Apple releases iOS 8.1.1 with performance improvements for iPad 2 & iPhone 4s, plus bug fixes

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  • Reply 61 of 80
    john.b wrote: »
    I have this annoying issue where touch scrolling on my iPhone 6 will select text inadvertently, then won't let me unselect it.

    Same problem on my iPad 3, even after update. Guess this is what is being refered to as the "text selection bug."

    Overall responsiveness still terribly lacking.

    iOS 8 sucks donkey balls.
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  • Reply 62 of 80
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    You've probably got a faulty battery. It's a known condition that I had. Go to an Apple Store, and Apple will test the battery there and then and let you know whether it's at fault. They will then replace your battery if necessary.



    Probably. It wasn't like this before 8.0 though. How much did it cost to replace the battery?


     

    Free, as I was in the one year warranty. Otherwise, I think it costs £55 in the UK (about $80).

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  • Reply 63 of 80
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    gtr wrote: »
    Confirmed as an issue able to be replicated.

    Have you submitted a bug report to Apple yet?

    No. Can non-developers submit bug reports?
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  • Reply 64 of 80
    gtrgtr Posts: 3,231member
    rogifan wrote: »
    No. Can non-developers submit bug reports?

    Hell, yes!

    Go here:

    https://www.apple.com/feedback/

    Select your device, fill out the form, and select the 'Bug Report' option.

    Apple likely doesn't read the AppleInsider forums in regards to bugs but I can guarantee you that they'll hear about your problem here.
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  • Reply 65 of 80
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    Will be nice if it fixes the battery drain on my iPhone 5 as well. I got less than two hours total from 100% down to about 40% and then shutting off completely. Two hours consisted of about forty minutes talk time, ten minutes of music playback, and about twenty minutes of GPS. Ridiculous. 


    Your battery drain is not software related, unless you have all the battery-draining features enabled (motion, background updates, etc).  Your iPhone 5 is two years old, the battery no longer has the capacity when it was new.  My iPhone 4S exhibited the same battery drain when it was two years old.  Only a few hours of use, then would shut down at 30-40%.  I ran a battery utility (Batteryscore on the app store) and my score result was about 50% capacity compared to new iPhones.  The instructions are not very well written.  You leave the iPhone plugged in to charge to 100%.  Then start the test and the app will tell you when to unplug the iPhone to start the test.  The test won't start if you unplug the iPhone before starting the test, even though they say the test won't run with the iPhone plugged in.  You can also search the iPhone 5 battery replacement program and enter your serial number into Apple's website.  If your phone qualifies, they will replace the battery.  It was a small percentage of iPhone 5's that had bad batteries.  OWC can replace the battery for a reasonable price.

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  • Reply 66 of 80
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    I was asking Rogifan about these crashes / reboots yesterday. I have never seen an iPad or an iPhone reboot on its own. Nothing made for iOS should get passed validation for the App store that is not 100% compliant. Unless these are apps not from the app store?

    Reboots/resprings were very common with the early versions of iOS 7. Look up "white screen of death" and you'll find plenty of references. With my 5s at least, this issue had largely gone away by the time 7.0.4 rolled out. Not sure if it was because Apple fixed iOS or because developers updated their apps for iOS 7 or a combination.

     

    And since iOS 8 came out, I have had exactly zero reboots/resprings and the app crashes are largely limited to a group of games that had always given me problems. The OS has actually been very stable for me, especially compared to the early versions of iOS 7. To some extent, I think apps were updated for iOS 8 much faster this time around (likely thanks to the public beta). But, in general, iOS 8 is a comprehensive retooling with a lot of changes under the hood. iOS 7 focused on the UI, except when it came to the 64-bit transition. And recall that the biggest issues with iOS 7 affected the 64-bit devices.

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  • Reply 67 of 80

    Happy to report that iPad 2 performance is much improved.  

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  • Reply 68 of 80
    quadra 610 wrote: »
    Happy to report that iPad 2 performance is much improved.  

    Good to know. Mine has been very disappointing(sluggish, Safari crashes etc) with ios8.
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  • Reply 69 of 80
    john.bjohn.b Posts: 2,742member
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    Originally Posted by GTR View Post

     
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post



    No. Can non-developers submit bug reports?




    Hell, yes!



    Go here:



    https://www.apple.com/feedback/



    Select your device, fill out the form, and select the 'Bug Report' option.



    Apple likely doesn't read the AppleInsider forums in regards to bugs but I can guarantee you that they'll hear about your problem here.



    Uh, yeah, no, Apple no longer pays any attention to their feedback site.

     

    Case in point:  Months after Mountain Lion was released, the main feedback page still referenced iCal, even though it had been renamed "Calendar" as of version 6.0 for OS X 10.8.  They have since updated the label, but the link continues to point to apple.com/feedback/ical.html   The highest version number that you can choose to report feedback is 4.0.4, which was the last Snow Leopard version.  And the Publishing Type field still has, as one option: "To .Mac for publishing on the web", which was killed two and a half years ago.

     

    Rip Van Winkle is still asleep.

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  • Reply 70 of 80
    Still didn't fix the constantly being asked to sign into iCloud. Apple needs to hire better Q&A people this is terrible as of late, the updates are introducing more bugs than fixing. :(
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  • Reply 71 of 80
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    Originally Posted by hillstones View Post

     It was a small percentage of iPhone 5's that had bad batteries.  OWC can replace the battery for a reasonable price.

     

    You can do it yourself pretty easily with a couple tools and a ~$7 replacement battery from Amazon or eBay, takes under 10 minutes.

