IOS 5.1 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Security Alert: Safari for iOS 5.1 reportedly vulnerable to address bar spoofing

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Users of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices running Safari on iOS 5.1 should beware of a security issue that involves address bar spoofing. The issue was discovered by David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity.net, and involves "an error within the handling of URLs when using javascript's ...

Siri Yelps a bit louder with iOS 5.1

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2012)

One of Siri's more convenient features has always been its integration with Yelp, the business-rating social website. When Siri first showed up in October, a query about finding restaurants or other nearby businesses would give you a response showing a listing by either Yelp ranking or distance. ...

I0n1c hints at iOS 5.1 jailbreak for the iPad 2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2012)

I0n1c posted up a few images to his Twitter account that supposedly show a jailbroken iPad 2 running iOS 5.1. This is only a proof concept that suggests the individuals working on the A5 jailbreak for iOS 5.1 are making progress. This would be good news for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S owners, who ...

Siri's Japanese performance not as good as DoCoMo's voice assistant

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

Apple added support for Japanese in iOS 5.1, but the roll out isn't going as smoothly as expected. According to a Kotaku report, Apple's voice assistant can apparently only handle simple and universal Japanese phrases. When it comes to complex phrases, Siri stumbles while its competitor Shabette ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me access the lock-screen camera

by Erica Sadun (Mar 12th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Have you been receiving reports that the camera button on the iOS 5.1 Lock screen doesn't work? It doesn't matter if the phone is actually locked, or just on the lock screen. Press the camera button and the whole screen just bounces a couple times, then does nothing. I looked ...

iOS 5.1 fixes signal issues for China Mobile customers

by Steven Sande (Mar 8th, 2012)

Remember Monday's post about the problems some of China Mobile's 15 million unofficial iPhone users were having on the carrier's network? In that post, we quoted China Mobile as saying that an upcoming update would fix the problems. Sure enough, that fix came yesterday in the form of iOS 5.1. Our ...

iOS 5.1 available, you can finally delete photos in Photo Stream

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 7th, 2012)

Yep, iOS 5.1 is rolling out so check your iOS device's Software Update or sync with iTunes to apply. What's new? Support for Siri in Japanese, photos can now be deleted from your Photo Stream (yay!), plus a host of bug fixes (including lingering battery issues). Oh, and the iPad gets a new camera ...

Siri's upcoming Japanese language abilities leaked - by Siri

by Chris Rawson (Feb 14th, 2012)

We learned not too long ago that Siri is on schedule to speak a few more languages soon, specifically Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. Siri herself (itself?) has confirmed that at minimum Japanese support is coming soon, according to 9to5 Mac. I personally verified that asking Siri "What ...

Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March

by Chris Rawson (Feb 8th, 2012)

According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year. Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is ...

Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers

by Chris Rawson (Jan 9th, 2012)

Apple has released the third beta of iOS 5.1 to developers. iOS 5.1 beta 2 was released nearly a month ago, but now that the holiday lull is out of the way it's probably not going to take that long before the next beta comes out. The beta is available both through over-the-air download and a ...

iOS 5.1 beta ready for testing

by Erica Sadun (Nov 28th, 2011)

The iOS 5.1 beta 1 SDK is now available for download by paid devs at the iOS developer site. Sign in with your developer credentials to gain access to the updated SDK. You will need to download and install firmware via iTunes and cannot use over-the-air updating for this initial release. Because ...