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.
Speaking of tethering, I just confirmed that SOCKS proxy tethering through Handy Light still works fine with iOS 4.3 – in fact, this message is being sent from my MBP via a tether to my iPhone 3GS running the new OS. Yeah! Always a pleasure to get around AT&T’s absurd policies and charges for tethering (I still have my unlimited plan from the original iPhone).
Hi. Where does one get that tethering app version that you speak of? I searched for the App and people’s comments say that feature does not work.
🙁
Handy Light was pulled from the App Store after Apple discovered it had magical tethering powers.
Darn it! I gotta go potty and can’t get to the update till I’m done. Depending on what I ate it could be several hours. 😉
Updated to 4.3 on 3G iPad. Took about half an hour.
No problems. 🙂
Doesn’t matter about age… Android is less than 2 years old…
Welcome to the club boys and girls…
Apple hits FRAGMENTATION! KARMA IS A BITCH! 😉
Is it me, or does any one else see the irony in the official Apple AirPlay video NOT streaming from an iDevice to Apple TV? (iPad 2 keynote video AirPlayed just fine!)
Is it just my imagination, or does your phone vibrate twice when you first get a text message after installing iOS 4.3?
I’m finished and finally have 4.3 on my iP4! Awesome!