List here what you DO NOT like on 8.1.

[jwinch2]

I have a Lumia 521 with the Dev. Preview. When I hit the volume rocker, while playing music, I get to see which song I'm on. Then when I hit the forward button, to switch to the next song, it lags, and I never get to see what the next song is. Windows Phone 8 didn't have such a lag, and I could switch the songs almost instantly. Small Gripe.

MS already announced that there will be an update to xbox music soon so hopefully that will take care of your issues.

 

[jwinch2]

Nice!

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[SilhouetteBS]

Has anyone else noticed that holding your finger on the screen when writing a text or email no longer brings up the cursor so you can precisely select where you want the cursor?

 

[jwinch2]

Has anyone else noticed that holding your finger on the screen when writing a text or email no longer brings up the cursor so you can precisely select where you want the cursor?

There was some discussion earlier in the thread about that. I think you can still do it, they just changed how.

 

[emyxsoft]

Has anyone else noticed that holding your finger on the screen when writing a text or email no longer brings up the cursor so you can precisely select where you want the cursor?

You have to drag the little circle under the cursor. It works better like that in my opinion.

 

[Adretheon]

Has anyone said single select emoji? Used to be able to click as many as i want before sending message

no you still can. there's a setting for that in keyboard.

 

[iOS Gravity]

This big of a thread after 4 days...

 

[person of interest]

Can't change default browser.

 

[wpbazaar]

Can't disable swipe left/right in wp8.1 version of ie11. Some sites are horizontally paged (Mashable, Jolidrive) and it's very easy to accidentally go back. Hugely frustrating

Actually Mashable is pretty much unviewable now

 

[mrllano]

^ how do the swipe left and right works? I didn't know it

 

[smf98aggie]

Yes, you are right about that. My apologies I suppose they had to change it to be able to add Speed Dial to the Dialer app.

Touching the phone book under PHONE will take you to the CALL A CONTACT page. So the only way to edit contact is thru the PEOPLE link or HISTORY link.

 

[Shawn Magm]

Nothing major. These are very minor niggles. Overall, I like the new features.

1. Having to go to camera - lenses to get to the QR reader. I liked how pressing the search button and the eye icon brought up the QR reader. Again, nothing major.
2. There is no album art on Xbox music for the songs from my collection, but this may be fixed in the future.
3. In the photos hub, I liked how pictures were in the background wallpaper rather than a black background.

 

[AV2RY]

This big of a thread after 4 days...

I disn't expect even 10comments when I started this thread))

 

[ALpHa.Q.RoUgH]

The fact that when I do a hard reset, I always manage to take a screenshot. I like the old way to D a screenshot better.

 

[Nimdock]

no you still can. there's a setting for that in keyboard.

Damn it, I didn't know. I thought they had just changed it and was cursing every time I went to the emoticon screen.

Nice!

 

[Tansen]

Agreed, actually. It might not be quite as fluid and quick and the old music hub, but functionality is much better. I think the biggest leap was to make it a separate app that wasn't built into the system, that way they could update it more frequently and more easily.

 

[IrelandCeltic]

Slightly annoying that I can longer Share to Twitter from apps anymore.

 

[Nimdock]

Slightly annoying that I can longer Share to Twitter from apps anymore.

It's already possible with the Twitter Beta. Unfortunately they took it down last night (some of us were lucky to get it) but that means the stable app should be updated relatively soon and you will regain the functionality.

 

[DennisvdG]

Can you turn off the feature to swipe left and right for previous and next page in IE11?

 

[Mayur M Naravani]

IE 11 not able to open images attached in email of Gmail's account.... And it will crash while handling the gmail... Please fix it..