making the new major OS rev run slowly right about the time your phone is 2 years old. I struggle to believe it's a coincidence as it has happened with literally every revision they've released.
Are you insane or just bad with money?
I put it on my iPad 3 and it's noticeably slower. The big thing I'm seeing now that I never saw before is typing lag. That is annoying. I've also seen extra delay in some cases with the screen realizing it needs to rotate, and a bug in one specific app with keys on the keyboard disappearing entirely. On the performance end it's not that impressive in any way.
That said, having extensions in Safari has been nice, keyboard swapping is handy, and the family sharing feature is really great. So I'm not going to be rushing to roll it back, but I really don't understand how simple things like typing could get so much slower on the same hardware.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
it's not Verizon slowing down your phone because your contract has expired?
Rick B.
Tangentially related, but does IOS have real multitasking yet? Wikipedia says no, but I don't know if that reflects IOS 8.
FYI: I'm running the absolute latest Android release 4.4.4 on my two year old Nexus 4, running all of the latest Google apps. The pure Android experience with no carrier BS, extended software support, great value and access to latest upgrades is what makes the Nexus line amazing.
You can't seriously expect a new OS to run well on a one year old iPhone 5S?
That's funny, because I certainly do. But then again, I use Windows so I guess my expectations are a bit higher, in terms of longevity...
I don't respond to AC's.
Yes, I'm aware the pedantically technical answer is "no," so save it, nerds.
...you will get all the minor glitches and speed delays introduced due to the support of the new A8. It happened on my iPhone 4 with the introduction of iOS 7 too. At 7.3 or so, it became markedly more responsive.
Also, what really helps, is to reduce the animations (zoom in/out when starting apps).
So you can't afford the Apple lifestyle, get a better job you fucking hippie.
Is OS 8 a Pig?
No, moron, it's an operating system.
5S: performance is just as good if not better (Safari really is better) â" I'm happy about that. Battery life, however, is much worse than under 7. I could go 2 days under 7 without recharging, so long as I used it for light browsing, texting, and a few calls. The same usage under 8 means I have to recharge at least once a day, and that is with pretty much everything turned off in the background. I'm not so happy about that.
brwski
"Because without beer, things do not seem to go as well''
FWIW, iOS8 is quite sluggish on the iPad mini but I would expect that, given the capabilities of the device. On the other hand, many iPhone 5S users say the upgrade causes little or no performance problems, but it's sluggish on my iPhone 5S. I'm considering wiping my phone and starting over.
Too bad the Nexus line is no more.
Prior to releasing an iOS, the focus on development is implementing the shiny new features.
Post release, the focus on development is to fix bugs and make the iOS work faster.
In each of the past few versions of iOS released you saw within a month a 0.01 version increment that got rid of bugs and made things noticeably faster.
You therefore have the choice of jumping on the band wagon, or waiting until the incremental release.
It's been 4 days since the exhaustive Ars review of iOS 8 was discussed here
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/09/17/1553225/ios-8-review/
Have you compared your experience with theirs?
Did you notice the methodical way in which they examined each aspect of performance?
As already stated, your specific device should be mentioned, as well as the conditions under which you are experiencing problems. If a particular app or group of apps are giving you problems, they should be specified. You seem to be pro-Apple, so don't just let this vague complaint hang there.
...omphaloskepsis often...
iOS 8 is not a pig. It's not a living thing at all it's a mobile operating system. And. If it was living, I doubt it would live at the farm.
Having said that, I have not have any issues on any of my upgraded devices (4 iPads in the family, 2 iPhone 5s) and the devices have not expressed any need to roll in the mud either.
The speed is fine on my iPad Air, but some of the Android-like features I was looking forward to are definitely a little buggy. Alternate keyboards randomly slip back to the stock keyboard, for instance -- usually when I haven't used the keyboard for an hour or so, but sometimes right in the middle of actually using it too (and I don't mean when entering passwords, I get that it's supposed to happen then). And while it seems that you can reorder the new sharing options, the reordering never sticks. Any extra sharing options you've added always move back to the end of the list after a bit.
My iPhone 5c is noticably slower after going to iOS 8, however my 5s seems to be quicker than it was before the update. iPad 3 - not much of a difference.
The Popular vendors, ATT, Verizon, Walmart.. Samsung Motorola.. all lock their phones down update wise by accident if no other reason.. get it direct from Google or Canada and it works just fine updating all on its own.
