iOS 5 Changelog and Thoughts [Updated: Beta 2]
Written by Benna on Jun 7, 2011
Updated: BETA 2
We just got installed the iOS 5 Beta 2 and Apple has made some notable changes over the OS with this release. We’re going to list out what we could find after digging through the OS here.
- New Lockscreen Notifications
- WiFi Sync seems to be working fine. It worked in the Beta 1 as well, but it was occasional.
- OTA updates screen promises to deliver next updates over the air.
- New iCloud icon on Settings.app.
- New icon for Storage and Backup.
- The Default wallpaper selection is back.
- You can now set sounds for Reminder alerts.
- iTunes Sync screen shows what’s currently being synced.
- Weather app shows hourly forecasts for everyday when you click on a day.
- Spotlight search now includes Reminders.
- iMessage possible only to fellow BETA 2 users. No support for Beta 1.
- New International Assist in Phone settings. Automatically adds correct prefix to US numbers when dialing from abroad.
- iMessage screen shows waiting for Activation (Is this again related to carriers?..if so, that sucks)
- New lining in Messages.app to specify if its iMessage or SMS.
- When you scroll down in the Messages.app, the keyboard hides.
- The tweet button is rearranged to top in Photo’s app.
- When you click “Tell a Friend” in AppStore, the new email includes an Icon of the app, a description, and rating in the mail that is sent.
- New First Boot Animation. First boot will display a glowing Apple logo. (Thanks @71bib0)
- In Music settings, There is a new option which is “Group By Album Artist”. (Thanks @71bib0)
- On the “Text Tone” page, instead of showing “new”, they are all in one category now, “Tones”. SAme thing for “Ringtone” page. (Thanks @Jose)
- On the “General” tab, “Reset” is now seperated from the other choices, “Date & Time,Keyboard,International,Accessibility”. (Thanks @Jose)
- When in “iCloud” tab, tap on “Account”, On the bottom now there is a category called “Advanced” and it shows “Mail” along with your e-mail.(Thanks @Jose)
- When in “Mail, Contacts, Calendar”, On the bottom it shows “Reminders” and gives you options to Sync. (Thanks @Jose)
- In the “Messages” tab, The “Alerts” “Show Preview” “Repeat Alert” have been removed. (Thanks @Jose)
BETA 1
Apple launched three BIG things yesterday. Lion. iOS5. And, not the least, iCloud. We’re more interested about iCloud and iOS5 more than Lion. Apple mentioned 10 major features out of the 200 features they’ve claimed to have added in this latest version of iOS5. We’re going to try listing out that 200 features in here.
Unhappy Developers
First of all, Apple really pissed off many people out there including developers and RIM. First, lets talk about the developers. The App Store is mostly filled with Reminder apps and those developers are really pissed off since yesterday’s keynote. Apple has put up their own reminders app in the latest version of iOS. This means, all those reminder apps you find on the AppStore at dead, or may be at least, very low sales. Apple has also included location based reminders that reminds you when you cross a “geo-barrier”. There were apps for this purposes, we reviewed Place Clock a while ago which was supposed to give you alarms when you reach a specific geo location. Apple borrowed features from all these apps out there and combined it into a single app.
Secondly, its a hit to Camera app devs. Many developers including taptaptap, makers of Camera+, one of the best camera apps out there. Apple has added a feature to iOS 5 which lets you quickly open the camera from the lock screen even if the phone is locked. This means, less frequent use of third-party apps.
You might figure out these stuff yourselves. Developers Instapaper wouldn’t be happy either with the latest announcements from Apple. Let’s move into nice little features of iOS 5.
Changelog
- Updated Lockscreen
- New Welcome Screen when you start using the phone for first time.
- PC Free Activation.
- Notifications Center
- Quick Camera launch from Lockscreen
- Stocks and weather built into Notifications Center
- iPod app is renamed to Music with new icon.
- New Videos.app
- iMessage
- SMS bubbles are green in color and iMessage appears baby blue.
- Newsstand for Magazines and Newspapers
- Ability to Create and Delete Photo albums.
- System wide Twitter Integration.
- New Twitter keyboard with # and @ buttons.
- Ability to edit photos
- Grid System in Camera
- New rounded buttons
- Notification Center has ability to sort notifications by “Manually” or By Time.
- You can choose what applications to be included in Notifications Center
- Ability to rename your device within the settings.
- Over the Air Delta Software updates
- The Usage screen now shows how much of the memory is consumed by each app.
- Wireless iTunes Sync
- You can enable or disable Voice Dial while the phone is locked in Security Settings
- Ability to add keyboard shortcuts. Default one included “omw” which expands to “On my way!” when you type it anywhere.
- New Speak Selection option in Accessibility Settings
- Ability to add custom vibrations
- New Assistive Touch Settings
- LED Flash for Alerts
- Ability to Set Left or Right for Mono Audio
- New iCloud options in Settings app
- You can create additional @me.com email address within the Mail settings
- Ability to Increase Quote Level in Mail Settings
- Twitter integration on contacts
- You can edit your number in Settings.
- New Facetime option in Settings window. You can also set your facetime caller ID to be your email or your phone number
- New Private Browsing option in Safari
- Ability to remove custom Website Data
- Ability to toggle iMessage ON or OFF in settings.
- Ability to enable Read Receipts
- iMessage sent as SMS when iMessage is unavailable
- You can now set how much time a message alert has to be shown again if you don’t respond to the phone when it notifies of a new message.
- Separate settings for Music and Videos
- Photo Stream
- You can set the default account for notes to be synced to in Notes options
- Toggle ON or OFF for Automatic Downloads.
- Setting to use Automatic Downloads only when the device is connected to WiFi
- Alternate Routes in Maps
- Purchase History in App Store.
- Individually delete entries from the call history.
- iCloud Backups
- Take pictures using Volume button
- If you tap and hold on a song name in Music.app, a popup shows all the details.
- Ability to drag email address’ between fields while sending a mail in Mail.app
- Mail notifies you before sending a mail if you’ve forgotten to put a subject line.
