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For me when it rebooted to do a reset all settings the progress bar hardly moved before it froze. After a hard reset using the home and power button it progressed to about half way before it froze again. Any attempt after that yielded the same results. Im just glad its not my phone that was playing up and that it IS a bug in the software.

I'm having exactly the same issues, the strange thing is that a lot of people are saying that resetting all settings solves most of their problems so it seems to be an issue only affecting select phones. 

 

I've waited around half an hour with no movement :( Ah well, just hope I can successfully restore it. 

Beta 2, has gotten more unstable the more I use it. Best bet is to revert back to 7.1.1 or live with the issues until beta 3 (hopefully next week)

 

Another bug that I found was when deleting photos. They seem to disappear from the Photos app but stay on the device. I removed all pics from stream and gallery and it still showed 1.9GB of space used. 

 

Also full size contact pics are back, but glitchy. :D

On my iPod touch I've been experiencing random freezes in several iOS as well as third party apps.  Much more so than I experienced in Beta 1.  Not as many outright crashes, but the freezes are perhaps even more annoying than the crashes were, given their frequency and duration.

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Shift key activated:

 

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Shift key deactivated:

 

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Uhg I hate this. I'm never sure if it is pressed or de-pressed.

Will "Hey Siri" work on all devices that support Siri? Seems like one of those "only latest and greatest hardware" features...  Will it work on my iPad 3 and iPhone 5?

Wow, GM on 4S is a huge dissapointment. Very laggy and slow, I'll wait for a JB to see if it improves things, but I have a feeling that I'll go back to 7. Oh, and about that predictive thing on the keyboard, only English is supported?!?!

 

EDIT: Nvm, it seems there's prediction for my language too, but limited...I'm waiting for SwiftKey...

must be you siri works fine here unplugged/plugged in

 

Was this changed before release?  According to this article, it needs to be plugged in. But this was written during the beta.  Maybe they improved it since?  Not sure I'd want to ever bother with it if it is a battery drain.  But, to be honest, this was actually one of the few new features I was looking forward to.

 

Source: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/ios-8-features-hey-siri-vs-ok-google-apples-virtual-assistant-finally-good-androids-374012

 

The always-listening feature does draw a lot of power, but Apple has addressed this by only making it available when the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is plugged in.

Anyone have any experience with the GM on the iPad 3 or an iPhone 5?

 

Lots of folks complaining about lag which is odd considering how positive the sentiment was in the later betas (based on what I read online, no first hand knowledge here).

 

iphone 5 here.  it works pretty good.  

Was this changed before release?  According to this article, it needs to be plugged in. But this was written during the beta.  Maybe they improved it since?  Not sure I'd want to ever bother with it if it is a battery drain.  But, to be honest, this was actually one of the few new features I was looking forward to.

 

Source: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/ios-8-features-hey-siri-vs-ok-google-apples-virtual-assistant-finally-good-androids-374012

 

 

 i tested it on 3 different iphone 5s & they all work with no issues 

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