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Got an iPhone or iPad? iOS 8 has arrived for you to download

Those with an iPhone 4S or newer will be able to download the new version of iOS, but make sure you have 3GB of space free.

APPLE HAS RELEASED the latest update to its smartphone operating system, iOS 8, to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners.

The update is available for those who have an iPhone 4s or better, an iPad 2 or better, and a 5th generation iPod Touch. Older devices will not be compatible with the update.

To download the update, you must go into settings > General > System Updates and you will have the option of downloading it.

Make sure you have 3GB free on your phone, backup your info on iCloud, and make sure your device is connected to a charger before you start the download as it will likely take a few minutes.

You can do something else while that’s happening, right?

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While the update doesn’t bring any major updates visually, the real improvements are underneath. For one, the notification centre will offer widgets for the first time, and you will be able to carry out actions whenever any notifications appear.

Developers will be able to offer their own third-party keyboards for the first time, and QuickType, which is an updated version of its own keyboard which will bring predictive typing to iOS users.

iOS 8 compatability The list of devices compatible with iOS 8. Apple.com / iOS Apple.com / iOS / iOS

Messaging has been reworked with push-to-record self-destructing audio and video messages, while Siri now has Shazam integrations, 22 new dictation languages and can be activated by saying ‘Hey, Siri’, similar to Google Now.

The most noticeable addition is a new app called Health, which brings all of your health and fitness data together, providing an overview and breakdown by using different apps and services.

Read: 7 preposterous revelations from the iPhone 6 reviews >

Read: Cook: Apple has no interest in gathering user data >

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    Mute David Evans
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:58 PM

    Or, you know… Update it through iTunes so you don’t have to make 3GB of space…

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    Mute paperboy
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:26 PM

    Can you tell me how?

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    Mute David Evans
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:32 PM
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    Mute paperboy
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:42 PM

    Cheers

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    Mute joan donnellan
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:46 PM

    Thanks David!

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    Mute Mick Roach
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:45 PM

    In other words…it’s useless!

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    Mute David Higgins
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:51 PM

    I had to delete Spotify, Shazam, Snapchat, Facebook, Runkeeper, Twitter, Viber, Crome, Messenger, and half my photos just to allow for the 4.7GB required space.

    It would have been ideal for Apple to backup these apps to the cloud, update the device, then put them back.
    Now I’ll have to re-download all those apps again.

    I hope it’s worth it.

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    Mute Will
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:01 PM

    There’s an option in your ‘Purchased’ app on the app store called ‘Not on this iPhone’

    In 9 taps you’ll have exactly what you described above

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    Mute Mark Byrne
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:17 PM

    Should’ve plugged it into iTunes and done it that way.

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    Mute David Higgins
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:20 PM

    Should have said “had to delete” to update “without computer”.

    A small complaint, but then again it’s the small, nice things that make certain technology better than the rest :)

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    Mute Ciarán Doyle
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    Sep 17th 2014, 11:43 PM

    Certain technology better than the rest???

    Your using an iPhone so i wouldn’t talk about good technology. Just google iPhone6 vs Nexus 4 and see what a rip off apple are.

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:18 PM

    If you had loaded it via itunes you wouldn’t have needed to have deleted all that stuff

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    Mute paperboy
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:50 PM

    3GB!!!

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    Mute One Human Being
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:53 PM

    Wait a week just incase it’s a pile of shite and there is too many crap bugs.

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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:49 PM

    957mb and no visual updates! Will it remove the poxy U2 album which broke my playlist?

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    Mute Warren Collier
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:54 PM

    3gb for what? Same shit different update. Apple is boring. Greetings from a galaxy user muah hahaha

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    Mute Malachi Shanks
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:47 PM

    I think we have all learnt that installing the up date on old iPhones is not good !

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    Mute Darragh O Meara
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:45 PM

    Probably best to leave it til tomorrow or the day after. The numbers trying to update at the moment will be huge and therefore will take ages.

    Hopefully there’ll be no bugs, was it IOS6 update that caused the alarm clocks to stop working??

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    Mute Karl Aisbitt
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:20 PM

    What kind of cretims are Apple ? I just had to delete 6.4gb of apps and stuff to make room for a 900mb update ?? I had 2 gb free on purpose !! I swear to god my next tablet will be android !

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:21 PM

    Karl, if you were savvy enough to download via itunes then you wouldn’t have needed to moan and whinge here

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    Mute Ariana
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:21 PM

    About 3 hours remaining…

    Not going to bed till this is done.

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    Mute Liam Dooley
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:32 PM

    Jealous! I’ve supposedly got 22 hours remaining! Its going to be a long night :(

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    Mute Ariana
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:46 PM

    Usually my internet’s a piece of crap, YouTube barely streaming at 144px.

    It picked a good day to pick up, for now…

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    Mute Dee Dillon
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:07 PM

    It’s 1.1GB but it needs 5.7GB to go through the motions to get it installed… unless you connect to iTunes!

    I did it earlier in my 5S. Not a whole lot of things are different.

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    Mute Brendan Rice
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:28 PM

    Got the 4S updated successfully to iOS 8. Doing a complete restore on the phone a few weeks ago probably helped too.

