Do not try to update your iDevices with Yosemite yet. Apparently a new version of iTunes 12 is required. People have had problems, getting their iDevices stuck in DFU mode.
However, on other OS X versions, you can install iTunes 11.4 which was released yesterday. However, on my Mavericks machine I didn't install 11.4 and it all worked fine.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/09/apple...te-for-os-x-mavericks-adds-support-for-ios-8/
Does iOS8 have a dark mode?
Swiftkey can't come soon enough. I hate not having swipe, typing is a slow, two handed affair on iPhones right now.
That was the lynchpin for me to even consider moving back to iOS. After having swype/swiftkey available to me for years on Android, going back to my wife's iPhone and having to hunt and peck keys feels like I'm going back to the stone age.
No. There is an invert colours mode though, but that looks awful, except for reading text.
Using the iPad 2 a bit more today, it seems that even with both Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency, it's a bit more laggy than iOS 7 was with just Reduce Motion.I get the impression there may be more stuttering here and there when navigating iOS 8 on my iPad 2 vs iOS 7.
In contrast, on the 5s, everything is extremely speedy.
To speed things up on the iPad 2, I already had Reduced Motion in iOS 7, but now I've Reduced Transparency in iOS 8 as well. With both of these options on, the iPad 2's performance feels decent again.
Unfortunately, it's much more utilitarian-looking with transparency turned down.
It looks crappy IMO.what deos grayscale and invert colors look like? or does one disable the other?
How wedded to the jailbreak are you? I don't jailbreak my iPhones, so iPhone jailbreaks are meaningless to me.
However, iOS 8 feels like an incremental update to me. Some nice features, but not a huge change overall.
It's definitely incremental, not a huge change. And it's still a bit buggy in a few spots.Eug, would you say 8 is worth the improvement over JB 7.1.2? I do have Yosemite on all my machines.
I tried beta 2 and 3 and was like ew
I didn't know that. I did a search and now I do see it. Awesome! However, the way it renders the option menu for that right now is quite ugly. Take a look at the top third of the screen. You'll see a faint grey "Request Desktop Site" option there.Safari now lets you request the desktop version if a site. Finally.
I don't have a 4S, but yes, yes it does. I do have the iPad 2 which also has an A5 in it, but it's clocked 25% faster than the A5 in the 4S. However, it already lags on the iPad 2, so I can only imagine it lags even more on the 4S.Does it still work on a 4s? It's aging a bit.
I've JB anyways, probably will not upgrade.
Another nice feature for Safari is if you go to the + button and instead of tapping it to create a new tab, if you hold it down, it shows the last bunch of sites you visited even if you've already deleted the tabs. It's a history of sorts.
BTW, a few big news sites have already posted iOS 8 GM links for all the iDevices. The iOS update will come later today, but the servers will likely be hammered.