Name: Apple iOS
Rating: 4.15 (101 reviews)

time2poppop

22 November 2020

Version: 14.2.1

Excellent

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Apple iOS v14.2.1 is ONLY for the iPhone 12 series. It is NOT for any other iPhones.

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It is amazing how big Apple is in size of monetary value and yet they still manage to miss some essential features in iOS: What about duoble tapping the back to turn a page in Apples own Books app? I am not sure how they keep on missing so much care to detail.

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I like the 14.2 update. Some sensible improvements. It just gets better and better!

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What a nightmare! My Apple Watch can no longer pair with my phone. I cannot delete apps. There are major issues with texting. If you haven’t, don’t update yet!

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Good solid update with some nice features.

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Installed senselessly . I pad automatically does at night. This review for 13.7 update

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Download pls

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I can't install software sad so. thank fore giving a little hope fore me.

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13.2.2 causes about 4 times the battery drain in my phone as the last version of iOS12 which was no winner in terms of battery life either. Apple increasingly releases buggy software, with "features" that are of dubious value, while deprecating battery life. iOS13 is essentially a Trojan. Let's hope there is at least a half-way battery fix before long.

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3.2.2 is out...

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Keep this away from your iPhone. It's a Trainwreck. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/10/29/apple-ios-132-release-should-you-upgrade-iphone-update/

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there is continously an akku-problem with all Versions of iOS 13 till 13.1.3

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usually Apple nowadays, buggy pre-release without having been properly tested. Apps now crash, reduced battery life

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iOS 13.1.1 is out. There's a sandbox breach patch and several bug fixes. Sadly, those of us afflicted with the impossible 'Rearrange Apps' GUI nightmare-from-hell will see no improvement. I've reported this to Apple for both iOS 13.1 and 13.1.1. [No, this has nothing to do with Apple deprecating '3D Touch'. And apparently this bulbous bug is limited to specific iOS device models]. ->Shame on Apple for allowing this mess out in public. The fact that they did earns them 1 star. :-P

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Warmfuzzygecko

31 July 2019

Version: 12.4

Has anyone else noticed decreased battery life after updating to iOS 12.4?

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After u0date eye board changes and flickers from letters to numbers. Tried off & on, holding home and side button. Anyone know problem or fix?

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Svenster

14 May 2019

Version: 12.2

Not actually 12.2. Is actually 12.3... !?

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Pepper131

09 February 2019

Version: 12.1.4

After update 12.1.4 key board starts jumping ( don’t know to describe) I do not want erase all to see if that’s a fix.

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hwgray

21 December 2018

Version: 12.1.1

My iPhone 6s claims to have iOS v12.1.2 installed, not v12.1.1. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Many folks reported severe battery drain with 11.4, which the new release 11.4.1 was supposed to address. For some it has; for me the OPPOSITE HAS HAPPENED. I had no battery issues with 11.4, after upgrading to 11.4.1, my battery will drain from 100% to below 30% over the course of 4 hours; doing nothing but sitting on the desk, no phone calls, no browsing. Once time in the car, I had to use Maps to get somewhere. Drive took maybe 30 minutes, did not have it plugged in, started at 95%. By the time I arrived at destination, using GPS/Maps had drained battery to 15% IN THIRTY MINUTES. Scrambling to try to downgrade back to 11.4 or 11.3.x but worried I might brick it. This behavior is happening on a 5s and a a new SE. Now I realize the 5s is old tech, but so what, this shouldn't happen. and the SE has A9 chip, which is same chip as the '6' line. This is obviously software problem. I'm usually not a conspiracy theorist guy, but really makes me wonder if this is planned to get users of old models to upgrade. Apple DID admit last year that they throttled performance on older phones to improve battery life.