Or you can get a crowbar and do it yourself.. I just buy Canadian phones that work on ATT network, or go Google.. but Canada has that ole DNA defect.. they play nice and help the customer.. make it a legal responsibility of the seller.. unbelievable
Does your mommy know you're using the computer past your bedtime?
Apple devices "degrade" with OS updates in the same way that Windows updates do on PCs, gradually. But even after an Apple starts no being upgradeable to the latest OS release, it stays useful for years to come. My mother is still using my hand-me-down 2002 desk-lamp iMac, which has the old PowerPC processor.
The problem is the Windows 98 SP2 effect.
The last service pack supporting Windows 98 turned it from a usable system into utter buggy crashing heap of crap, at coincidentally the same time they started trying to sell you Windows XP.
Note that generally I don't think this is an intention destruction of usability on the part of Microsoft (or Apple), I just think that all their testing takes place on newer hardware, better than what the user is actually using, and so the usability test engineers just never see how terrible it's going to be on (nominally) supported older devices.
No.
My iPad 3 not only seems faster in most cases, the battery life is better. I got 11 hours of active use on 50% of the battery the other day. Even now, I'm looking at 98% battery after an hour of useâ"that used to be 6-10%.
But my iPhone 4 (which didn't get the update, obviously) was sluggish and was draining the battery much faster than usual for a week or two. I did a reboot and that fixed it. I know you just installed iOS 8 and have therefore rebooted recently, but I've had some problems with some applications not working properly after being restored or updated until the phone was rebooted. (Overcast, on my iPhone 6.)
Trolling is all this is. Look at the first page of the submitter's comment history, he calls buying an iPhone 6 an "iCon" just this week.
With no specific examples of apps, or models of hardware, and plenty of other things that could be taken as tone in this submission I say . . . really slashdot? I know it's Sunday, but come on.
I don't get the phone fanboyism. This isn't something important, like a text editor.
Microsoft long deth started when they started mimicking other products. :(
Seems current iOS team lost faith that they are able to develop something original and they started "borrowing" ideas from Android (which is crap).
iPhone stopped to be MadeForMe(tm). Now it is MadeForEveryone(tm).
I don't want product on which I must send few hours to tweak settings MadeForEveryone(tm) to change everything to MadeForMe(tm)
Beauty of original iPhone 2 was for me that I've never changed anything except wallpaper picture.
What is the sense buying now Apple products if they are more and more similar to other products?
iOS 8 is OK on my iPhone 5 (with only minor useability improvements), and renders my iPad2 and iPhone 4S nearly useless (it sometimes takes multiple seconds to even display the lock screen, or start apps, sometimes it us even difiicult to swipe the lock screen away, battery usage is up, apps crash or hang a lot). Never seen an update to a premium product with such a low quality
The iPad2 has an A5 1GHz vs the iPhone 4S having an A5 at 800MHz. They both have 512MB of RAM. So no, the iPad2 isn't inferior to the iPhone 4S, it is actually faster.
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Write boring code, not shiny code!
The Fandroid talk starts in his first sentence:
You could of course say the same thing about every Android device evah while pointing at the very first iPhone, save the screen size of the Galaxy.
Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your heads. Just try buying what you want, that does what you want, without pretending that your personal product preferences came carved on tables sent down by God.
My opinion is that iOS 8 is faster than iOS 7 on my iPhone 5s. Apps load faster, response time better, etc. Only issue has been some stuck app downloads that resolved themselves after waiting.
Both run great, batteries seem fine, no wifi issues. I do miss my bejeweled time while taking a "library" break but I'm sure that will be fixed.
Apple includes such an app with iOS and calls it Safari. But Safari has what appear to be deliberate limits in the subset of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs that are supported. Apple refuses to support WebGL in web pages, and last time I checked, it was impossible to upload any data type other than photos or videos to a web form.
Oink. Oink.
If only it were a pig! Then I could slaughter it for delicious ham and bacon.
Alas, it's no such thing, so we must be content to see how slowly it runs on some device.
Were that it were a pig that we should have bacon!
Everything runs as before, with some new things that work better. Just upgrade cabled if you can - OTA needs too much space.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Problem is Apple is putting too much emphasis on glimmer and glitz. They need to focus on functionality, speed and legacy compatibility. A new OS should always be faster, less buggy, more stable, etc. It should also run smoothly and easily on the older hardware, gracefully falling back on functions the hardware won't support. Doing old things should always be the same or better, never worse.
