An Exhaustive List of iOS 5 Features and Changes

[farleysmaster]

It only shows a timestamp if the minutes have changed. Personally, I like it that way.

I'm pretty sure it's more time than that, it seems to be if it assesses that the messages are part of the same combination. It's annoying if someone says meet you in an an hour, an hour ago, and you're wondering if they're arriving in 5 minutes or are ten minutes late, or whatnot...

 

[yourstation]

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In iOS 5 can you change a contact between 'Company' and 'Not a Company'?

 

[Kwill]

Unlocked locked screen?

I am a bit concerned about this feature:

When a notification is on the lockscreen, swipe it to open the specific app.​

The purpose of a locked screen is to protect private information. Will someone more familiar please clarify? Is there a setting to keep the locked screen from being unlocked without a password?

 

[Kwill]

Contacts

In iOS 5 can you change a contact between 'Company' and 'Not a Company'?

Also, can a contact be added to a group on iOS device?

 

[jowie]

The purpose of a locked screen is to protect private information. Will someone more familiar please clarify? Is there a setting to keep the locked screen from being unlocked without a password?

The way I understand it, it will still ask for your pass code if you have set one. The only difference is that it will open directly into the relevant app.

 

[cmaier]

The way I understand it, it will still ask for your pass code if you have set one. The only difference is that it will open directly into the relevant app.

Yes. Of course you can't bypass the lock screen just because you have a notification. And if you're very security conscious you can even decide which (if any) apps are permitted to put notifications on the lock screen.

 

[wingnut8]

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Need podcast subscriptions straight on the phone!

Wireless syncing will somewhat help, but I agree.

 

[farleysmaster]

The way I understand it, it will still ask for your pass code if you have set one. The only difference is that it will open directly into the relevant app.

Which is what the iPhone already does if you unlock it right after the notification comes up. (lock screen = keyboard lock, so if there's no PIN code, it open's straight up, and if there is a PIN code it'll just put the PIN code entry screen up in the normal way). People don't give Apple enough credit sometimes. Sure there have been ways to partially bypass the PIN code in small ways before, but nothing that obvious...

 

[Rps315]

One thing I noticed today is that the SMS app now combines all of the pieces of long text messages into one message. Where before, a message over 160 characters would be displayed as separate messages with (1), (2), etc, now it is just a really long continuous message (with the bracketed numbers omitted).
I remember it doing this before for iPhone-to-iPhone messages, but now I can confirm that it does this for Blackberrys and probably other phones as well.

 

[steadysignal]

I have a feeling that Apple is purposely holding back on some big new iOS 5 features for the unveiling of the next iPhone, like Nuance speech recognition, etc.

If the hardware will be largely similar to the iPhone 4, they will need some new "wow moments" for the keynote, and I don't believe for a second that the 10 new features they focused on at WWDC are the only crown jewels of the new OS.

why hold back features? just to have something to offer later?

 

[jowie]

One thing I noticed today is that the SMS app now combines all of the pieces of long text messages into one message. Where before, a message over 160 characters would be displayed as separate messages with (1), (2), etc, now it is just a really long continuous message (with the bracketed numbers omitted).
I remember it doing this before for iPhone-to-iPhone messages, but now I can confirm that it does this for Blackberrys and probably other phones as well.

Is that a network issue? I've never had received SMS messages split up, from any network or any phone.