iOS5 discussion thread

[Cousin_Hod]

A thread dedicated to the upcoming iOS5, share comments, views, ask questions and discuss rumours.

With an iPhone 4 this is something I'm looking forward to a lot and can't wait to be given a concrete release date.
The notification centre is my most wanted feature, the overall view seems to be that it's a massive improvement over the current notification system. The hardware shutter button for the camera also seems to be a brilliant and much needed idea.

[Blu3m00nMCFC]

IOS5 should be a big upgrade again looking forward to it.

[FatalSaviour]

And should be out later today! :-)

[listy]

just checked on mrs phone and nothing out yet....

[BerZerk]

just checked on mrs phone and nothing out yet....

I thought you will need to sync it with iTunes to be able to check for new update?

[1stRaven]

fingers crossed that it fixed the vpn issues as well.

[djnaff]

lets hope its 3gs friendly and does no make phone unresponsive and slow like os4 did for 3g

[DannyM]

Supposedly 6:00 PM today (GMT) so fingers crossed it'll make me decide whether or not to keep my iPhone.

[Testa]

I'm going to buy another iPhone just for this I think... there are going to be some awesome features coming... location reminders, computer indipendance... the seemingly incredible siri. It looks to be a success, looking forward to hearing what you guys have to say about it.

[listy]

I thought you will need to sync it with iTunes to be able to check for new update?

yeah i did that

[FatalSaviour]

And it's out! Downloading now, 6 mins remaining :-)

[listy]

iOS 5 Software Update

This update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

• Notifications
◦ Swipe from the top of any screen to view notifications in one place with Notification Centre
◦ New notifications appear briefly at the top of the screen
◦ View notifications from lock screen
◦ Slide the notification app icon to the right on the lock screen to go directly to the app
• iMessage
◦ Send and receive unlimited text, photo and video messages with other iOS 5 users
◦ Track messages with delivery and read receipts
◦ Group messaging and secure encryption
◦ Works over mobile networks and Wi-Fi*
• Newsstand
◦ Automatically organises magazine and newspaper subscriptions on Home Screen
◦ Displays the cover of the latest issue
◦ Background downloads of new issues
• Reminders for managing to-do lists
◦ Syncs with iCloud, iCal and Outlook
◦ Location-based reminders when you leave or arrive at a location for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
• Built-in support for Twitter
◦ Sign in once in Settings and tweet directly from Camera, Photos, Maps, Safari and YouTube
◦ Add location to any tweet
◦ View Twitter profile pictures and usernames in Contacts
• Camera improvements for devices with cameras
◦ Double-click the Home button when device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)
◦ Volume Up button to take a picture
◦ Optional grid lines to line up shots
◦ Pinch to zoom in the preview screen
◦ Swipe to camera roll from preview screen
◦ Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure; iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only support exposure lock
• Photo improvements for devices with cameras
◦ Crop and rotate
◦ Red-eye removal
◦ One-tap enhance
◦ Organise photos into albums
• Mail improvements
◦ Format text using bold, italic or underlined fonts
◦ Indentation control
◦ Drag to rearrange names in address fields
◦ Flag messages
◦ Mass mark messages as flagged, read or unread
◦ Customise mail alert sounds
◦ S/MIME
• Calendar improvements
◦ Year view on iPad and new Week view for iPhone and iPod touch
◦ Tap to create an event
◦ View and add event attachments
• Game Center improvements
◦ Use personal photos for your Game Center account
◦ Compare your overall achievement scores with your friends
◦ Find new Game Center friends with friend recommendations and friends of friends
◦ Discover new games with custom game recommendations
• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
• Multitasking Gestures for iPad
◦ Use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen
◦ Swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar
◦ Swipe left or right to switch between apps
• On-device setup, activation and configuration with Setup Assistant
• Software updates available over the air without tethering
• iCloud support
◦ iTunes in the Cloud
◦ Photo Stream
◦ Documents in the Cloud
◦ Apps and Books automatic download and purchase history
◦ Backup
◦ Contacts, Calendar and Mail
◦ Find My iPhone
• Redesigned Music app for iPad
• Hourly weather forecast
• Real-time stock quotes
• Wireless sync to iTunes
• Keyboard improvements
◦ Split keyboard for iPad
◦ Improved auto-correction accuracy
◦ Improved Chinese and Japanese input
◦ New Emoji keyboard
◦ Personal dictionary for auto-correction
◦ Optionally create keyboard shortcuts for frequently used words
• Accessibility improvements
◦ Option to light LED flash on incoming calls and alerts for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
◦ Custom vibration patterns for incoming calls on iPhone
◦ New interface for using iOS with mobility-impairment input devices
◦ Option to speak a selection of text
◦ Custom element labelling for VoiceOver
• Exchange ActiveSync improvements
◦ Wirelessly sync tasks
◦ Mark messages as flagged, read or unread
◦ Improved offline support
◦ Save a new contact from a GAL service
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

[Hoonigan]

It's still telling me I'm on the latest version. Do ya reckon this could be due to me already having iOS5 GM installed?

Can anyone that's updated to iOS5 let me know what build version they're running? Mine's saying 9A334

[Rob_B]

I'd imagine if you're on GM then yes it won't update you.

downloaded and trying to install, had 2 errors and it crapped out, trying again & will see what happens.

[Hoonigan]

Got it sorted out now.. Seemed that I didn't even need to, the files are identical. Same build versions, same file sizes (to the kb) and every feature is exactly the same (afaik).

[Rob_B]

Well, seems the 3200 error might be Apple servers buckling (although the download was pretty damn fast)

Saurik says its failing 50% of the time, I'm currently 6 for 6 so he might want to recalculate that!

EDIT: Yay, USB driver prompt popped up meaning I passed the server activation part, spangly new stuff here I come

I will miss SBSettings though