Apple releases iOS 4.1

Apple Online StoreApple has released iOS 4.1 which contains many improvements, including the following:

• Game Center
  – Send and receive friend requests
  – Invite friends to multi-player games over the Internet
  – Play multi-player games by auto-matching with other players
  – View Leaderboards and Achievements
  – Discover new games from friends

• High dynamic range (HDR) photos on iPhone 4

• Support for TV show rentals on iTunes

• Ability to upload HD videos to YouTube and MobileMe over Wi-Fi on iPhone 4

• Additional support for AVRCP-supported accessories, including next & previous track control

• FaceTime calling directly from Favorites

• Bug fixes, including:
  – iPhone 4 proximity sensor performance
  – iPhone 3G performance
  – Nike+iPod fixes
  – Bluetooth improvements

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 3G
• iPod touch 2nd generation, or later

Game Center requires iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 2nd generation or later.

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guides for iPhone and iPod touch at:
• http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphone
• http://support.apple.com/manuals/ipodtouch

For information on the security content of this update, please visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

iOS 4.1 is available via iTunes:

1. Connect iOS device to your computer.
2. Select your device in the iTunes sidebar and click the Summary tab.
3. Click “Check for Update.” iTunes tells you if there’s a newer version of the iOS software available.
4. Click Update to install the latest version of the software.

MacDailyNews Take: It’s snappy!

69 Comments

  1. oh please, please, please bring my 3G back into usable speed. It was beginning to feel like I was using a Windows phone.

    Thank you Apple for the update to fix the update that broke my phone.

  2. Update went well. As soon as it was complete I suddenly got 14 recorded messages from the last two weeks! AT&T!!!!!!

    Hopefully I’ll get my messages from now on. Now if I could just get my microcell to stop blinking….

  3. Cool – sometime in the future – approximately 15 minutes from now – Apple is going to be releasing iOS 4.1.

    Apple releases iOS 4.1
    Wednesday, September 08, 2010 – <b>02:39 PM EDT<\b>

    Can’t wait for the future to be now! I am hoping the update fixes (or partially fixes) the slow down on an iPhone 3G.

    Cheers.

  4. Definitely helped my 3G. Keyboard is not as sluggish as before. Facebook app and MDN app works much better. I’ll have to type with it more but from what I can tell so far works much much better. I do have spotlight disabled not sure how it will work with it on although I really don’t need it.

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