- New and updated tiny icons on Mail for Windows Live Mail, Gmail, Exchange etc.
- Rich Text Editing in mail
- System Wide Dictionary
- Printing Support in Maps
- Ability to Hide Traffic in Maps
- You can set custom vibration tones for each contact, so when it vibrates in a specific pattern you know who’s calling.
- The notes.app shows the number of notes made on the header
- New Learn More Links across the settings app for further help
- Photos in Game Center
- Ability to make your Profile public and private on Game Center
- Points in Game Center, shows you how many points you have on the home screen of Game center
- Sort and View friends on the basis of Points.
- Friend Recommendations in Game Center
- New Games are now downloaded through Game Center
- Game Recommendations in Game Center
- New Friend requests screen
- Voice Memos app rotates in all direction, including upside down.
- Set custom text tone for each contact.
- Local Weather in Weather app
- Hourly weather updates
- Reading list in Safari
- Tabbed browsing in Safari on iPad
- Reader view which removes all clutter from web pages on iPad
- Split Keyboard on iPad
- AirPlay Mirroring
- You can use your phone while its being synced with iTunes.
- Emoji Support
- Tweet photos and links from iOS
- When you landscape your phone in iCal, it gives you a week view. (Thanks @Scott)
- New Music App in iPad
- iCloud Document Sync and Backup
- Slight fadeout on the right of the Safari Address Bar.
- Reading list support on Safari
- Location Based Reminders
- Calendar now lets you navigate from day to day by swiping. (Thanks @Garner)
- When you’re in camera mode, swipe left to reveal most recent photo. Swipe right to go back to the camera.
- Watermark in text entry box says “iMessage” or “Text Message” accordingly
- ‘Unsecured Calls’ warning lets users know if they are talking on unencrypted networks
- Group Messaging in iMessage.
- Send photos, videos using iMessage.
- Ability to use multiple Apple IDs for different purposes. (This has been one of the widely asked questions)
- When a notification is on the lockscreen, swipe it to open the specific app.
- Swipe on the weather to the left or right on the Notification Center drop down to view five day forecast.
- Multitasking Gestures in iPad. Use four or five fingers, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.
- S/MIME Support in Mail.app
- Facetime works without having a SIM card on your phone. Works with your email alone.
- When you receive a non-contacts phone call, the main display also shows the city name (or area/county if identifiable), not just the phone number. (Thanks @Alan)
- Camera, tap and hold to lock/unlock AE/AF (Thanks @Alan)
- Camera, use two-finger spread/pinch gesture to zoom in/out accordingly (Thanks @Alan)
- In Calendar month view, besides tapping on the ‘+’ button to add an event, you can also tap and hold on any day. (Thanks @Alan)
- When receiving a call from a number not in your phonebook, the phone will display the location of the phone area code under the number… i.e. + 1 (514) 321 2345 will display Quebec, Canada in a smaller font under the number and not just in the call history. (Thanks @Kubus)
- Use current location in Weather.app. (Thanks @Andy)
- Flagging Support in Mails. app
- In settings you can switch what option you get when you tap and hold on links in Safari: either open in background or in a new page. (Thanks @Andy)
- Swipe left and right to change months in calendar on iPad (Thanks @Shaun)
- Swipe to delete songs (Thanks @Derek)
- Buy More Storage option for iCloud
- Ability to set custom sound for alerts (New Message, New Voicemail, News Mail, Sent Mail etc.)
- Define your own words in Offline Dictionary
- Apps fades to homescreen when crashes, rather than flicking off.
- Ability to Enable/Disable Badges on Apps
- When you download an app on the iTunes on your PC, the app is automatically pushed to your iDevice and installed.
- Streaming Song details such as Track and Artist info to Bluetooth audio devices. (Thanks @Roy)
- When your alarm goes off you can snooze it from lockscreen or slide to turn off. (Note: This is an updated style, you slide on the notifications area, just below the clock, rather than the previous “Slide to Unlock” location. ) (Thanks @Terry)
- You can add multiple twitter accounts and choose what account to send a tweet from.
- Delete each app’s data
- iTunes Tune Store
- Real-time stock quotes
- VoiceOver item chooser
- Option to speak text selection
- When your phone is locked and you switch to Ringing from Silent, the Ringing indicator also shows the volume level bar.
- You can choose multiple Emails and mark them as read
- Download more than one app simultaneously. No waiting for the previous app to be completed
- You can choose if to display Weather and Stock Widges on Notification Center.
- New Voice in Voice Control
- You can re arrange the preference of apps in Notification Center. (Eg: You can set the Weather widget to be always on top, Messages next etc..)
- Ability to set maximum messages downloaded through email to 1000 instead of 250
- Sponsored links in Google Maps
- Double-tap the home button while watching a YouTube video to display who uploaded the video
- Scrolling titles for YouTube videos
- Time mid-call invitation alerts
- Set up Airport / Time Capsule on your iOS device
- Invitation alerts to FaceTime while taking a call
- Arabic Language Support in VoiceOver
- Links can be opened in the background
- Integrate Twitter user pictures to Contacts. Sync them
- Native 1080p video playback in iPad 2
- Japanese or Buddhist calendars support
- Year View in iPad cal
- Native Support for turn based games in Game Center
- Search Within the contents of an email
- Indentation Control in Mails.app
- Individual Site Data can be deleted from Safari
- iOS 5 address book has a field for Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace. (iOS 5 to integrate more social networks?
- Specific ‘search on page’ area integrated in the ipad keyboard (hit google when in safari) (Thanks @Michael)
- Have one app updating while others say “waiting…,” then you pause the app updating. You then immediately put the iDevice on sleep. Next, when you wake up your iDevice, all of them will be paused. You can tap more than one app to have more than one downloading. (thanks @Michael)
- Personal Hotspot settings are now found under ‘Network’ settings.
