10 Things to Know About the iPhone 5 iOS 8.4 Update

Its been one full week since Apple released the iPhone 5 iOS 8.4 update, an update that brings Apple Music and a collection of enhancements and fixes to the aging former flagship. With a week under our belts, we want to take a final look at the most important things you need to know about the iPhone 5 iOS 8.4 update.

Back in April, Apple promised an iOS 8.4 update to owners of the iPhone 5 and owners of other iPhones and iPads capable of running iOS 8. At the time, the update was shrouded in mystery without a public release date. It took several weeks but Apple finally cleared those mysteries up with several announcements in June.

In early June, Apple confirmed an Apple Music release date for June 30th. The company also confirmed that iOS 8.4 would deliver the update to iPhone 5 owners around the world meaning the iOS 8.4 update would have to land sometime before or on June 30th itself.

The iOS 8.4 update for iPhone 5 was released on June 30th alongside Apple’s new streaming music platform and it’s now available to all iOS 8 users. The update brings the big changes to Apple Music but it also delivers key bug fixes for lingering iOS 8 problems and some changes to Apple’s iBooks feature. iOS 8.4 is an important update and it will likely serve as the bridge to the iPhone 5 iOS 9 release in the fall.

In the week since its release, we’ve seen new iOS 8.4 details emerge for iPhone 5 users. Those details include information about iOS 8.4’s performance, iOS 8.4 problems, and more. With that in mind, we want to take a dive into the iPhone 5 iOS 8.4 update. This will cover the information that you need to know right now and it will fill you in on a few things that you need to know for the future.

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