iPhone OS 2.1
iOS Release Notes📱iPhone OS 2.1/2.1.1
Build - 5F136 was released 9 Sep, 2008 for:
• iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
• iPod Touch (1st gen.).
Free for iPod Touch users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0.
New Features & Changes:
• Genius playlist creation
• More information provided within iPod Music lists (artist and album are now shown below song title when selecting music in addition to remaining time on podcasts)
• More information is provided for audiobooks, such as displaying time left in active audiobook
• New podcasts and videos had "filled" blue bubbles next to them to indicate that they were new, now if you have "half-played" a podcast or video, it will include a half filled blue bubble
• Sound from iPod now fades out if you start syncing device with iTunes
• Bookmarked home screen apps open in full screen.
Companion changes in/with iTunes 8 for this release:
• Displays capacity and used space of information on iPhone
• Dramatically reduced time to back up to iTunes
• Does not remove all media after restore
• Faster firmware installation and data sync
• Application updates downloaded from iTunes have new finder naming convention.
OS enhancements:
• Triple-click on the control button of headphones now jumps music to prior track played
• SMS app can alert up to two additional times if you don't acknowledge an incoming text message (will play the alert sound/vibrate again after a period of time as if a new message just came in)
• Update supporting languages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts (after 5 attempts, the device will disable itself for 1 minute. After the 6th attempt, it will disable itself for 5 minutes. In the 10th attempt, it will wipe all data)
3G, EDGE, and GPRS indicators changed
• The camera can now be turned off within the restrictions page
• When taking a screenshot of your phone, there is now the camera shutter noise
• iPhone never gets locked when placed in dock and playing music.
Bug fixes, performance enhancements:
• Security fix to prevent from bypassing the double home button exploit
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Faster installation and updating of 3rd party applications
• Updating applications keeps their icons in place on the home screen
• Improvements to Mail stability
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Auto-correct now appears above the text instead of below (fixing a usability problem people were having where auto-correct would appear above the first row of keys)
• Smoother browsing in Safari, particularly when scrolling up/down on a web page
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Calculator bug fixed affecting calculations involving Pi.
iPod Touch (2nd generation) only:
iPod Touch only:
• Settings for individual speaker sounds. Sounds can no longer be turned off en masse. All sounds must be turned off individually to mute sounds.
• New speaker sound when sending mail.
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