iPhone 2.2 Update, new & undocumented features/fixes screenshots (Updated constantly)

[alphatectz]

about mobile me, i tryed the free 1 month trial but every freakin time i sync to my laptop everything and i mean everything deleted, i was planning to purchase mobile me but after this im thinking twice now. can anyone help me change my mind????🙁

 

[RonCarr]

Sorry, but this does not work as you are saying.

You are absolutely correct. I am not sure what I was thinking! Thanks for catching that.

 

[cthielen]

about mobile me, i tryed the free 1 month trial but every freakin time i sync to my laptop everything and i mean everything deleted, i was planning to purchase mobile me but after this im thinking twice now. can anyone help me change my mind????🙁

When MobileMe syncs and a large amount of data is different between the cloud copy and your laptop copy, it will ask you what to do. This is also the case when you first sync. You can either assert your laptop has all the correct data and replace the cloud's data, assert the cloud's data is correct and replace the laptop data, or merge them. You weren't selecting the wrong option there, were you?

MobileMe has worked pretty well for me. I had to reset the sync data once on a third computer I added but overall it works very well. You should go to the apple.com Support forums and seek help. MobileMe is a good service, and $100 a year isn't too bad when you think of it (about $0.25 a day).

 

[aMmOOooR]

Faster 2.2?

Is it me? Or is it generally faster (more responsive) all over the iPhone since the 2.2 update? Slight difference.

 

[TheSpaz]

I don't know if this has been said already, but 2.2 trims app names so it fits on one line without scaling. See the app iCanHasCheezburger:

2.1

2.2

That's a winterboard feature. It's no different in 2.2 sorry.

 

[alphadog00]

I love the iPhone and truly believe it is an excellent piece of technology. Unfortunately I have come to the sobering realization that Apple does not have the consumers best interest at heart.

My iPhone is gone. I called both AT&T and Apple to see what could be done to help. All AT&T could/would do is deactivate my service. Apple was even less helpful. All they could do was empathize with my loss... There is also no insurance offered!

Apple knows that my phone has unique numbers (serial, IMEI, ICCID). The phone is uniquely identified whenever it makes a connection to the iTunes/App Store. Apple refuses to allow owners to be notified whenever a reported missing/stolen phone is reconnected to the network. This allows stolen phones to be used with no fear of recompense. They also will NOT allow the phone to be located.

There is no way for a stock phone to be configured by the owner to report its location (beacon) in the background. Applications that provide a function like this must be running in the foreground to be active. A lost or stolen phone could quickly be found by its owner if this were possible.

This is a feature that I find necessary since my iPhone (with ALL of my personal information, apps and music) is likely in the hands of someone.

I have no desire to ruin my phone or void my warranty, but the loss of another iPhone with no options to find it is unacceptable. My understanding of a jailbroken phone is that I can run a program (undetectable by the thief) to track it's location. This is not something I would need to consider if Apple would keep thieves from freely using it!

You should have a lock code on your phone so that if someone does get it that can't get in. BTW, there is no carrier that will locate a lost phone for you. The police can get a phone location, but even they have problems getting carrier cooperation sometimes (this is usually for missing persons only anyway).

If the thief puts your phone in airplane mode, then nothing can track it. If the phone is locked and he does a wipe, then your jailbroken apps are gone.

Blame the thief for the theft, or yourself if you lost it, but don't blame Apple or AT&T. Will you blame Ford/Mazda/Toyota if your car gets stolen?

If you put a password on your phone, then no one could freely use it.

 

[mrpoovey]

this has prolly been said but there is now a update all in the app store... sorry no screenies

 

[iphoneg33k]

Look at the new show sms preview that wasnt there before!!!

Arian 🙂

That has always been there. That's where you would be able to disable to txt u in case you didn't want to see when a txt message came up. Now with 2.2 you see who is txting u. Even if u have it turned of it still shows u the name. Has anyone figures out to fix this problem?

 

[atticus18244fsa]

Thanks for taking the time to do this

 

[vrflyer]

AM/PM was added in a previous release but for whatever reason it didn't appear automatically on all phones. In version 2.1 in order for me to get AM/PM on the lock screen I had to go into Settings-->General--Date & Time and turn 24-Hour Time ON, then power the phone off then on again, then go back into Settings-->General--Date & Time and turn 24-Hour Time OFF. At that point AM/PM appeared on the lock screen for me. However, if you ever had to power the phone off then on again (as I had had to numerous times) you will lose the AM/PM and will have to repeat the process above.

However, as of 2.2 that process I described no longer works. In fact when I tried that process instead of showing AM/PM it showed the time in 24 hour mode on the lock screen even when I had 24-hour mode set to OFF in the settings.

So that is definitely a bug. Not a major issue, but I like having the AM/PM on the lock screen.

I can confirm the same steps above for 2.2 & it's a bug (or a worm inside my ?). 😀

 

[Napsju]

No 3G networks in the list anymore. Before with 2.1 there was a (3G) sign after the network name if 3G was available.

Anyone?

 

[frankly]

This only changes one at a time. It should jump to the bullet u r tapping.