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Derekcurrie

24 April 2018

Version: 11.3.1

Security details for iOS 11.3.1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208743 APPLE-SA-2018-04-24-1 iOS 11.3.1 iOS 11.3.1 is now available and addresses the following: • Crash Reporter Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved error handling. CVE-2018-4206: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero • LinkPresentation Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text message may lead to UI spoofing Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2018-4187: Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of Tencent Security Platform Department, Roman Mueller (@faker_) • WebKit Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2018-4200: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero • WebKit Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2018-4204: Richard Zhu (fluorescence) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, found by OSS-Fuzz

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"Podcasts now plays episodes with a single tap, and you can tap Details to learn more about each one." Amen

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mrdhs-1

30 March 2018

Version: 11.3

This version of IOS requires one to DL iTuns 12.7.3. I am using iTunes 12.6.3.6 because I manage iPads and iPhones and this version allows me to DL apps via iTunes and install via iTunes. Now, I am losing that ability. Apple, Now what? Are you telling all of us administrations to go to hell or something? Please help!

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Hallelujah, Apple brought back Review sorting to iOS after killing this essential feature with 11.0. An honest THANK YOU Apple, for making the AppStore usable again. One really has to wonder how such mishaps keep happening.

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Since iOS 11.2 lyrics in music.app are no longer shown. This has not been fixed in 11.2.5. Besides that, the iOS AppStore review sytem is severely broken since iOS 11. Wrong dates are shown for updated apps, review can not(!) be sorted after date or usefulness. This makes the review system unusable. Software quality is becoming a serious problem at Apple. They have so much money and yet continue to make really really bad design decisions. Makes we wonder what's going wrong at that company.

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A measly two stars because the installer DUMPS previous Pay settings and makes the user start from scratch all over again. STUPID.

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I honestly wonder why Apple had to cripple the AppStore and make it unusable. The reviews can not be sorted after date, rating or anything at all. They show in random order and make the complete review system painful to use.

Music and podcast app are not supporting landscape view.

Oh yeah, and control center does no longer properly disable the corresponding service.

I wish such basic stuff would at least work reliably...

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Been running 11.1 on my aging iPhone 6 Plus. So far it's been running fine. But I can see it's time for a newer phone!

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Archiethearchiver

12 October 2017

Version: 11.0.3

IOS 11.x.x is not available on any iPhone 5. Correction should be made in the Requirements above!

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Not a good update, Apple continues its trend of horrible UI. The NEW apple music is horrible what about this huge fonts. New App store is so clumsy, and the new design takes up so much real estate for nothing no way to have a quick overview what needs updates.... It seems like standby time has also dropped with this on my iPads. Galaxy 8 will be my next phone...

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"iOS 11’s Misleading “Off-ish” Setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is Bad for User Security" says the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/ios-11s-misleading-ish-setting-bluetooth-and-wi-fi-bad-user-security And I couldn't agree more. Please apple, don't make choices for me that are not in my interest. Thank you.

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I installed ios 11 on an iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch 6 Gen on release date with very little problems. With the exception of having to turn airdrop receiving off, since I don't use it. That's the only minor quirk i've had. Doing this also brought back about the same battery life I've gotten with ios 10. As far as crashes, hangs, etc nothing major here, and nothing on a consistent basis. Installed ios 11.0.2 yesterday continuing to have no issues. The iPhone, and iPad are the main devices I use, and both also run very smooth, haven't noticed any kind of slow downs.

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The new Music app is absolutely horrible. I thought the last version was bad. This one shows ALL my music that I've purchased through Apple even if it isn't on my iPhone. To make things even worse, it will play that music when I hit shuffle even though it's not on my iPhone. That means it's being transferred through my cell data. As far as I can tell there's no way to turn that off because I have cell data for Music turned off and it's still playing songs not on my iPhone even when no WiFi is available.
This update also makes changes to my settings, such as making Bluetooth active and not letting me easily turn it off without digging in Settings, as well as moving Auto Brightness from the logical place - Display & Brightness - to the Accessibility section of General Settings.
What is Apple thinking?!? 1 star for this PoS, and please fire Jony Ive from software design.

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Have been using ios 11 on my 6s since the first betas and never had any problems whatsoever (I am now on 11.1 beta1). I find it stable, snappy and the battery life is great. Best ios hitherto.