- GIFs are animated when sent through iMessages. It’s not animated in Photos.app. (Thanks @Sam)
- New and Updated VoiceOver voices for some regions. (Thanks @Peter)
- Double tap to add an event in day view in Calendar.app (Thanks @Collinz)
- Tap and drag to move an event (different day or different time) in Calendar app (Thanks @Collinz)
- Tap and hold in “all-day events” to create a new all-day event in Calender app (Thanks @Collinz)
- Twitter installs directly from the settings page if it’s not installed directly, you aren’t even taken to the App Store. (Thanks @Yiannis)
- Hotmail integration in the mail app. (Thanks @Erik)
- iPod touches have never been able to automatically set time. This is now possible in iOS 5. (thanks @Gordon)
- If you tap hand hold the back button in safari (ipad) you get a list of all you previous sites. (Thanks @Cenny)
- Turning on private browsing changes Safari’s color from blue to black. (Thanks @eric)
- Auto-correct can be turned off independently of spell check (Thanks @sam)
- Add “Related People” to a contact (mother, father, brother, sister, child…) (Thanks @Srikanth)
- Calendar has a ‘current time’ indicator line while in Landscape Mode (Thanks @Paul)
- Swipe to Next Song in Music app for iPad (Thanks @Phil)
- The Volume button in Camera can also be used to Start and Stop Recording videos (Thanks @Srikanth)
- In the Restrictions, there is a new option which is “Require Password” for purchases. (Thanks @7abibo)
- AppStore apps lists show ‘INSTALL’ instead of prices if you’ve already purchased the app previously, but is not installed on your phone.
- Additional “iForgot” button on AppStore if you’ve forgotten your Apple ID password.
- Delete mails from Mail.app while in Flight mode. (Thanks @Marc for the clarification)
- Multiple MMS notifications on lockscreen
- Visualiser on/off control in Remote.app (Non OS feature, but believed to be updated as a revamp of the new iOS 5) – Thanks @Neil
- Spotlight search now searches through sms messages (Thanks @Kyle)
- You can now pause a timer in Clock.app (Thanks @Nick Mendes)
- Youtube videos can be played via the Double tap on home button when locked. Titles scroll on the screen.
Our list is growing and is incomplete. Feel free to comment and let us know if we miss anything. We are digging thorough the OS for minor changes.
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When you landscape your phone in iCal, it gives you a week view.
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Not iOS 5
24. You can enable or disable Voice Dial while the phone is locked in Security Settings
35. You can edit your number in Settings.
36. You can set the default account for notes to be synced to in Notes options
49. Purchase History in App Store (this is NOT iOS 5 only).
60. Ability to Hide Traffic in Maps
72. Voice Memos app rotates in all direction, including upside down.
73. Set custom text tone for each contact.
82. Emoji Support (you should have said that it’s now system-wide)
116.Ability to Enable/Disable Badges on Apps
Incorrectly Described
128.Download more than one app simultaneously. No waiting for the previous app to be completed (not true. It downloads, then downloads the next app in line, before installing. It doesn’t actually download multiple apps at the same time).
102 & 106 are the same
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Can’t recall all but there were quite a few more that aren’t new to iOS. 169 as an example isn’t.
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all feature is so nice but when ios 5 come for download???? we waiting n seen from last 1 month, when release……
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iOS5 won’t be available until the fall. September, probably.
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In a way, Apple is pushing those devs to their limit to further push for instance, the ease of use or function of their apps; to be a step ahead in the smartphone race nowadays…
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That’s true. Yesterday’s announcement should obviously bring more devs and users to the iOS ecosystem
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Calendar now lets you navigate from day to day by swiping. I don’t remember being able to do that before. I wish I could navigate emails the same way.
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One more unlisted feature: when you receive a non-contacts phone call, the main display also shows the city name (or area/county if identifiable), not just the phone number.
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One more (been bugging Apple with this one for the past 4 years): song/album titles on the playing screen are scrollable if they are too long.
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2 more:
- in Camera, tap and hold to lock/unlock AE/AF
- in Camera, use two-finger spread/pinch gesture to zoom in/out accordingly
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Minor one: in Calendar month view, besides tapping on the ‘+’ button to add an event, you can also tap and hold on any day.
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When receiving a call from a number not in your phonebook, the phone will display the location of the phone area code under the number… i.e. + 1 (514) 321 2345 will display Quebec, Canada in a smaller font under the number and not just in the call history.
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That feature is in iOS 4
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It only shows up in the call history on iOS 4; it does not appear on the incoming call screen.
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In settings you can switch what option you get when you tap and hold on links in Safari: either open in background or in a new page.
Swipe individual calls in call history to delete.
Use current location in Weather.app.
Gridlines in Camera.app option.
Use volume up to take picture.
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I would like to see custom tones for text messages. so i can set my text tone to anything I want just like ring tones.
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Please tell me they finally allowed for default reminder times when setting calendar appointments. the number of times I’ve gotten burned by this are legion. It also cripples the iPad as a business device. Please tell me they got this right. This one outweights game center integration(groan)
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Swipe left and right to change months in calendar on iPad
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Feature: Swipe to delete songs
And more in music app
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When your alarm goes off you can snooze it from lockscreen or slide to turn off
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Is it now possible to set one of your onw playlists as alarm signalß
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Another Feature:
Streaming Song details such as Track and Artist info to Bluetooth audio devices.
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Hey,
I LOVE your post!! Could you enable RSS so that I can follow this post more easily when there are updates, then I, and all your other readers can just add this RSS to Mail and follow the updates from there!!
Brandon
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Hi Brandon,
Glad you like my post
Thanks for the heads up. We were missing the link to the feed. I’ve added a link now 
There a subscribe to feed button on the post. Alternatively, here is a link to the feed. http://www.ieatapples.com/feed/
Thanks!
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I would LOVE to see these updates, from Apple sooner than later, you see back in 2006 I was Hit By Lightning. The sooner that they put out IOS 5, the better.
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You could already do 128! What you do is have one app updating while others say “waiting…,” then you pause the app updating. You then immediately put the iDevice on sleep. Next, when you wake up your iDevice, all of them will be paused. You can tape more than one app to have more than one downloading.
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I have a picture of me doing it but how can I add it to the comments?
