You read it right, 200 new features has been introduced for the new iOS version that was on its 6th iteration. And to detail what are the big improvements and minor tweaks the update brought to the table, there’s a huge list of over 150 features in categories right after the virtual jump.
Notable enhancements with the iOS 6 were in Siri as the company said, there’s also Facebook integration and improved phone and mail functions. The iOS 6 will be compatible on iPhones later than the iPhone 3GS; the iPad 2 and later, and iPod touch 4th gen.
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Notable enhancements with the iOS 6 were in Siri as the company said, there’s also Facebook integration and improved phone and mail functions. The iOS 6 will be compatible on iPhones later than the iPhone 3GS; the iPad 2 and later, and iPod touch 4th gen.
Source: iMoreSiri
- Sports scores (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer)
- Italian Serie A
- English Premier League
- MLS
- French Ligue 1
- Spanish la Liga
- Dutch Eredivisie
- German Bundesliga
- MLB
- NCAA Football
- NFL
- NBA
- NCAA Basketball
- WNBA
- NHL
- Sport player stats
- Sport team rosters
- Sports league standings
- Sports game schedule
- Updated restaurant searches (type, price, Yelp reviews, distance, map, hours, phone number)
- OpenTable reservations for restaurants
- Movie listings per theatre
- Rotten Tomato moview reviews
- Movie facts
- Movie trailers
- Search by actor/actress
- Launch apps
- Send Tweet
- Update Facebook status
- Listen to notifications
- Eyes Free car integration (in the next year)
- International language and local search (Canada, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Korean, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China)
- Siri for iPad (new iPad only)
- Single sign-on
- Share from Photos, Safari, Maps, App Store, iTunes, Game Center
- Public API for developers
- Contact and Calendar integration
Phone
- Reply to incoming calls with message (preset or custom) or save reminder (timed or geofenced)
Notification Center
- Do not disturb toggle with fine-grain phone call exceptions, schedules, or allowing repeat calls
- Facebook and Twitter compose buttons
FaceTime
- Available over cellular
- Apple ID unified with phone number, enabling FaceTime or iMessage answering on iPad or Mac
Safari
- iCloud Tabs for Safari on other iOS devices and Macs
- Offline Reading List
- Photo uploads
- Smart App banners link to App Store or launches
- Fullscreen video in landscape
Photo Streams
- Shared Photo Streams with designated friends, includes comments
- Photo Stream pictures in Mac screensaver
- Photo Stream now a separate tab, not another album
- VIPs – designated contacts cause notifications, e-mails flagged with stars, separate inbox
- Flagged mailbox
- Attach photos in-line
- Open password-protected Office docs
- Per account signatures
- Fun new pull-to-refresh animation
Passbook
- Barcode collection for boarding passes, store cards, coupon, movie tickets
- Pops up on lock screen when you arrive
- Includes up-to-date-balance
- Boarding passes update with gate changes
- Cute deletion animation
Guided Access
- Disable certain app interactions with a circle
- Limit hardware buttons, touch, and motion control access
- Single-app mode
Maps
- Local search with 100 million business listings with Yelp reviews and pictures
- Crowd-sourced traffic data with incident reports
- Free turn-by-turn navigation with alternative route offers based on faster ETA
- Navigation viewable from lock screen
- Siri integration, finds spots along your route
- Flyover (3D buildings)
- Multitouch rotation, angle change, and zoom
- Powered by TomTom
- Pinch-out in maps goes to globe view
Game Center
- Game Center sync with OS X
- Cross-platform turn-based and realtime gaming between iOS and Mac
- Issue challenges to friends
- Find Facebook friends
Developer SDK
- Audio and video sampling during playback
- Pass Kit
- Rich text on labels, fields, and text views
- VoiceOver gestures
- Control camera focus and exposure
- Remote Web Inspector
- CSS filters
- Action Sheer
- Web Audio API
- Crossfade with CSS animation
- Game Center in-app experience
- Reminders
- Video stabilization
- Game groups
- Bluetooth MAP support
- Transit apps
- In-app Bluetooth pairing
- Face detection API
- Inter-app audio
- Frame drop data
- Map Kit
- Auto layout
- State preservation
- Pull to refresh on Table views
- In-app purchase hosted content
- Read and write image metadata
- Collection views
- In-app content purchases
- Multi-route audio
Other
- Location-based reminders for iPad
- Autocorrection for every keyboard
- Global network proxy for HTTP
- Manual reorder of reminders
- Lost Mode – send a phone number to lost device which can be called with single tap
- Kernel ASLR
- Manual location entry for reminders
- Custom vibrations for alerts
- VoiceOver improvements
- App in Safari search results
- IPv6 support for Wi-Fi and LTE
- HDR improvements
- French, German, and Spanish dictionaries
- Word highlights for speak selection
- Search all fields in Contacts
- New iPad Clock app
- Improved keyboard layouts
- Made for iPhone hearing aids
- Top title bar changes color with app
- New dialer layout
- New iPod app
- Granular privacy control
- iCloud-stored user dictionary
- Updated sharing menu with large icons
- Music ringtones
- Redesigned App Store and iTunes
- iTunes Match now streams music (rather than just download)
Extended functions for China
- Baidu
- Sina Weibo
- Tudou
- Youku
- Improved text input
- Dictionary
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