iOS 8.1.2 iPad Air Review: Three Weeks Later

Its been about three weeks since Apple pushed out its current iOS 8 update, iOS 8.1.2. iOS 8.1.2 is a small bug fix update but it’s one that’s had both a positive and negative effect on iOS 8 powered iPhones and iPads. With that in mind, we want to revisit Apple’s iPad Air iOS 8.1.2 update three weeks after the software’s release.

Apple’s taken a long windy road to get to its current iOS 8.1.2 update. In mid-September, Apple’s iOS 8 update pushed out with new features and enhancements in and almost immediately, iOS 8 problems started plaguing owners of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This is typical of a major iOS update and we, like many others, expected Apple to push out a bug fix update immediately after iOS 8’s release.

Right on cue, Apple pushed out an iOS 8.0.1 update with assorted bug fixes on board though it did not have the intended results. While it did deliver some fixes, it also broke cellular connectivity and Touch ID for some users. These issues forced Apple to quickly go back to the drawing board and a day later, the company conjured up an iOS 8.0.2 update that tackled those problems and delivered the rest of the fixes to those that did not upgrade to iOS 8.0.1.

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iOS 8.2 for iPhone & iPad: What You Need to Know Right Now

Apple’s iOS 8.1.1 update won’t last forever and it appears that the company’s iOS 8.2 update for iPhone and iPad might succeed it in the future. With iOS 8.2 in beta and iOS 8 problems continuing to swirl, we want to take a look at everything iPhone and iPad users need to know, right now, about Apple’s upcoming iOS 8.2 update.

The iOS 8 update was first released to the public in September alongside the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The update, which replaces iOS 7, is not a huge departure from last year’s operating system. Instead, it builds on the foundation left behind by last year’s changes and delivers new features, enhancements, fixes, and more to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.

As we have learned, the iOS 8 update also delivered a series of iOS 8 problems to iPhone and iPad users and over the past two and a half months, Apple’s worked to fix those iOS 8 problems through a series of updates. First, we saw iOS 8.0.1. Next, it was iOS 8.0.2 and iOS 8.1. Then, last month, Apple pushed out iOS 8.1.1.

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Untethered iOS 8.2 Jailbreak Supported By TaiG iOS 8.1.1 Jailbreak Tool, Brings Support For English, Mac Version And PanGu Team Collaboration Expected In Future

On Dec 4, we had published about TaiG iOS 8.1 untethered jailbreak. The TaiG team has released a new version of the jailbreak tool - v1.0.2 which now supports English language. The new updated tool also allows users to carry out iOS 8.2 jailbreak. TaiG has also revealed that they are currently working on a Mac edition of the tool. However, there is no confirmation on when they will be rolling it out.

iJailbreak claims that even before Apple has released the iOS 8.2 firmware update, the TaiG jailbreak tool supports jailbreaking iOS 8.2. TaiG claims that Apple has released a stable iOS during Thanksgiving and it feels the iOS 8.1.1 will remain until the first quarter of 2015. TaiG is now waiting for Apple to public release the new firmware update. Even though the current version of jailbreak tool supports iOS 8.2, TaiG has disabled it and waiting until releases iOS 8.2.

Also, TaiG has launched a Twitter account @TaiG_Jailbreak in order to communicate well with English audience. The English TaiG iOS jailbreak tool can be downloaded at TaiG.com/en. You can refer to this tutorial link to know how to perform iOS jailbreak using the TaiG tool.

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iOS 8 Review: Is It Worth Installing?

By Apple’s count, sixty percent of iOS users have moved to the company’s iOS 8 update. This means that there are still a ton of iPhone and iPad users lingering on iOS 7.1.2 and below. With more than two months of iOS 8 use under our belts, on a number of different devices we might add, we want to take a detailed look at iOS 8 and help those of you on iOS 7 and below over the fence. This is our iOS 8 review, more than two months later.

Last year, Apple introduced the biggest change to iOS since its inception. The iOS 7 update brought about some remarkable changes to Apple’s iOS design and it also delivered a number of new features to iPhone and iPad. iOS 7 was a massive update and one that many iPhone and iPad users installed onto their device replacing the company’s previous versions of the operating system.

Every year, Apple introduces a new version of its mobile operating system so as we moved away from the iOS 7 release, we knew that the company was hard at work on its successor. In June, Apple put that successor on display for the first time, confirming its next update as iOS 8. iOS 8, unsurprisingly, was not the complete overhaul that iOS 7 was and when the update arrived this past September, it wasn’t greeted with the same mass hysteria.

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Four Months After Acquisition, Square Launches iOS App For Food Delivery Service Caviar

Over the summer, Square purchased food delivery startup Caviar. Today, it’s making ordering on the service even easier with the launch of a mobile app.

Square announced the acquisition of the curated food delivery service in August for a reported $90 million. Since then, the service has been adding new markets that it’s available in and now has an iOS app to enable customers to place orders from their mobile phones.

Caviar differentiates from most other food delivery services by partnering with highly rated, mostly fancy restaurants. The company works with those restaurants to become their exclusive delivery provider, arguing that it can enable restaurants to serve new customers while providing a better quality of experience to end users.

The service also let users to share a link with others so they could add together food requests under a single order. That particular feature is popular with the work lunch crowd, as office workers combined orders that would be delivered together.

Until now, however, Caviar’s service was only available on the web. The launch of an iOS app will change that, putting it on par with a number of other food delivery apps that have sprung up over the past few years. Like many of those apps, Caviar will allow users to see the status of their delivery and follow along the courier’s route.

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The iOS 8 Widget Restrictions Don’t Make Any Sense

One of the things we most looked forward to in iOS 8 was widgets. A longtime Android feature, Apple introduced widgets as a part of Notification Center, which you access with a downward swipe from the top of the screen. By giving third party apps access to this coveted space, users could quickly glean information about their day and more efficiently navigate their smartphone experience.
Except that it seems Apple is still undecided about what’s allowed in a widget, and what’s not. Apple rejected an update to the app Drafts this week because the buttons in the widget redirect the user back to the app in order to process or complete tasks. This is supposedly not allowed under section 25.1 of the App Review Guidelines, which state “Apps hosting extensions must comply with the App Extension Programming Guide”—except that the text in this programming guide don’t seem to explicitly say this function isn’t allowed.

Drafts’ developer Greg Pierce was told Notification Center’s Today View is to be used for informational purposes only. (Pierce was not told to remove the buttons from Drafts’ widget or his app would be removed from the App Store, as other stories have reported.) The app’s widget has remained relatively unchanged since October 15 and has undergone three prior app updates without issue, so the sudden rejection was surprising.

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