First OTA update for iOS – 5.0.1 now rolling out to iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch


Looks like Apple finally has an answer for the battery issue surrounding the iPhone 4S. Apple has released the first Over-the-Air update for all iOS devices running on iOs 5 such as the iPhone 3GS, 4 , 4S, iPad , iPad2 , iPod Touch ( 3rd gen and 4th Gen). The update is available Over-the-air meaning you won’t have to download a 700 odd MB file and use iTunes to update your device. In fact I have managed to update 2 iPhones and an iPod touch in a matter of minutes as the OTA update was just 44.6 MB for my iPhone.It would have taken to few hours or days required to download few GBs of files normally.

Just go to Settings->General->Software Update and you should see an update if you are running on iOS 5.

Here is the change log for the iOS 5.0.1 Software update.

  • Fixes bugs affecting battery life
  • Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
  • Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
  • Improves voice Recognition for Australian users using dictation

Have you updated you iPhone or iDevice ?


Author: Varun Krish

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