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Just link the Image
I will add it up to the posts!
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I don’t have a website to put the image on! I don’t use any social networks either. I don’t think you would want to do that anyway because I did on iOS 4.
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Is this what you mean?
/Users/Michael/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2010/Jul 24, 2010_4/IMG_0213.PNG
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No no. I meant to use a photosharing service like Imageshack or Twitpic
You can find one here : http://i.windowsforums.org/
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I think this more refers to being able to download an app, then without it switching out of the app and onto the springboard, download another app, like they do in windows phone 7. No more need to switch back to the app store to download another app. Not simultanesouly downloading apps.
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Specific ‘search on page’ area integrated in the ipad keyboard (hit google when in safari)
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2 Questions about FaceTime maybe someone can answer:
1. When on a FaceTime call on iPhone and you press the top on/off button does it end the call or lock the screen (like it does in cell speakerphone call)?
2. It sounds like you can now associate an Apple ID along with your phone number for Facetime. If someone FaceTimes your phone number does it ring in other places where you are using that Apple ID? (eg. Mac or iPad?)
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for 1st Q the ans is IT ENDS THE CALL like it does in cell speakerphone call
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You cannot use the email that you have signed into FaceTime with else where. aka the email you have signed in on your mac, cannot be used on your iPhone as well. ***as from what I have tried thus far.
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http://www.cl.ly/2M06390L1m2s2B0S3L3o
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128 and 152 can be deleted because what I meant is that you could already do those in iOS 4!
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screen dump shows two apps down loading we must be able to down load at least two apps at the same time
dobo10
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I didn’t get number 137… How do you set up your Time Capsule from your iPhone? It would be great if you could backup to your Time Capsule instead of iCloud.
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It maybe easier for you to understand if you remove “Time Capsule” from your thoughts, and only think about Airport Express’ or Extreme’s. Someone who buys an iDevice and doesn’t have a computer, can now create a wireless network with an Airport Device with no computer required.
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Yes, that part I do understand, but my Time Capsule doesn’t appear in my “Wi-Fi Networks” Section
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Awesome list. However, #60…the ability to hide traffic in maps has always been a feature.
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Can you search calendar events more than a year old? This drives me crazy and I hope they finally fixed this.
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Does iOS 5 allow search within an address book entry? For example does it allow a search on a street address — for example, so you can locate a restaurant or other contact whose name you can’t remember. This is a huge missing capability in iOS4.
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Does iOS allow you to close all background apps with one click? Or do we still have to tap a million times..?
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Background apps in iOS aren’t actually in the background. The list of “background” apps is actually just a list of recently used apps and “closing” them has no effect on system resources.
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It does if the app uses multitasking APIs to do work in the background; try playing some music, go to the home screen and kill off iTunes (or Music, as it’s now called) and see what happens.
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sorry, dan. but that is entirely incorrect. :\
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Say what you will “background” or frozen apps still use resources specifically ram and gps… If i had a nickel for how many times i had to close all my apps in order to get infinity blade to run on my ipad. Other good ways to maximize performance is close all your safari pages, and turn on airport mode, so its not scanning in the background for networks and gps location data.
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wouldn’t it be better if apple fixed the real issue – that games aren’t working under memory pressure? how does a “close all apps” button help any non tech people? its a serious issue and they should just fix it.
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Huge proponent of the close all feature…. Recommend to apple at apple.com/feedback. More people the better… Make them listen
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You can no longer move a mail message into a folder on another email account (the other account is now not selectable from the “accounts”) at least for exchange accounts which is what I use. This is a great change for those of us that are security conscious and need to ensure that corporate email messages can’t trivially be moved to personal accounts bypassing company archiving and data-loss-prevention.
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So… the method now is to simply take a screenshot of the email and have it be saved to your camera roll instead? Heh. Security at it’s finest!
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You misunderstand. Taking a screenshot bypasses neither company archiving nor data-loss-prevention. The email chain is preserved within the company system and can’t trivially or accidentally be shifted to becoming an external (non-tracked, easy to lose) email conversation.
There is NO security to stop someone in ANY email system on the planet from copying the contents of an email. They could simply take a photo with another camera, or write it down on a candy wrapper! That’s not what Jjsp is talking about.
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This makes no sense.
A user could simply copy and paste the message content elsewhere. Even if that were blocked, someone can take a photo of the display, or just retype it. If you don’t want content leaving your network, you need to shut down all external access and require users to enter the physical campus to read email on their desktops. Disable all removable media, ban cameras, and be sure to search all employees going in or out. The building and computing equipment should be EM-shielded to prevent a Tempest attack. Oh, and only hire employees with lousy memories who can’t remember anything long enough to write it down after they leave.
As for archiving policies, those should be implemented on the server side anyway; a user moving a message (or simply deleting it) should not have any impact on retention by the corporate mail system.
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iOS 4.3.3 already has automatic downloads for books, app, etc.
Here are two screenshots
http://i.imgur.com/2eQvo.png
http://i.imgur.com/XfVoe.png
#152 tape is spelled tap
#153 is Newtwork supposed to be spelled like that?
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Sorry about that, typed this quickly. Thanks for pointing it out
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This sounds great–wish we could get it now! The only jailbreak features I like that doesn’t sound covered is the ability to have 5 cols of icons and a scrolling dock that allows more than 4 icons. There is so much wasted whitespace (especially on the iPad)–really wish they would allow us to cram more icons on each page of the springboard!
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Btw it took me a while to realize it after getting my ipad, but you know u can get 6 icons in the ipad dock right? iphone only has four and infinidock is an awesome fix for that but the ipad does get six at least. *wish it had more, really i wish it was like the dock in osx.
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I’d have to add Backgrounder. I use Navigon for GPS, and with the default iOS handling of background apps, I can’t leave the app in the background for more than a few minutes without iOS silently killing it. I’d be nice if iOS would ask me before killing something that’s doing actual work in the background.
