Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 and iPhone OS 2.2 for iPod touch Software Update which contains many bug fixes and improvements including:
• Enhancements to Maps
– Google Street View
– public transit and walking directions
– display address of dropped pins
– share location via email
• Enhancements to Mail
– resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
– improved formatting of wide email messages
• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
• Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
• Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings
Update your iPhone or iPhone 3G or iPod touch via iTunes Update:
Step 1. Make sure you are using iTunes 8. Connect your iPhone to your computer.
Step 2. When iTunes opens, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left.
Step 3. In the iPhone Summary pane, click Check for Update.
Step 4. Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your iPhone until the update has finished.
Step 5. There is no Step 5. Enjoy!
More info about the security content of iPhone OS 2.2 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2 here.
Does anyone know if the mic has been activated on the iPod Touch with this update?
@GmanMac – Agreed! That is my #1 issue. Mobile Safari is still worse than in iPhone version 1.x. I’ve had about two dropped calls in the life of my iPhone, but about 2 dropped websites per hour.
snappy, snappy, snaaaapppy!!!!
IFAP.TO comes up much faster on the fixed safari. haha!!
A shout out to Macaday, krquet, and any others who say to shut up and be happy with what we have:
The iPhone is great, I love it. But I will continue to ask for the things I want added to it, like copy/paste, better camera, or whatever the hell else I want. I’ll do it today, tomorrow, and beyond. And the fact that it gets your panties all twisted is just a bonus.
Piss off, girlies….
I want copy and paste!
@JoeMac,
Ditto. If it were up to these assclowns, the iPhone wouldn’t even have third party applications today.
The RDF apologists are the ones who need to keep their mouths shut and step aside since they’re fine with whatever Jobs hands them. Meanwhile revolutionaries like us demand change and get it.
Street view in Maps is a billion dollar idea. This alone will be a convincing reason to buy an iPhone. It will save so many lost souls and be such a time saver, that it will be considered as a killer app by itself. Try it. You’ll blown away.
@R2 – “Meanwhile revolutionaries like us”
XD
Oh pleeeeease… revolutionaries are people actually *making* changes to the world… not people getting all pissy because a product doesn’t include the features they want. Seriously, have a little perspective!
Gotta agree with Gabriel. Claiming to be a revolutionary because you’re sitting at your keyboard, eating cheese doodles complaining about what’s not on the iPhone is hardly comparable with being the engineering genius who makes it work.
Revolutionary, indeed. Talk about delusions of grandeur!
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haha, R2 has been caught eating cheese doodles!
Gotcha!
uh so this is apparently a free iPod touch update! it’s about fracking time!!!
Still no app update notifications like we were promised MONTHS ago? For example I get an IM and my phone is off the badge shows I have one IM waiting like SMS.
Yep, as Ottawa Mark nicely put it: delusions of grandeur! Apparently, there ate guys who honestly believe they were responsible for convincing SJ/Apple to develop and deliver SDK and open up the iPhone for third-party native apps!!!
To actually believe any of you/us had anything to do with the sequence of events surrounding iPhone shows either substantial lack of intelligence and reasoning, or serious, well, delusions of grandeur.
While Google, Samsung, LG and RIM may have looked at what Apple had made and quickly cobbled together something in the iPhone’s likeness (half-baked and half-assed as it is), Apple has been working on the iPhone strategy for a number of years. Its rollout, together with the planned timeline, including all milestones and events along it, was carefully coreographed. Apple had planned the phased rollout SDK and App Store since January 2006. Of course, thee’s no way to confirm this in the mainstream press, but you should talk to a few high-level Apple folks.
Just get over yourselves, you “revolutionaries”…
Two items to note – one, if you previously set a passcode it will get turned on again. Make sure you know the code ! Second, notification of updates to apps seems screwed up.
Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
Thank you, Apple!
that is all… guess ill keep waiting
search function?
Most comments here seem to be finding the new update working fine, but sine i just updated an hour or so ago i cannot get any of my apps to work!!
They look to start then immediately go to the home screen. I have tried the usual on/off resets but it is the same. I have re-synched it with the computer and is exactly the same.
All the Apple items work perfectly, Contacts, Google Maps (including the fabulous street views!), iPod, etc.
What’s gone wrong, anyone else in the same situation?
Sweet Jesus, I just did the update and SAFARI IS FINALLY BACK! WOW!
Stuart, I am having exactly the same problem. All the Apple apps work, but no 3rd party apps will launch. Anyone know some trick to fix this, other than an uninstall? Thanks!
Major disappointment. Iphone has been available in Greece since this summer, two updates have gone by and still no greek keyboard.
Well done Mr Steve, bravo to you and your colleagues.
I should really throw my iphone in the river….. what a waste.
OK, that was really weird. I simply tried going to the app store and downloaded a new app. After that, all my 3rd party apps started working again. Hope that works for you, Stuart!
I’m anxiously waiting for the jailbreak. 😀
Safari is working great so far!
New find. There’s now an update all button in the app store updates page!!!
@Jim- Your suggestion worked for my wife’s first generation iPhone – my 3G iPhone did not have that problem…. I wonder if this problem is isolated to first generation iPhones?