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Frequent freezes on my iPhone 7plus since upgrading to 11.0.1. Never had this problem before. Bummer

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Panthera

21 September 2017

Version: 11

I’m not reviewing this yet, but I have a word of caution. When I installed this on my iPad, my previous disablement of auto-downloading was reversed; in other words, it changed fundamental settings on me. This is a complete violation of trust; now I must scour the device for anything else that was changed. I also noticed a pre-authorized setting for auto-playing videos in the App Store, so it looks like Apple has made other decisions for us as well. Be careful. Me, I’m ripping this off my iPad. Macworld has published an article how to do this...

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Great update with many nice new features. The new customizable control center is great. Installed and runs with no issues on my aging iPhone 6 Plus.

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Apple is forcing users into the iCloud with iOS 11. This is a total nogo. And the way this is currently solved is embarrassing for apple considering they claim to respect users privacy decisions.

When signing in with an apple id, iCloud automatically becomes enabled - without asking the user and no way of opting out.

Then a ton of iCloud services are enabled by default like contacts, calendar, location sharing.

As a user who cares about their data and privacy I find this highly bewildering. How dare apple to enable upload of all my personal contacts *without* even asking my consent?

Logging out of the apple id then disables icloud. But also prevents the new 2 factor authentication mechanism to be used.

This is not at all implemented in a user- and privacy-friendly way.

I wish apple had done a more thorough job.

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iOS 11 update went bad on iPad Air. App Store was crashing and on when it didn't crash just showed a blank white screen. Apple Care said to 1. create backup 2. restore ipad air 3. restore backup. 1h later I find myself with Apps not downloading for an Apple ID I bought several apps with. Contacting Apple Care again. Another 40mins on the phone. Finally, switching the iTunes & App Store Apple ID in settings solved the installation problem. But this was a very time intensive update and rather bumpy tbh.

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Harv

19 September 2017

Version: 11

According to Apple's site, iPhone 5 is NOT compatible. See https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-11/

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No landscape view for important apps like music or podcasts.

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Smooth, if not lengthy update. Now I'm on 10.3.1!

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my iphone and my wife's iphone get snappier with this release, so far so good... (tested on Iphone 7, iphone 6s, iphone 6s plus, iphone 5s)

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franticfreddie

27 March 2017

Version: 10.3

With iOS 10.3 comes the switch from HFS+ to APFS. Make sure, you have a decent backup (iTunes with encryption) before you upgrade! We all hope it's not necessary. But when the worst case takes place, better be safe than sorry...

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Still no landscape mode for Apples own music + podcast apps.

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Apple is getting worse do not want to know what the update just want the power to normal point

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10.2 stuffs up all your iCloud and iCloud drive settings. Nobody uses Apple News for a start.

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music and podcast app still lack landscape view. callkit is a great addition to ios, now if only the voip software I am using would adapt it.

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I am glad Apple brought back the song ratings. Now they just need to make them more easily accessible like it was in 9.3. Perhaps they could put the song ratings in the same spot that the silly "like/dislike" buttons are currently at.

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higherterrain-com

25 October 2016

Version: 10.1

Nothing about iPhone 6 freezes on phone app and contact app.

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I find it underwhelming that apple forgets (?) to add a landscape mode to their own music + podcast app. Landscape mode is often used in car dashboard mount situations. I am not sure it is safe to drive with your head turned 90° sideways. Besides safety concerns, that posture is also not healthy for your neck.

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imo a very good update. The only things I do not like is Mail is a bit slow when scrolling through a large amount of mails. Probably a bug? Anyone having this?

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anonymous-dingo-826

24 September 2016

Version: 10.0.2

Hmm, it says above: 'Version 10.0.2: Addresses an issue that could prevent headphone audio controls from temporarily not working' Interesting sentence. Presumably means 'Addresses an issue that could temporarily prevent headphone audio controls from working' or, in other words, 'Addresses an issue that could temporarily cause headphone audio controls not to work'.

