Downloaded IOS 8 Big Mistake...

i get the Impression the Touch Pad feature if you will has gone Off Kilter...

Either wait for updates or go back. As the system is closed source, you can see why.
Bob

I should have said this is an I-pad 2 as people talk about 'older models' (but then so am I!).

without any fuss although I have to say that sometimes it appears to be slower but that could just be the wireless network it is connected to at the time.

Keep looking. The Pictures are there somewhere


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iOS 8.1.0 restores the Camera Roll

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I wish.
Twice or more it has prompted me to upload (to my i-pad 2) new version with name I couldn't distinguish from the old. 8.0.1 I think.

Advantages: the only improvement perceptible to me is an improved predictive writing. It sets out a few options and sometimes you can complete a word without writing it all. It knows about some words I often use. Even idiosyncratic (it just did that!) ones like e.g. usernames of posters I contend with on forums. But it is still not as good as Word at guessing what I mean to say. Because of thenscreensize I often run words together like I just did, and it cannot itself disentangle even the above example.

OTOH it still has the freezing syndrome so that if I write a post as long as this I have to write it on the notepad, otherwise I might write a page and then lose it. But often enough, one doesn't do that and loses work which is infuriating.

My wife took her i-phone in to an Apple store and they were able to recover the photos for her. She too has just received and intimation to update again, and she will not do it till she has saved all her photos elsewhere. My bil was not so lucky, the store lost a lot of his, those that were not or maybe were on the Cloud. He is not best pleased and wants me to translate an aggrieved letter henisnwritingntonApple ("No Replacements Found").

Message: SAVE YOUR STUFF BEFORE UPGRADING

In the store for my wife's problem when I asked the guy about my I-pad he said I could get a discount on buying a new model and more or less agreed they were making the old ones unusable so as to sell new ones. When they started "planned obsolescence" I think with cars in the 1950's it was more like fashion and new features - they didn't actually place bombs in the old ones.

and saving your stuff before upgrading has ALWAYS been the advice.

Nothing new there


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The moderators all know this:

"We only lose what we don't backup."

Applies to just about anything.
Bob

I think that IOS 8 is still very buggy. It's probably worth waiting a while. Let them iron out some of the problems so you don't have to keep uploading the patches.