It's 10 AM in California and Apple has been punctual with the iOS 8.1 release. Last week, during the presentation of the new iPads, the company announced that this Monday it would launch its new software for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. iOS 8.1 comes with relevant news, such as Apple Pay, the return of the Photo Reel, text messages and the option to share the Internet quickly. In addition, iOS 8.1 offers a solution to dozens of problems present in the first versions of iOS 8.
Text messages
If you have a Mac with OS X Yosemite (new version of the operating system released last week) from today you can get more out of the tool Messages. Thanks to iOS 8.1 and OS X Yosemite, our iPhone and Mac "communicate" better, since we can receive and send text messages from our computer, regardless of whether the recipient does not have an Apple device. This will make it easier to use the "Messages" application from the Mac.
Apple Pay
On the other hand, Apple has just launched in the United States, along with iOS 8.1, un new payment method announced last September: Apple Pay. This option will allow us to process fast and secure payments in establishments with just one touch of our iPhones 6 and iPhones 6 Plus (thanks to the new NFC chip that these models integrate). For now, Apple Pay will only be available in the United States.
Other highlights of iOS 8.1 is the return of the Photo roll (option that disappeared in iOS 8 and that has been highly demanded by users) and the possibility of sharing the internet (hotspot) quickly with other devices (activation depends on the contract we have with our telephone operator).
We invite you to reflect your iOS 8.1 experience in the comments of this article.
Downloading!! 126MB specifically on an iPhone 6!
Includes 2G and 3G function !! Updating!
WTF?
I am not updating via OTA; by iTunes, I get an error ("Could not contact the server ...".
I think the servers are saturated. Try again in a few minutes
By iTunes at the moment there is no way ...
It seems that I have already achieved it, so if what I want is to do a complete "restoration"…. at the moment according to iTunes there are 21 hours left to finish the download…. we'll see
Well, not even like that.
Updated via OTA, the first time I update via OTA, I always did it via Itunes….
Updated, and where is the Apple pay?
Only available in the United States at the moment, on Passbook
download it from http://getios.com/
I still have the same problem as in 8.0.2, the compass asks me to calibrate every time I open it.
I hope it solves the problem that I cannot activate iMessage with my phone number. It only activates with my email. With 8.0.2 I tried everything and nothing.
I'll update and we'll see.
Greetings.
Well, the same thing happens to me, I have to calibrate it every time I open it, I'll go through the apple to see what it is.
Downloading with iTunes now works.
I had a similar problem with the compass that did not calibrate me when I opened it and always asked for it. It turned out that I had disabled in SETTINGS / PRIVACY / LOCATION / SYSTEM SERVICES / COMPASS CALIBRATION
Activating this option ended my problems with the compass. I hope that it is solved. All the best
Thanks Lucas. It happened to me and I had no idea!
Good evening Lucas, after making the adjustments in settings, did I stop asking you to calibrate the compass every time you open it? Greetings.
To someone the option of 2g appears to me with movistar nothing at all
For me with Yoigo I also did not have the option of 2g, 3g and 4g.
Anyone know if the Bluetooth connectivity problem in the car was fixed?
In the Beta it was fixed, it should !!!
I hope to improve 8.1 on my iphone 4s ... if I don't switch to galaxy s5 🙂
The option 2g, 3g 4g only comes out in the omvs as they say out there, in the big ones like Movistar, Vodafone Orange and Yoigo nothing. They are also starting to say that the Wifi issue remains unsettled. Apple dear, you are covering yourself in glory. Yes, the reel seems to have returned. How happy I am in my iOS 7 companions, how happy, especially when when unlocking the mobile you find the wonderful icons of iOS 6 and it is not a Winterboard theme, they are changed by hair rebuilding them from the original iOS 6 (I say rebuilding them because the icons in iOS 7 are bigger and I had to adapt them to the new size),
Are you using instant hotspot? I with vodafone is on an iPhone 6 and a Mac, nothing hotspot appears on the Mac ...
You will tell me the issue of the battery as it goes, I have the impression that my iPhone 6 is drinking it,
Anyway I'll wait to see how it evolves
aarancon: explain to me how it is to have iOS 7 with the icons of iOS 6! I have not updated either.
The return of the reel is fine, but it is the least bad, for when to be able to store the photos without the need for all of them to be stored on a reel mixed and in duplicate if you want them in another separate folder ... a greeting
Now when you delete the reel photos, they are also deleted from streaming photos, in ios 7 that did not happen, what a failure !!!
I see that Apple continues to fail with the update ... I am not going to move from iOS 7 due to insignificant improvements. Luck!
I have an iPhone 6 plus, before with 8.0.2 the battery is wonderful, now with 8.1 the battery runs out right away, well Apple every day you surprise me worse.
Excellent!! The wifi is luxurious. At the moment I have not seen battery performance.
Don't update yet.
It consumes a lot of battery and also has a serious problem of heating the device, I hope they solve it quickly.
Totally agree. Getting better and better with these from apple
I've been with 24 for 8.1 hours and it goes from bad to worse, in addition to not solving the problem of screen rotation in the background, the battery drains like never before, as a test I left it in airplane mode last night and after 7 hours it consumed 25%, I think this past Apple is doing things from bad to worse.
A shame I updated yesterday and the battery has lost its consistency. I have been using it for about 50 minutes from 100% load and it has already sucked 20%. Before it was not like that, fix it now!
tired of my phone 5 s, since the entry of iOS 8 from bad to worse my mobile heats up that you can make an egg on top of it and the battery does not last at all, disappointed
The 8.1 is just as bad as the 8.0 what a disaster… .especially safari does so much nonsense that it leaves apple on the ground, go birria!