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Everything You Need To Know About iOS 5 Beta 2

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Apple dropped iOS 5 beta 2 for developers yesterday. As expected, the beta 2 of iOS 5 brings several changes to iOS 5 that was officially released on 6th June. Although the changes in this release aren’t that big, but this beta reveals that Apple is still working on the look and feel of the newly introduced and revamped features of iOS. This is the second beta of iOS 5 and it is expected that Apple might drop a few more before the official public release scheduled for the fall. Read more to check what’s changed in iOS 5 beta 2.

LockScreen Notification Tweaks

Apple has tweaked the appearence of iOS 5 notifications that appear on the lockscreen of iOS devices in Beta 2. Unlike the previous beta, the new single notification now appears as a bubble on the lockscreen, and as new notification arrives, the previous ones dissappear and are replaced by the new one. After a few moments of the arrival of the new notification, all the previous notifications appear again on the lockscreen.

Wi-Fi Sync

Scott Forstall announced this feature on stage, but it was not included in the first beta of iOS 5, but in second beta Apple has finally added much awaited Wi-Fi Sync feature for iOS devices. It is currently only available for Mac users in iOS 5 beta 2.

iCloud Logo

Replacing the pinkish iCloud logo, iOS 5 beta 2 brings the official Silver iCloud logo to iOS’s settings.app. Nothing else to talk about there…

OTA updates over 3G

According to a post by 9to5Mac, Over-The-Air updates over 3G network are now supported in the iOS 5 Beta 2 SDK, but with a catch i.e Apple might give users minor point updates OTA while the large one’s will be delivered via Wi-Fi or iTunes only. For example Apple might allow iOS version 5.1.1 to be downloaded over 3G network but iOS 6 has to downloaded over Wi-Fi. Keeping in mind that future iOS updates are going to be ‘Delta updates’ that do not require user to download the whole operating system when an update is released, this seems possible.

Receding Keyboard in iMessage

AppleInsider points out that in iOS 5 beta 2, the keyboard in the iMessage.app recedes downwords when user scrolls down in message history. This is a little animation that Apple might be testing to implement in other apps as well.


Jailbreak and unlock

As TheiLoop reported yesterday, iOS 5 beta 2 can be jailbreaked using the RedSn0w tool that was released two weeks ago to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1. So that clearly means that Apple has not fixed that exploit in iOS yet.

Another thing worth mentioning here is that according to famed jailbreaker and iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd, Apple has closed Gevey interposer hole in this beta release instead of waiting for the final release of iOS 5.

it's surprising Apple closed Gevey interposer hole in b2 rather than waiting until final (maybe they were under pressure)

[Sources 9to5Mac, iPhoneDownloadBlog, AppleInsider, Img: ItsAllTech and @MuscleNerd]

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