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  • Reply 72 of 80

    Downloaded a few hours ago, seems to have fixed some icloud drive issues.  Previously, Printer Pro, PDF Expert and Dictionary that use icloud drive regularly freeze on startup on my iphone6. For the past few hours they did not freeze at all. 

     

    Apps like Draft 4 and 1Password would lose the icloud drive sync between ios devices although still showing they were syncing.  So far it has been good.  I tend to get sync problem on a daily basis under 8.1.  Will need to observe for a few days.`

     

    Another bug fixed discovered.  With 8.1, deleting an app has an unusual long pause after tapping on the cross sign.  Now it is much faster.

     

    Very happy with Air 2 and ios 8 so far, main issue for me was the icloud drive. If icloud drive issues are fixed then I am set.

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  • Reply 73 of 80
    asdasdasdasd Posts: 5,686member

    Sounds like I am sticking with iOS 7.whateverI have for a while.

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  • Reply 74 of 80
    This is all so very encouraging.

    /s

    I'm about to pull the trigger on buying an iPad Air 2. The last time I almost bought an iPad was the iPad Air when iOS 7 came out. I played with it in an Apple Store for over 45 minutes and it was abysmal. App crashes on load. GUI problems (beyond the ugliness and foolishness of iOS 7's redesign). Hell, even the notes app was repeatedly crashing on trying to delete notes. I walked out disgusted that Apple had ruined the best mobile platform in existence.

    I'm not convinced they've corrected that direction with iOS 8. The GUI is still terrible and all I hear about is crashing, reboots, and excessive battery consumption. Also, text selection bugs?? Seriously?? Text is one if the most important functions to me on these devices. Almost all my Internet text communication is via my iPhone 4 (which I refuse to put iOS 7 on). The sluggishness I have already with iOS 6 is frustrating enough.
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  • Reply 75 of 80

    I updated my iPhone 5. The first "feature" I noticed is that I heard the phone ring, but only the lock screen showed. I unlocked it, and only then I was shown any clue (besides the ringing) that someone was calling. Odd. Curious if it will happen again, but does not look good.

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  • Reply 76 of 80
    Safari on iPhone (former 5s, now 6) still crashes when trying to delete history.
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  • Reply 77 of 80
    Dream on. My keyboard just crashed five times trying to make this post on iPad mini first gen. Don't know about copy and paste issue yet. Other iPad mini first gen in the family and not upgraded to ios 8 - ZEEO problems with it.
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  • Reply 78 of 80
    This worked for me the first time for IOS 8.1 and now IOS 8.1.1

    1. Connect to computer and backup ipad in iTunes
    2. Reset All Settings on iPad
    3. Download and Install thru iTunes

    Copy-Paste, Movies, Photos, Wi-Fi and Safari work fine

    iPad 2, iOS 8.1, IOS 8.1.1
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  • Reply 79 of 80

    All the early updates say they are fixing bugs of earlier release.  Then the current release has bugs in it that the next release is suppose to fix and that release has bugs in it for the next release is suppose to take care of.   I will wait and see!   I still on 7.1.1 or 7.1.2 on my iPad Mini Retina.  Not going to upgrade to 8 until I know what going on!

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  • Reply 80 of 80
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    Originally Posted by dysamoria View Post



    I'm about to pull the trigger on buying an iPad Air 2. The last time I almost bought an iPad was the iPad Air when iOS 7 came out. I played with it in an Apple Store for over 45 minutes and it was abysmal. App crashes on load. GUI problems (beyond the ugliness and foolishness of iOS 7's redesign). Hell, even the notes app was repeatedly crashing on trying to delete notes. I walked out disgusted that Apple had ruined the best mobile platform in existence.



    I'm not convinced they've corrected that direction with iOS 8. The GUI is still terrible and all I hear about is crashing, reboots, and excessive battery consumption. Also, text selection bugs?? Seriously?? Text is one if the most important functions to me on these devices. Almost all my Internet text communication is via my iPhone 4 (which I refuse to put iOS 7 on). The sluggishness I have already with iOS 6 is frustrating enough.

    The time to evaluate an OS or even a new iOS device is not right when it comes, but after the initial issues have been flagged and fixed. People are comparing the EOL'd version of the previous OS with the first release of the new OS. Of course, the older OS will be more stable, because it has already gone through multiple iterative rounds of bug fixes and optimizations. And then there's the hardware.

     

    The problems with iOS 7 inordinately affected the 64-bit devices far more than they did with the earlier devices. The random reboots/resprings and the "white screen of death" were commonly cited issues. Beginning with the A7, iOS had to go to an entirely different chip instruction set while maintaining backwards compatibility. Plus, Apple updated all of the preloaded apps to 64-bit. It took Apple until about version 7.0.4 to get the reboot/respring issue under control.

     

    With iOS 8, again the most glaring issues have occurred with the newer devices. Yet, on my 5s, iOS 8 has actually been pretty solid from the beginning -- certainly a lot better than with the early versions of iOS 7. Even going back to iOS 8.0, I've had exactly zero random reboots/resprings. And any persistent lagging had largely gone away by 8.0.2. I haven't noticed any changes to the battery life (except maybe less power drain on standby), and nothing wrong with text selection either. The only notable bug that cropped up was Bluetooth glitches that were mostly fixed with 8.1.

     

    With the iPad Air 2, you're back to the issue of new hardware and the most frequently reported bugs with iOS 8 inordinately centered around the new hardware. If you want to test it out, certainly better to do it now with 8.1.1 out than right when it came out.

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