“One week after the launch of iOS 8, Apple released its first update for the new OS — iOS 8.0.1 — on Wednesday afternoon,” Chris Welch reports for The Verge. “It was meant to fix a slew of bugs, but that’s not what happened. Immediately after the update hit, reports began flooding in that iOS 8.0.1 was breaking cellular reception and other features like Touch ID.”
Welch reports, “Apple eventually removed the faulty update, but not before an untold number of users were able to install it.”
Read more in the full article here.
https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/514843301996802048
MacDailyNews Take: Clown show.
iOS 8.0.1 will now proceed live on in infamy.
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Shit happens
You all still standing by Tim Cook? I think Apple should have delayed the watch and just focused on iPhone and iPad here, then the Retina iMacs later this year. We’ve got fragmentation in iOS now with the 6 Plus and iOS scaling is terrible. It’s like Android using a 6 Plus. And the bugs with the 6 Plus are all over the place: frozen black screens on App transitions, text cut off in landscape mode in the Mail App, and more.
If it were me… I would have launched one new size iPhone to keep it simple. I would have gone 5″, maybe 5.2″, and lost a big chunk of the top and bottom bezel to keep the physical size as small as possible. Lost the home button and built Touch ID into the screen. I’m a 6 Plus owner and when I see what they’ve done, Apple has created a problem for themselves with fragmentation. There’s no easy answer to designing Apps for smaller, tweener, and larger screens. We’ve got the tweener third category now.
“If it were me…”
But it’s not, so STFU.
Tim runs the world’s most valued company, and what exactly do you run?
Yeah, but does running it into the ground count?
8.0.1 running on my iPhone 6; cell calls & touchpad working great!
#snappier
Hair Force One has some ‘splainin’ to do.
My guess is Apple was more focused on fixing the problems with iOS 8 and the iPads and previous generation iPhones that Apple did not have enough time to perform full testing / regression testing of all features before this update was released.
That’s not an excuse. They fscked up. They have a responsibility to fully test iOS updates on all compatible devices before they release them.
100%
“That’s not an excuse…”
That’s right. It’s an explanation.
No, it’s not even an explanation. You offer only speculation.
No problem here. Is the Mac Daily News app working?
A thinking person might assume that as soon as Apple deigns to release a stable version of iOS 8, MacDailyNews’ developers will get right on it.
MDN has pulled back their update as it broke all references to Samsung, replacing them with Beleaguered Samsung.
HA !-)
As an Apple shareholder, 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, he should embark on weeding out the brain-dead losers who are doing nothing but destroying Apple’s brand equity and investor value and get to work acquiring some competent employees who can do their assigned jobs for a change.
as a reader of this site, i also suggest MDN “embark on a weeding out of brain-dead losers who are doing nothing but destroying” MDN’s comment sections
Is that hard top have few dozens of engineers having all kinds of modifications of iPhone and trying to apply this update BEFORE making it public?
Since few dozens is quite a number I am sure the issues would be quickly uncovered.
I’m thinking this must prove that Apple doesn’t give their employees preferential access to the newest iPhones. Because apparently no one had one to try out the 8.0.1 update on in Cupertino before they unleashed it into the wild.
An idiotic statement. Well all know damn well they tested 8.0.1 on all the compatible devices BEFORE they released it. If they didn’t I’ll finally agree with others and TIM COOK should be gone immediately.
Military style QC.
If this was Samsung or Google, it would tell its users to collectively go and suck it. Cheap does as cheap gets.
My Samsung phones have never had such an epic failure as this. Words to remember: “The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
What are you trying to say? That Apple’s complete silence on this epic failure is somehow better behavior? Stop giving Apple a free pass every time they fuck up. Apple quality has gone downhill ever since Timmy took the reigns, and nobody here is willing to objectively look at at. Assholes like you just insult anyone who suggests that Apple do a better job the way they used to.
I just feel so sorry for all those out there who updated and really need cellular service that they don’t have right now. They thought they were buying a great, reliable phone from a trusted company. What a disgraceful day for Apple.