MiWi is another app I’d want to keep, but that’s not an iOS issue. If AT&T actually gave me something useful for the extra $20, I’d consider the built-in tether, but 2GB is 2GB, and has the same network impact no matter how I use it. It’s like having to pay a higher toll on the highway because the car is red instead of blue.
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Hate to say it, but the Snooze/Slide thing on alarm has been around for a while. I know bc I am an avid snoozer.
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anyone know if you can disable landscape view while playing music?
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Looks like there is no other way that locking the auto rotation.
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yes i hate it when i am trying to look at something and it was sent to me sideways so i rotate the phone and the photo rotates too so its never normal. would love to be able to disable the auto rotate for photos and music for sure too.
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nevermind i just found out that i can lock the auto rotate for photos.
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works with music also.
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The normal rotate lock works. If only I could lock the rotation to landscape for reading in bed…
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Does anyone know whether we will be able to move photos from one album to another?
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You can add it to another album and delete from the current. There is no ‘Move’ option presently.
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When interfacing with Microsoft sync you would have to say “dial so an so on other” if you had them their phone listed as “iPhone”. Now you say “dial so and so on cell “
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed this, I haven’t seen anyone else mention it anywhere, or if its an ios5 feature or if it was there already, im almost 100% sure it wasn’t but anyway. The thing is contacts/phonebook is now unified. what I mean by this is, say you have contacts from icloud and mobileme. And say you have a contact on each for johnny appleseed, but maybe icloud has his phone number and mobileme has his email. Ios has always let you view all your contacts in one list. But before you would have two entries for johnny appleseed, Now it gives you one contact with the information merged together from both sources. its a pretty nice little feature. Anyone else notice that?
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This has been around for a while although it may have been polished in the latest update, I had several problems with contact cards being linked together although showing as one.
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In voiceover you can now add your own labels to buttons, the rotor now has the ability to move by headings in apps as well as toggling of hints. If you move the rotor in a html area (IE safari, after a pause Voiceover will indicate how many elements there are of the type you selected, IE, 12 links. Also:
There are a few changes as far as the voices that iOS uses (voice control, speak auto-text and selection as well as voiceover)
1. Many voices had been updated with higher quality versions, such as US, Australian, Polish, Portuguese, and many others.
2. Other voices have just been changed (UK voice is now male, german is now female, ditto for swedish, french is now male… There are more changes like that)
3. More languages have been added (Iresh and south-african english, arabic, and another one which I am unsure of… It’s one of those that seems to have its own writing style.) This means that if someone uses the iOS device with the region set somewhere near ireland, south africa, etc, it will use one of the new voices.
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When in Camera, swipe to left and it takes you to the Camera Roll
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different text tones for different contacts already available in ios4, but in ios5 settings, it shows option for buying more tones, which was not in ios4. When you click it, it takes you to buying ring-tones, so possibly just not running on iTunes yet? Someone said not true about multiple app downloading simultaneously, it is true, I’ve watched mine download 3 and 4 at the same time…
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Also, the first screen shot does not look like its ios5, the slide on/off is the older design, look at the slide button on the screen shot on the picture below that one, that is the new design in ios5
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One of our visitors sent that in. Its an updated settings page for the App Store. You can get it on iOS 4 as well.
Just go to Settings > Store
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When selecting a wifi network in settings you only now get a tick when all dhcp ips have been processed, i noticed this as i’ve got a buggy router at the mo that tends to be slow at delivering a new dhcp lease, once the IP, subnet mask, and router addresses have been established you get a tick. Where as before on ios4 i got a tick even though i hadn’t been given an IP
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Great job, thanks for cataloging the changes.
Do you know if the file system and directory structure has changed? What hooks to iCloud have you seen, is there a centralized location you can store files that all apps can access?
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A workaround I use for this is to create a contact in your address book and under the email field type multiple addresses separated by commas. When you type the contact name into the address field of the mail app the whole list of email addresses get sent to.
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Maybe I missed it, but any discussion of sending mail to a distribution list?
My current pet peeve.
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Can you search for calendar entries more than a year old? iOS 4 and previous can’t do this and it’s a big problem for me since I have to look up old appointments and meetings all the time.
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Amen! Please enable use of distribution lists in the Address Book! Why is this not permitted?!
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Calendar app
Swiping in day, week, month, year (much like a real paper calendar)
Double tap to add an event in day view
Tap and drag to move an event (different day or different time)
Tap and hold in “all-day events” to create a new all-day event
Year view
Schedule based on year view (red = busy, orange = slightly busy 2+ events, yellow = not busy 1 event, white = nothing)
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Does anyone know if iOS 5 allows users to delete email addresses (especially incorrect ones they may have accidentally entered before) directly from within the Mail app?
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Finally Safari in iOs5 adds rich editing. For web application developers a big thing (been waiting for this a long time).
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I couldn’t replicate that one. Could you please send in a screenshot?
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Just make a selection, as you would to cut or copy. You’ll be presented with an extra choice to make the selection bold, italicized or underlined.
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Tried that, but couldn’t get the extra options. All I get is the define option.
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In Calendar (iPhone)
- in week view you can scroll between weeks by swiping
- in week/day view you can subtly edit the start/finish times of an event (or shift it to another day entirely) but touching and holding an event. It will ‘float’ and there will be handles.
- calendar has a ‘current time’ indicator line
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106 is not an iOS 5 feature, it exists in the current OS as well.
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A favorite new feature I have noticed in the past few days is that the messaging application will eliminate duplicate text messages sent back to back. Sometimes when I message people on other networks I get duplicate message and it was just annoying. Now, they just disappear.
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Double tap on home button and swipe to get to iPod controls. Swipe again to go to the vol on iPhone
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That was introduced in iOS 4 if I’m not mistaken
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I don’t recall it existing in 4.0; might have been added in 4.1 or 4.2?
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Also worth double pushing the home button while in lock screen. Also brings up iPod controls for me. Neat!
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It’s been there since iOS4
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Do you know if you can use different sound alerts for separate email accounts? I’d like to know if my email is work related before I pull the phone from my holster…
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I would really like to know the answer to this one as well! This one would be a huge deal for me, so I’m hoping that it can.
