iOS 4 Update Now Avaliable

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by glymor • 16 years ago

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glymor• 16 years ago

Direct download links: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-now-available/comme...

spicyj• 16 years ago

The other two/three missing links: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-is-now-live-soon-at-itu...

ergo984• 16 years ago

Worth noting that Android 2.2 "released" a month ago still isn't officially available. Android fan here, by the way.

jonursenbach2• 16 years ago

Maybe this'll light the fire under Google's asses to hurry and release it OTA. I'm starting to grow tired of waiting to get it on my Nexus One without downloading the leaked ROM and rooting my device, which I'd really rather not do.

nuclear_eclipse2• 16 years ago

You don't need to root your device to install the unofficial Froyo image. It's still an image signed by Google, so you can use the standard bootloader and flasher on your N1 to install it from the SD card.

I did this with mine and my wife's N1, and neither one has an unlocked bootloader, and neither one has rooted firmware.

famsam• 16 years ago

I believe I can get a phone at T-Mobil with 2.2. Too bad that it isn't available through other channels.

dpcan2• 16 years ago

Maybe it's not available, but I've already been fixing problems with my apps that are showing up on 2.2 devices. Customers are emailing already, so it's getting out there.

ergo984• 16 years ago

Out of curiousity what sort of problems have you needed to fix? Were you using private APIs or the like?

zyb093• 16 years ago

Kind of off-topic, but since it's a discussion about iOS and Android, you know what I think would be the best thing ever that could happen to the iPhone? If Apple would officially support dual-booting Android. Think about it, Apple could claim making the best device (in terms of display quality, hardware, manufacturing), but also would be the only phone on the market that lets you use the 2 best phone OS's at the same time. It would be kind of an advanced feature, so it wouldn't interfere with the 'user experience' of the normal consumer. Basically full of win for everybody.

Of course I can expect this to happen when hell freezes over I guess.

albertzeyer• 16 years ago

Hehe, yes. Reminds me of BootCamp. Before that, also nobody would have believed that Apple will ever allow that officially.

OmarIsmail• 16 years ago

This is already pretty much possible. A jailbroken iPhone gives you the best of both worlds - and you don't even need to go through the hassle of dual booting. And it's actually ridiculously easy to get up and running.

I would argue that a jailbroken iPhone is currently the best device available. You get Apple's slick UI and ease of use alongside Android's restriction-free environment.

Interesting anecdote: I actually turned off multitasking with my jailbroken iPhone. Except for some very specific cases I think most people are going to find multitasking not a big deal at all.

kristiandupont• 16 years ago

Cool, sure. But I cannot think up one scenario where I would use it.

dcurtis• 16 years ago

If you're a developer, the version released today is the same build as the one that has been available as the GM Seed since WWDC.

No need to upgrade.

Edit: apparently there are a couple differences. Game center isn't installed in the "retail" version, and there seems to be at least one fixed bug on non-3GS devices (see comment below). But the build is the same.

Janteh• 16 years ago

So the version number is 8A293?

edit: Oops, easy to confirm via the URL. It is 8A293 indeed.

ptomato2• 16 years ago

With the exception that Game Center is not enabled on this version as of yet.

weaksauce• 16 years ago

Just as a forewarning, I lost a few pictures and a couple apps that I downloaded when the beta 4 expired and would not let me backup/transfer anything from the phone until I did a restore. I would advise to upgrade to this just in case it has an expiration date built in too.

ugh2• 16 years ago

Nah, it’s not the same. The “no-default-wallpapers-on-iPod-touches-3G”-bug is gone.

quellhorst• 16 years ago

I tried to upgrade, but it said I was using the latest.

amichail2• 16 years ago

It's taking forever to do the backup. I wonder if there's something wrong.

ComSubVie2• 16 years ago

That was also the case with the GM release, so this may be normal.

amichail2• 16 years ago

How much time does it take?

michaelbuckbee• 16 years ago

Directly connecting my iphone to my mbp (instead of through a USB hub) helped cut down on the time for the backup.

redstripe• 16 years ago

Do you have a software firewall installed? I think I remember itunes using IP to talk to the background backup app.

rbanffy9• 16 years ago

It makes me really unhappy with Apple that the 1st generation iPhones and iPods, although having the same processor and memory as the 2nd generation ones, were made incompatible with this release.

It's not nice when a hardware maker dictates I should buy a new gizmo to enjoy the features practically identical gizmos have access to.

rauljara• 16 years ago

This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/17/iphone-4-confirmed-to-ha...

jolan• 16 years ago

> This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb.