Fail.
Now waiting to be Down-Modded mostly due to my UserName in 3.....2......1
Considering you've made numerous posts just to comment solely on other people's user name, or lack thereof: live by the sword, die by the sword.
My favourite remote control app crashes on connect, the keyboard support doesn't feel ready for prime time, particularly in the mail app where alternate keyboard mostly don't show up and running my iPad as a noise generator overnight it appears to charge only about half as much as it used to.
After a couple days of near constant use I've not noticed any problems with iOS 8 on an iPhone 6 (128GB). I did use iOS 8 on an iPhone 5S (64GB) for a day and change and it seemed fine. I do believe my iPhone 6 has been using power a bit faster than I'd expected, but its battery life if well beyond the 5S under my use cases.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther
Especially if people complain loudly enough, they might even name the build after them
"Disgruntled Edition"
Actually except for a few broken apps (developers who failed to bother trying them on iOS betas and having an updated app ready when iOS8 was released) I can't say I notice any slowdown on my 5S or iPad Min retina. ow last year when iOS7 came out it rendered the older iPad I had at the time unusable forcing me to get a newer one (my current Mini). So I'd say iOS7 was a much tougher upgrade.
You're holding it wrong.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Not that I can tell after only 2 days. Are you a troll?
Hi - did you find a better podcast app (finally today I'm searching for something better with decent controls that doesn't crash with data turned on)
...when you drag a folder over another folder?
Does it do the right thing as in "Sure you can have subfolder!", or does it continue to do the previous thing: "You're too stupid to have subfolders, stop that right now, idiot user scum!"
Just wondering if it's worth my time to install IOS8. Because really, subfolders are the most important thing I've been looking for.
My iPhone 5s (64 GB) works just fine with iOS8 and so I decided to upgrade my iPad 2 (64 GB WiFi+ATT 3G). This has been problematic. The problems I have encountered are: 1. Install took very long and required some reboots 2. I lose the 3G stuff and have to do a hard boot to get it back for a while (found this online) 3. Some apps just start up and hang 4. Response is very slow...trying to start it up when it's been idle for a while takes about 15-30 seconds to respond... So it is fine on the phone but lousy on the iPad...
Supreme Granter of Doctor of Obviology Letters ("A FIRM Command of the Obvious")
they can't even make their OS run right on hardware designed by them.
It's easy to laugh at Android for limited upgrades. But the truth is, you wouldn't like most of the upgrades if they were available. iOS8 is probably perfectly fine on iPhone 6/6+. On others devices, you should only upgrade when you need the new features. Performance is likely to go strictly downward.
Apple is crap...
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
I've upgraded both an iPhone 4S (32Gb) and iPad Air (32Gb) to iOS 8.
The 4S was actually a pleasant surprise, given the negativity around its suitability. I find no significant difference in performance, and I'm happy with the larger fonts making most operations more readable for my aging eyes. I also have a perception (but no evidence) that my battery life has actually improved under iOS 8.
The Air has also been an easy upgrade, but I notice that applications which depend on complex scrolling operations are "jerky" in their movement. Examples are scrolling the timeline in Facebook, the main page in LinkedIn, and the library view in Kindle. All these applications have had their latest, iOS 8, updates.
Yeah because if there's one thing Microsoft has never done, it has never released a shitty OS update. Ever.
what... 95? ME? Vista? 8?
LALALALA I can't hear you.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
I try to stay away from .0 releases, opting to wait a few weeks to see how it pans out.
Other than Dos 6.0, I've held off on .0 releases on phones. My old Note1, never had an
"official" kit kat release, and I left it at 4.1.2 from April '13 until I retired it in July of this year.
I'm sure the same thing with 8.0 is that after it's been in the wild a while, Apple will release
a dot one release to clear some early problems and a dot two release to make it a bit
snappier. I'm FAR from an apple fanboy, other than a VM of Mac on my laptop, I don't own
anything from Apple, but early adopters usually pay the price, for being an early adopter.
Well, I would really wouldn't want to use it all the time on anything slower than an ip5. My 5 is ok, but it's hammering my already failing battery, especially if on 3g rather thanwifi, but I ikow my battery is dying anyway.