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Here’s one that I don’t think I saw listed. iPod touches have never been able to automatically set time. This is now possible in iOS 5.
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Maps app now gives multiple route options when searching for directions (but I don’t like the thin blue line used)
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Another feature: if you tap the current day in the Weather app, it will display hourly weather forecasts.
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Hotmail integration in the mail app. No need for configuring it manually, and it pushes your hotmail email instead of checking every 15(depends on your settings) minutes.
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Damn you for mixing no-period line endings with periods!!
But honestly, sweet list.
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Did they enable Bluetooth HFP on the original iPad in iOS 5? It’s enabled on iPad 2 in iOS 4 right now. But even though the bluetooth hardware in both iPads is identical, they’ve never enabled it on the original iPad.
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:/ does that mean that on iPad 2 you can make phone calls with voip apps? :/
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A have a list too that might help https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Ly596d0_KIc-TAXl4oGqnpv_5UAlsjPY4y0Rpwc0TlQ
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All of those new features sound nice…when Apple makes a “Lockdown Pro” type app to password protect apps and something like “SBSettings” then I probably won’t jailbreak anymore.
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Damn; I’d almost forgot SBSettings wasn’t part of iOS, I use it so often. Though if Apple added VPN on/off to the notification screen and introduced automatic profiles (e.g. MyProfiles) I’d be happy.
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What about call waiting notification?? when you call someone who happens to be on another call. it shows “waiting” on your phone to alert you that the other party is having another call while your ringing.. was that added? thanx
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Anyone with ios5 would check for this plz, thx
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I doubt it has changed, but does it still take many taps to go in and turn Bluetooth on and off?
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A very small addition is that of an en dash, found my holding the hyphen key. On previous OSs it has been possible to do a hyphen or an em dashm iOS 5 allows en dashes, too. #pedantic
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Will there be AirPlay Mirroring for iPhone and iPod Touch?
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I didn’t see swipe to next song in the music app. This can be done while viewing album art.
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swipe to the next song may only work on the iPad.
http://youtu.be/83phLWybRkM
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how about the ability to stream good quality youtube on 3g i heard that was in the ios5 also.
i wonder if u can insert a pic straight from the mail app without having to go to the photo album and then copy and then paste .i know this is possable for JB since i have photomail app but would be nice to have this in ios
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Is it possible to get rid of Stocks in the notification center?
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Yep. You can also manually disable individual apps from showing in the notification center.
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101,really true? then,I’m happy and looking forward to meet ios5!
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Any idea if auto-correct can be turned off independently of spell check in iOS 5? In iOS4 you can’t turn off auto-correct without also turning off spell check which can be really frustrating for some users!
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yup. http://twitpic.com/5ax304
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Awesome! (Sam, if that picture is Photoshopped I’m please tell us now…)
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Can anyone check if handwriting support for Japanese is now available? Previously, one could only use Chinese as a workaround but thus fails on Japanese specific items (i.e. Hiragana/ Katakana).
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Besides kana, a lot of kanji don’t exist in China–either the forms have changed in one or both countries over the last 1500 years or the kanji was invented in Japan. Even a lot of common kanji can’t be found in the Chinese handwriting system because of this. Please, Apple, give us Japanese handwriting recognition!
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What does GIF in question #153 mean?
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A GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is just another image format. But, what makes them different than most is that you can “stack” a sequence of images – much like the frames of a movie – then consolidate them into a single GIF file. When viewed, the GIF “animates” by running through the images you stacked into the file earlier, creating what looks like a mini video clip. Some are only a few frames long, while others can have many frames. There are several programs, some free of charge, that allow you to create them, including the mighty Photoshop. I call it a poor man’s Flash.
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if you tap hand hold the back button in safari (ipad) you get a list of all you previous sites
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get word suggestions w/o the need of activating autocorrect, can be set in settings independently.
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turning on private browsing changes Safari’s color from blue to black
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one of my favourite hidden iOS 5 features
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I have a couple of questions:
First, most of these new features are for the iPhone. Is there a change log that lists new features just for the iPad without having to hash them out from this master list?
And second, when, if ever, is Apple going to implement Adobe Flash into iOS? Why wasn’t Flash included from the very beginning? It’s sad to see that with all these new features being added that Flash isn’t one of them. The internet is underwhelming without Flash and not only that, you can’t even view some sites at all without it. What gives?
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Apple’s most likely never going to add Flash. They’ve made too firm a stance about it now, even if it were to be re-written to be less resource intensive.
Here is Apple’s (Steve Jobs’) personally published reasons as to why Flash wasn’t, and isn’t included in iOS: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
The internet does suck without Flash, but testing has been done on the Android phones that do support it, and it sucks the hell out of their resources. Makes them slower and drains their batteries quicker. HTML5 accomplishes all the same things, without the resource hogging.
The real issue here is that most of the internet’s not brand-new websites are still built using Flash. Eventually everything will switch over to HTML5, as Apple is trying to make it, but that’s no small thing, and will take a while. Until then, iOS devices will be lacking in a few areas, but will continue to claim longer battery lives and faster running speed.
If Flash is a crucial tool to you, try one of the many Android devices that support it instead.
Oh, and agreed, an iPad specific list would be really nice (since that’s the only place I’ll be getting iOS5; my old iPhone 3G don’t get no Apple love no more
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Thank God for no Flash. It’s not even a web technology. The web is HTML + CSS + JavaScript. Period. Flash is like Java in that it’s an add-on. *By definition*, add-ons are not part of the system. I had Flash on my device for a Android while, but took it off. Never used it. None of the sites that I go to use it. None.
Thank you Steve, for allowing us to have the web back from the lameness of Flash. It was about time someone took a stand.
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It’s because Steve Jobs doesn’t like Flash, because it drains the battery too much, especially in comparison to using HTML 5 as a substitute.
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It’s not enough to simply have Adobe’s Flash platform. The stuff that needs Flash (or even Java, for that matter) generally were initially designed for mouse/keyboard interaction and not touch interaction. Including Flash would be simply having something to have something, it wouldn’t be the experience of using Flash stuff with a mouse/keyboard, assuming a Flash-based item were usable at all (i.e. could even detect touch, have large enough areas for touch, etc.).
