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Apple tried to fix the bugs and close the holes in iOS 8 by releasing iOS 8.0.1. The update kind of did the opposite, though, leading to more fixes Thursday morning._ by [Techlicious](https://time.com/author/techlicious/) ## Techlicious Sep 26, 2014 2:30 PM UTC by [Techlicious](https://time.com/author/techlicious/) ## Techlicious Sep 26, 2014 2:30 PM UTC Whether you’ve got a new [iPhone 6](http://www.techlicious.com/apple-iphone-6/) or you’re happy holding on to your iPhone 5 or 5S, Apple’s mobile operating system update [iOS 8](http://www.techlicious.com/guide/apple-ios-8-operating-system-guide/) is great. There are a ton of useful new features like family sharing, swipe-to-respond notifications and the data-aggregating health app. But not everything about the update is sunshine and gumdrops – there are some annoying new features, too. Thankfully, many of these annoyances are just new default settings. You can switch a lot of these defaults back to the way they were in iOS 7, and without much effort. Here are five of the most common complaints people have with Apple’s mobile operating system update, and the five best ways to fix or work around them. ## Turn Off Handoffs If you have an Apple iPad, iPod Touch or MacBook that uses your Apple ID, you may start to automatically get phone calls on all these devices. You can easily turn this off on some or all of them if you choose. Just enter into each individual gadget’s Settings menu, tap FaceTime and then turn off iPhone Cellular Calls. ## Hide Recent Contacts Personally, I like the upper row of friends and family pictures that come up when I double tap my home button. It provides easy access to your Favorites and those you’ve contacted recently. But if you don’t want people snooping on whom you’ve been calling and texting recently or you prefer the old iOS 7 version without those circular pictures, you can shut it off from the Settings menu. Just tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap Show in App Switcher (under Contacts). Turn off both toggles.  Apple ## Deleting Your Photos No Longer Actually Deletes Them The Photos app in iOS 8 now comes with a Recently Deleted folder, which houses the snapshots you’ve chosen to delete for 30 days before they’re completely deleted from your device. This is nice to save you from accidentally deleting important photos, but terrible if there’s a photo you want deleted completely and immediately. Once you delete a snapshot from your main folder, be sure you also go into the Recently Deleted folder to select it and then delete it for good. ## Stop Voice and Video Messages from Self Destructing Sending and receiving short audio messages via iMessage is a lot of fun, but due to file size restraints, those items are quickly auto-deleted from your phone. You can change this to save those messages indefinitely by default if you’d like. Enter your phone’s Settings, tap Messages and then tap Settings. Tap Keep Messages, then change the Audio Messages and Video Expiration time to never. But before you do, I’d urge you to strongly consider signing up for free cloud storage from a secondary provider to iCloud. I like the 30 GB free allotment currently offered by [Microsoft OneDrive](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/microsoft-onedrive-camera-roll-bonus-offer-cloud-storage/). It’s the best way to keep all that media, plus your own personal photos and videos, saved indefinitely without needing to [pay for more iCloud storage](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/apple-icloud-price-drop-for-iphone-6/) or pay more for a phone with a larger drive. ## Turn Off Predictive Text I found the new Predictive Text feature to be a lot of fun in the first few hours of iOS 8, but its novelty wore off quickly when it proved more distracting than useful. Thankfully, it’s easily turned off. Enter your settings app, tap General, then tap Keyboard. Toggle Predictive off, and the deed is done. _This article was written by Fox Van Allen and_ [_originally appeared on Techlicious_](http://www.techlicious.com/tip/fixing-apple-ios-8-problems-with-iphone-6/)_._ **More from Techlicious:** * [What You Need to Know about the ‘Shellshock Bash’ Bug](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/shellshock-bash-vulnerability-os-x-linux/) * [Car Lenders Turn to Remote Disabling Devices for Missed Payments](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/car-loan-remote-car-disabling/) * [Apple Apologizes for iOS 8.0.1 Bugs, Offers Workaround](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/apple-ios-8-0-1-cell-service-touch-id-bug/) * [The iPhone Keyboards You Need to Download Now](http://www.techlicious.com/tip/the-iphone-keyboards-you-need-to-download-now/) * [How to Charge Your iPhone 6 Faster](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/iphone-6-fast-charge-ipad-power-adapter/) ## Transcript So Apple tried to fix the bugs and close the holes in iOS 8 by releasing iOS 8. 0. 1. The update kind of did the opposite though. Apple pulled 8. 0. 1 Wednesday about an hour after releasing it, amid reports of serious issues with the software. CNET says some people who downloaded the update reported their iPhones were not connected to a cellular network. And Apple's fingerprint. Phone unlock feature touch id wasn't working either. Here's what 8. 0. 1 was supposed to fix according to USA Today. Apple's fix was supposed to open things up so that HealthKit apps could be made available in the App Store. Apple also addressed an issue where third- party keyboards could be deselected. When a user entered a passcode. And 8. 0. 1 fixes an issue that had prevented some apps from accessing photos in your photo library. But while it's a bit of an annoyance, commentors for CNBC didn't see it as a big deal. The update is a complete blip non- event they'll fix it very quickly. If you think back over the last seven years they've had antenna- gate right and they had Siri- gate and they had maps- gate and they had a lot of things and it didn't really affect anything. And sure enough Apple has issued a new fix for the update problems. It's pointing affected customers to its support website. Where they can re- download I0S 8. 0 and return to stability. The issues predominantly affected those with the iPhone 6 or 6 plus, and not so much those with older iPhones. But Apple says it does have plans to get IOS 8. 0. 2 out the door quickly. And the company says this version will be. More stable. Now if they could just do something about the iPhone 6 plus bending. 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