I can’t update my iPad until I clear up storage space (and there are a few games I haven’t played in ages because I already finished them), but I was curious how much I should bother right now.
Connect the iPad to your computer and update iOS via iTunes instead. This iPad user says it’s quicker and saves precious iPad space.
I really like it. It’s worth it for the predictive text for typing alone.
This, and I like the recent contact view when you hit the Home Button twice.
Overall, though, Apple’s smoothed over a lot of touch interactivity, so it’s even more silky smooth.
For myself, I think a lot of new features will feel better when Max OSX Yosemite is released in October, as there’s tighter integration and seamlessness between doing stuff on your phone then picking it up on your Mac and vice versa.
OTOH, on my 5s, I’ve noticed an decrease in day-by-day battery life: I need to charge more frequently. But this is perhaps due to preferences I need to shut off, like Notifications across my apps, and Location Services, etc.
That said, I still get a good day+ usage out of a charge.
Is anyone running it on an Ipad 2? I have a 16GB Ipad 2 and am hesitant. It currently runs iOS7, which seems to run just fine.
I’ve been playing with my iPhone 6 for about a day now and I am very impressed. They have made loads of subtle little changes that make things so much more efficient like adding a period and comma to the first page of the main keyboard as well as an undo button. They also added icons for often visited sites in the browser a la Firefox. I am barely getting started but so far there isn’t one change that I have discovered that isn’t an improvement.
“Hey Siri…” is fun, dictation is better, etc. But I’m stumped by this: apple permits 3rd party keyboards and STILL no one makes one with arrow keys? Really? What the hell?
The standard keyboard for iOS8 (at least on the iPhone 6) does have right and left arrow keys in landscape mode. No up and down arrow keys though.
Must be a 6 thing… I’m updating my iPad now, we’ll see if that has it…
Does it take very long? I’m really unsure whether I can be bothered updating my phone since I’m probably going to be getting a 6 when they’re available again in store.
One of my iPads is running iOS 7-something. The other is still on 6-something because I still hate the way the 7 looks.
I put it on my iPhone 5 even though I would only have it for a couple of more days just to try it out. It took me over an hour but that’s more because of the shitty slow WiFi at my house. iOS8 looks pretty much exactly like iOS7 so you will be disappointed in that respect.
Foolish soul that I am, I tried updating my iPad Air Wednesday afternoon (i.e. not long after it became available). After seeming to be downloading for some time it showed a ridiculous time remaining (over 24 hours; I forget the exact number) and got a “download failed” a while later. After poking around on the Internet for a while just to see if there was anything I should have checked into before trying that 
I saw that connecting to a PC and using iTunes on the PC to push the update down to the iPad works much faster. So I used that method this morning and it probably took 3/4 of an hour; about 30 minutes for the download and the remainder for the installation. No idea given that it was several days after my first attempt how long it would have taken if I had done it just from my iPad.
Pushing it down using iTunes is also supposed to require less disk space if that is an issue. Mine is sufficiently new that it still has lots and lots of free disk space, so that wasn’t an issue.
Thank you both. I don’t think I’ll bother updating the iOS on my phone, since I’ll be getting a brand, spanking new iPhone 6 soonish. I’ll probably update the iPads though since they won’t be getting replaced anytime soon.
Absolutely no one in the press has mentioned it that I’ve seen, but dictation is vastly improved, VASTLY VASTLY… sometimes I think I’m the only person that uses it, and that puzzles me…