iOS 4 released

[alidsl]

iOS 4 Software Update

This update contains over 100 new features, including the following:

• Multitasking support for third-party apps*
- Multitasking user interface to quickly move between
apps
- Support for audio apps to play in the background
- VoIP apps can receive and maintain calls in the
background or when device is asleep
- Apps can monitor location and take action while
running in the background
- Alerts and messages can be pushed to apps using
push and local notifications
- Apps can complete tasks in the background
• Folders to better organise and access apps
• Home screen Wallpaper*
• Mail improvements
- Unified inbox to view emails from all accounts in one
place
- Fast inbox switching to quickly switch between
different email accounts
- Threaded messages to view multiple emails from the
same conversation
- Attachments can be opened with compatible third-
party apps
- Search results can now be filed or deleted
- Option to select size of photo attachments
- Messages in the outbox can be edited or deleted
• Support for iBooks and iBookstore (available from the
App Store)
• Photo and Camera improvements
- 5x digital zoom when taking a photo**
- Tap to focus during video recording**
- Ability to sync Faces from iPhoto
- Geo-tagged photos appear on a map in Photos
• Ability to create and edit playlists on device
• Calendar invitations can be sent and accepted wirelessly
with supported CalDAV servers
• Support for MobileMe calendar sharing
• Suggestions and recent searches appear during a web
search
• Searchable SMS/MMS messages**
• Spotlight search can be continued on web and Wikipedia
• Enhanced location privacy
- New Location Services icon in the status bar
- Indication of which apps have requested your location
in the last 24 hours
- Location Services can be toggled on or off for
individual apps
• Automatic spellcheck
• Support for Bluetooth keyboards*
• iPod out to navigate music, podcasts and audiobooks
through an iPod interface with compatible cars
• Support for iTunes gifting of apps
• Wireless notes syncing with IMAP-based mail accounts
• Persistent Wi-Fi connection to receive push notifications*
• New setting for turning on/off mobile (cellular) data only**
• Option to display the character count while composing
new SMS/MMS**
• Visual Voicemail messages can be kept locally even if
they have been deleted from the server**
• Control to lock portrait orientation*
• Audio playback controls for iPod and third-party audio
apps*
• New languages, dictionaries and keyboards
• Accessibility enhancements*
• Bluetooth improvements
• Better data protection using the device passcode as an
encryption key* (Requires full restore.)
• Support for third-party Mobile Device Management
solutions
• Enables wireless distribution of enterprise applications
• Exchange Server 2010 compatibility
• Support for multiple Exchange ActiveSync accounts
• Support for Juniper Junos Pulse and Cisco AnyConnect
SSL VPN apps (available from the App Store)
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4
• iPod touch 2nd generation
• iPod touch 3rd generation (late 2009 models with 32GB
or 64GB)

* Requires iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPod touch 3rd generation.
** Requires iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4. SMS/MMS messaging and Visual Voicemail require support from your wireless carrier.

Looks cool 8)

Source: Itunes

Warning: Jailbreakers stay away, not jailbroken yet

However you can follow Posixninjas blog to find out when he releases Idevice restore for windows/MacOSX
http://posixninja.blogspot.com/

 

[RupeeClock]

This explains why the iPod touch looked different in the iTunes 9.2 update.

Might as well update, I don't care if it removes my jailbreak, I only ever used that to put a background on the springboard, which Ios 4 features now.

Edit: Oh, they let you gift Apps now? Interesting...

 

[paul3100]

i own a 3gs and am on 3.13 jailbroken and wont be updating till there is a new jailbreak that supports 4.0!

I just hope its quick cause i really want ios4 lol but my wife has the same phone so ill talk her into updating as she doesnt like jailbreaks or any sort of hacking.

Anyone got news on the latest jailbreak for the 3gs?

paul

 

[alidsl]

It should come out with Greenpois0n which will be released soon

 

[RupeeClock]

This is a big ass update, a whole 366mb.

