Is there a conflict with iOS8 on iPad 2 and iPhone 4's which cannot use iOS8?

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CraigT1945 Author

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Is there a conflict with iOS8 on iPad 2 and iPhone 4's which cannot use iOS8?

I have iPhone 4 and iPad 2 - if I load iOS8 on the iPad, is there an impact (good or bad) on the 4? For instance, I know iPhoto is not supported on iOS8, what happens to iPhoto content on my iPhone 4 - my understanding is that iOS8 migrates pictures that it finds in iPhoto on the iPad to Photos - does it do the same on the 4's? What Synch problems are generated by having both iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in the same environment?

Posted on Sep 29, 2014 6:05 PM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Sep 30, 2014 6:53 AM in response to CraigT1945

Not all iOS 8 features are supported on iPhone 4 and iPad 2, see the small print footnotes . http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/

Health is available on iPhone 4s or later and iPod touch (5th generation).
Continuity features are available on iPhone 5 or later, iPad (4th generation), iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad mini with Retina display, and iPod touch (5th generation).

This document describes, what happens when the iPhoto Library will be migrated to iOS 8:

Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

Don't enable iCloud Drive, unless you have upgraded the Macs to Yosemite. Don't enable iCloud Photo Library,if you want to sync your photos to your mobile devices using iTunes.

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Answer 2

alyk

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Oct 6, 2014 1:39 PM in response to CraigT1945

I'm having some strange icloud (not drive) issues having a mini ipad on ios8 and iphone 5 on 7 (and mac on mountain lion). sometimes icloud lists ipad as my only device and there's been sudden confusion about a shared photo stream.

I created the shared album under ios 7, invited one person to subscribe, then yesterday from his ios 7 device, he added two photos to the album. This was after I had updated my ipad to 8.

i can not see the photo (nor have I recd any notifications) on the ios 7 iphone or on the mac.

it seemed like it was related to an apple id hiccup (have one id i use for itunes and one for icloud), so i tried logging out and back in on ipad to no avail. since i've never seen anything of the sort befofe, and have been using shared albums for a couple of years, it must be connected to ios 8. it seems that the 2 os's can not communicate with each other entirely.

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