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5 great things about Apple’s new iOS 6

Thursday, September 20, 2012 · 2:32 pm · 31 Comments

“Apple made iOS 6 available to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch on Wednesday. The new platform brings with it more than 200 new features, according to Apple, and a slight refresh in the way the operating system looks,” Eric Zeman writes for InformationWeek.

“I’ve been beta testing iOS 6 on the iPhone 4S for several months, but I had not installed iOS 6 on my iPad before it was released to the general public,” Zeman writes. “After using it for several hours, here are things I found that I really like.”

5 great things about Apple’s iOS 6:
1. Facebook Integration
2. Do Not Disturb
3. Shared Photo Stream
4. Safari Syncing
5. Passbook

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: Facebook integration Do Not Disturb, iOS 6, Passbook, Safari Syncing, Shared Photo Stream

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31 Comments

Mackalicious

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:40 pm · Reply

I would replace Facebook integration with turn by turn directions.
ithelpskeepthedoctoraway

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:41 pm · Reply

The Panorama camera feature is superb too – brilliant indoors and no doubt will be a winner with Estate Agents (am in the UK).
Can’t wait to try it out on a landscape.
- lawrence
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:30 pm · Reply
  
  I really like the panorama camara function ability added to my iphone 4S also…
  - RastaMouse
    
    Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 5:13 pm · Reply
    
    Yup, have to agree that Panorama mode is absolutely awesome, especially for free!
- FTB
  
  Friday, September 21, 2012 - 10:05 am · Reply
  
  I almost forgot about panorama, I tried it in the house on wed night.
  works pretty good. and you are right, can’t wait to try it on some scenic landscapes.
chris

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:43 pm · Reply

#6 I love the MAPS – YES it’s true!
Very Fast! and I love the Yelp integration!
street view is missing but I can deal.
John G

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:46 pm · Reply

Passbook sucks so far. I can some up my initial review of iOS 6 with the following 3 words:

Good
Bad
Ugly

If this is the best Apple can do then it may be time for me to think of switching to Windows 8 with the Nokia Lumia 920. I have had the 3G, 4 and 4S. Up until today, I have been happy with the iPhone and iOS. Now… Not so much.
- peterblood71
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:51 pm · Reply
  
  Because Windows Phone 8 has all the answers you’re looking for now or just for the sake of change and protest? If so go with what you need by all means.
  - gav
    
    Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:21 pm · Reply
    
    Troll it up peterblood71! your message will not effect any outcome in the slightest throughout the universe – YES thats right you make absolutely no difference at all – probably the same for your life efforts i’m betting
    - Coal Cracker
      
      Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 5:26 pm · Reply
      
      To be fair and impartial, same goes for John G and gav.
  - gav
    
    Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:21 pm · Reply
    
    Troll it up peterblood71! your message will not effect any outcome in the slightest throughout the universe – YES thats right you make absolutely no difference at all – probably the same for your life efforts i’m betting!
- Jimmy
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:54 pm · Reply
  
  Troll.
- lawrence
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:32 pm · Reply
  
  good luck with that.
- Lordthree
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 4:42 pm · Reply
  
  lumia 920 is DOA. Have fun
- Bizlaw
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 5:36 pm · Reply
  
  Passbook needs developers to update/create apps that take advantage of Passbook. You won’t be able to truly evaluate it for a couple of months at least.
Ballmer's left nut

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:47 pm · Reply

Apple fucked up the following on iOS 6:

- Font sizes in mail are not independently adjustable. It looks like shit on the iPhone – tinier than a gnat’s ass.
- You can’t finger scroll across reminder categories but have to use a categories chooser. Totally wasted step.
- Calling up groups in contacts is totally retarded. More than retarded – brainless. You have to check and uncheck groups when before you could select a group by pressing on it. Another redundant gesture added for no benefit.
- Integration of Facebook and Twitter is a total waste of time when you can’t attach files to mail. Fail.

Was iOS 6 developed by attention deficit disordered employees in Bandley Drive?
- mini
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:54 pm · Reply
  
  @BLN
  
  “- You can’t finger scroll across reminder categories but have to use a categories chooser. Totally wasted step.”
  
