Apple has released iOS 8, the latest version of its mobile operating system, for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Users can download the new software by navigating to the “general” tab in their device’s settings menu and selecting “software update.” If you don’t want to download the update wirelessly – perhaps you’re on a restrictive data plan and have limited Wi-Fi access – you can also connect your phone to the latest version of iTunes to download the update. The iOS 8 update pack weighs in at 1.4GB and requires a staggering 5.7GB of free space to install on an iPhone (6.9GB on an iPad), so you may need to delete something like half a dozen games to free up some room before you get started.
Lots of improvements over iOS 7, so definitely worth it. Do pay mind to the hefty space requirements, though.
Gotta be an exciting day for iPhone users, since iOS is now only about 2 years behind Android, instead of 3 or 4
http://www.androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iphone_6…
Edit: This is only tongue-in-cheek, guys
I actually own a 5s. Just having a little fun at Apple’s expense 
Edited 2014-09-17 19:05 UTC
It really depends if you do want to be spammed with notifications and various pretty widgets. For me, back when I had an Android phone, the excitement about widgets lasted about 2 weeks, and all those notifications you have to erase regularly were annoying from day one.
I’ve read that on iOS none of the spam options are enabled by default though, so perhaps I can continue to blissfully ignore them
I don’t know what you mean by ‘spammed with notifications’. Any app I’ve ever used lets you turn them off, and actually spamming adverts via notifications is against Google’s app rules, AFAIK.
But phones in general are pretty horrible about managing notifications, with smart watches being the band-aid solution. ‘Hey, my phone keeps sending me a bunch of f-king notifications I don’t want, so let me wear this watch so I can view these unwanted notifications more efficiently …’
Why would I have to turn them off every time i install a new app? Or update an old one for that matter. And by spam i don’t mean advertising, but apps (and the OS) telling me of every little thing they do. I couldn’t care less.
As a small example, leave an Android device unattended half a day. When you come back to it the first thing you’ll see is 20 notifications about applications that self updated. Maybe, just maybe, buried among them there’s a notification that you really care about; and perhaps you’ll just erase it without reading because you had 19 spams to go along with it.
It’s probably configurable, just like people tell me you can configure Facebook to improve the signal to noise ratio. But why did they make the default so annoying?
I get one notification that 20 apps have been updated. And that happens maybe every other day (because I installed a lot of useless apps I have so far not got around to purge from my phone). I can live with that and would not even bother to turn that off.
Yeah, same here. The only real annoyance I’ve had with app updates is that, if I have a tablet docked with wireless on for several days, it suddenly wants to download 50 different app updates as soon as I pick it up to use it. And I’m like, ‘You couldn’t have done this in all that idle time you had?’
Like 7 years after Symbian. Third party browser for iOS 34?
Until I know for sure that it works faster on 4S…
In terms of speed and snappiness iOS7 was an enormous regression I don’t want to take that risk again.
Edited 2014-09-17 20:59 UTC
It doesn’t. My 4S is even slower than it was with 7. Good thing it’s not my primary phone; I only keep it around to watch where iOS is these days. Not impressed.
I bitch about Android (and there’s plenty to bitch about) but I’ll take it over iOS 8 any day.
I think You are right. Arstechnica thinks like you too:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-on-the-iphone-4s-perform…
I’m not going to update to iOS8… at least until Apple solve these performance regressions (and/or until I get an iPhone 6 Plus haha).
Tell me about it. I wanted to go back to ios 6.1.3 so bad. Honestly, I doubt Apple gives a damn about making new ios versions run well on older hardware. They would much rather you buy a new phone than allow your old/current one to continue working perfectly fine.