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Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
- simonhamp 15y agoDownloading already here in the UK :)
- st3fan 15y agoWhat is the build number of this release? Can anyone confirm it is the same as the GM from october 4th?
- avirambm 15y agoLooks like it's the same as GM - 9A334 (source: http://ios.e-lite.org/ http://ios.e-lite.org/)
- cwh 15y agonice, that's my page (ios.e-lite.org).
- miles_matthias 15y agoIt also doesn't show any updates for me on my iPhone that is running the latest iOS 5 beta.
- nickpp 15y agoDownload stalled... :(
- modoc 15y agoAkamai caches weren't pre warmed. It should get better soon.
- AdamGibbins 15y agoAlso OS X 10.7.2. Among other things, finally gives the ability to rearrange spaces.
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- there 15y agothe three-finger swipe up and down once again scroll to the top and bottom of the page in firefox after the 10.7.2 update. the cursor movement seems to be faster at the same set speed, i had to turn it down a notch after the update.
- artursapek 15y agoWhy does Techcrunch always offer such exaggerations as "SMS dies today?" I'm curious if people will actually use iMessage very much. It will be hard to keep track of the relatively small amount of friends you know are on iOS5, and people on iPods won't want to rely on having wi-fi for their SMSing.
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- ugh 15y agoYou don’t “use” iMessage and you don’t have to keep “track of” anything. If for friend has an iPhone you will automatically send her an iMessage, if not you send a text. You won’t even notice. (The “Send” button changes color. That’s all.) (Yeah, TechCrunch is exaggerating but iMessage is very clever.)
- bluelu 15y agoNice. So now all my private messages get routed (and logged) through an US company?
- ugh 15y agoSigh. If you like you can obviously deactivate iMessage. It’s not a problem.
- danilocampos 15y agoFor what it's worth, I appreciate your sanity.
- ceejayoz 15y agoAnd how are you imagining SMS messages work currently?
- 0x0x0x 15y agoPhotostream... taking pics on the iPhone and watching them appear nearly instant in iPhoto is amazing tech.
- glhaynes 15y agoList of things Apple is releasing today (perhaps incomplete?): iOS 5 (iPhone, iPad) Mac OS X 10.7.2 (and maybe 10.6.9?) Apple TV 4.4 Update updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS iPhoto 9.2 Aperture 3.2 Safari 5.1.1 (Mac, Windows) iCloud Control Panel for Windows the iCloud web apps Cards (and associated print/delivery service) Lion Recovery Update iTunes Movie Trailers app Find my Friends app AirPort Setup utility app updated iOS Remote app updated iOS iMovie app updated Find my iPhone app store for text message/alert tones iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4 for Mac OS X ...and of course the iCloud (and iMessage, etc) service itself, including migration tools for MobileMe, etc. Oh, and the new phone is shipping this week [thanks, smackfu], including its Siri service that relies on a server-side component. And iTunes 10.5 yesterday. And the white iPod touch. OK, I'll stop now. Just might be a stressful time to be an Apple employee. I remember it being reported that in the Jobs-Makes-Everybody-Cry-After-MobileMe-Launch-Disaster meeting that he said that one of the major mistakes they made was releasing too much at once - that they should've let MobileMe simmer a while more instead of tying it to the iPhone 3GS launch. Guess we'll see what happens this time. Hard to transition your whole software stack to being integrated with a new cloud service without doing most of these updates at once, I suppose, but they could have shipped the software then waited a month and shipped the phone. Would've been contrary to the "integrated" hardware/software messages that Apple usually has, though. edit: All in the shadow of a homepage that has nothing but a memorial to Jobs. Classy. And, if they pull it off, should give a nice confidence boost that such feats can be done even in the new era.
- lukeqsee 15y agoFirst thought: That's a lot of bandwidth. Second thought: That's a lot of code. I hope it's a lot of awesome-sauce.
- smackfu 15y agoNew phone isn't today, so there's that.
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- cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y agoAre there any unofficial mirrors yet? I have a 100mbit connection but the download is just awfully slow.
- guelo 15y agoDoes anyone know how iOS 5 runs on a 3GS? Does it bog things down?
- joeguilmette 15y agoif i had a 3GS i would wait until the next iOS update comes out unless there is a resounding "Wow!" from 3GS users.
- guelo 15y agoI don't follow your logic, if there isn't a performance penalty I don't see why anyone would keep using the older OS.
- veyron 15y agojailbreaks?
- davecap1 15y agoWow! :) - a 3GS user
- sajidnizami 15y agoWow :) The resounding one.
- chugger 15y agoso far it looks like iOS 5 is running ok on a 3GS.
