Apple iOS 8.3 Update Released Ping!
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Posted on 04/08/2015 11:57:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today released iOS 8.3 which includes improved performance, bug fixes, and a redesigned Emoji keyboard.
Changes include:
• Improved performance for:
– App launch
– App responsiveness
– Messages
– Wi-Fi
– Control Center
– Safari tabs
– 3rd-party keyboards
– Keyboard shortcuts
– Simplified Chinese keyboard
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth fixes
– Fixes an issue where you could be continuously prompted for login credentials
– Addresses an issue where some devices disconnect intermittently from Wi-Fi networks
– Fixes an issue where hands-free phone calls could become disconnected
– Fixes an issue where audio playback could stop working with some bluetooth speakers
• Orientation and rotation fixes
– Addresses an issue that sometimes prevented rotating back to portrait after having rotated to landscape
– Improves performance and stability issues that occurred when rotating the device between portrait and – landscape
– Fixes an issue where device orientation appeared upside down after pulling the iPhone 6 Plus from your pocket
– Resolves an issue that sometimes prevented apps from rotating to correct orientation after switching apps in multitasking
• Messages fixes
– Addresses issues that caused group messages to sometimes split
– Fixes an issue that sometimes removed the ability to forward or delete individual messages
– Resolves an issue that sometimes prevented a preview from appearing when taking a photo in Messages
– Adds the ability to report junk messages directly from the Messages app
– Adds the ability to filter out iMessages that are not sent by your contacts
• Family Sharing fixes
– Fixes a bug where certain apps would not launch or update on family members’ devices
– Fixes a bug that prevented family members from downloading certain free apps
– Increased reliability for Ask to Buy notifications
• CarPlay fixes
– Fixes an issue where Maps could come up as a black screen
– Fixes an issue where the UI could be incorrectly rotated
– Fixes an issue where the keyboard could appear on the CarPlay screen when it shouldn’t
• Enterprise fixes
– Improves reliability of installing and updating enterprise apps
– Corrects the time zone of Calendar events created in IBM Notes
– Fixes a problem that could cause web clip icons to become generic after restarting
– Improves reliability of saving the password for a web proxy
– Exchange out-of-office message can now be edited separately for external replies
– Improves recovery of Exchange accounts from temporary connection problems
– Improves compatibility of VPN and web proxy solutions
– Allows use of physical keyboards to log into Safari web sheets, such as for joining a public Wi-Fi network
– Fixes an issue that caused Exchange meetings with long notes to be truncated
• Accessibility fixes
– Fixes an issue where using the back button in Safari causes VoiceOver gestures to not respond
– Fixes an issue where VoiceOver focus becomes unreliable in draft Mail messages
– Fixes an issue where Braille Screen Input cannot be used to type text in forms on webpages
– Fixes an issue where toggling Quick Nav on a Braille Display announces that Quick Nav is off
– Fixes an issue keeping app icons from being moveable on home screen when VoiceOver is enabled
– Fixes an issue in Speak Screen where speech will not start again after pausing
• Other improvements and bug fixes
– Introduces a redesigned Emoji keyboard with over 300 new characters
– iCloud Photo Library has been optimized to work with the new Photos app on OS X 10.10.3 and is now out of beta
– Improves the pronunciation of street names during turn-by-turn navigation in Maps
– Includes support for Baum VarioUltra 20 and VarioUltra 40 braille displays
– Improves the display of Spotlight results when Reduce Transparency is turned on
– Adds Italic and Underline format options for iPhone 6 Plus landscape keyboard
– Adds the ability to remove shipping and billing addresses used with Apple Pay
– Additional language and country support for Siri: English (India, New Zealand), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey)
– Additional dictation languages: Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) and Hebrew (Israel)
– Improves stability for Phone, Mail, Bluetooth connectivity, Photos, Safari tabs, Settings, Weather and Genius Playlists in Music
– Addresses an issue where Slide to Unlock could fail to work on certain devices
– Addresses an issue that sometimes prevented swiping to answer a phone call on the Lock screen
– Addresses an issue that prevented opening links in Safari PDFs
– Fixes an issue where selecting Clear History and Website Data in Safari Settings did not clear all data
– Fixes an issue that prevented autocorrecting “FYI”
– Addresses an issue where contextual predictions did not appear in Quick Reply
– Fixes an issue where Maps did not enter night mode from hybrid mode
– Resolves an issue that prevented initiating FaceTime calls from a browser or 3rd-party app using FaceTime URLs
– Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented photos from properly exporting to Digital Camera Image folders on Windows
– Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented an iPad backup from completing with iTunes
– Fixes an issue that could cause Podcast downloads to stall when switching from Wi-Fi to cellular networks
– Fixes an issue where remaining time on timer would sometimes incorrectly display as 00:00 on Lock screen
– Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented adjusting call volume
iOS 8.3 is available immediately as an over-the-air (OTA) download.
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Still works, and the list of fixes and new things I'll like is long, so I'm happy. It was also pretty quick to update.
Love this phone.
Not, you know, in a kinky way. Just appreciation. You know what I mean. Like my drill press...
Nevermind. :)
no update for iphone 4?
Updated my iPod Touch and iPad Air 2. My iPad is still so new for me that I won’t know what existed before and what got changed tonight. I guess I only care that it continues to work!
The iPhone 4s gets iOS 8 and its updates. The iPhone 4 does not.
My Girlfriend's work supplied iPhone 4s took the update just fine. . . but the iPhone 4 users may be out of luck.
Apple is dead to me.
That's fine, but then you should have the same attitude toward Microsoft, which adopted the same policy ten years ago and took the position vis-a-vis the same anti-Indiana law and signed the exact same petition as did Apple. . . And you should also be looking the same way toward Google/Android who has supported the exact same thing for at least five years. . . Both companies giving cash to bolster their efforts to bolster Gay rights. . . something Apple as a company has not done until recently.
Have it now on my iPhone 6 and iPad Air. Besides the changed Emoji input system, the most likely major change is for full support of the Apple Watch.
Virtually every major corporation has been shaken down by the GLBTQWERTY freaks.
The only two I heard of that THREATENED and BLACKMAILED entire states over the RFRA were Apple and Wal-Mart.
They are both dead to me.
Before this upgrade, my iPhone 4S had been failing to jive with the wifi intermittently. It had signal but no workee. Always had to restart the phone and it would work. I hope this fix corrects that problem.
Apple vis-à-vis Thimmy Cook openly pushes the satanic evil of homosexuality who stated homos are “God’s special people”.
NO THANKS - I’ll not support satan and his minions like you and the Joel Osteen pimp!
“Evil succeeds when good men do nothing” - Edmund Burke
Wasn’t a quick update for me...took over an hour. None of our iPads or iPhones were working smoothly at our house, hope this fixes things.
The voice to text bug has been fixed.
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/09/touch-id-not-working-app-store-ios-8-3/
Mainly an inconvenience, at least at present, but it sounds like there will have to be a further update soon.
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