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IOS h8

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I suspect you may need an article on iOS 8 fixes shortly. My iPad is having problems accessing the server since I put on iOS 8, and so is my son’s. Both my iPhone 5s and my Mac go online fine and the phone has iOS 8 on it so it must be a glitch in the iPad setup. There is already a steady build-up of questions online and this isn’t even mentioning the Shellshock problem. Have Apple rushed this out too quickly and is there a way back to iOS 7? I can imagine there will be a lot of very unhappy iPad users out there. Shame as this does not help Apple’s good name. David Simpson Paul Blachford says: We haven’t had any problems with iOS 8 on any of our iPads, so it’s hard to know what’s going wrong with your set-up here, David. Apple has been quick to release small updates and fixes for iOS 8, though, so hopefully that has solved most of the biggest problems. I should quickly mention ‘Shellshock’ though. This was the nickname given to a security exploit in Bash, a Unix command interface. First, Shellshock didn’t affect iOS, as far as we’re aware, and only affected Macs if they had some advanced Unix configurat­ions active, according to Apple. Apple has since patched OS X to remove the bug. Given the nature of the show, it’s not really a surprise to see Apple products show up frequently on C4’s Grand Designs. Funnily enough, in the episode in which we spotted this MacBook Pro, an impressive round house with a central garden is being built – sort

of a smaller version of Apple’s new headquarte­rs!

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