This update contains over 200 new features, Including the Following:
- Notifications
- Swipe from the top of screen to view Any notifications in one place with Notification Center
- New notifications Briefly APPEAR at the top of the screen
- View notifications from lock screen
- Slide the notification app icon to the right on the lock screen to Go directly to the app
- IMessage
- Send and Receive unlimited text, picture and video messages with Other iOS 5 users
- Track messages with delivery and read receipts
- Group messaging and secure encryption
- Works over cellular network and Wi-Fi *
- Newsstand
- Automatically organizes magazine and newspaper subscriptions on Home Screen
- Displays the cover of the latest issue
- Background downloads of new issues
- Reminders for managing to do lists
- Syncs with icloud, iCal and Outlook
- Location-based reminders When you leave or arrive at a location for iPhone and iPhone 4S 4
- Built-in support for Twitter
- Sign-in Settings and in ounces tweet Directly From Camera, Photos, Maps, Safari and YouTube
- Add to Any rental tweet
- View twitter usernames and profile pictures in Contacts
- Camera Improvements for devices with cameras
- Double click the home button When Device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G and iPod touch (4th generation)
- Volume Up button to take a picture
- Optional grid lines to line up shots
- Pinch to zoom in the preview screen
- Swipe to camera roll from preview screen
- Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure, iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only media exposure lock
- Photo Improvements for devices with cameras
- Crop and rotate
- Red eye removal
- One tap Enhance
- Organize photo albums Into
- Mail Improvements
- Format text using bold, italic, or fonts Underlined
- Indentation control
- Drag to rearrange names in address fields
- Flag messages
- Mass mark as flagged messages, read or unread
- Customize mail alert sounds
- S / MIME
- Calendar Improvements
- Year view is new iPad and Week view for iPhone and iPod touch
- Tap to create a year event
- View and add event attachments
- Game Center Improvements
- Use personal photos for your Game Center account
- Compare your list overall achievement scores with your friends
- Find new Game Center with friends friends and friends of friends recommendations
- Discover new games with custom game recommendations
- Mirroring AirPlay 2 for iPad and iPhone 4S
- Multitasking Gestures for iPad 2
- Use oven or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen
- Swipe up to Reveal the multitasking bar
- Swipe left or right to switch apps Between
- On-device setup, configuration and activation with Setup Wizard
- Software updates available over the air Without tethering
- icloud support
- iTunes in the Cloud
- Photo Stream
- Documents in the Cloud
- Apps and Books automatic download and purchase history
- Backup
- Contacts, Calendar, and Mail
- Find My iPhone
- Redesigned Music app for iPad
- Hourly weather forecast
- Real-time stock quotes
- Wireless sync to iTunes
- Keyboard Improvements
- Split keyboard for iPad
- Improved Accuracy self-correction
- Improved Chinese and Japanese input
- New Emoji keyboard
- Personal dictionary for self-correction
- OPTIONALLY create keyboard short cuts for Frequently Used Words
- Accessibility Improvements
- Option-to-light LED flash on incoming calls and alerts for iPhone and iPhone 4S 4
- Custom vibration patterns for incoming calls on iPhone
- New interface for using IOS with mobility impairment-input devices
- Option to speak to a selection of text
- Custom Labeling element for VoiceOver
- Exchange ActiveSync Improvements
- Wirelessly sync tasks
- Mark messages as flagged, read or unread
- Improved offline support
- Save a new contact from a GAL Service
- More than 1.500 new developer APIs
- Bug fixes
