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Rumor: iOS updates to address remaining battery issues, add new Siri commands

by Chris Rawson Nov 16th 2011 at 2:45PM

German blog Macerkopf claims it's heard directly from an Apple software engineer that iOS 5.0.2 "should arrive before the end of next week" and will address remaining battery issues that have affected some iPhone 4S units even after the recent 5.0.1 update.

Macerkopf also claims that a larger update (which the blog assumes will be iOS 5.1) will come with updated commands for Siri that will allow users to access hardware functions via voice commands. Currently Siri gets apologetic when you ask it to do things like take a picture or turn Bluetooth on/off, but Macerkopf claims these commands will be added to Siri in the 5.1 update.

Although Macerkopf hasn't supplied any direct evidence for its claims, this rumor still sounds plausible. Apple obviously wants to address any remaining battery issues as quickly as it can before the media decides to spin another "-gate" controversy out of it, and adding basic hardware commands to Siri just makes good sense.



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Dr. D.

I try the very expensive task and pleasure of staying on top or at the "Cutting edge" of technology. So, when I received my iPhone 4S, via mail, the day it came out and didn't half to pay someone to stand in line for 2 days to get my paws on one, I was so happy and other than learning how to talk "Siri", which didn't take long.... I was in love... Any questions of that love, I could just ask "Siri"... LOL (American Version). Im up to three sentences now.

I do wish Apple could have incorporated 4G with it... but there is always next year.

The second day with the 4S and taking to "her" in front of my friends... I found, as per article, that the battery time wasn't nearly that, that was advertised. I was having to charge it by noon. That, I simply can't afford to have.

Then 5.0.1 THIS actually FIXED my iPhone. The ... "Where is my iPhone, it's in the charger..." problem, disappeared.

Question??? This new 5.0.2 "battery fix"!

Is there a chance that 5.0.2 update might hinder my iPhone's battery performance, since now, there I have no battery problem to fix OR, best case senero, might it boost the performance of my iPhone's battery life EVEN MORE

What the logical thing to do, I believe, would be to skip the next version, 5.0.2 and go straight fom V5.0.1 to V5.1.

But many of you who deal with Apple products, not just the iPhone, will know that Apple updates must be done in a very specific order.

Hear in lies my dilemma... Now, do I take a properly working iPhone 4S and add software "v5.0.2 or can I wait untill 5.1 is released?

This is the problem of being "cutting edge". I am the "Lab Rat"

November 28 2011 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SteveR

Me: call my girlfriend
Siri: calling Matt Barnes
Me: WTF?
Me: call my girlfriend
Siri: I don't know who Mike's girlfriend is
Me: x#*^*#!!!!

If only Apple would let me use the UK English version here in the US, maybe Siri would understand me every now and then...

November 17 2011 at 11:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kingblind

Devs don't always get beta's for iOS releases. I'm a dev, So most of the time, yes. but not always. hope that helps :)

November 16 2011 at 11:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Bunt

Will it also sort out the signal problems I and a lot of other people are having?

November 16 2011 at 3:39 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Rassilon

I'm sure this has been asked before, but why is Siri not on the iPad 2? It's hardware is identical, if not superior, to the iPhone 4s. And we know that hardware specs are irrelevant anyway, since the bulk of the work is done on a mainframe, and Siri has been ported to iPhone 3's.

November 16 2011 at 3:15 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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bonobob

Two possible reasons, not mutually exclusive:

a) Marketing. You're more apt to buy an iPhone 4S if that's the only device that has Siri.

b) Siri is still in beta test. Apple quite simply does not want all those iPhone 4 and iPad users banging away on the Siri servers until the have worked out more bugs and ramped up capacity.

P.S. Not only has your question been asked before, it's been answered, too. Lots of times.

November 17 2011 at 12:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rocko Smith

It will not be out next week, Developers have not received anything.

November 16 2011 at 3:00 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
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SteveW

And definitely not during a holiday-shortened week in the US.

November 16 2011 at 9:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Ober

Siri, bring me a drink. Siri, where are my shoes. Siri, are you going to be the first robot soldier in the war against mankind?

November 16 2011 at 2:51 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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