Apple released a new iOS 6.1 firmware earlier this week, with a
bundle of new features compatible with iPhone 5, 4S, 4 and 3GS, iPod
Touch 4G and 4G, iPad 4, 3 and 2. These surely look appealing enough to
convince Apple users to upgrade, particularly when the iOS 6 jailbreak
for A5 devices is so close to the public release.
First of all,
here’s how to install the new iOS 6.1 firmware on your Apple device: go
to the device’s Settings menu and select General > Software Update
and > Install Now. The file is 107 MB in size and once you have
upgraded to the latest version you will get access to several new
features, including LTE coverage, but only for iPhone 5 and iPad mini.
Upgrading
to iOS 6.1 gives you the ability to purchase movie tickets through
Fandango with Siri’s and to iTunes Match subscribers the possibility to
download individual songs from iCloud. There’s also a new button to
reset the Advertising identifier as well as something called “bug fixes
and improvements”.
iOS 6.1’s bug fixes and improvements aims to
solve the Smart App Banner bug that enables JavaScript in Mobile Safari
without user’s knowledge. “If a user disabled JavaScript in Safari
Preferences, visiting a site which displayed a Smart App Banner would
re-enable JavaScript without warning the user” explains the Apple’s
Support Webpage. “This issue was addresses bby not enabling JavaScript
when visiting a site with a Smart App Banner”.
There’s also a
“Voice Dial Only” feature for Siri, which limits her from undertaking
any task besides calling your contacts. Redmond Pie says this is a
feature that could be “quite useful in case you need to call somebody
quickly without having Siri launch iTunes and waste a good minute of
your time trying to close it off”.
The fifth version of iOS 6.1
for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is according to Redmond Pie the final
one too. A report on the Redmond Pie website says “that the latest beta
seed doesn’t actually appear to be a true beta in the normal
understanding of the world relating to Apple releases”.
Redmond
Pie notes that iOS 6.1 “activates without the need for developer
registration, it doesn’t have any expiry date, and the build ID is that
of any final build, meaning that this could actually end up being the
final build of iOS 6.1”.
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