Apple : iOS 5 Features

When Apple unveiled iOS 5 last Monday, Steve Jobs mentioned that their new OS for mobile devices included 200 new features. Apple didn’t give us a list of these 200 features, so it was left to beta testers to find them out themselves. Testers compiled the most comprehensive list of new iOS 5 features to, date which is as per bellow.

Notifications (full details)

• Notification center
• Lockscreen notifications
• Slide lockscreen notifications to open their app
• In app notifications
• Select what notifications appear
• Select where notifications appear
• Sort notifications manually or by time

Twitter Integration (full details)

• Single sign on
• Install Twitter from Settings app
• Tweet a location in Maps
• Tweet a picture from the camera roll
• Tweet a link from Safari
• Tweet a video from YouTube
• Apply your friends’ Twitter usernames and pictures to contact
• Special keyboard when using the Twitter integration

PC Free and iCloud

• New welcome screen when you first turn on your device
• Activate device without a computer
• Update device OTA
• Backup settings
• Backup photos
• Backup purchased music, apps, and books
• Backup app data
• Backup homescreen and app organization
• Backup Text Messages and MMS
• Backup ringtones
• Restore from iCloud
• Automatic downloads
• Past purchases
• Sync bookmarks, highlights, etc in iBooks across devices
• Sync documents (ie Pages, Keynote, etc) across devices and machines
• Check app usage
• Option to buy more storage

Messages

• iMessage
• Set specific SMS ringtones to contacts
• Text Messages show a green bubble
• iMessages show a blue bubble
• Send pictures and videos with iMessage
• See when people are typing an iMessage
• Enable Read Receipts for iMessage in Settings
• Repeat alerts up to 10 times
• Use Apple ID to activate Facetime and iMessages on iPhone

Camera and Photos

• Photo Stream
• Access camera from lockscreen
• Turn on grid lines
• Take a picture with Volume Up button
• Take a picture with Volume Up button of your headphones
• Touch and hold to lock focus and exposure
• Pinch to zoom
• Crop pictures
• Auto-enhance pictures
• Remove red eyes
• Create and delete photo albums
• Swipe from camera to camera roll

Safari

• Reader
• Reading List
• Tab browsing (iPad only)
• Private browsing
• Option to open links in the background
• Remove website data
• URL bar fades out to the right

Email

• Drag to rearrange recipients
• Text formatting (bold, italic, underlined, indent)
• Flag emails
• Mark several emails as read at the same time
• Add and delete mailbox folders
• Search full message
• Warning if you forget to add a subject
• Easy Hotmail set up
• Select tone for Email Sent in Settings app
• Select tone for Email Received in Settings app

Weather

• Local weather
• Weather hour by hour
• Swipe the weather widget in Notification Center to see 5 day forecast

Phone & Contacts

• Select tone for new voicemail in Settings app
• Unsecured Calls warnings
• Edit your number in Phone settings
• Delete individual calls
• When receiving a call from a non-contact, area or country displays on your screen
• Add “Related People” to a contact
• Add social media services info to your contacts

Calendar

• Year view on iPad in landscape mode
• Week view on iPhone in landscape mode
• Tap to create a new event
• Tap and drag to adjust time and duration of an event
• Add, rename, and delete calendars from the device
• View event attachments
• In day view, swipe left or right to go to next or previous day
• In month view, tap and hold a day to add a new event
• Select tone for calendar alerts in Settings app

Game Center

• Add a profile picture
• Make your profile private or public
• Friends recommendations
• New games suggestions
• New games downloads
• New achievements scores
• New notification sound

Music App

• New iPod Music icon
• Slide to delete a song
• Tap song to display info in Music app
• New Genius presentation
• Swipe left or right on the album cover to skip between tracks (iPad only)

Maps

• Suggested routes in Maps app
• Print directions

New Apple Apps

• NewsStand
• Reminders

Accessibility

• LED flash on calls and alerts
• Custom vibrations
• Larger text option
• New speak selection
• New assistive touch settings
• Set Mono Audio left or right

Multitasking Gestures (iPad Only)

• Swipe up with 4 fingers to show the app switcher
• Pinch to return to home screen
• Swipe left and right to switch between apps

AirPlay Mirroring

• Mirror your iPad 2 screen on your TV via Apple TV

User Interface

• New rounded toggles
• Widgets (Stocks and Weather)
• New Videos app and icon

Other Features

• Shortcuts
• Dictionary
• Emoji icons
• Rename your device from the Settings app
• See app data usage in the settings
• Voice Memos app rotates upside down
• Split keyboard on iPad to in portrait mode
• Use your phone while it’s syncing
• Buy new tones from the new Tone Store
• High quality YouTube playback over 3G
• FaceTime over 3G?
• Bluetooth wireless tethering for the iPhone 3GS

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