It’s kind of like asking why a car manufacturer didn’t include a bag of hay for people who might want to carry along their old horse in their new car. Just leave the has-been horse where it has been, and let it do what it does best: horse things in horse places. Same for Flash.
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Add “Related People” to a contact (mother, father, brother, sister, child…)
http://goo.gl/2GKft
http://goo.gl/USgvZ
http://goo.gl/s7bW5
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Oh c’mon. The App Store is not “mostly filled” with reminders apps. I doubt it’s even one whole percent of the apps out there. As for how the developers feel about this, unless you actually know how they feel, don’t say anything. Have you even spoken to any of the developers you mentioned?
I myself would imagine they’re not ecstatic, but they knew this was a possibility, as you basically sign a document saying so before you become a developer. There are tons of other apps you can write, and so you move on. I would imagine they’re more happy about all the great features in the new version of iOS. However since I haven’t spoken to any of them, I’m not gonna make any claims as to how they actually feel.
Oh, and nice list btw!
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I agree. These are some of my thoughts, and normally developers would feel. There are devs who just depend on their best selling reminder apps like Due and NotifyMe and 2Do. They would naturally feel awkward when Apple just screw them. Apple had already copied some of the Stuff like the WiFi Sync Icon from an app that was rejected later this year. They just took out the feature of ReadItLater and Instapaper and made it reading list. They took the lockscreen notification which was dribbled by a designer an year go. Once again, personal thoughts on what a developer would feel.
No offense.
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Here’s what the developer of Instapaper has to say:
http://www.marco.org/2011/06/06/safari-reader-and-instapaper
You’re not stating “what a developer would feel”, but instead you’re just being pessimistic. Let people speak for themselves. Anybody can make stuff up about others (about children, women, minorities, rich, poor, etc.), it’s what they call storytelling, fiction, and sensationalizing like a tabloid. Strawman is another word.
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You really should check facts before making the claims you did in the developers section. Ars did: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/cupertino-restarts-photocopiers-but-indie-devs-stay-optimistic.ars
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Is there by any chance a “speech to text” feature for iMessage or SMS so you can speak text messages and have them typed out before being sent. Would be really nice for driving and much faster than typing.
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This is rumored to be coming before the release version of iOS 5, through integration of Nuance technology. This is the same recognition technology used in Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking apps that you can buy in the App Store (one for dictation and one for search). It will be nice to gain access to this from any text field rather than having to invoke a separate app.
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What is the maximum number of tabs open on iPad’s safari?
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Anyone check to see if iTunes Extras or LP packages work on the iPad in iOS 5?
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The called it a called a “geo-fence” btw.
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It would be great to be able to see only unread messages. I have 5 different accounts and I get hundreds of emails. It’s annoying to have to scroll endlessly to find that one email that hasn’t been red in order to clean up the mailbox.
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“read”
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In Calendar landscape view, tap and hold an entry to move it to a different time or day. Double tap entry to get to the details and edit view.
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You can also use the volume controls on your headphones to take a picture with the camera app.
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Still waiting to see when multiple SMS/MMS/(iMessages) messages can be selected for batch deletion, which has long been possible with e-mail messages. “Swipe-touch-swipe-touch-swipe-touch…” quickly gets tedious for those who tie a paging system (read: doctors) to their iPhones and stack up dozens and dozens of messages never used as threads.
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Isn’t it the case that developers will always be pissed off, since there will always be an app that any new operating system will replace? By definition
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The Volume up button in Photos App Works for Video Too ! Acts as start/stop shooting video
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In the Restrictions, there is a new option which is “Require Password” for purchases.
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iOS 5 is running great on both my iPad 2 and iPhone 4, hopefully beta 2 add more features and drops a couple of bugs. If you want to try out iOS 5 early, you can check out http://activate iosbeta.com.
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In iOS 5 you can now edit the phone number on keypad.
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Has anyone found out if “AirDrop” has found ist way from “Lion” to iOS 5″???
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Don’t think this one’s in your list – on the Remote.app there’s now an option to activate the iTunes visualiser on the computer you’re controlling by tapping on the album art in ‘now playing’. As well as the Repeat, Genius and Shuffle icons in the drop-down, there’s now also a visualiser icon.
I know that technically Remote.app isn’t part of iOS5 as it’s downloaded from the App Store, but think that it was updated as part of the iOS update; I’m not aware of updating it through the App Store since I installed iOS5 and the Post Date in the store is 15 March 2011. Maybe it was always in the current version but only enabled under iOS5?
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Does “73. Set custom text tone for each contact.” and 113. “Ability to set custom sound for alerts” mean I can use ANY of my mp3 sounds which are on the iphone ? or only the standard which are installed ?
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Are there any signs that when you have the iDevice connected to a power source, it does not autolock? E.g. When put in a car cradle with power, is the screen always lit up?
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double tapping the home button on a youtube video does not show me who uploaded the video… #134 is wrong as it seems, could anyone confirm this?
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I wish they would add Adboe Flash.
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- Auto-Completion/Auto-Correction now also suggest all the names and surnames of people in your address book.
- Icelandic keyboard support is improved alot, suggesting many words by default, previously there where NO words in the dictionary, or so it seemed.
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Great list of features, I’m still trying to find some more.
http://activateiosbeta.com/
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Nice List!
A few things already exist in iOS4:
60 Ability to Hide Traffic in Maps
72 Voice Memos app rotates in all direction, including upside down
116 Ability to Enable/Disable Badges on Apps
There are also a few duplicates in your list:
102=106
26=125
109=140
33=147
38=148
133 is an outrage. Advertisting in the Maps app? No thanks.
134 sounds unlikely. Needs screenshot proof.
Keep up the great work!
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A few questions about Mail in iOS5….
-Can you send an email to a group as you can now with iMessage?
-Can there be separate signatures for different email accounts?
-Can you have different alerts for different email accounts?