You're misinterpreting his statement. The original iPhone model had 128MB. The iPhone 3G has 128MB. The original model is not supported under 4.0 but the 3G is.

xsmasher• 16 years ago

He said 1st vs 2nd gen, not 3rd. The iPhone 3G gets this updates, and it has the same amount of ram as the first generation iPhone / iPod touch. Same CPU too.

There may be a technical reason, but that isn't it.

ergo984• 16 years ago

Not that it makes it better, but Apple's support for "old" hardware beats just about anyone.

thwarted• 16 years ago

NetBSD and Linux both come to mind as supporting older hardware better.

leviathant• 16 years ago

Though I'm reluctant to play the Zune card, I've been impressed at the support Microsoft has continued to give even the first generation devices released in 2006. That my wife's Zune will continue to get software updates wile my original iPhone is now frozen in time is a little sad - as is the fact that her Zune does wifi sync and FM radio.

OSX Snow Leopard only supports Intel processors (2006), Leopard only supports G4s @ > 867mhz (unless you hack around). I've installed Win7 on computers from 2001 with no hassle, and with improved performance over Windows XP (let alone Vista)

I really do like my iPhone, but it definitely feels like the software shortcomings have been forced by Apple - sort of like how my phone's hardware is perfectly capable of MMS, but official software won't allow it. My phone records video quite nicely with Cycorder, but I'd have to purchase a third party app that functions at a fraction of Cycorder's quality if I stuck with official updates. And now I don't even get to try the new OS unless I upgrade.

It's still a very capable device though, and I'm more than capable of deciding not to upgrade my phone hardware until my current phone hardware ceases to function as designed.

bonzoesc• 16 years ago

It's not nice when "customers" that haven't bought hardware in two years decide they deserve new software that costs money to develop and test for legacy hardware either. They're a business, not a phone firmware charity.

fjh• 16 years ago

Why the scare quotes around "customers"? You're not a customer unless you buy a new phone at least once a year? (Not that I agree with the parent, I just think you seem awfully eager to put him in a bad light)

rbanffy9• 16 years ago

It's nicer than creating an artificial restriction that obsoletes equipment identical to newer iterations.

And keep in mind iPod users have always been forced to pay for the software "that costs money to develop".

zyb093• 16 years ago

What makes me unhappy, it now becomes clear that 3rd generation 8gb iPods were just re-branded 2nd generation ones. Unlike the 16gb and 32gb model the 8gb didn't receive an hardware upgrade (more ram and 3GS CPU), so it doesn't support multi-tasking now.

rbanffy9• 16 years ago

Welcome to the club. With OS 3, Apple broke the cable I used to watch podcasts on a TV (at the time, I spent a lot of time in hotels and the cabe was very handy). Now, with iOS4, Apple broke the whole iPod. With iTunes 9.2, BTW, they also broke the iMac I used to sync my iPod (a beautiful bondi-blue one), kindly informing me it wouldn't run after installing it, making me have to chase down a copy of iTunes 9.1.

No. I won't buy a new computer just because Steve thinks I should.

jsz04• 16 years ago

Original iPhone owners have now had 2 full subsidized upgrade cycles. If they didn't want to spend $99 (or less) for a 3G to gain GPS and 3G and also decided to skip the 3GS (also $99 now) for 3G, GPS, video recording, a better camera, more RAM, faster processor, etc then Apple really has no expectation these customers care about having any of the features of iOS 4 either. I'm much more sympathetic to the 2nd generation iPod Touch owners

recoiledsnake• 16 years ago

Ahh the forced upgrade treadmill one must run on.

maw• 16 years ago

In some countries it costs about five times that, with a contract.

phil• 16 years ago

Yeah, too bad you didn't go with Android, because it's totally open and Froyo is gonna run great on your G1 and -- oh wait, that's not true at all.

storm• 16 years ago

I'm not aware of any reason why Froyo won't run perfectly well on that G1 in time - Eclair builds are fairly snappy on it. If JIT is do-able on G1, Froyo may well get more mileage out of this hardware.

Mobile providers won't waste the time to OTA it, of course, and root+image isn't for many people (though things like ROM Manager are making these paths accessible to an awful lot more people than we tend to assume). But I'm not sure how it's 'not true at all'.

nanexcool• 16 years ago

Any word on iBooks? I'm not seeing it yet, only for the iPad.

DannoHung• 16 years ago

I see it on the iPhone app store. Looks like it's the right version, but it says you need an iPad?

I dunno. Guess I'll find out tonight.

ptomato2• 16 years ago

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 should get you it now. Otherwise it may take some time to propagate.