How small are your fingers? Because those dots are pretty close together on my phone 😉

Now, if they added a feature where you could touch that location and then slide your finger in one direction or another to have the screens quickly change from one to another, that would be nice.

 

[garethpeate]

I'm pretty sure this didn't happen in 2.1, but if you drop out of phone network coverage, "Searching..." displays for a short while in the top left instead of the default "No Service".

I don't recall seeing that before, but can anyone else confirm?

 

[Marky_Mark]

Yes, the 'Searching...' was there before.

 

[efp1]

It fixed a bug when hitting backspace in the Mail app would cause the backspace button to get stuck and delete everything.

This has been happening ever since July or when 2.0 was introduced, I believe.

View this thread for more information:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/522371/

 

[Max E Verde]

thats weird, did you check preferences?

Hmm I thought this was an iPhone (or iPod touch)/Aperture bug but its working for other people? I just pressed command-a and Pressed Import All and it imported every screenshot I took in 2.1 but none in 2.2. Weird

Hmm looking closer, on my Nikon P80 when selecting 1 or more images in the Aperture Import window, it says "Import # image(s)" but on my iPod touch and iPhone (yes I have both, 3G and 2nd gen) there is only an Import All. Don't want to hijack this thread so I'm headed to Apple Discussions.

Before I do, I noticed that the thread starter added the bug fix for iPhoto. Can you mention that the same exact bug is fixed in Aperture and Image Capture. Picture from Aperture shown on page 9, here is Image Capture

 

[frankly]

It fixed a bug when hitting backspace in the Mail app would cause the backspace button to get stuck and delete everything.

This has been happening ever since July or when 2.0 was introduced, I believe.

View this thread for more information:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/522371/

I'm glad to hear that because it happened to me in Notes the other day. I was in a house taking measurements and I measure almost every room and then when to correct one digit and the delete key stuck and deleted every single room! Major WTF 🙂

 

[age234]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but after the 2.0 or 2.1 update (not sure which) the auto brightness on my 1st Gen iPhone stopped working, and it could only be adjusted manually. It's now working again in 2.2.

 

[tyr2]

First time I've noticed this, but not sure it's new.

When setting a countdown timer and browsing into the 'When Timer Ends' one of the options is 'Sleep iPod'. I don't remember seeing it there before.

 

[jamaica14]

First time I've noticed this, but not sure it's new.

When setting a countdown timer and browsing into the 'When Timer Ends' one of the options is 'Sleep iPod'. I don't remember seeing it there before.

Ye it was there before

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

First time I've noticed this, but not sure it's new.

When setting a countdown timer and browsing into the 'When Timer Ends' one of the options is 'Sleep iPod'. I don't remember seeing it there before.

been there since day one.

 

[donomondo]

Blame the thief for the theft, or yourself if you lost it, but don't blame Apple or AT&T. Will you blame Ford/Mazda/Toyota if your car gets stolen?

If you put a password on your phone, then no one could freely use it.

I did (thankfully) have a password on it.

I don't blame Apple or AT&T for the loss at all. I was only accounting for the little effort they provide in assisting in it's recovery. That is a legal/business position they are in. While I don't agree with it, I really have no choice but to accept it. And I do.

Where I take issue is not with its loss, but the fact that a thief is free to use it. It is completely within Apple's ability to know when this uniquely identified device connects to their network. It is simply that choice that I have a problem with.

Sure, I'll 'suck it up' and buy another one. I like it that much. But I feel that I will have to take some steps to provide for my own options in recovering it should the next one grow feet...

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I did (thankfully) have a password on it.

I don't blame Apple or AT&T for the loss at all. I was only accounting for the little effort they provide in assisting in it's recovery. That is a legal/business position they are in. While I don't agree with it, I really have no choice but to accept it. And I do.

Where I take issue is not with its loss, but the fact that a thief is free to use it. It is completely within Apple's ability to know when this uniquely identified device connects to their network. It is simply that choice that I have a problem with.

Sure, I'll 'suck it up' and buy another one. I like it that much. But I feel that I will have to take some steps to provide for my own options in recovering it should the next one grow feet...

ummm Apple doesn't have a network. What are you talking about? Do you mean AT&T?

 

[freefall722]

According to Wikipedia, the 2.2 update includes support for line-in audio, have I missed something? Where can we use that?

It added support for the line input/microphone devices that you could plug into the older non-touch ipods to record notes with. Before you when you plugged one in a pop-up came up and said "This device isn't supported" - now it doesn't.

I tested recording a message in quickvoice through the belkin line input device I had for my old ipod video and it worked on my iphone 3g.

I think that means recording apps will work on the first ipod touch now - if you have one of these line-input devices - haven't tested it though.

 

[Marvin1379]

Is it me? Or is it generally faster (more responsive) all over the iPhone since the 2.2 update? Slight difference.

I noticed it too. It generally happens after updates bc the whole system is restored. It'll prb slow down over time.

Something else I noticed is in apps that have dots on the bottom, like the home screens (weather and accufuel to name 2) is he you can likewise tap the dots or left and right of them to advance the screens.

Edit: also when browsing tabs in safari.