“Following the release of iOS 8.0.1 on Wednesday, many users began experiencing issues with the maintenance and software update, finding that their handset could no longer establish a cellular connection or recognize their fingerprint upon installing,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Users who have not yet installed iOS 8.0.1 are advised to hold off, as the problems presented by the update appear to affect a large number of users,” Hughes reports. “Initial reports suggest that the update causes issues for a variety of different iPhone models, including the newest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Carrier connectivity issues are occurring across the board.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yup, even the world’s most valuable company can look like a Microsoftian clusterfsck at times.
To paraphrase Steve Jobs: Can anyone tell us what iOS 8.0.1 is supposed to do? So why the fsck doesn’t it do that?
Hopefully, iOS 8.0.2 will be arriving shortly.
MacDailyNews Note: UPDATE: 2:34pm EDT: Apple has pulled iOS 8.0.1.
Related article:
Apple releases iOS 8.0.1 – September 24, 2014
MDN, you should keep this article pinned to the top like you guys have done in the past for others.
It appears that Apple has removed the update from the developer site and from OTA delivery, essentially its gone for now.. it will of course re-appear when fixed. The question is will they roll the revision, the build will of course be changed.
Ugh, can I cancel this update once it’s started downloading?
wait till it’s downloaded.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/01/13/ios-7-1-delete-over-the-air-updates/
Works the same to delete the update so you will have to redownload it to update.
Thanks. Didn’t need it in the end but good to know
Phew, update required 50% battery power remaining and I was down to 39%
First time I’ve been happy about iffy battery life
Same here. Low battery stopped the update. I’ve no reason to believe that 8.0.1 would kill my particular cellular connection, but I would rather not find out.
Not your finest hour Apple.
I a,ready had to do a full reinstall after my 5S was very unresponsive a few day after upgrading to 8.0. Dropbox and Downcast in particular were fairly unusable.
That’s what saved me as well. And thanks to the tip from Backlash above, I was able to delete it off my iPhone 6 entirely. Now since Apple pulled iOS 8.0.1 it says my phone is up to date.
Hopefully 8.0.2 will also address performance issues with running iOS8 on an iPhone 4s
Dude, quit dreaming.
iOS 8.02 isn’t going to replace your iPhone 4s’ A5 SoC with an A8.
You need a new iPhone. It’s past time for an upgrade.
(Brought to you by Carls’ Jr.)
With respect, I disagree. My 4S is hardly steam-powered technology, but the lag is marked under iOS 8. Resetting helped a little, but it would be better if Apple either limited iOS8 to iPhone 5 and above, or tweaked it sufficiently to make it more usable on a 4 or 4S
Actually, iOS 7.1 has made operation on iPhone 4 signifnicantly faster than what was possible with iOS 7.0.
So Mark has to wait for few months for that. None of 8.0.* releases will improve speed on iPhone 4S/iPad 2, only 8.1 will.
Bullshit. The iPhone 4s is still one of the best smartphones after all these years. They’re selling new Android phones today that can’t even measure up. He doesn’t need a new phone.
BS. 2 years and a week ago it was the latest iPhone available. You don’t pull that shit on 2 year old customers. Except they did with the first iPad…
So far, fingerprint scanning is working. I’m at work and have nobody to call.
Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim must be furious. You can be assured that heads are rolling in Cupertino today.
I hear Ballmer’s spending some time in California now, maybe he can come by and show Tim how to throw some chairs.
Yeah, Timmy is furiously planning this Friday’s Beer Bash is more like it. Apple’s becoming lax and mediocre without a man like Steve Jobs at the helm.
Hogwash. iTunes had an update that wiped people’s entire music libraries when Jobs was at the helm. Lots of mistakes happened under the Steveship.
Never mind music library, some update in the pre-10.5 days wiped the entire hard drive if the drive name started with a space character, which mine did (a habit held over from the pre-OSX and pre-Quick Look days, where clicking to desktop and hitting space let you quickly select the hard drive without seeing it).
I was *very* lucky because at the time I was still installing Mac updates the day they came out, but I wasn’t home the day/weekend it was released (IIRC it was released Friday, problem wasn’t widely known until Saturday/Sunday).
Sure that’s a more obscure bug than dropped calls, but its effects were far more devastating. That was enough to break the “update trust” though, and I never again installed anything the first day it was released.
My wonderful new iPhone 6 is busted. On O2 in the UK. No cellular, no touch ID.
This is not good for Apple. In using their products for over 25 years, nothing like this has ever happened to me.
Speechless.
Bull Sh*t. Has MDN been bought by Gaagle or samdung? You sure are letting the trolls in.
WTF is wrong with you!
