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iPhone iOS5 out today

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Ravynmagi said:
One of the features listed was being able to swipe up to bring up the task bar on an iPad. This doesn't seem to work on my iPad though. Some hidden setting I need to enable or something?
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Oh... what the hell Apple?

The patch notes say...

"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"

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/235192/...multi-touch-from-original-ipad-says-tech-site

But this story is saying that Apple removed the gestures from the iPad 1. Why? 🙁
 
Worst part about upgrading is having to restore all of your apps. :\ It takes at least an hour for me since I have around 25GB!
 
Mine eventually worked just through massive retries. My wifes was a disaster. I let you do her own thing and by the time she was done her phone was wiped. I got it restored so she happy with that but damn was she pissed over the whole deal.
 
Browser is a LOT faster on my iPad 2. Not seeing any checkerboarding when scrolling down long pages (such as forum threads) as it's loading. Even Gizmodo loads pretty quickly. That site used to take forever to load in Safari on iOS for some reason, I think it had something to do with their layout. This one improvement alone makes me a very happy camper, and I haven't even really tested the other new features yet.
 
Sid59 said:
any speed degradation switching apps, browsing, etc?
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No.
If anything it is smoother.
Since the 3GS is now their free model I would bet they put a lot of work in making sure iOS 5 runs great on it.
Seems much better than iOS 4.
 
Just updated my iPod touch. Went off without a hitch. It even restored all my apps. Slightly sucked to have to spend a couple minutes putting everything back into folders/categories I'd previously arranged, but not really a big deal.

So far I can tell the notifications is the most welcomed change- it's about time. I still wish it had widgets. Ah well.

Tomorrow I'll update my wife's iPhone 4 and hopefully it'll go as smooth.
 
3rd gen. iPod touch now syncs in the background. As we already know, it also has the pull down notification bar, ala Android. Excellent so far.

The update was successful, but the restore, while it appeared to have worked perfectly (on the Pod), gave me an "error 34" (on the PC) repeatedly, until I set it to restore to "new iPod" instead of my existing one. Now all is well.

Performance with apps, videos, music, and iTunes seems basically identical as before. So far so good.
 
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The app switching gestures in iOS 5 seem to be odd. If you close an app, it will still come up when you swipe across. I'm assuming that shouldn't happen. 😛

Also... does WiFi syncing even work? I told it to sync but it still says the last sync was from hours ago. It also says that it will sync when my computer is ready. Am I missing something?

Oh and split keyboard on the iPad? It rocks! It's odd how you enable it though... it's part of the keyboard-go-away button.
 
I'll wait for you early adopters to finish beta testing it for me first. I learned my lesson from iOS 4.0.

Anyway, let me know when 5.0.1 comes out 🙂
 
Patranus said:
No.
If anything it is smoother.
Since the 3GS is now their free model I would bet they put a lot of work in making sure iOS 5 runs great on it.
Seems much better than iOS 4.
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Your logic is that they're putting extra time and resources into a device that they are no longer making any money on? 😕

I don't doubt that it runs well, but your reasoning for why makes absolutely no sense.
 
gorcorps said:
Your logic is that they're putting extra time and resources into a device that they are no longer making any money on? 😕

I don't doubt that it runs well, but your reasoning for why makes absolutely no sense.
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3GS is still being made, it's free on contract though with AT&T.
 
gorcorps said:
Your logic is that they're putting extra time and resources into a device that they are no longer making any money on? 😕

I don't doubt that it runs well, but your reasoning for why makes absolutely no sense.
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You know that the carriers still pay for the phones right? They're the ones not making money on hardware.
 
I updated my iphone 4 to this last night. I used iOS 5 a little during the beta builds but went back to 4.3.4 until the official release. I like the notification system a lot, I'm glad they copied it from Android and improved upon it somewhat. I had problems restoring my phone too, kept getting "error-34". Right now I have no music or anything but I'm hoping they fixed the problems I had with the music player during beta (cover flow was pretty broken and performed terribly in the beta).

One thing that really annoys me is that you can't sync through wifi unless it's plugged in, that makes it pretty worthless for me. I might as well plug it into my PC and sync faster rather than plug it into the wall and not be able to use it anyway unless I'm sitting on the floor by the plug.
 
VashHT said:
I updated my iphone 4 to this last night. I used iOS 5 a little during the beta builds but went back to 4.3.4 until the official release. I like the notification system a lot, I'm glad they copied it from Android and improved upon it somewhat. I had problems restoring my phone too, kept getting "error-34". Right now I have no music or anything but I'm hoping they fixed the problems I had with the music player during beta (cover flow was pretty broken and performed terribly in the beta).

One thing that really annoys me is that you can't sync through wifi unless it's plugged in, that makes it pretty worthless for me. I might as well plug it into my PC and sync faster rather than plug it into the wall and not be able to use it anyway unless I'm sitting on the floor by the plug.
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I think what they were going for here, is you update a playlist in iTunes (like I use) at night before bed, then plug the phone in and it will update while you're sleeping and it's ready to go the next day.
 
Yeah I can see it being useful in certain situations but I would rather see a wire-fee wireless sync (funny how that sounds..lol). I know things could get screwed up if your battery died while syncing but they could disable sync at 20% battery life or something.
 
I really don't like Notification center... I mean its better than the garbage that was there before... but It's not nearly as clean and functional as Android's. The gesture stuff however is awesome... and the browser is WAY faster.
 
VashHT said:
Yeah I can see it being useful in certain situations but I would rather see a wire-fee wireless sync (funny how that sounds..lol). I know things could get screwed up if your battery died while syncing but they could disable sync at 20% battery life or something.
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You can sync it without plugging the phone in. You just have to force it to sync, it wont happen automatically.

I'm actually doing it right now.
 
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