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could only test it on iPad
You can edit Playlists (delete songs, that have been played) during play
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No new to install reaupported 4 from cydia. ALL 3rd party cables now supported, such as VGA, or docking stations
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165+169 already were features.
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Does anyone know what “96. Ability to use multiple Apple IDs for different purposes. (This has been one of the widely asked questions)” is referring to exactly? I would love to be able to sign in to my iTunes account and my wife’s to be able to download items from iTunes in the Cloud from both accounts. Any ideas?
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So Apple cannot create an iOS app if someone has something similar? Does that apply to other developers, or just Apple?
Seriously, any developer bothered by this needs to grow up.
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spotlight search now searches through sms messages
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I have some dev spots left for UDID registration if any one is interested, iosdevaccess at gmail dot com $8. if you want to try iOS 5, register you device to avoid headaches!
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173 and 174 are already in iOS 4.3.3.
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same with 175.
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any Info on the behavior of VPN when switching off the screen? does it still end the connection?
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It Still Disconnects when locked.
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what? whyyyy? let’s file some bug reports, folks.
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It’s an awkward issue for me as well.
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http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/17/ios-5-to-bring-nitro-javascript-speed-enhancements-to-home-screen-web-apps/
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Option to enable/disable High Quality youtube playback on 3G.
http://goo.gl/Jtn06
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Addition:
iOS 5 to Bring Nitro JavaScript Speed Enhancements to Home Screen Web Apps
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All text tones seem to be condensed versions of the text tones found in iOS 4.
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ANOTHER FEATURE:
At least on iPad (I have iPad 1): when you are in portrait mode viewing an eMail and you swipe right it pulls out the mailbox message list. A swipe left puts it away again (as does selecting a different email).
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Numbers 36 and 101 regarding facetime are not new in iOS 5.
I have iOS 4.3.3 (8J2) on iPad 2 and it is already there!
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Well you have to say iPod touch then, because it’s not called an “iTouch.”
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I would love to see the iOS5 have hands free song changing on the itouch. When I am in the car, I have to either hold down the button or just hit next while I am driving to go to the next song that shuffles. What would be great is if you could just say “itouch” and it goes “ding ding” “next song..” I think voice without the use of a button would be great.
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Wouldn’t something like that eat battery life… If it’s always having to listen via the mic to check if you said something? Great idea for home use when charging, but not on the go… then again you could have it charging in your car…
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New menu for gestures under accessibility. Maybe something new.
New graphics for the alarm clock.
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New First Boot Animation. First boot will display a glowing Apple logo.
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In Music settings, There is a new option which is “Group By Album Artist”.
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These may not be features, but they are minor tweaks I found by taking a picture of each possible tab i could get into from the beta 1 then compared the pictures with my iPhone running the beta 2.
1. On the “Text Tone” page, instead of showing “new”, they are all in one category now, “Tones”. SAme thing for “Ringtone” page.
2. On the “General” tab, “Reset” is now seperated from the other choices, “Date & Time,Keyboard,International,Accessibility”
3. When in “iCloud” tab, tap on “Account”, On the bottom now there is a category called “Advanced” and it shows “Mail” along with your e-mail.
4.When in “Mail, Contacts, Calendar”, On the bottom it shows “Reminders” and gives you options to Sync.
5. In the “Messages” tab, The “Alerts” “Show Preview” “Repeat Alert” have been removed.
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• Dramatically faster HTML5/canvas support (see http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/mobile/Performance/SpeedReading/Default.html)
• When pinching to zoom in and back out in Safari, the checkerboard is no longer shown for areas that were outside of the visible area when the zoom out was begun. Yet it is still just as smooth as iOS 4. (tested on iPad 2)
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In iOS 5 Beta 2, number 24 is not completely true, the repeat alert has not been removed, it has moved to the “Notifications” tab in settings, once you enter it and Select Messages it gives you the chance to select how many times you want the alert to be repeated. This is new to iOS Beta 2
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I actively check this list for new changes and I’m thankful for you guys hosting this. But I have 1 complaint. the “unhappy devs” tidbit you have. This is the only website that complains at all about apples slew as updates, which have been seen overwhelmingly positive feedback. Apple filled in the camera/reminders gap with their own quality version. Does this suck for the .1% of developers exploiting this gap? Yeah. But ultimately they are irrelevant to the general community of devs, and shouldn’t have a spot on these lists of features and changes.
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Oh sorry 1 more thing for my point. In the “unhappy devs” part its said “Apple borrowed features from all these apps out there and combined it into a single app”. First off, everything in the world is borrowed from other things. iOS 5 took a lot of what other people did and twisted it slightly or a lot. Personally I want apple looking at what other people do and putting their own take on it, thats a win for anyone with an iDevice. Secondly, why the hell wouldn’t you want Apple combining already made useful apps and putting it into a single app that comes with the phone? Thats just another win for anyone with an iDevice.
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Can anybody confirm if it is yet possible to change the assigned group of a contact? I find it very annoying that this can only be done from a pc, not directly on the phone itself
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iOS 5 beta 3 is already avaidable for Download
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- Enhanced location services controls: Aside from a prominent new screen in the iOS 5 setup process outlining how location services work, the new beta also includes finer granularity of controls, allowing users to specify whether such functions as cell network searching, diagnostics, iAds, time zone setting, and traffic information may make use of the device’s location information. This is of course in addition to the per-app location controls that are already available.
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Apple has activated the new “Assistive Touch” features for the iPad. The Assistive Touch settings were in place in iOS’s accessibility settings in previous betas, but is only now active. The new features are meant to provide additional interactivity for those who might have trouble using the traditional gestures and buttons on the iPad.
The new settings allow users to activate a menu overlay on the iPad with by pressing on a designated corner. The menu allows one-tap access to all of the iPad’s functions including rotation, shaking, volume changes and even gestures. Known gestures such as pinch and swipe can be recalled by a tap, and custom gestures can even be recorded and played back on command.
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Will you be able to selct what items are wirelessly syncd? I share a itunes account and want to keep my contacts and calander
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