In the November of last year, Apple seeded the initial beta release of iOS 5.1, which as usual was available to registered members of the iOS developer program. The first beta build of 5.1 (9B5117b) was available as download for the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2 and the third and fourth generations of iPod touch.
If you are currently running iOS 5.1 beta 2 it may be worth while checking your settings application to see if an over the air update is available for you. Make sure to connect to Wi-Fi for the download so as to not receive any cellular data charges due to the relatively large download.
If the update is not showing by either method, stay patient, it should be added to the developer program website imminently.
The release notes provided did not contain any specific feature
additions, therefore making it difficult to determine what is likely to
be included in iOS 5.1 when it is publicly released. However, it has
been rumored that Apple is planning on adding some additional functions
to the intelligent voice assistant, Siri. The first beta release of iOS
5.1 also saw the release of Xcode 4.3 (build 4D1002) to developers.
Two weeks before Christmas day, the company then released
beta 2 of iOS 5.1 which was given build number 9B5127c. One update
included in this release was the ability to delete images from a users photo stream
which is a definite bonus addition consider the previous alternative
was delete all or nothing. As per all beta releases it was available for
download to registered developers.
To allow further testing and development, the Cupertino based company
has today seeded iOS 5.1 beta 3 to all developers on the program. The
latest version is given build number 9B5141a. At the time of writing the
update was only available as an over the air update via the device and
was not showing up in the developers portal via the website. The latest
beta weights in at a 76.3MB download and it looks as though Apple are
giving nothing away with what it contains with the release information
saying "This beta version of iOS 5.1 contains bug fixes and improvements."
If you are currently running iOS 5.1 beta 2 it may be worth while checking your settings application to see if an over the air update is available for you. Make sure to connect to Wi-Fi for the download so as to not receive any cellular data charges due to the relatively large download.
If the update is not showing by either method, stay patient, it should be added to the developer program website imminently.
No comments:
Post a Comment