Apple today released iOS 4.3 which contains new features and improvements, including the following:
• Personal Hotspot*
– Share iPhone 4 cellular data connection with up to 5 devices (combination of up to 3 Wi-Fi, 3 Bluetooth, and 1 USB)
• iTunes Home Sharing
– Play music, movies and TV shows from a shared iTunes library on a Mac or PC (requires iTunes 10.2)
• New AirPlay features**
– Play videos from the Photos app including the Camera Roll album, iTunes previews, enabled third-party apps and websites on Apple TV
– Play slideshows from Photos on Apple TV using transitions available on Apple TV
• Faster Safari performance with Apple Nitro JavaScript engine
• HD video out using the Apple Digital AV Adapter***
– View 720p HD videos from Videos app, iPod app, Photos, YouTube, Safari, Keynote, and enabled third-party apps on an HDMI display
• Ping features
– Push notifications for comments and follow requests
– Post and Like songs directly from the Now Playing screen
– Parental controls
• New Settings
– Messages setting for number of times to repeat an alert
– iPad side switch setting to lock screen rotation or mute audio notifications and sound effects
• Single tap conference call dialing with a pause to send a passcode
• Bug fixes
*Requires iPhone 4 with tethering data plan
**Requires Apple TV (2nd generation) running software version 4.2 or later
***iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch (4th generation)
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4 (GSM model)
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)
This update is available via iTunes.
OK, I want all you people to GET OFF the net, and stay off for about 10 minutes. That should give me enough time to finish downloading this update.
Seriously though, it’s going at a snail’s pace. Around 80-90kB/s (and my BW is 1500kB/s), and it’s got 62 minutes remaining. Whatever happened to that server farm just down the road from me?
And this is my 2nd try. First time it was d/l at near my max speed and finished in about 5 minutes, then said a network error occurred and I needed to try again. Now it’s slow as molassas.
Sorry, that was me…..mine is already done.
iPhone updated and synced (sunk?)
Now running snappily on the 4.3. iPad next.
I’m sunk also, 13 minutes to SnappyTown!.
I just started the download, and it says I have 11 minutes left.
10 minutes.
that’s how long mine took
And now I’m updating Safari….
Not fair!
We haz big intertubez.
LOL!!
Thanks for noticing…
I love it when C1 talks derrty 😉
You know there are parts of the world that the fastest DL you can get is 40 kB/s. Let’s hear it for living in the country!
Needs iPhone 4!
WTF!!!!
Or 3GS…
Apple Fragmentation starts now.
No one can poke fun at Google anymore…
Apple and iOS are now just as fragmented.
iPhone + iOS 4.21 works slow.
iPhone + iOS 4.3 won’t work.
iPhone 3G + iOS 4.21 works slow.
iPhone 3G + iOS 4.3 won’t work.
iPhone 3GS + 4 only supported on iOS 4.3!
Welcome to the club Apple fanboys 😉
Yea- that’s analogous. The 3G is almost 3 years old. The Droid X, which isn’t even a year old, doesn’t even ship with Froyo, which isn’t even the most recent version of Android.
Try not to reach so much: you might pull something.
Oh hell….4.3 isn’t even compatible with my Motorola StarTac…this thing is still in near perfect condition so I know it’s not the phone. Apple sucks! Who wants my 15″ MacBook Pro? :O)
Fragmentation from Google ASCENDS as new products are release revealing a problem that has no apparent end because it is ongoing. Apple like every other single tech company, fragments backwards or descending with their products.
According to one review of the iPad-2, more than half of the gain in its speed over iPad-1 is due to the iOS 4.3 upgrade … not the hardware improvements in the device.
Only because the program software that was used is only single processor not multi-processor optimized.
I guess CDMA iPhone owners are second class citizens? 😉
No, just Verizon customers…;-)
Apparently, it’s the GSM iPhone owners that are slow to get updated. Verizon users don’t need the update immediately since most of its features are included in iOS 4.2.6.
Sorry. Don’t follow you. You say it’s like a bad thing that the optimized software is faster.
Those rubies that the update was coming out yesterday were WAY OFF!!
It was from the Boy Genius Report. If that name does not imply arrogant hubris, nothing does. The Boy Genius Report is infallible. They are never wrong. Just ask them.
What pisses me off is that frigtard bloggers who arrive at their conclusions by anal extraction get published. And then some equally retarded journalist quotes their flawed analysis. Then Rex Crum on MarketWatch quotes the journalist, then Jim Cramer. Next thing you know. Apple stock is off $5 because of bullshit like this. And it all started with some 34 year old loser who hates Apple writing on his old Dell in his bedroom of his parents’ house, because he’s such a loser that he doesn’t have a real life, and STILL LIVES AT HOME WITH THIS MOM AND DAD.
Am I pissed? You bet. I HATE rumor sites.
iTunes home sharing Just Works.
Smashing. =)
I decided to use Sharing to stream a video from my iMac to my iPhone and then Airplay it to my TV….because I can (pointlessly)… and then my TV popped up with an available update.