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RavenNevermore

23 September 2016

Version: 10.0.2

iOS 10.1 Public Beta 1 just came out! ;)

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Definitely the best iOS reincarnation. BTW Finally you can remove default Apple apps ;)

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Excellent update. My iPhone 6 Plus is faster and more stable. I was expecting more/new wallpapers.

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Pik80

15 September 2016

Version: 10.0.1

No song star ratings? Apple I don't need a dislike button. If I really dislike a song chances are I won't buy it to begin with. I need to know to what degree I like a song. With a 5 star rating system I can see how much I like a particular album which is an extremely helpful feature.

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ok updated to iOS10, while Music needed an urgent overhaul to make it usable in the car, it seems like designers stopped somewhere in the middle and said that will do.... looks unfinished and very little refined like a lot of things Apple releases nowadays. Still has the bug, that often half the screen disappears if you keep finger on finger print sensor. I like the new messaging feature Apple is catching up with Samsung

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Smooth update for iPhone/iPad Pro/Apple Watch/AppleTV. Works awesome! New NC very-very useful. Apple Watch working much-much faster

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Awesome update

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Pepper131

13 September 2016

Version: 10.0.1

why are reviews so old, new ios just came out today! some back to 2015

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Bousozoku

27 August 2016

Version: 9.3.5

I'm glad that they've fixed another problem but if this security issue has been out there for a couple of years, I hate to think that people with older devices who can't update are stuck because Apple doesn't have security updates for iPhone or iPod touch.

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no problem on all my iOS devices with it. Uploads very fast and works like before...

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They fixed a Game Center bug at last. It took them year.

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9.3.1 fixes my problems with our iPad3

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best iOS ever!

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Derekcurrie

01 April 2016

Version: 9.3

iOS 9.3.1 is out! 'New in version 9.3.1: Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps.'

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Piece of crap. Verification of my iCloud fails because it can't connect to server. We the F does this need to be part of the update? It should just update with all my settings in place

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When I come here, and try to update, all I get is, "Updating to iOS 9.2.1 requires at least 610 MB of free space on your iPod." Does that mean I have too much junk on my iPod? I have no idea what I can get rid of...?

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When I come here, and try to update, all I get is, "Updating to iOS 9.2.1 requires at least 610 MB of free space on your iPod." Does that mean I have too much junk on my iPod? I have no idea what I can get rid of...?

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Odysseus

15 December 2015

Version: 9.2

Why is this being listed today, when it was released a week ago?

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Holmemoss

12 December 2015

Version: 9.1

iOS 9.2 has been released with : Improvements to Apple Music. A new top stories section in News - just what I had been waiting for :o) Mail Drop in Mail for sending large attachments.

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SegN3rd

21 October 2015

Version: 9.0.2

iOS 9.1 is out. Here's hoping it fixes the dreaded "0:00 blob" :)

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Jfm

30 September 2015

Version: 9.0.2

Nice to see those updates being released at rapid pace. Sync for Contacts apparently solved, but unfortunately not yet for Calendar: it has become impossible for me to sync them between my iPhone and iCloud/respectively my Mac. Let's hope that the next release will fix this....

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Panocha

24 September 2015

Version: 9.0.1

Thank you for still including the 4s, but I hate the way Apple uses the public for beta testing under the guise of a "release". Neither of my alarms went off this morning, and alarms is mentioned in the bug fixed for 9.0.1, so hopefully that fixes it.

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This is the most stable version of iOS so far, and with many great new features. The new Notes app is very useful, as is the new Maps and News app. Now you can add content blockers to Safari. With ads blocked pages load much faster! Lots of other refinements too. Works great on my iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 Plus.

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Fixes a bunch of CarPlay bugs. But still not there. ;)

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Libertyforall1776

20 August 2015

Version: 8.4.1

I want the ability to avoid Tolls via Apple Maps -- always have to switch to Google Maps for this functionality. :(

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This adds nothing useful and does not fix anything from what I can read, other than Apple's music software, which is not useful at all.
I have learned my lesson and will skip this "update" for my iPad2.
I also now have a growing collection of software that offers "updates" that are worse than what came before, thus I carefully wait and read the reviews first before I update anything.

