Apple’s iOS 8, the biggest release since the launch of the App Store, will be available starting Wednesday, September 17 to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free software update.
iOS 8 delivers a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience with new Messages and Photos features, predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType™ keyboard and Family Sharing. iOS 8 also includes the new Health app, giving you a clear overview of your health and fitness data and iCloud Drive℠, so you can store files and access them from anywhere. With more than 4,000 new APIs, iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features and robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit.
iOS 8 will be available as a free software update starting Wednesday, September 17 for iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air, iPad mini and iPad mini with Retina display at or around the following times:
Apple’s iOS 8 release times worldwide:
Fire up the extra servers, Apple. Here we come!
But, but, will there be a problem with file sharing between our iOS8 and Macs with iCloud Drive? Does it not require both iOS8 and Yosemite to function and Yosemite is not out yet! Saw somebody mention that at some time somewhere in the cloud 😉 Please correct if wrong
I suppose until Yosemite comes out you will have to use the web based iCloud to get your docs.
Just got a msg indicating Apple will notify when I can update to ios8. Servers must be slammed
All devices backed up and ready to go – at noon local.
It’ll probably take about 5 hours to download as everyone will be trying.
Is your glass always half empty?
People claiming its a 3gb download.. Multiply that by how many people want it the second it drops.. Going to take a while.
I won’t even be able to attempt to install it until late tonight, so it will probably go smooth for me 😉
JJ’s statement didn’t seem overly negative. Just an accurate statement that Apple’s servers are understandably overloaded at this peak time.
Yeah, this is going to be a massive bandwidth stress test for the Internet as a whole. LOL How many hundreds of millions of devices is this release supposed to support? 500? 600?
I think it wasn’t until the next day last year, that I was able to get it downloaded and installed.
I guess I’m just a wimp, but I always wait a few days before taking the plunge. I check out reports of how it’s working for others with the same iOS devices that I have… just in case. This has saved me some trouble once or twice.
I’m recommending my family wait for x.01, but I’m savvy enough to dive right in.
I also don’t have any deadline projects going on right now.
Waiting a little really isnt a bad idea. Finding out where the bugs are can save u a lot of wasted time. Still, it ain’t easy to wait.
Will the iOS 8 distribution see some better than historical performance because of this?
I will wait until the weekend. That way if there is a major issue I will have time to fix it. Also the demand on the servers will be lower and the download will be faster.
You guy are amazing. A Chart for Launch Times!😉
Mine became available at 11:53CST. Downloading now. WOW! Needs 5.7GB of free space to install on iPhone 5s…
I checked with iTunes after it was supposed to go live for my city. No joy.
Then I went over to the phone and clicked software update and it was available there: 1.1 GB for my 5s.
Yes, the download was 1.1GB in size, but needed 5.7GB of free space to install…
Downloading now 3 minutes to go and glad I bought additional storage!
Downloading and installing in The Netherlands right now 🙂