iOS 5
iOS 5 has over 200 new user features. 10 of these were featured in the Apple release event.
Notifications
Notifications is a new center. All you have to do from the home page is swipe down with your finger. No longer do notifications block your screen. You can also view notifications from the lock screen. From there, just swipe across on a notification and it will automatically take you to the app that sent the notification.
iMessage
iMessage is a new messaging service between iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch. With iMessage, you can send text, videos, and photos. Other features that are included are delivery and read receipts, and typing indications. Also messages get pushed to all devices and are sent over 3G or Wi-Fi, and also are sent over a secure encryption.
Reminders
With iOS 5 you can now create reminders. The thing that sets this apart from others is that you can create reminders based around a location. For example, you can create a reminder to call your mom when you get home. Later when you arrive home, the reminder will appear on your iOS 5 device. Your reminders are also synced with iCloud, so your reminders will be pushed to all of your devices.
Twitter
Twitter is now integrated with all apps. You can now tweet photos, websites, youtube, maps, etc.
Newsstand
Newsstand was created to keep all of your newspapers, magazines, subscriptions, etc in one place. All of your subscriptions are kept in the Newsstand on the home screen. A nice feature to come with Newsstand is background downloads. Now when you are sleeping or off doing something, all of your subscriptions download on their own so you have it available right away.
Camera/Photos
The camera now has a lock screen shortcut. All you have to do is double click the home button and a little camera pops up. You don't have to enter a pass-code to get to the camera making it easier and faster to take pictures. You can also use the volume up button to take pictures. Other new features of the camera are grid lines, pinch to zoom, an auto-exposure and auto-focus lock (just hold your finger on a part of the screen that you want it to adjust to), edit, crop, rotate, red-eye removal, and one tap enhance. All of that in one little app.
Game Center
Currently Game Center has over 67 million users. You can now post pictures, over all achievement points, friend discovery, and game discovery. It is now easier than ever to discover new and exciting games.
Safari
There were some major changed to Safari. The first one is Reader. Reader, which is featured on the iPhone and iPad, takes a story and formats it to the device to where it only shows the story. Stories can also be saved in the Reader List where you can come back to it later, even on a different device. And instead of flipping through multiple pages in a story, you can now scroll through the story.
The other major change is tabbed browsing. Instead of flipping through pages, you can now flip through tabs that are shown on the top of the browser.
Mail
A couple new features to Mail was introduced. Now while in Mail you have rich text formatting. For those who don't know what rich text formatting is, it includes italics, bold, underline, etc. You also now have indentation control, draggable addresses, you can flag messaged, search through an entire messages, and on the iPad you can swipe over to view your inbox.
PC Free
The biggest announcement on iOS 5 is PC Free. And can I say finally!!! You now no longer have to hook up your new Apple device to a computer to set it up or to get updates. This frees up so many more people to get Apple devices.
Twitter is now integrated with all apps. You can now tweet photos, websites, youtube, maps, etc.
Newsstand
Newsstand was created to keep all of your newspapers, magazines, subscriptions, etc in one place. All of your subscriptions are kept in the Newsstand on the home screen. A nice feature to come with Newsstand is background downloads. Now when you are sleeping or off doing something, all of your subscriptions download on their own so you have it available right away.
Camera/Photos
The camera now has a lock screen shortcut. All you have to do is double click the home button and a little camera pops up. You don't have to enter a pass-code to get to the camera making it easier and faster to take pictures. You can also use the volume up button to take pictures. Other new features of the camera are grid lines, pinch to zoom, an auto-exposure and auto-focus lock (just hold your finger on a part of the screen that you want it to adjust to), edit, crop, rotate, red-eye removal, and one tap enhance. All of that in one little app.
Game Center
Currently Game Center has over 67 million users. You can now post pictures, over all achievement points, friend discovery, and game discovery. It is now easier than ever to discover new and exciting games.
Safari
There were some major changed to Safari. The first one is Reader. Reader, which is featured on the iPhone and iPad, takes a story and formats it to the device to where it only shows the story. Stories can also be saved in the Reader List where you can come back to it later, even on a different device. And instead of flipping through multiple pages in a story, you can now scroll through the story.
The other major change is tabbed browsing. Instead of flipping through pages, you can now flip through tabs that are shown on the top of the browser.
A couple new features to Mail was introduced. Now while in Mail you have rich text formatting. For those who don't know what rich text formatting is, it includes italics, bold, underline, etc. You also now have indentation control, draggable addresses, you can flag messaged, search through an entire messages, and on the iPad you can swipe over to view your inbox.
PC Free
The biggest announcement on iOS 5 is PC Free. And can I say finally!!! You now no longer have to hook up your new Apple device to a computer to set it up or to get updates. This frees up so many more people to get Apple devices.
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