Ondrej Holzman After two weeks of testing, Apple released the hundredth update for iOS 8, which fixes unspecified bugs and will be of particular interest to owners of older iPhone 4S and iPad 2. It is on these machines that iOS 8.1.1 should ensure increased stability and improved performance.
The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are the two oldest devices that support iOS 8, and due to older and less powerful hardware, the latest operating system may not run optimally on them. This is what Apple is now trying to address with iOS 8.1.1.
In addition, Apple also fixes some bugs that appeared in previous versions, but does not describe them in detail. No big news appears in iOS 8.1.1, we can potentially wait for the possible versions of iOS 8.2 or 8.3.
My iPad 2 is waiting for it like mercy. If that doesn't help, there will be an upgrade..
And did you make it? I'm considering iOS 7 ;-).
Well, nothing much. Probably better than 8.1, but I'm sorry I didn't keep iOS7... the iPad is just a waste. But I have to wait until Christmas :-(
It's not that bad after all. The last edit helped a lot, but unfortunately the speed of ios7 is gone. Otherwise, everything is fine, including battery life.
Well, the "speed" on iOS 7 isn't much anymore ;-), so I agree that if it's slower on iOS 8, it becomes a patty on the side of salami :-).
Guys, I would like to know how you test and compare the speed? I've had an iP since the 2G days, I've always updated all phones immediately to the latest version and I've never had the feeling that the phone was thrown away after the update?? Everything always went as it should. That is Apple is right when it says that the device is supported, so the device works and what is supposed to work always works there. So I would be interested if someone writes that since the transition from iOS7 to iOS8, the phone/tablet is to be thrown away....what doesn't work for you that you have to throw it away???? Do you mean it needs to be 0,5s slower on start? I don't know, but somehow I don't understand and you are scaring people unnecessarily. After all, nobody can expect that, for example, 4-year-old hardware will work just as fast even with the latest software, which is much more graphically and computationally demanding.
Based on the content of your post, I assume you have a hell of a lot of apps installed. I have several hundred of them (up to 400) and I can confirm a very annoying and strong slowdown.
So uninstall a lot of unnecessary applications that you don't use anyway!!!
If it drives it, why shouldn't it go?
It's a fact that I've never had like 400 apps on my phone, but on the other hand, I always have what I need on my phone. I always remove what I don't consider necessary from my phone. I don't see a reason for an unused app to be on my phone, and I can download it again at any time.
Of course, I've also always noticed certain changes in speed, but I've never experienced any unnecessary lags or cuts on any phone... I don't know, maybe I've always been lucky?
But as I wrote above, every application, game that ran, for example, on iOS 6 also ran on iOS 7 without any problems - of course, if the app is not modified or optimized for the given version, which I have noticed quite often lately, then we can't wait, that it will run correctly. E.g. such an IDOS has not been updated to this version for perhaps 3/4 of a year since the release of iOS 7.
I'm ready to do a complete wipe of the entire iPad soon. I heard that it sometimes frees up space... so then I will be able to compare.
However, I have several reasons why I don't have some things.
1. If I played a game and there are no saved positions and achieved levels somewhere on iCloud, then with a new installation I can start playing again and somewhere I am already so far that even if I am not currently playing, I don't want to lose those positions.
2. All programs and games that are no longer in the store and you don't have a backup on the PC/MAC disk, so you can't download them again (I already have a few of these, even paid ones).
3. If I need something occasionally, then always when I need it, I can't find it in the store, I don't have time to download it, or I don't even have a place to download it ;-).
– I'll try to delete it completely and I'm curious, I've already heard (unverified) that it helps someone clean it from time to time.
No it does not ;). But iP4, for example, is absolutely useless after updating to iOS 7.x. The iP4 was a beautifully fast phone with huge performance and with iOS 6 it worked just as fast without being noticed as with iOS 4. But with the arrival of the really ugly and untuned iOS 7, things went downhill. The transition between individual menu tabs is jerky, even if it was the smallest jerk, so it's a giant step back, when there was no trace of a "lag" on version 6. Applications are not displayed correctly, even duplicate ones! A friend of mine has an iP4 with iOS 7.1.2 and when she turns the phone over while typing, her keyboard lags oO something unforgivable for Apple, this is typical for Android, where I can't complain because I get what I buy, but from Apple I expect top quality, and after the death of SJ, it is rapidly declining. Since then, things have been going downhill for Apple in terms of updates. It's not for nothing that I use iOS 4 on the iP5.1.1S and the phone runs the same as when I bought it.
If I had a choice, I'd go with iOS 6. Until then, it was always for the better. However, iOS 7 didn't give me much besides slowing down.
How do I measure it? Most applications start slower. That bothers me, but it's far from the worst thing.
So some applications (mainly games, or a browser with several bookmarks) sometimes crash, because the OS consumes more RAM than the drive, so I have to restart some things.