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iOS 8.4.1 crashed my iPhone 6 and my daughter's iPhone 5s! Stay away from it!

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Libertyforall1776

14 August 2015

Version: 8.4.1

STILL no way to search for a specific app in Settings: General: Usage to delete a specific app. When I do a search in the normal pull-down interface from Springboard, I cannot delete the app I find. Also if I search the app on the App Store, I can launch it, but STILL not delete it. Come on Apple! Make managing my apps for deletion EASIER!

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Killing home sharing without informing users? The direction apple is taking is really worrying.

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iOS comes with lots of ways to spend money. It does not come with an onboard solution to annotate and highlight PDF files. iBooks only supports annotating and highlighting epubs but not PDF files. This is a serious joke at the pricepoint, at which Apple hardware is sold. Also claiming iPad is great for work but not delivering proper PDF editing makes me doubt the sanity of senior apple management.

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Mcr

03 July 2015

Version: 8.4

be advised, home sharing from computer to iOS device is apparently not supported on iOS 8.4 according to numerous reviews and posts on Apple's support forum. Computer to computer and computer to AppleTV app. still working. It has been suggested this is either deliberate, to get people to sign up for the new Apple Music service, or perhaps legal (no longer allowed to stream music to iOS device, as part of licensing agreements with music co's as part of new Apple Music launch). Which leaves open the possiblity the feature may be restored in a future update, but for now, if you rely on home sharing to an iOS device, you should not upgrade.

Also some glitches reported with iCloud music library, see this article at CNN
http://www.cnet.com/news/itunes-users-hit-stumbling-blocks-with-arrival-of-apple-music/
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mrperfect

01 July 2015

Version: 8.4

I'm updating the devices in iTunes. Why do they make you download 8.4 again for each device? Silly. I have a phone and an iPod and have to download the 1GB file twice. No wonder their servers were overloaded.

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Finally a decent music app.

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Downloading is a real problem. Time remaining hit over 48 hours ...
I did manage to get the iPhone 6 updated, through itself, but the iPad 2 mini is messed up, and download keeps timing out.
Iive stars for app, 0 for delivery.

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8.2 seems to address problems introduced in 8.1.x ; speed and usabiliity are almost the same as before the 8.1.x mess. This update is more a restorative than an improvement for iPad 2. Despite what certain macupdate trolls claim, Apple hurts their credibility with updates that cause more problems than are fixed and I have learned now to be very slow in applying any updates since more problems are coming with them.

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Looks like the Bug introduced in IOS 7 (and we carried over to IOS 8 ) where it would/could not use the credentials saved for an HTTP proxy have been fixed. I can finally use my iPhone/ipad at work without having to log into the proxy server 20 times a day.

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This went well for me and my iPhone and my iPad

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Smooth update. Nothing new to report. lol

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This version of iOS offers me no improvements with this but apparently has prompted some to sue Apple for eating up more of their memory with this version. I will not update my iPad2 past this version since I don't think it will improve in the future.

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Btw iOS 8.1.2 is now out.

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So sorry that I upgraded ... even the notification center is screwed in this poor excuse of operating system.

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8.1.1 is a bit faster now, however there is still no compelling reason for me to have updated to this on an iPad2. If you had such, I would really recommend skipping this update.

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Warmfuzzygecko

18 November 2014

Version: 8.1.1

iOS 8.1.1 seems to have fixed the annoying scroll lag I've been having since 8.0 on my iPhone 5S 64GB. Now to test how long the battery lasts per overnight charge.

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This fixes the hardcrashing when copy/pasting text in Mail. Kudo for this !

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I just updated my iPad2 with this and it is a bit jittery and certainly not any faster. IMHO, I should have avoided this update since there appears to be no practical use on an iPad for it.

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IvoryBlues

22 October 2014

Version: 8.1

What's New: Adds the ability for iPhone users to send and receive SMS and MMS text messages from their iPad and Mac... Does it mean, I can send texts from the "Messages" app on the MAC (Mavericks) to none iPhone users?

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