After months of waiting, iOS 8 has finally been released for everyone to download and enjoy. The next generation for Apple’s mobile operating system brings plenty of new features. With an upgraded camera app, a new and intuitive health app and much more, this is sure to be an update you won’t want to forego.
In today’s Cult of Mac video, we give you a quick look at what iOS 8 has to offer. Install the new software and take advantage of a number of useful tweaks and enhancements.
Getting the latest from Apple is but a free download away, but you’ll still want to take the proper steps before upgrading your OS. Here’s how to upgrade to iOS 8 the right way.
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26 responses to “First look: Why you’ll love upgrading to iOS 8”
How is iOS 8 running on iPhone 5?
I read on reddit and other forums that it is just like iOS 7. Just as fast. I have a 5S and I think it is more fluid, faster and polished compared to iOS 7. You should definitely consider upgrading!
Thanks!
Running it now. It’s def slower. But manageable.
Runs pretty good, no problems so far.
A mistake?
I’ve really loved my iPad 2 since the day I got it, that is until today. Today I installed the new iOS 8 update on my iPad 2 and it has brought it to its knees!
Sluggish is one way to describe it. Even loading web pages is much slower than on iOS 7. Multi-touch gestures are especially, painfully slow. Switching apps takes seconds, it’s no longer almost instantaneous.
There is one fantastic increase in speed however. I’ve installed “Swype”, an alternative keyboard that lets you type by simply sliding your finger from letter to letter. WOW! It really speeds up text entry. Pretty good for just 99¢.
If I’d known that iOS would do adversely effect the speed of my iPad 2 I honestly think I would not have upgraded to version 8.
I’m now thinking it might be best not to upgrade my iPhone 4S to iOS 8.
But I do love Swype!
It does seem like the iPad 2 does not have the hardware to run iOS 8 at an acceptable speed.
I’m not going to update my 4S. I read it’s sluggish at best.
Dude no offense, but your iPad 2 and 4s are both 3+ years old so what do you expect? The cut off for compatibility with iOS 8 is the 4S…so yeah its gonna run slow as shit.
The problem is Apple should NEVER have recommended installing iOS 8 on an iPad 2! It appears that the ipad 2 does not have the hardware to run ios 8.
As for your (snarky?) remark that the iPad 2 is 3+ years old, as Apple said ios 8 was for the ipad 2 I expected it would at least run in a satisfactory manner, obviously not like on a latest version of the iPad.
If only Apple would let you downgrade back to iOS 7 my iPad would be usable, something it now no longer really is.
Apple has lost a lot of my good will – they should have been honest and told us ios 8 is NOT recommended on iPad 2.
I specifically said no offense to try to lessen the blow, no snark, just fact. It definitely sucks for you, and you’re right Apple probably shouldn’t have included the iPad 2 or 4S in the compatible devices for iOS 8. Its a hard lesson to learn, but generally if your device is at the oldest of the compatibility for a new OS, you don’t upgrade for this very reason.
Trust me I wish there was a way to downgrade your iOS as much as you, just because I would immediately install iOS 7 on my new 6Plus to make it jailbreakable.
I would really recommend waiting till ios 8.1 is released, more optimisation should be in place by that time
1.1GB download for iOS 8. Can they make the updates any bigger?
Exactly!!! A new OS with tonnes of new features should be no more than 49kB. Also this morning, my toaster took 55 seconds instead of the normal 45 seconds. I tell ya man!!!! First world problems suck!
Is haptic feedback coming anytime soon to iOS???
Is haptic feedback (a hardware feature) coming anytime soon to iOS (a software OS)?
I love almost each and every feature of IOS 8, personally i like Quicktype, Thirdparty keyboard, Time lapse and lot more. I like the keyboard layout for Hindi and its easy to type.
Why I won’t love upgrading to iOS 8: losing my jailbreak :(
The worst part of getting a 6 is losing the jailbreak. I know I shouldn’t be complaining, but it still stinks.
Shames it so big, I’ve had to empty my iPad Air of apps, music and photos just to be able to load it, and as for my iPhone 4s 8GB, the on,y way to have that running on this is to completely empty the phone of everything
If you download the update in iTunes on your computer, you won’t have to worry about deleting anything.
Yes thanks, I did that earlier as someone else recommended it. Ive now installed iOS 8 and put at least half of what i took off, back on. Apart from a little ‘stuttering” it works great. And still got 1.1 GB free space. Loving the new wallpapers. (iPhone 4S 8GB – work fine)
I remember there was something mentioned about a better and faster way to set up the “WLAN hotspot” functionality and pairing with e.g. the MBPro is easier then with iOS 7 – well I don’t see that or am I missing something ?
You didn´t miss something. You also need to update your MBPro to Yosemite, which will arrive in October.
How is it running on iPhone 4s? I’ve heard that it slows down the performance.
Buggy as sh*t! Have to restart phone every day. And I did fresh instal, not update.
Its running fine on my 4s, i might even describe it as snappy, but, and its a big but.
Where the ** is icloud drive?? where is the new version of photostream??? The only things i cared about are not there, and by the sounds of it not until the end of October.
Other than that its the same bar a terrible new keyboard.
I’ve just disabled my phone by upgrading, seriously don’t bother, you wont miss anything.
Siri is much improved – may actually get it to work for my 87 yr old blind, almost deaf dad now. Tired of denial re hacking and any Apple product. I bought 3 yr warranty and because I still have an open case – for that very reason – going on 4.5 yrs of warranty, complete with advisor extensions; apparently Apple knows it too.