- dmix 15y agoThere were benchmarks of the new 4S posted online that also showed 3GS with iOS5 outperformed iOS4. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-benchmarks-800mhz-a5-slightly-slower-gpu-than-ipad-2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-ben...
- _frog 15y agoI've been running the developer betas since about Beta 5 and it's been fine, update away.
- davidcollantes 15y agoTried to download, always ended up with a "corrupted" download. Trying again now, it says "5 Hours."
- bryanh 15y agoVarious errors when trying to install iOS5 on my iPhone 4. I'm getting everything from error 3194 "This device is not eligible for the requested build" to a generic error 3200 "Unknown error". Coupled with some crazy Lion crashes lately, my anecdotal experience is that Apple software is not "just work[ing]".
- jreposa 15y agoThe iOS 5 update errors are being reported as server failures on Apple. Although, I admit I'm not helping the problem. It took 20+ tries to finally get it to phone home correctly. http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/12/apples-ios-5-upgrade-servers-are-slammed-causing-3200-or-internal-error-update-issues/ http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/12/apples-ios-5-upgrade-...
- bryanh 15y agoThanks for the link. I figured as much, though a more descriptive error message would have helped.
- ottbot 15y agoFor the impatient: after downloading and backing up at least once -- you can put your device in DFU mode to try again (and again) without having to repeat the backup process.
- aorshan 15y agoI'm on #12 and still nothing.
- noisebleed 15y agoYeah... trying to update has actually completely screwed up my phone. I can't even get it to restore. edit: finally got it to work again after going through the 'force into restore mode' process about a dozen times.
- jasonabelli 15y agoas doesn't auto correct to A's anymore. Yeah
- davidhperry 15y agoAnyone know how to do a restore without backing up first? Like a lot of others, the restore is failing for me when it communicates with Apple and every time I retry, it does a backup that lasts about 30 minutes. I'd love to just keep retrying without doing the backup each time.
- ottbot 15y agoTry putting your device in DFU mode. This worked for me, after that clicking restore (then update/restore) went straight to the verification phase.. Previous backup was restored when I finally get the update installed.
- geuis 15y agoI highly recommend you backup with iTunes first. I have run the beta for months and hadn't backed up in a while. iCloud was wiped last week and when I updated to the GM I lost everything. My last backup was in July, so that's where I had to start from there.
- sigzero 15y agoI'd definitely wait. Apple is swamped now.
- vl 15y agoWith iMessage being released I wonder what is the plan for Facetime? Is it complementary, or is it going to be killed? Are we going to get iMessage on Mac/Windows as well?
- dhbanes 15y agoWhy would video chat be killed due to the release of a text chat service?
- jayp08 15y agoiMessage & location based reminders dont work on my 3GS :(
- _frog 15y agoiMessage should work fine, location based reminders on the other hand are iPhone 4 and 4S only.
- jayp08 15y agodoesnt work for me..what do i do to make it work?? I cant see any option under messages for activating iMessage.
- zacharyz 15y agoThis makes me wonder how the majority of the people are even going to use it if it isn't immediately obvious how to activate it. I used this gigaom article to setup it up on my 3gs: http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-5-imessage/ http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-5-imessage/ It works pretty well and I can't wait for the mac version.
- kgermino 15y agoDo you happen to know about iPad/iPad2?
- navs 15y agosigh My poor iPhone 3G and I are completely left out. I did update OSX to make use of the new iCloud but its really no use unless you have an i-device with iCloud. I use Pages.app and was hoping I could make use of the iCloud storage feature but it appears I HAVE to have its equivalent Pages app for iOS to activate it. :(
- emehrkay 15y agoI feel old school because of my 3G. Be proud, brotha!
- miles_matthias 15y agoHaving lots of issues upgrading Xcode and iPhoto through the Mac app store. Just hangs. I thought it might be because my mini needed another restart after getting the lion update, but that didn't help either. Now since I tried to update them, the Mac app store is showing them as updated even though they aren't. No idea how I fix that...
- kpennell 15y ago3G owner, made that mistake with 4.0....just reverted to 3.1.2 Not making that upgrading mistake twice...
- duarte 15y agoMultitouch gestures don't work on the original iPad, even though they worked for developers on iOS 4. I guess this is either to sell more iPad 2s, or because the performance when switching apps is slower (it is), which makes the app switching gesture worse. Either way it's quite a dubious decision IMO. iOS 5 is all about being able to do more with the iPad. I've been using it a lot while writing my dissertation, and the main issue is how slow it is to switch between safari/iBooks and the writing app. The horizontal tabs in safari are a great improvement in this sense.