My guess is that silverhawk1 is a paid Android troll brought in to make Apple users look like Kool-Aid drinking fanatics.
Fsck! I didn’t see this in time. My phone is bricked. ARRRGH!
Might I suggest that instead of Timmy giving the whole company an extra week of vacation time in November, coercing them to march in Gay Pride parades, and wallowing in global warming groupthink get togethers, perhaps he should embark on weeding out the brain-dead losers who are doing nothing but destroying Apple’s brand equity and investor value and work to get some competent employees in there who can do their fscking jobs for a change?
Posting in all bold does not make your rambling BS any more valid or relevant. Don’t you have a baby to eat somewhere?
Well said, Gruv.
Also, First, why are you ranting about Apple when it’s Obama’s fault, anyway? /s
Yep, screwed my phone. No cellular connectivity, no touch ID. I know have a worthless product. They better roll out a fix REAL quick. Apple seems to be screwing up an awful lot lately.
A couple of weeks ago they rolled out iTunes 11.4 with only 64 bit kexts in it. They disabled syncing for all 32 bit Macs that were running Mac OSX 10.6.8. I found a work around on that, that required manually removing about 20 different kext files, deleting 11.4, finding 11.3.1 online and installing that in 11.4’s place. Now when I check for an iTunes update on that old Mac it says that 11.3.1 is the most up to date version of iTunes available for that machine … hmmm.
Just checked my iPad that did not get updated yet – it is saying “iOS 8.0 Your Software is up to date.”
Looks like Apple knows they screwed up and pulled the 8.0.1 update already.
I’m guessing quite a few Apple exec’s iPhone’s got bricked!!, Probably Tim C. as well.
It does appear you have to reinstall, It would be a restore.. But at least your phone would be working again.. Until Apple resolves the issue, and I suspect it won’t be long..
Ios8 has been the buggiest POS update of all time. Not only am I having problems with the os, but most of my apps crash randomly now too. These guys need to pull their heads out of their asses.
If the app is crashing.. odds are it’s the app developer’s issue.. not iOS 8
iOS 8 is MUCH more stable than iOS 7 was in the first week… by a long shot.
Sorry but this is totally BS. A company like the fruit called apple has some responsibility. You cannot just throw some garbage to the customers and then blame the app developers for this epic fail. I am not an android guy or apple hater, I am just a coder who is totally passed that some alpha release has been published. Apple was for the people who do not give a s)) @$&t how thinks work. It may worked. Now the very same customer has to deal with complicated downgrade procedures. Are you kidding me.
Don’t find excuses guys fix the dawn thing.
Lmfao.
Apple is responsible for 3rd party app reliability now.
For instance, MDN’s own app crashes. So blame apple?
When was MDN’s app last updated to support iOS 8?
Yes, My cellular service and Touch ID is down after an over the air update of 8.0.1
Updated 5s 32gb-no problems with touchID or cellular voice but AT&T cellular data will not connect to LTE, it drops back to slower 4G. Consider this an unconfirmed report as my LTE connection is normally weak at my location. It has dropped back frequently before, but now no LTE connection at all, just 4G. I’ll be going to a strong LTE location later this afternoon and will report back.
This doesn’t look good for Apple.
LTE is now functioning. I made no changes since the above comment. It just started working.
I’m having no problems with calls, cellular or wifi data or touchID.
I updated to iOS 8.0.1 and have not experienced any issues with Cellular connectivity or TouchID. However, since the first iOS 8.0 update, the MDN app crashes every time I launch it… anyone else having problems with MDN?
Traveling in Europe while missing the iPhone6 rollout and enduring broken cellular connectivity. Yeah that’s one of the times when Apple life sucks. But if the stock goes up another 15%, I won’t complain …really!
Looks like Apple pulled the update..
I ran the updated and experienced the failed Touch ID and loss of cellular connectivity. Fortunately, I connected to iTunes, backed up my iPhone and performed a restore.
iPhone is working fine now as is Touch ID.
Took the update on my iPhone 6, and now it works like an oversized iPod Touch. Tried to restore the phone over iTunes, and I get the message that the iOS build is not compatible with my phone. This blows! Guess I don’t need cell coverage 🙁
Broke my iPhone 6. Will be the last time I ever upgrade the iOS software for a long while (except to fix this). ARRRGHH.
I was at the Apple store in Roseville, CA on Sunday, and none of the iPhone 6 Pluses were working – continually crashing and restarting. As an Apple fan, it was embarrassing.
Every Apple employee in the software development and QA departments should do real-world testing on their phones for a full day or two before releasing any software or an update.
Very bad form!
Glad my 5 is still on 6 !
RIP apple. This is it.