List here what you DO NOT like on 8.1.

[SpaceyO]

Is it just my phone, or can you no longer position the cursor in text by holding?? Seems like a bug??

On my phone now, press and hold places the cursor with a little circle underneath...like when you select a word and can grab one of the circles and extend or shorten your selection. You can grab this little circle and drag it around to reposition the cursor.

 

[Adretheon]

Is there no "Mute" option any more ?

Quiet hours is the new mute. Just toggle it in the Action center.

 

[Zacharyw70]

What? I still have it

Yeah same here, not sure if it was removed for certain phones or if he is looking in the wrong spot.

Question: In IE10 most websites would use their desktop version even if I had "Prefer Mobile Version" checked, noticing the same thing is happening with IE11 so what nothing changed? Websites in particular are IGN.com and Tomshardware.com in case anyone wants to replicate.

 

[DennisvdG]

This is just a tiny gripe but why are the numbers which indicate the volume now white instead of your accent colour? I liked the accent colour better...

 

[MikeSo]

Quiet hours is the new mute. Just toggle it in the Action center.

No, it's not. There is mute - you click the symbol of the volume you want to mute.

 

[SpaceyO]

What? I still have it

You're responding to a post from early this afternoon...the problem was solved 3 pages later

 

[Detectionable]

No, it's not. There is mute - you click the symbol of the volume you want to mute.

Yea, now it's 3 clicks instead of 1 to mute everything

 

[Zacharyw70]

Found a music alternative. Oddly enough Nokia Music allows me to access all of my stored music in the same view that the old music app did, and I can click and play every song even when the "New" Xbox Music app is saying I don't have the license to play them. Once again Nokia saves the day, and what's really pathetic is Microsoft is supposed to be "The" software company so I don't even know how Nokia's Music app is ahead of their's.

 

[worldspy99]

It's just me, or there is no way to upload selected pictures to OneDrive from the pictures hub?

I don't know about it because I have auto upload everything in full high resolution to my OneDrive account.

 

[inteller]

it's not but you gotta do the work around. Create a room in your people hub and share to the room. The pics will be in onedrive inside a folder with the room name.

that should not be the answer!

 

[worldspy99]

For VZW phones it is a problem. For my 810 the option to turn vibrate off on the keys shows up in the touch setting.

 

[MikeSo]

Looks like now the easiest method is to just tap at the end of the message to get the cursor and move it from the little circle that shows up.

I liked that holding method way better. Or maybe I was just used to it.

You can hold down and get the cursor with the ring too. I like the way it works now much more. Although text selection is one of those things that iOS does very well, thanks to the magnifying effect, this is very good in WP8.1 too.

 

[Adretheon]

that should not be the answer!

But for now it is. Odds are its not working cause Onedrive hasn't been updated for 8.1. Once they update it it'll work just like it always has. So for now you just have to take the 10 seconds it takes to make a room.

 

[david90531]

How do you change the temperature in Cortana and Calendar app from Fahrenheit to Celsius? I can do it in the (Bing) Weather app but in Cortana and Calendar app they show temperature in oF.

The only way to do it for now (i think) is to ask her to show the weather in celcius.. this is of course because it's localized in US only. So something like "Show me the weather in celcius"

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[wtrmlnjuc]

For me the exact opposite is true; one thing I love about 8.1 is having the Status bar always there. Maybe it comes from my familiarity with iOS & Android; I don't know.

I'm disappointed that in 8.1 emailing attachments didn't change. How is WP supposed to be taken seriously as a business tool?

Windows Phone is supposed to reduce items that aren't needed. It only shows you things when you need to worry about them. It was nice.

 

[inteller]

uh...WHAT?

 

[david90531]

Found a music alternative. Oddly enough Nokia Music allows me to access all of my stored music in the same view that the old music app did, and I can click and play every song even when the "New" Xbox Music app is saying I don't have the license to play them. Once again Nokia saves the day, and what's really pathetic is Microsoft is supposed to be "The" software company so I don't even know how Nokia's Music app is ahead of their's.

Nokia music always plays local music quite well. It is a shame now that it does it better than XBox music.
Alternative good 3rd party music apps for you guys:
-Listen
-Music Wall
-Cool Music Player
-iMusic

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[johnson_patrickw]

Check the id tags for the mp3 file...

Tags are all correct unfortunately

 

[Zacharyw70]

I guess Cortana's ability to use conversation needs work. That or I'm just saying the wrong things. First asked for the weather which she gave me, then on a search suggestion I asked for it in Paris (Which she pulled up lightning fast) then I asked for tomorrow's forecast, and she gave me France's forecast instead. So I asked for "What about at my location" and instead she opened the my location app.

 

[AV2RY]

Not from the Pictures Hub, some people have said they have the option to share to OneDrive but some of us (Including me) don't have the option, only way to upload them is from OneDrive directly.

I don't have any option at all. When I open Onedrive app and try to upload it gives me error right after I select One picture. It says "1 file can't be uploaded". Then I press on "More info" it says: All files were successfully uploaded. But its not there