IOS 5.1 Impressions thread

[Fliesen]

* the iPad now definitely opens youtube links more "cleverly".

before, i was watching youtube shows that had links to the 'next part' in the description, shortened by bit.ly

on 5.0.1, clicking that link would open a new tab with the video on m.youtube.com (resulting in plenty of tabs after a while which have to be deleted one by one, later)

now, clicking the link will swap me to safari for a second, followed by immediately swapping me back to the native youtube app.

* the new camera button on the iPad camera app (always on the righthand side now, even in portrait mode) is a welcome change. Funnily - especially in the context of Tim Cook mocking 'inflated Smartphone apps' - the previous iPad camera app was obviously an afterthough, being merely an inflated iPhone camera app with the same exact layout, but a shutter button always at the bottom (why?!)

* the slide-up-for camera really speeds things up. I love the little bounce it makes when you merely tap the camera icon, teasing the camera UI underneath. very intuitive way of teaching people to swipe up.

 

[Sdahe]

What is the difference between the small update from the iphone or the big update from itunes?

 

[viewfly]

What is the little phone icon to the right of the 4G?

 

[Angelo921]

What is the little phone icon to the right of the 4G?Image

It means that you calls are being forwarded to another number.

 

[AdeFowler]

I have to say that my iPad 1 seems much smoother / more responsive after the update. Maybe just because it was rebooted. I'm going to keep it another year though.

 

[viewfly]

What is the little phone icon to the right of the 4G?Image

Ahhh. It's a call forwarding icon! Except that I had it turned off. Just toggled it and it disappeared. Odd. But when I turn call forward on it slows up again.

This is new I think

 

[rsmith83]

I'm not too thrilled with 5.1. I updated yesterday afternoon and have had major battery problems since on my AT&T 4S. The battery was pretty dodgy to begin with, but now it's downright silly. For instance, I visited my parents last night and left my iPhone in my car. When I got to their house, the phone was on 86%. I had dinner, got back in my car an hour later, and the phone was on 66%. That's 20% loss in an hour with no use. I didn't even have apps running in the background as I'd killed them all before I updated iOS.

Right now I am typing this message on my 4S and the battery is already down to 91% from a full charge. I just unplugged my phone 20 minutes ago, and all I've done is send one text and read this thread.

I also had terrible call quality on my drive home past night, where I normally have no issues. My entire drive home is through a 3G area and I talk to a friend every night on this same drive. He kept telling me last night, "You're breaking up really bad; are you in a bad area?" I eventually had to end the call because he wasn't getting anything I was saying, even though my phone showed four bars of "4G" service.

Ugh, I feel a clean install of 5.1 coming on, and I was really hoping to not have to do that.

 

[sanke1]

I updated my 4S by doing a clean install and set up phone as new
Battery life is much better now.

 

[Ayemerica]

I updated my 4S by doing a clean install and set up phone as new
Battery life is much better now.

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Same, or I could just be imagining it.

 

[mvinyard26]

5.1 upgrade

First post - oh hai!

So I FINALLY got a 4s after drooling over them since they were a rumor in 2007 (long story grab a cup of coffee and i'll tell y'all about it and it's been buggy as hell running 5.0.1 - turning itself off intermittently, ridiculously bad battery life, wifi greying out, not ringing/voicemails not showing up etc etc etc.

So far on 5.1 (i hope i'm not jinxing myself here) we're doing better. 24 hours and if anything pops up then i'm gonna go get a new one. So far, so good!

Battery life has been a killer. I definitely ended up outside a friends apartment building at 3:00am this weekend with a dead phone and not knowing his apt number....

 

[AlphaVictor87]

I only have a few problems so far. One, siri still doesn't seem to want to dictate for me very well. Most of the time i have to speak super slow and enunciate almost to the point of being ridiculous to get it to work.

However when it doesn't work and you are doing the dictation, the 3 purple dots will shake left to right instead of just going away.

Also i'm still getting this error with my iMessage, where it actually sent but i'm getting the "Not Delivered!" message

 

[amro]

Nit pick

This is a nit pick, but when I close any app that uses location services, the GPS arrow takes about 7-10 seconds to disappear as opposed to almost instantly before 5.1.

 

[Wordsmithmac]

iPad 1 working better, no crashes in browser. Better response time and I can now open iTunes, and a few other apps without it crashing within seconds, and battery life is much better.

 

[YMark]

I updated my 4S by doing a clean install and set up phone as new
Battery life is much better now.

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I've already updated to 5.1, but haven't performed a backup since I updated. If I wanted to do what you just did, would I just do:
- erase all settings and content
- setup phone as new thru iTunes
- sync all my music and apps

I've never done a "clean install". Thanks for any help.

 

[HLX]

From what I can see iOS 5.1 has no positive effect on iPad 1 performance, most notably in the Music app with iTunes Match enabled. Still as unresponsive as ever.

It's a real shame, although it won't be a problem for my good lady when she inherits it on March 16...

Hmm a bit of revisionism needed here methinks:

After a hard reboot and a bit more play, it seems that for me, 5.1 actually does improve the general performance of the iPad 1.

The music app is still a bit occasionally hesitant when you jump around a big iCloudtastic iTunes Match-enabled library, cherry-picking songs to download and stuff, but much, much better. It was a complete mess under 5.0.1.

Safari also (mercifully) seems less likely to just start crying and run away.

Now Apple shouldn't get too much of a pat on the back about this, but 'good work'.

 

[Dan14]

What is the little phone icon to the right of the 4G?Image

Dude, read your emails

 

[rowley]

ok, i've updated to iso5.1 on my 3gs. all seems the same.
A few people have been saying that I should get a static canmera button on the unlock slider.

I need to double tap the button as before

Is this feature not on my phone?

 

[AlphaVictor87]

ok, i've updated to iso5.1 on my 3gs. all seems the same.
A few people have been saying that I should get a static canmera button on the unlock slider.
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I need to double tap the button as before
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Is this feature not on my phone?

something tells me you didn't let the update complete fully, i'd suggest looking at your software version

Settings > general > About > scroll to Version.

Or check to see if you can update or not.

 

[vwshocker]

ok, i've updated to iso5.1 on my 3gs. all seems the same.
A few people have been saying that I should get a static canmera button on the unlock slider.
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I need to double tap the button as before
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Is this feature not on my phone?

Did you power off and power back on after updating?

 

[rowley]

Did you power off and power back on after updating?

Thats bizarre - I updated using the delta on the phone directly and it's not took (it still thinks it's 5.0.1)
I will try again.
Thanks muchly.

 

[Arelunde]

I only have a few problems so far. One, siri still doesn't seem to want to dictate for me very well. Most of the time i have to speak super slow and enunciate almost to the point of being ridiculous to get it to work.

However when it doesn't work and you are doing the dictation, the 3 purple dots will shake left to right instead of just going away.

Also i'm still getting this error with my iMessage, where it actually sent but i'm getting the "Not Delivered!" message

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Since when does the iPhone operate on AT&Ts 4G???

 

[rowley]

OK, iPhone - do your worst:
oh,

Looks like I'll have to do this from itunes then.
I will report back if there are any additional hiccups.

 

[aircanman]

Has anyone noticed the playlists are now in the right order, and not back to front like with iOS5?

 

[natedizzles]

Booooo. iOS 5.1 no longer lets you hide newsstand with the folder glitch....

 

[kmj2318]

Does the iPhone get new wallpapers?