Nogwater• 16 years ago

Does anybody have a list that shows which of the new features are available on the old 3G model? Is it just the multitasking and video that don't work?

heyjonboy• 16 years ago

I had been looking forward to orientation locking (http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-adds-orien...). Apparently they tied that feature to multitasking, so no orientation locking on 3G.

gaiusparx• 16 years ago

http://sanziro.com/2010/06/ios-4-missing-features-in-iphone-...

gourneau• 16 years ago

Does anyone know if mobile Safari supports websockets yet?

rmoriz• 16 years ago

If you have an iOS 4 iPhone could you do us a favour and access http://vm.io/wm and click "connect".

A near-real-time twitter feed should appear if WebSockets are supported (tested w Safari5 Desktop, Chrome 6).

Please share your results. Thanks!

rufo• 16 years ago

Doesn't look like it does just yet (3GS, iOS 4 GM seed).

mortenjorck• 16 years ago

Hmm. The iPod app has become very unstable for me. After downloading a podcast, it reliably crashes to the home screen when switching tabs.

I will say it is crashing to a very nice looking home screen, in any case.

paul9290• 16 years ago

Ive been using the final build for two weeks and been having a mail issue. I use the mail client to receive and send my Gmails. Many times the count number even after checking my mail remains and the count is wrong due me seeing in the mail client phantom emails with no content. Also it does not do search well returns no results at times but when I go to gmail on web search works fine. Hope they fix this a bit annoying.

jawngee• 16 years ago

Yeah I ran into the same issue, but it went away eventually.

sophacles• 16 years ago

Am I the only person who consistently sees headlines like this and thinks "I thought cisco was on version 15 or something, wtf?" only to be reminded of that other ios?

DavidSJ• 16 years ago

Amusingly, Cisco also had a trademark on the name iPhone.

chmike• 16 years ago

Is there any chance to become available for the iPad too? I'm very happy of my iPad. I could not stand up from my bed this morning because of incredible back pain when I stand up. This lasted all day and will probably tomorrow too. I really enjoyed the iPad.

glhaynes• 16 years ago

I believe the most precise date they've given for iOS 4 on iPad is "this Fall".

mike_h• 16 years ago

Careful if you have a 3G -- twitter reports are saying the new OS is even slower than 3.x:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=ios4%203g%20slow

kxs3• 16 years ago

I've just updated and it certainly feels slower. Menus take forever to load.

potatolicious• 16 years ago

This is very strange - OS4 feels distinctly snappier on my 3GS.

ZeroGravitas• 16 years ago

General consensus seems to be 3GS is faster, 3G is slower.

Hates_• 16 years ago

I found that another restart improved the speed dramatically.

redrobot50503• 16 years ago

I have heard rumors that iOS 4 is going to be a little pokey (as in slow pokey) on the iPhone 3G. Can anyone attest to that? Or refute that statement?

And does anyone know of a site showing how to downgrade if I decide it is too slow and I want to revert back to iPhone OS 3.1.3?

(Sorry to ask, but I figured this crowd would know the answers to both of my questions off the bat.)

kxs3• 16 years ago

It feels slower. It seems to be possible to downgrade from iOS 4:

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...

pistoriusp• 16 years ago

When I was running the GM version is was very slow. This release seems tons faster.

ojilles• 16 years ago

Yep, I definitely think so. Bookmarking something to the homescreen takes at least 4+ sec's, changing the wallpaper took at least 7 secs, sliding through emails now has hickups, etc. iPhone 4 already ordered ;-D

watmough• 16 years ago

Just upgraded my wife's 3G, and it feels great, but then I'm used to my original day 1 iPhone, so not really sure, but ios 4 on the 3G feels plenty fast to me.

Maktab• 16 years ago

It was a bit slow at first, but after a restart and a few minutes of usage it seemed to be back to its old speeds.

rimantas• 16 years ago

iPhone 3G owners (like myself) may want to check this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4204

mikeryan• 16 years ago

blarg - multi-tasking was the one update I wanted.

nickpp• 16 years ago

Updated and it promptly lost ALL my contacts. Looks like some conflict with Google Sync which conveniently went offline afterward...

Teaches me well to install software on release day, next time let others test it first...

bradgessler• 16 years ago

Pandora is finally useful.

sailormoon• 16 years ago

How come it says tethering is new? Tethering has been available on the 3GS for ages, I've used it numerous times.

j_baker• 16 years ago

Are you in Europe? In the US, AT&T forbids tethering. I think the new update allows you to tether but you have to pay for it.

pcc• 16 years ago

It seems many are having issues with gmail via exchange/activesync on iOS 4 eg http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=932449

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5e07d...

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