Didn't try iOS 8 on a 4s yet, or on an older iPad .... but for what it's worth, the only real "slow down" issue I observed was on the brand new iPhone 6, 128GB! This had to do with trying to view the purchased apps in need of updates. The phone seemed to be so busy actually processing/doing updates, it couldn't allocate the processor time to actually SHOW me the list properly. It acted frozen and I couldn't scroll up/down through the list of apps. (I could, however, press the home button to move back to the menu and everything else was fine.)
Overall, I've been really happy with the new OS, although battery life does seem a bit worse than before. That may just be needing to tweak some settings for when apps can use the GPS -- but I'm trying to get that optimized, and not seeing real results yet.
Pretty sure the .01 update will be along shortly and address some of this.
I already turned off most of the background stuff that eats juice that was posted when iOS 7 came out, so I'm not sure what's up. I'm going to try putting it in airplane mode when I go to bed tonight to see if that stops whatever is eating it.
I habitually place my ancient android phone on airplane mode at bedtime. It stops midnight calls and texts from waking me up, which is a Good Thing. The important people know the home phone, and it's not on their fat-finger-prone speeddial because the number will show up as secondary so that they can use all the multimedia options with my cell by default. And, yes, we all have received calls initiated exclusively by smarphone error
When a text or spam "arrives" after your 8 hour sleep, you may have to ask the sender when they actually texted you before you can make certain decisions. Why does text technology have a carrier agnostic inability to log texts at time SENT? As far as I know, SMS is NEWER than SMTP technology.
The OP is just a whiny anecdotal bitch. First, when you complain about performance, you provide relevant hardware information. Then, you provide statistics. Ultimately, you can say "look!" -- but without either of the first and second item, you just appear to be a random whiner.
The same thing happened to SGI back in the days of their glory. http://seriss.com/people/erco/...
considering the upgrade isn't available for iPhone 4 for the first time, there must be some extra overhead.. not good.
Why do you ask this on slashdot? Just ask Siri...
Safari started crashing on the ipad air after updating. I'm not talking about constant reloading of tabs (still present obviously), but proper crashes into springboard. It's just like ios 7. It took Apple 6 months to fix ios 7. Let's hope they'll be a bit faster with ios 8. Would love to downgrade back to ios 7.1 but of course Apple doesn't allow that. Be warned! Don't update!
After reading the headline, the answer is obviously "yes". What other headlines do we expect? "Is Google run by criminals"? "Does Microsoft Office kill productivity"? "Are Facebook users rapists"?
So, personally I've got a 16g 5s & a 16g iPad Mini (first gen) - My installs went flawlessly, my devices are speedy & stable. Honestly, the only gripe I've got is that I have to get used to new settings.
I'm not alone in this. I work for a fairly large tech company where, with a fairly large sample (4k or so at my location) & virtually no margin of error, a good 99% of the employees use iPhones & have iPads. On the intranet, chat rooms, & internal forums there have only been a few questions about slowness and specific apps crashing. While we have a great many technical people, we also have quite a few who aren't.
I call iOS 8 a great upgrade. It's a much smoother upgrade than 7 & it's a far more polished experience to boot.
So your mileage may vary, but if it does, try a clean install.
I have not experienced any of these issues.
clancey
My upgraded old iPad had initial problems with WiFi connections but it seems better now. It may be that there are software downloads in the background associated with the new iOS 8 apps. Time will tell. I prefer the old UI, but I am always at the bleeding edge of tech when the purse allows.
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On my 4S, iOS8 is a bit slower and choppier but not to the point of getting in the way. Siri's "what song is this" feature is so magical, it makes up for the degradations IMO.
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Yes, I have noticed this. I've got an iPhone 5. And I've installed the Swype keyboard, which is pretty fantastic, but yep, it does feel a bit clunky. It takes a noticable amount of time for the keyboard to display on screen, and the visuals as display elements move around and adjust is definately a weird thing to see on iOS. I've noticed, for example, when turning the phone sideways, weird stretched graphics for a fraction of a second. And in other apps I've noticed some curious typographical anomalies - fonts in the app sitting just a little too close to the fonts in the status bar.
However, the extra features in iOS 8 do make up for this weirdness. It's stil usable, it just seems *slightly* imperfect, but I think that's to be expected for such a major change in the OS, particularly when it comes to the keyboard feature. I'm just going to have to assume that iOS 8.1 will iron out some of these kinks.