Big day at the big Apple!
I can delete AirVideo now. Am currently streaming Avatar from iMac to iPad. Video is perfect.
Yeah, I downloaded the GM when it became available and used it to stream a movie from the iMac upstairs to my iPad. Very cool and couldn’t be easier.
But the best part is I got my rotation lock switch back!
How do you get it to work on an iPad?
How does it work? Through the iPod app? Where’s the Home Sharing button?
*those RUMORS. – thanks again autocorrect!!
Those diamonds were off too.
The emeralds didn’t hold their color either…………..
It’s snappier! Yay!
When in the hell are we going to be able to download updates directly onto our devices? iOS is the only modern mobile software platform that still suffers under this archaic practice.
Advantages:
1. Simple
Disadvantages:
1. It’s a 670MB download!
2. Without backing up your device there is no chance for recovery if something goes wrong.
I am not inconvenienced by downloading to the computer before installing. Overall I think it’s the more reliable method. Just recently Microsoft bricked a bunch of Samsung phones during an over the air update.
Oh wow… so iTunes needs to re-optimize your iPad photos after the update. In my case that’s 4455 images.
Wheeee.
Yeah, what’s that about? I’m halfway through about 1000 photos on my iPhone.
Mine’s still working, 200 more to go.
Maybe the optimized images got bigger for the new non-existent Retina displays. >.<
It looks like my “iPod Photo Cache” folder for my iPad images got almost 1GB bigger (up to 9.79GB)
Hi Chrissy,
I looked at some of the pictures on your site. Beautiful. I lived in the northwest nearly 30 years ago. It was like going home. Thanks.
So, you can stream videos and photos from iPhone 4 to Apple tv?. Sweet.
Downloaded twice for iPhone and iPad, both are working fine.
I think direct downloads for such large files is going to result in more problems.
Quick and painless on an iPhone 3GS. And now to explore …
Did the wifi reception and signal dropping problems get fixed? Anyone?
definitely snappier!!
Any word on AT&T support for WiFi HotSpot feature. If they’d turn that on before Friday morning it could save me $130 on a 3G iPad 2.
I do not know where you are getting this! That Apple released 4.3 is Not True! at least here in the U.S. My iTunes says 4.2 is most recent. I called Apple and they said it will not be released until Friday. Please correct!
John, I’m in Oklahoma, and I just updated both my iPhone 4 and iPad to iOS 4.3, so it definitely is a go. Updated the Apple TV OS too, it’s now 4.2. Maybe it’ll show up when you try again later. I think I had the same thing happen to me with an earlier release. Heavy server traffic maybe?
I thought for sure this time that my problem had been solved. No additional data plans for my iPad 2, just use the iPhone 4 as a hotspot. Now I see where a tethering plan is required with our carrier. Figures……..
iTunes Home Sharing!! Wow! No need for third party apps like Air Video, Zumocast etc! Amazing move forward!
Don’t call me dumb but I can’t figure out how to work that and it’s pissing me off!!!! Help
Settings > iPod > enter Apple ID for home sharing / then / launch iPod > go to ‘more’ > select your shared iTunes library = Presto!
personal hotspur also on my 3GS, sweet
hotspur on your 3GS. TMI pal.
or just waiting for the jailbreak, can’t function through the day with out, Quickreply, SB settings, MiWi, iFile, and Safari downloader(which be very nice with the new nitrojava).
I’ll probably update the wifey’s iPhone, she’s no fun and won’t let me jailbreak her iPhone.
Your collective whining is exactly why I wait a day or two. You remind me of a cluster of lemmings gleefully following each other off a cliff. I LOVE Apple. But if there was a bug in 4.3, I would kinda sorta like to know. And if I race to be the first to download it, I am now a beta tester.
Children, don’t get your shorts in a knot. iOS 4.3 will be here tomorrow and the next day. So get a life. Breathe. Wait a day or two to make sure it works.
Have a nice day.
Thanks Dad.
Lemmings don’t go off of cliffs.
The only people that believe that are…..lemmings.
and ‘collective whining’, is that like the Soviet Union…?
@Brian
If everyone waited for someone else to try first, then no one would try……… Maybe you could try being a little less offended by posts to a blog. Complaints are usually welcome here……
NO NEW TEXT TONES FOR THE 3GS? STILL? REALLY? SERIOUSLY? YOU FIGURED THEY’D GET ON THAT CONSIDERING THAT THE 3GS IS VERIZON’S MAIN PUSH WITH THE IPHONE. FIX IT.
Just confirmed with both Apple and AT&T that a tether plan is required for the hotspot feature. Can’t go back to unlimited data plan after switching. I’m glad that Apple tends to make multifaceted upgrades so I won’t have to be so disappointed web one aspect of an upgrade turns out not-so-feasible because of crap-faced carriers chasing MORE money. As if AT&T doesn’t already make money hand-over-fist……..