I installed the update and have not experienced any problem at all on my 5S, 5C and iPad4, everything works just fine. I,ve been using all since 12:30pm and no problems.
I downloaded 8.0.1 but read the alert so didn’t install it.
How do I remove the downloaded file?
Same situation???
Link provided by MDN poster Backlash:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/01/13/ios-7-1-delete-over-the-air-updates/
Thanks, deleted!!!
Thanks, it worked
I installed it as soon as I heard about it.
Oh well, I hardly ever make or receive calls, so that doesn’t matter, however, I listen to the radio all day on my phone, so if that fails, I shall be a trifle vexed!
(Having said that, my O2 3G connection drops off with irritating regularity, so it couldn’t be much worse).
Mistakes happen, you can wish all day long that they wouldn’t happen, but they do.
I think MDN’s take is short sighted, they should know better, the level of complexity involved here with this software is huge.. Last I heard their own MDN app is broken under IOS8, they had plenty of time before it was released to make sure it worked, and in comparison to IOS, its nothing, still broke didn’t it
MDN simply calls ’em like they see ’em. Right again, MDN! Never stop calling them like you see them!
Trying to blame MDN for Apple’s fsck up is ludicrously pitiful.
Use Safari for MDN on iOS until Apple releases a stable iOS 8 for developers to work with, m’kay?
Journo, you obviously have zero clues how complex this really is, if you did, and if MDN really did, you’d maybe you;d comprehend how mistakes can happen, Apple didn’t want to release it broken, but it was.. get over it, and yourself.
I’m glad that they pulled the update, and posted 8.0 for restore downloads. I just restored my iPhone 6 and it has resolved the problems caused by 8.0.1.
There was an undocumented feature – it turns your new iPhone 6/6+ into a super iPod!
I’m sure it’s probably related to Family Sharing within iOS8 but where’s the fix for the iCloud error “403” CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation error that’s caused the Calendar app for OS X to be inoperable.
We use OS X Server 3.x on 10.9.5 as our calendar server, communicating to both iOS 7 and 8 clients as well as OS X clients and aren’t having any issues: I just added a test appointment from my Mac and it showed up right away on my iOS devices, where I dragged the meeting to a different time and Calendar on OS X updated it right quickly.
jt016: Have any of your clients activated Family Sharing? I’ve deactivated Family Sharing, removed my iCloud profile from calendar, signed out and a few other things. I’m currently using Fantastical until I get a solution.
Simple answer would be no, but I really should ask around to answer you more confidently. Off-hand I can’t think of how Family Sharing would impact the CalDav service…. puzzle puzzle think think…
Let’s put all the headlines together:
“Apple’s iOS 8.0.1 update bends the rules”
Anticipating issues with any new OS version should be mandatory thinking. I’d love to update but have held off until I get the “all clear” from the Appleverse. Glad I did. Guess I’m an update coward. 🙂
Guys…don’t you think you are overreacting just a bit…I mean it’s not like the update stopped a major feature like THE PHONE from working….oh…wait
lol
I installed the 8.0.1 update on my iPhone 4s. AT&T, 4 bars, works fine. Just outside the fire zones in California.
If you read the problems listed… TOUCH ID is listed…
something you don’t have.
My money is one the issue may be limited to just the 5S, 6 and 6 Plus.
Timber fired Forstall, software performance has been spotty ever since.
Am I nuts, or didn’t something similar happen with iOS7? A maintenance update that turned out to be so thoroughly broken that they yanked it. I can’t remember if it was the first release after “7.0”, though.
——RM
I’m not sure they pulled an update with iOS 7.. but I think they released another update maybe even the same day due to some screw up.
Mine working fine after update
I guess this version of iOS works about as well as the MDN app the keeps crashing!!!!
C’mon MDN, did Google developers write your app or something?
You would have hoped that enough testing on IOS 8 and now 8.01 is having some issues!!
This is unlike Apple …… Reminds me of Windows for PC and blue screen of death! Competition will jump at this opportunity … Microsoft, Samsung and Blackberry releasing its new device for business users👎