 

[Slyakin]

Awww... I have a 3rd Gen, jailbroken with Spirit. When will Greenp0ison come out?

 

[alidsl]

I wouldn't give it long but I'm waiting for Idevice restore so I can upgrade without losing apps etc

 

[RupeeClock]

Well trying the multi-tasking, by double-clicking the home button, and I can't really call it true multi-tasking.
If anything, it's nothing more than a quick-launch list, of 4 recently used apps. If I'm in the middle of a game and switch to another app, it'll have to reboot the game. Still useful and convenient, but not true multi-tasking.

 

[alidsl]

That sucks, i wonder if there's a hotkey to actually turn multitasking on as advertised?

 

[RupeeClock]

Well I'm only using an iPod touch 3G here, so it might be different for the newer iPhone models.

There's actually quite a fair bit to the new "multi-tasker"

First off, when you double click home you get your four most recently used apps.

If you swipe left, you'll see there's more recently used apps.

If you swipe right, you'll find music controls.

Here you can control your music at any time, as well as see the current track title. Importantly you can also lock orientation, at last. Edit: It appears it will only lock to vertical orientation, you cannot set it horizontally and lock it, it reverts to an upright orientation.

You can also manage your recent apps like on the springboard, press down to rearrange or remove them.

 

[raulpica]

By the way, it seems a new version of redsn0w that lets you jailbreak iOS4 is already out.

Take this with a pinch of salt, as I'm still pretty new to the iPhone scene and I still don't know how a lot of things work

Things will change as soon as I'll get an iPhone 4

 

[Slyakin]

By the way, it seems a new version of redsn0w that lets you jailbreak iOS4 is already out.

Take this with a pinch of salt, as I'm still pretty new to the iPhone scene and I still don't know how a lot of things work

Things will change as soon as I'll get an iPhone 4

Are you serious? That was... Fast.

EDIT: Yup, just googled, and I found it. Raulpica, you deserve a jillion hugs.

 

[raulpica]

By the way, it seems a new version of redsn0w that lets you jailbreak iOS4 is already out.

Take this with a pinch of salt, as I'm still pretty new to the iPhone scene and I still don't know how a lot of things work

Things will change as soon as I'll get an iPhone 4

Are you serious? That was... Fast.

EDIT: Yup, just googled, and I found it. Raulpica, you deserve a jillion hugs.

Thanks

As far as I know, redsn0w is a tethered jailbreak. Oh well, it'll suffice for now, but I seriously do hope that comex will bring out a new version of Spirit for iOS4

 

[Skyline969]

Once Spirit/Blackra1n/other Windows app is released to jailbreak iOS 4 and enable multitasking for my iPT 2G then I'll be good to go. Otherwise, this isn't anything my already jailbroken 3.1.3 iPT can't do. Already got categories. Already got wallpapers. Already got multitasking. Anything else?

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

I fucking hate apple

First I had to update iTunes to update my iPhone, take took some time and required a full PC restart

Next instead of just installing the new firmware, turns out everything need to be backed up (apps, photos, music, videos etc) then the firmware was to be installed then everything was placed back on the phone.

This took over 90 minutes to do

 

[alidsl]

So, thats what you need to do because it's an OS update not just a small update

 

[Matt140]

The multitasking won't work until app developers have implemented suppor tinto their apps, in this sense it isn't true multitasking (according to Apple, they "implemented it the 'right' way").

Cool update though.. nice to finally see background images supported.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Does anyone know where I can find what features on iOS4 are supported on 3g

 

[Urza]

Does anyone know where I can find what features on iOS4 are supported on 3g

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/iphone-...ler-multitaski/

Also, several month old news:

 

[Sandman00009]

just to let you guys know if you jailbreak with redsn0w for ios4 you can enable multitasking and wallpapers for the ipod 2g and iphone 3g i have multitasking and wallpapers on my ipod 2g and it works fine.