    All the fonts are smaller in the system settings, new autocorrect suggestions popping up as you type and additional keyboard installed. Why is Bluetooth always re-enabled after OS updates? :/

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    Mute pad mul
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    Sep 17th 2014, 11:50 PM

    god forbid you’d have to take a few seconds out of your day (after waiting the lengthy time an update takes) to disable bluetooth.

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    Mute Hung Xi
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:34 PM

    The Journal needs to update their app for iOS 8. I’m having problem with it on an iPhone. It works fine on an iPad.

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    Mute howzatme
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    Sep 17th 2014, 8:52 PM

    I assume it will change the colours of apps again these geeks must be dancing with joy

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    Mute Arthur Pewty
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    Sep 18th 2014, 1:19 AM

    i would advise anyone with a 4s to not update it. iOS 8 will slow it down considerably.

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    Mute Clive Hand
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    Sep 18th 2014, 6:53 AM

    It’s working fine

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:24 PM

    Mine is too

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    Mute Aasif
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:30 PM

    An ipad without a jailbreak is useless no Xbmc etc. i won’t be downloading ios8

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    Mute Pip White
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:59 PM

    Go android. . . . . . . . .

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    Mute Bedwyr Owen
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    Sep 18th 2014, 2:17 AM

    I think I’m still on the ios 5. Should I be pleased with myself?

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    Mute tomeenoldstock
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:02 PM

    Iv 8 mins left in my update with the last hour.

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    Mute Anton
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    Sep 18th 2014, 12:07 AM

    Ye’re getting predictive text? Ye don’t have to use the default keyboard anymore?

    Wait, iOS is copying Android again? Well – copying Android from 4 years ago…

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    Mute Michelle Ní Dhubhlaíocht
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:54 PM

    How come it’s not available on iPhone 4?

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    Mute P O Leary
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    Sep 17th 2014, 9:59 PM

    Because apple want you to buy a new phone.

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    Mute Brian Costigan
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:26 PM

    Because it’s not 2010.

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    Mute Andy
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:42 PM

    Because it’s a four year old phone and doesn’t have the hardware to support any of the upgrades.

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    Mute Gary Stewart
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    Sep 18th 2014, 12:41 AM

    But their technology is.

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:21 PM

    It’s too old

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:23 PM

    Po thats not the reason, it’s because the older phones just don’t have sufficient software to accept the iOS

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    Mute Michelle Ní Dhubhlaíocht
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:45 PM

    Thanks, I had a fair idea it was to do with the phone been older. Not enough to send me running to upgrade though :)

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    Mute neuromancer
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    Sep 18th 2014, 2:32 AM

    I’ve had numerous iPhones 3/3gs/4/4s/5. Then something happened. I got sick of Apple, just that tiny bit different each time, but nothing to be excited about.

    When all you apple users move to Android, and one day you will, you will understand what I mean when I say apple is not good.

    Apple lacks something, it’s lacks customisation, it lacks a uniqness, it lacks invention.

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    Mute Shades Wexford
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    Sep 18th 2014, 7:56 AM

    Have to say I disagree. I moved from Apple a few years ago and bought a Samsung Galaxy S3. Seriously bad move. Hated the phone and Samsung left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time as update after update ruined the phone and it became a slow mess. Apple all the way now.

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    Mute neuromancer
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    Sep 18th 2014, 8:47 AM

    When did you change to iPhone?

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    Mute Shades Wexford
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    Sep 18th 2014, 9:15 AM

    Got the 5s a few months ago. Why?

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    Mute Hung Xi
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    Sep 18th 2014, 10:09 AM

    I use both

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    Mute neuromancer
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    Sep 18th 2014, 10:32 AM

    Well if you had the S3 from new, it could have been cluttered and slow with updates to apps requiring more space and ram usage. This happens to all phones. Give the 5s some time and it will function the same.

    All new phones work best when new. But my point really is, is that the new iPhones are running on technology from years ago. They might be in a shiney new case, but the components are outdated.

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 18th 2014, 4:24 PM

    It lacks you, and is probably happy it is

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    Mute Andrew Matheson
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    Sep 17th 2014, 10:51 PM

    The only part of the update I wanted was the landscape home screen!

    Guess that was reserved for the 6 :-(

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    Mute Marty Donaghy
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    Sep 18th 2014, 2:18 AM

    Omg apple have made such a leap in there software again. It took a whole year to make these ground breaking updates.

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    Mute Val
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    Sep 18th 2014, 12:03 AM

    I’m gonna wait until there’s a new version of Redsn0w out before I download..

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    Mute ☆♬Andrew Byrne ♬☆
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    Sep 18th 2014, 3:38 PM

    Update by connecting to iTunes on pc / laptop and won’t have to delete anything.

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    Mute Cee Fos
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    Sep 18th 2014, 11:37 AM

    I have a 5s & it’s only giving me the option to download 7.1.2 … Not 8?? Do I need to update it first to 7.1.2?

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    Mute Gavin Scott
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    Sep 18th 2014, 10:33 AM

    Ahh. Whatsapp is crashing all the time since update. Bollocks

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    Mute Daddy De La Noche
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    Sep 18th 2014, 10:49 AM

    Actually you need 5.7GB of free space and this update took me 14 hours, I never thought an OS update would take so long

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