-"I still believe in revolution; I just don't capitalize it anymore." - srini!
Upgrade to iOS8 was smooth ..... Apps start quick, just like under iOS7. Nothing to complain about on all devices: iPhone-5S/16MB, iPhone-5/16MB, iPad Mini and iPad-3.
Whoops guys, looks like this is a dupe
http://ask-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/09/22/019251/ask-slashdot-is-ios-7-slow
Congratulations. You're among roughly 1-2% of Android users who bought a Nexus device. Don't mistake that for being typical of the Android experience.
As soon as Steve died, things at Apple started changing. I, for one, do not like the changes I'm seeing on iOS nor MacOS. Both are becoming slow and buggy. I fear Apple will slowly degrade once again as it did when Steve was removed in 1985. Goodbye Apple.
I'm surprised no one has taken issue with the statement "previous OS upgrades have been relatively seamless." I'm running iOS8 on an iPhone 5, and there have been several issues. As I expected upgrading the day it was released. My experience on iOS 8.0 has been relatively smooth compared to the major issues of iOS 6.0 and 7.0. Apple will fix most bugs in short order, and by January I expect iOS 8.0.2 will run pretty well on your device. Any research done on iOS upgrade recommendations will tell you to wait until the x.0.1 update if you don't want to deal with bugs.
... seems about on par with 7 to me maybe with a little better battery life on my 4s. I did a back up and install through itunes, not over the air (didn't have enough free space). I have had issues with previous iOS before (Betas mostly) that were solved by backing up, setting up as a new phone with the new OS and then restoring data from backup.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
Just updated my Blackberry Q5 to BB OS 10.2 and it's running great! ;-)
I've also noticed that many apps which ran smoothly under iOS 7.~ are jerky and slow under iOS 8.
iPhone4 and iPad Air. Works fine, as do the four "free" apps I now have. The word processor/spreadsheet are pretty cute, for a tablet app.
Murphy was an optimist
Honestly I can not complain about the update.
I haven't seen any of the improvements (I use a Bluetooth keyboard so I don't see the predictive keyboard that often) but on the flip side I haven't seen anything bad as a result.
The only problem that I've had to date was the Kindle Software not running properly. If I was in the middle of a book it would crash and I could load it again and read the book. However since they did their update to be iOS 8 compatible...that problem vanished.
I really haven't noticed anything positive or negative as a result of the update.
So...can't complain.
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I haven't exercised it extensively on my three year-old 4S, but at no time have I thought "this is a pig". It seems to run pretty much like iOS 7.
I didn't notice any real slow down.. Most apps get slower as they get more and more updates.. But Internet has been working weird. Please log in so you can post with name :)
This kind of post just begs for flames - so I choose not to respond.
I haven't noticed the sluggishness you're speaking of, but I have noticed that I have severely degraded battery life (perhaps due to some new apps). I do have an older phone, so I'm hoping the iPhone 6 upgrade I'll do soon will ease the pain a bit.
Probably because Apple has so much leverage. Rejecting one brand of Android phone means the user can switch to another brand after the contract is up in order to stay on the same platform and carrier. Even if a carrier rejects all OHA Android phones due to a CDD change that shuts out certain customizations that the carrier considers essential, a carrier can still choose to carry phones built on other AOSP distributions, such as CyanogenMod or Replicant or (once AT&T's exclusivity expires) Fire OS. All these distributions can use the same Amazon Appstore. But rejecting one brand of iOS phone means the carrier's customers lack access to an entire platform and are likely to take their business to another carrier. Besides, Apple already routinely performs a carrier customization in the form of blocking the tethering feature on plans that lack it.
Yes. I have at least one friend who is regretting having loaded it on to his 4S, but not that much because he is receiving a new phone from Apple shortly. I find it a bit slower on my iPhone4S but usable. I like some of the new features, and do not mind the less spritely behavior. Also, if it gets too annoying, I may be able to restore an earlier version. So far, I don't really care enough to have investigated that fully. Flame on.
The comment was about expecting a new OS to run on year old hardware. My point was that MS's OS's regularly run on 10+ year old hardware without any problem, and that Apple consumers don't see any problem with having to buy new hardware so often.
I don't respond to AC's.