Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, Touch ID Improvements, Visual Tweaks

[SMIDG3T]

You've always been able to do that. I'm pretty sure

Nope. Before 7.1 it was only "immediately" and "15 minutes".

Edit: sorry. I thought he was on about request password for buying content. Sorry.

 

[MrGuder]

Updated through iTunes, after update installed it prompts you to accept/ok your computer to access and update your iphone. That's weird, it's the same computer why request if it's always been that way?

 

[SMIDG3T]

Huge performance boost in A7 based devices.
It just feels snappier.

This. A LOT snappier in my opinion.

 

[Razeus]

6 months to fix the random rebooting home screen. Pretty poor QC at Apple these days.

 

[C DM]

Haven't seen this reported yet...

Previously the "Require Passcode" max length was "After 5 minutes."
New options are "After 15 minutes," 1 hour, and 4 hours.

15m. Yes. Digging this.

Likely depends on something else, like an Exchange account that could control that. I had and still have 15 minutes as the max with my work Exchange account, while without it it could go to more, like 1 hour and beyond.

 

[daroga]

Nope. Before 7.1 it was only "immediately" and "15 minutes".

My iPad mini running 7.0 has 2 minutes, 5, minutes, 10 minutes, and 15 minutes.

 

[Daalseth]

It's a damn shame Apple patched the jailbreak. Steve Jobs is gone, why can't they just forget about the BS and let people do what they want with their phones? ******** if you ask me.

Because if they did iOS would be no better than Android. It's the lock down that keeps so much Malware off of the platform. The last thing anyone, jailbreakers or not need is a bunch of newbies trying any old **** they can download from crapware.com. You think there's complaining from the jailbreak community now? If Apple allowed anyone to jail break you'd get that, plus blame for bad apps\malware apps\spyware apps, poorer customer satisfaction, and bad reputation. The B***h**g would go up by at least 100x or more. No, if you want to tinker with the guts of iOS and try all these cool apps you can grab from Bob's House of Burgers & Software it's far far better for the rest of us if you have to jump through hoops to do it.

EDIT: Still not seeing iTunes Radio. Must be a Canada thing.

 

[C DM]

6 months to fix the random rebooting home screen. Pretty poor QC at Apple these days.

Or perhaps finally pretty good that they spend this much time fixing and testing (and perhaps refixing) it all.

 

[Lactoes]

Are you sure? I thought it was always like that...

Very sure. Tried last night to increase it - got tired of it locking while I was watching a movie. Lots of thoughts like, "Seriously? It's been 5 minutes already?!"

 

[trekkie604]

Statistical tidbit... iPhone 5 and 5S started the update at the same time. iPhone 5 has restarted twice and is almost done after about 6 minutes. 5S is still Preparing update.

lol.

 

[576316]

how do you perform a clean install? i'm downloading the update now in iTunes. I selected "download only" not "download and install"

do i need to import my pics to iphoto before the clean install? i backed up the phone just a min ago

Just do a restore using the update, that'll perform a 'clean install'.

 

[stu.h]

Where's 7.1.1 dammit!!

 

[Apple_Robert]

Nope. Before 7.1 it was only "immediately" and "15 minutes".

Before the updat, I could set it for immediate, 2 minutes, 15 minutes etc.

 

[Edgardas]

Hmm i have turned off reduce motion and perspective zoom but still i get parallax effect... Anyone alse?

 

[adamj575]

yeeeeaaaahhhh boy!

 

[ineedamac]

Calendar

I do not see the country specific holidays automatically added. Certainly the US was one of the countries this was added for.

 

[luckydcxx]

Statistical tidbit... iPhone 5 and 5S started the update at the same time. iPhone 5 has restarted twice and is almost done after about 6 minutes. 5S is still Preparing update.

lol.

my 5s has been preparing the update for about 15 min ... ughhh. I thought 64 bit meant updates would be snappier

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Does anyone know if this fixes the issue where "other" would erroneously take over all of your storage space?

I really hope so. I've been having to restore from backup about every two weeks to squash the ever-expanding "other." Once it was over 9GB.

I'm also looking forward to better fingerprint recognition. Mine will work great for about a week, then pretty much stop. I delete the stored prints, add new ones, and it works great for another week. Rinse and Repeat.

 

[GIZBUG]

Can anyone confirm if this update resolves the crashing issue with Safari? Thanks.

havent touched Safari in years. But what I can tell you, Chrome runs fine on it.

 

[Lactoes]

Likely depends on something else, like an Exchange account that could control that. I had and still have 15 minutes as the max with my work Exchange account, while without it it could go to more, like 1 hour and beyond.

Ah, noted. I bet you're right. Off to check if my work account got disabled (requires password re-entry?) in this process .

 

[lahin]

Hmm i have turned off reduce motion and perspective zoom but still i get parallax effect... Anyone alse?

Finally, someone notices!! I've been saying this for the past hour...

 

[Tyler23]

Built in weather app no longer has animations and has new icons.

You have reduce motion turned on. Weather still has the animations.

 

[ineedamac]

Built in weather app no longer has animations and has new icons.

I see the clouds moving in the weather app.

 

[C DM]

Very sure. Tried last night to increase it - got tired of it locking while I was watching a movie. Lots of thoughts like, "Seriously? It's been 5 minutes already?!"

Why would it lock if you were watching something on it?

 

[ssdeg7]

Did they fix the Messages bug that prevented data from being deleted? (I have 1GB of storage data held in my Messages app both on my iPad and iPhone)