Apple Releases iOS 5 Software Update

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Apple Releases iOS 5 Software Update
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Posted by: Glenn

Apple today released the iOS 5 Software Update via iTunes 10.5 for owners of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. According to the company, 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 Center
- 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

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http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1726.html

[curt]

I'm most impressed with the new music app for the iPad. It's a nice improvement over the previous "iPod" version. This alone is a reason to upgrade.
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[Ray Finkle]

3 hours to go.

[ESUNintel]

Wow, is the download taking forever - and yet I'm dumb enough to sit here and wait. I'm still waiting in the iPhone - about 16 minutes to go. The iPad downloaded, but it failed to install properly, so now I'm left with a factory reset iPad that the computer can't read; I suppose I'll figure it out.

[WheelSpinners]

I'm glad we have it, but holy slide down copy of Android notifications Batman!

[CaliforniaMini]

[WheelSpinners]

[Ray Finkle]

Gestures so far is by far my favorite. I hated that home button.

[CaliforniaMini]

[Cypher]

[devo]

I'm not all that excited with the new Music app for the iPad either. It looks so plain and those wooden type bars going down the side look very cheesy. The progress indicator in orange looks off too. It's like they tried to go retro or something. I just liked the older version better.

The new iTunes Movie Trailers app from Apple is awesome though. It looks gorgeous and works well. I also love the calendar timeline for seeing when movies come out.

[gigaguy]

Lazy I guess, but do you have to be on Lion to use os5? I think for icloud you need Lion? I'm on a jailbroken iPad2 so I was in no hurry. and my current Mac is on Snow Leopard. but I have a new sealed Mac Mini w/Lion I have not unselaed yet.

[Ray Finkle]

I'm really liking the new update. I do wish we had two finger gestures in safari to swipe forward or back a page. That would complete the flow. Plus they need to make bookmarks more organized like the Mac way. Something thats' easier for the eye to comprehend. I dread even looking at bookmarks with the iOS safari. One other improvement that would be amazing. How about having the apple remote to work with these TV and Movie apps. That would be great. I use my iPad as a second tv for my Bedroom. Sometimes I would just like to turn it off without getting up.

[Ray Finkle]

Well I enabled iCloud I barely checked it out, but the bookmark thing is much better because it sent my more organized bookmarked webpages to my iPad. I like that. I still don't see no photo's in my photo stream though. I hope I do soon I don't see any network activity so I may have done something wrong.



EDIT: OK just turned it on in iPhoto. Duh.


Ok just uploaded some photos. Not for me. Way to slow and it will bog my network down big time because I take a good hundred photos at a time. I could keep it off then upload what I want later. I will have to. The best thing is iTunes iCloud which you don't need to even sign up for iCloud. I wish you could just sync/ stream an app to your device from your computer wirelessly instead of going to the "cloud" and having to redownload. That's nice if your not near your computer, but if you are it would be a lot faster. APP STREAM


EDIT: OK I set up wifi sync I didn't even know that was an option. So that seems pretty cool from my desktop. But I can't manually pick and choose from iPad unless I am missing something. Maybe I need to restart it. Still cool just not exactly what I was hoping for.