List here what you DO NOT like on 8.1.

[t.mehoves]

I used think the games should list under apps, until it was so. Now I think it should be an option as it is awful.

 

[rndtan]

I wish I could disable action center on the lock screen. I don't want someone being able to turn off Wi-Fi. I already removed airplane mode but, it should still be an option. Even a reduced set of options on the lock screen.

 

[rockstarzzz]

I wish I could disable action center on the lock screen. I don't want someone being able to turn off Wi-Fi. I already removed airplane mode but, it should still be an option. Even a reduced set of options on the lock screen.

You can disable it. It's in setting. I went through all of these 300+ posts and most of the things people are "disliking" are due to sheer ignorance. People go away with your phones and please play with it. Explore the new layout and menu options. Half the stuff has solutions that are better than before!! The only genuine bug is Xbox music. We have tons more option than we ever had in any WP update since 2010.

 

[gleneston]

Why Microsoft? Why cant we just use one account to store email, calendar, and contacts? I imported my contacts from google to my microsoft (.live) account and still see no contacts on windows phone.. Am i doing something wrong here?

 

[anon(5445874)]

Because it sucks. The music player in WP8 was the last remaining bit of the old Zune, and now it's gone. It's as if MS has worked hard to make Xbox Music suck just as much on the phone as it does on the desktop.

Actually the newest xbox music app on windows 8.1 is awesome. I use it everyday without problems. They moved the xbox apps outside of the phone so they can be updated at faster rates, so let's just give them a lot of feedback that it needs fixing and it'll happen.

 

[freshair]

- the removal the quick "set phone to vibrate" toggle. the new vibrate toggle is present, but it doesn't silence all the volumes
- the removal of the facebook/one drive albums in the photos hub
- "background tasks" for quickly disabling apps. now you have to go into battery saver manually and there's a few steps to 'show all apps'

 

[wp_hero]

How to disable Games Update everytime i open the games hub?, damn lags so much

 

[Detectionable]

The update is NOT buggy. There is not a single case that hasn't been fixed with a hard reset of phone. No matter what you think it is, all you guys need is a hard reset and clean phone. My three phones are all updated and running butter smooth. 920, 925 and 720.

I performed a hard reset after updating and all was peachy, but now my screenshots don't work, it makes the sound and flashes the screen, but at the top it says "...

haha, typical - just took a screenshot to see exactly the error and it's started working again - anyway, it was something like "Could not save screenshot" - it was doing it for a couple hours even after a reboot

Cool, working again now, no bugs any more

 

[GlideAU]

WP8.1 is confused by gmail accounts where the username is different from the email address.
For example I have user@domain.com but my actual outgoing email (google apps) address is user@anotherdomain.com

WP simply would not work with this configuration and refused to sync email. So I had to delete it and add it as a regular imap account.

 

[Terry a1]

Anyone update their 521? I can't find a single post about who did. I want to know if it's buggy or not.

Doing it now.

 

[osoalex]

Games in app list drive me crazy, I don't like that clutter.

 

[unstoppablekem]

What the guy said above me, that the games are in the regular app list. I liked it before, when it was in the games hub...

 

[Doomguy]

Quiet hours only available when Cortana is turned on - that does not make any sense to me. Especially strange as it is not even available in most of the world...

This is probably the stupidest thing ever. Why would they do that? This is basic stuff.

 

[Zacharyw70]

This is probably the stupidest thing ever. Why would they do that? This is basic stuff.

Was wondering how come I couldn't use Facebook/Twitter in the people Hub then I realized I needed to log into my accounts again. Now they work fine, messaging and checking in.

 

[Elvis7]

Yeah one of my favorite things was fb messenger in messaging hub, so so lame.

Ya me too, I loved that feature!

 

[CrossedFaith]

Lack of any kind of file manager.

^This. I think this is the ONLY gripe I have so far.

Also for those with a 521, I have a 521 and did the update.

I did the update, did a hard reset, and boom. Everything worked great.

You can try without a hard reset...let everything update/install/etc, and reboot your phone and see if it helps, I'm just the type who resets stuff a lot

Edit:

Before I forget, for ME personally, WiFi calling was broken. So I turned it off and uninstalled the app. Before you uninstall the app, make sure you turn it off. Else it will be stuck on for some reason...

 

[JCtheGreat]

Music is a huge disappointment. No beautiful backgrounds for me now.

 

[Zacharyw70]

Overall besides my temper tantrum at how crappy the Music app is I quite like Windows Phone 8.1
Think I'm going to start doing some price browsing and pick up a L1520 in the coming week. :excited:

 

[jasqid]

The update is NOT buggy. There is not a single case that hasn't been fixed with a hard reset of phone. No matter what you think it is, all you guys need is a hard reset and clean phone. My three phones are all updated and running butter smooth. 920, 925 and 720.

I did a hard rest and I did not use the backup. I started fresh. My battery is still falling faster than a loaded dump truck off a cliff.
I have a feeling that this will be fixed by a firmware update in the coming months.

 

[thecaringkind]

The Headline news under Cortana. For the love of mike can someone PLEASE tell me that I can remove FOX 'News' as one of the site Cortana pulls from to give me headline updates. I DESPISE Fox news and its gotta be one of the WORST sources of ANY kind of information available on the planet. PLEASE tell me we can tweak this.