The most demanding ones simply won't run anymore, and some drives worked.
The App Store is really slow from iOS, but the truth is that even on the iPad Air (1) it was quite slow, so probably the combination of the fact that it is stupid and the fact that I have an old device.
It's definitely not scary. If someone had told me not to do that with iOS, I might have a comfortable and faster iOS today, because I simply don't need iOS 7 (not at that price). Or if it meant going back, but that's not possible either. Skipping the update and it wouldn't be annoying is also not possible.
Well, thanks for the info, it will definitely come in handy. It just tells me that I can't get the data, I don't want to update it (this is how it stinks to me forever...).
Just a question, do you mind if the SW update from the manufacturer devalues your product and you can buy new ones "just fine"? For me, on the contrary, it is a reason to buy less and less things from Apple...
It bothers me. But there is still a possibility to install new and new updates. Not like a tablet bought in 2013 with the Android 4.1 operating system from 2012 without the possibility of any upgrade.
So, on the one hand, it is already a 3,5-year-old device, and on the other hand, no one is forcing a person to upload the new SW there. He just gets that option, while the competition doesn't. When I used to have a phone from HTC, a flagship for 13 thousand, they stopped supporting it after half a year. It's the same with tablets. So it also makes me want to upgrade rather than move elsewhere ;-)
this kind of answer can turn me off quite a bit... If Apple clearly declares that a given sw is compatible with a given device, then it's bullshit. You assume that the performance will be at least the same as before. Apple doesn't say anywhere, with an upgrade you have to throw all the products in the trash and buy new ones. It seems to me that this is a pure marketing decision.
it's as you say, it would still be commendable if apple would allow a downgrade when as a customer I'm not satisfied with the upgrade, but it's not and that's the biggest bullshit that apple does to customers.
However, some applications will soon support only the latest iOS (otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the store ;-) ). Then you would have a stroke.
I think it's better that I can do the upgrade, but I don't think it's right to decide that it's irreversible (at least for the first year, or half a year).
Do you mean a three-year-old product (htc and android coughed up updates after half a year), while everyone warned in advance that a major slowdown was a real threat?
Does anyone have experience that the new version is at least as slow as iOS 7?
perfectly fine on iP5 and iPad mini 2 (8.1). I'm just downloading this update. Does anyone have experience with iP4S? We have one at home and I haven't had the guts to leave iOS7 there yet.
iPhone 4S with animations turned off is perfectly fine.
Please, I have an iPhone 4s, where do I turn off the animations?
Settings / General / Accessibility / Reduce Motion -> on
I have an iPhone 4s and it's fine. I was also afraid when one has turned off animations and everything is set to maximum speed. So it's exactly the same as iOS7, and my battery lasts 20 and 25% less. I also have a first generation iPad mini without retina. And with iOS 7 it lasted 9 hours and iOS 8, 12 and 13 hours of wifi, which I don't turn off, I surf the net and play games. 12, 13 h of real use, used. So satisfaction
What does maximum speed mean?
So iPad2 noticeable acceleration, you can work with it again :-)
I wonder what the truth is when Mr. Procházka writes below that it is better, just maybe.
iOS 8.1.1 adds from 300-500 MB of free space to iPhone and iPad.
I have 3 iOS devices and one Exchange account synced everywhere. On one of them, it changed the synchronization time to one month after the data (I had unlimited) and strangely deleted the mail (messages younger than that one month disappeared and old messages remained...
After removing and adding the account, everything synced OK, but to be honest, this was the first update problem for me after years on iOS...
So 5s seems slightly faster to me and I noticed more detailed information in the usage item
On the first generation iPad mini, the update is really noticeable. Compared to 8.1, reactions are faster.
This small patch from 8.1 to 8.1.1 requires 1.6 GB of free space on the phone for me to install it at all...
Hello everyone... Patch (or whatever it's called correctly) downloaded and fine... nothing faster, but I haven't noticed anything slower on the 4S either...
On iPad 2 64GB 3G no major improvement after installing iOS 8.1.1. Response latency in the order of seconds, along with tearing, application crashes (including system ones such as Mail)... I will still try a complete reset to factory settings.
I have an iPad mini retina and after the update, some things stopped being smooth - switching between applications in multitasking, closing the application with the north finger, etc. I also found the environment a bit slower. From the last update 8.1.1 it runs like clockwork again. Interesting that it was supposed to affect only the ipad 2 and 4s
I installed iOS 2 on Ipad8.2 today. and it's still a pain and suffering even after a hard restart!! Even the keyboard responses are slow, switching between windows is slow, Safari is slower to load. At the same time, a few hours ago I had iOS7 and everything worked normally fast. Can't you just get rid of it and downgrade back to iOS7? Ipad2 really can't handle it. I've never been used to such jerky movement on an iPad.
PS I even turned off the graphics in the settings, see the instructions in the discussion above