  Not true, you just have to swipe across the category name and it behaves the same way as before; minus the dots.
  
  They did this so that they could add the, consistent, slide to delete individual items.
  - Ballmer's left nut
    
    Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 2:58 pm · Reply
    
    Thanks for the tip. One more gripe removed from the list.
    - Jd
      
      Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 4:30 pm · Reply
      
      Well done BLN. Few people admit their own mistakes
auramac

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:31 pm · Reply

In app store, you can’t view more than 5 reviews. When you click on “more reviews,” nothing happens. I like reading as many as I need to to help me make a decision. Else, I do it all on my iMac instead of iOS 6. Or don’t bother.
- Ballmer's left nut
  
  Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:44 pm · Reply
  
  Apple is very generous with their returns policy. If you write in politely to them saying why you don’t like an app, they’ll more than likely refund you the cost of the app.
  
  So if it’s the truncated reviews that are preventing you from trying out an app, you have this safety net you can rely on. I can’t guarantee they will agree to a refund every single time but so far in my case they have been very decent about it.
bananamonkey

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:39 pm · Reply

finally don’t have to enter password to install free apps or update apps. YES!
- FTB
  
  Friday, September 21, 2012 - 10:11 am · Reply
  
  i noticed that also, I like it.
  
  what I don’t like… that it stays on the update screen after it’s updated. I press the usual “update” to refresh… stays there showing “open”
  
  Apple, when it’s updated… remove it from the Updates screen. (or at least remove it when the user refreshes the updates screen) I did close the app store and re opened it, and they were gone though.
  
  #2 and #4 above are my favorite so far.
Chas

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:52 pm · Reply

You can’t no longer gift an app from the new App Store on IOS 6. You can do it from iTunes, though. Slight step backwards, IMO.

=:~)
Bizlaw

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 5:40 pm · Reply

Anyone know if you can email to a group from an iOS device yet?
Bizlaw

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 5:49 pm · Reply

I like the turn-by-turn Maps. I haven’t used it enough to determine if it’s more inaccurate than Google Maps, but I never used Street View anyway. This way I don’t unexpectedly look at some woman peeing next to a car.
Paul

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 7:15 pm · Reply

As a day 1 iPad owner I was disappointed to find out that iOS 6 is not available for my iPad. I completely missed those reports. There are plenty of new features that would have worked just fine and some that would not have but really iPhone 3GS …
Dutch

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 11:52 pm · Reply

Off topic, but… is it me or has iOS 6 improved the quality of audio? It strikes me as having greater clarity while listening to music from my library.
Omar

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 3:53 am · Reply

You can’t refresh the list of updates in the App Store. Previously if you double pressed the updates icon, the list would refresh.
The only way is to quit the app then launch it again. Frustrating.
Anyone found an easier solution?
Buckley

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 12:11 pm · Reply

Apple maps, lackluster features list overall in ios6! This may also be a deal breaker for me too. I’m super annoyed how apple could do something like this, because of this I am not considering upgrading any of my apple products, MacBook, ipad 2, iPhone 4, iPod nano… I’m starting to lose confidence in this platform and my ipad is full of useless iApps that I won’t use and can’t delete… Oh and thanks for the clock app, Not! I actually bought one from the App Store because apple amazingly didn’t include one with the ipad before ios6… Do I get a refund?!?
Doesnt Matter

Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:05 pm · Reply

Fuck ios 6!!! Worst update ever! If you thinking about getting anything from apple, dont. They are unreliable and trick you into updating something you really never need. Apple is a joke and suck balls. Android is the way to go! Everybody should update their phones by getting an Android! I have no more faith for this company, and apple has ruined itself, and steve Jobs has turned over in his grave. Fuck Apple for ios 6. And they dont even give you the option to go back to ios 5, what a fuckin joke! Fuck you Apple! Im gonna spread the word around town to never get any apple products. Why? Because you have betrayed all of the people that stayed loyal to apple. Fuck Apple!!! Get Android. Apple users are pissed. So im quiting apple for good. Apple will soon fall and fail, just because of their stupidity and false claims about updating to ios 6. ios 6 is a downgrade, not an update! Fuck Apple! Get Android.