iOS 8 : Problems & Issues

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Please add your issue/problem/difficulty with iOS8 on your iDevice. Please hit "I have this question too" if you find similar problems on your device and request others to do the same.


List of issues: iOS8


1. Miserable battery life.

2. No option to choose 2G network.

3. Excessive heating problem. Becomes very hot with a little use.

4. Display(flickering and color gradient) issue if the brightness is increased to the highest level.

5. Safari crashes frequently.

6. Safari gets the maximum usage of battery though I closed/terminated it from multitasking menu.



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iPhone 5s, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 1:05 AM

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Posted on Sep 26, 2014 2:52 AM

It_caveman wrote:


You can revert back. I did it on all my devices.


Here you go. I rolled my Air, Mini and iPhone 5 back to 7.1.2 and all are back normal.

http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7.1.2/

Follow directions carefully and note that this is only available for a while. Apple will stop signing the file eventually. Hopefully this will get you back to work until ios 8 is fixed.

Helpful guide 🙂

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Sep 20, 2014 8:24 PM in response to raghuseeth1

Great that your issues are resolved too soon. Mine are still there


1) Battery drains too fast

2) 2G and 3G dongle issue, apple please enable 2G

3) Even the movement of dongle is not smooth as it use to be. It moves on and off very quickly and you can notice it. something wrong with iOS8

4) Several times I noticed I can't turn off 3G as the settings becomes unresponsive and goes back to home screen after few try

5) Also I didn't like to control center theme, for me it looks very shabby. The previous one with transparent control panel was good


I am using iPhone5.


Apple please release the update soon

Sep 22, 2014 12:38 PM in response to MyBlueSky

Hi,


Any one experiencing issues with the following (on a iPhone 5, "new" replacement as of 09/18):

1. Text messages- Cannot send message if in landscape view, must switch to portrait view to send.

2. Touch sensitivity is too high/too low. i.e.- aforementioned issue, as well as in other native apps: I press on the screen and nothing happens. In other cases (Safari tabs), I barely touch the screen and a tab is created.

3. iOS keeps telling me apps (that may or may not be running) are wanting to access location services. In iOS7, I turned the majority of these off except for: Maps, Facebook, travel apps, calendar, Safari. Not sure why it is asking about these. I loaded from backup, saved just before the update.

Sep 23, 2014 12:04 PM in response to MyBlueSky

Unable to upload photos to email and other web based applications that worked fine in the previous OS. The attach photo functionality DOES NOT work for Safari or Google Chrome. For Chrome, the functionality completely crashes Chrome and closes it. After upgrading Chrome, the "choose existing" and "take photo or video" links are inoperable and completely disabled. Using the functionality via Safari allows you to select a photo but nothing uploads. Attachment functionalty in webmail applications, which worked in the prior OS, does not work either. Certain individual third-party applications seem to work. Searches show this issues was identified several days ago. How long will it take Apple to respond and resolve?

Sep 23, 2014 3:53 PM in response to GSR13

I Had the iPhone 5 and now the iphone 6, and still have the issue with the phone resetting itself periodically. Also having issues with multiple apps crashing; including safari and iMessage. I also have noticed missing keyboard when it should be there. Many issues I noticed on the older model are still on the new model phones. I also thought other apps would be available if they were like. As if I went to edit a photo, it would bring up the photo editing apps I have loaded on my phone. No such luck with that.

Sep 24, 2014 10:12 AM in response to MyBlueSky

having two issues with iOS 8 and iPhone 6

1. when view messages and click to expand keyboard, messages do not scroll up to show latest message

2. having issues with both native keyboard and third party keyboard not appearing when selecting to respond to a message. requires me to return to all messages and reselect message then select data entry window and keyboard will pop-up

Sep 24, 2014 10:48 AM in response to MyBlueSky

My huge issue (other than those already listed) is that I cannot delete apps. None. Nowhere. Nohow. I can't long press an app and then hit the red X when it becomes squiggly, and I can't delete them in settings~general~usage either. Why??? I downloaded a ton of the new iOS 8 apps to check out (not intending to keep forever) and now my memory's full, phone's hot, battery life *****, and nothing is working as it should. Help me.

Sep 25, 2014 8:50 AM in response to MyBlueSky

I am having issues as well.


  • Battery draining very quickly. In 3 hours, I've gone from 100% to 28% with almost no use.
  • When swiping up on the main screen to access the flashlight, etc, there appears to be some glitch with the music section. The volume is toggling back and forth on its own. I'm wondering if that is the reason for the battery drain since that is constantly running in the background.
  • The bluetooth connection in my car was just repeating "call ended" or some variation over and over even though there was no call connected at all this morning. I turned off my bluetooth to get it to stop.
  • My phone is running very warm to the touch even when it's not in use.

Sep 27, 2014 7:56 AM in response to MyBlueSky

Here are the following issues I am facing on my 5S after upgrading to iOS8:

1. Patchy wifi. Keeps getting disconnected every once in a while. Doesn't often connect automatically to 'known' networks.

2. Settings app crashes often.

3. Toggle controls are buggy. Very slow and dont work sometimes.

4. Today I saw the notifications are not actionable, not even from the notification center.

5. Scroll lags.

6. App switching sluggishness


This has probably been the buggiest ios update. I could live with the maps fiasco.Hope to see fixes soon.

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