Recommended Posts

hero20101116.png

title20101116.png

The free iOS 4.2 Software Update brings all-new features to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Feature list:

* Multitasking on iPad - iOS 4.2 brings multitasking from iPhone and iPod touch to iPad.

* Folders on iPad - Move apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity to keep your apps organized.

* AirPrint - AirPrint makes it simple to print email, photos, web pages, and documents right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

* AirPlay - AirPlay lets you stream digital media wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to your Apple TV and AirPlay-enabled speakers.

* Find My iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - The MobileMe feature that helps you locate your missing device and protect its data

* Game Center for iPad - Find friends or use auto-match to play multiplayer games against new opponents.

* iTunes TV show rentals - Rent TV shows commercial free in HD

* Mail - See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox, organize messages by threads, and open attachments in third-party apps.

* Find text on web pages - In Safari, you can do a quick text search to find and highlight specific words and phrases.

* Notes with fonts - Customize your notes using different fonts. Marker Felt, Helvetica, and Chalkboard.

* Reply to calendar invitations - Reply to event invitations from friends using different calendar services.

* Keyboard and dictionary enhancements - Support for over 50 languages and dialects, with more than 30 new international keyboards and dictionaries for iPad.

* Accessibility enhancements - Control VoiceOver using a wireless keyboard. Output in braille to over 30 Bluetooth braille displays.

* Enhanced enterprise support - Businesses can take advantage of stronger security features.

* Messaging with text tones - Choose from 17 new alerts and assign custom tones for people in your contact list.

Apple iOS 4.2 Page

Post your Experience with iOS 4.2.1 and Bugs/Problems here.

Link to comment
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/955476-official-ios-42-discussion/
Share on other sites

I love the fact that Apple chose to make the new text tones iPhone 4 only.

I was gonna say that they left this out, this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.

And yes, the Voice Memos icon changed, and looks, meh. They could have at least fixed the Messages and Calendar icons.

Otherwise, a lot faster on my 3GS. (Y)

Is anyone else using Saurik's Caching server stuck on the "Verifying iPhone Update with Apple" stage?

I had the same error. I had to use TinyUmbrella to get pass this part.

I also can't believe I can't use AirPrint to print to a shared printer. Are they gonna add that later?

Is it worth updating an iPhone 3G to 4.2? Is it still painfully slow? It's got 3.1.3 on it, when 4.0 was first released I upgraded and it was so slow I had to downgrade again.

It's not too bad, much better then 4.0 though.

Ugh... No Find in page for iPhone 3G users, maybe our devices can't handle search? Maybe it'll make the phone explode into magical fairy dust - who knows.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • I hear you on browser password manager, in my case I have two Google profiles, one was created when Google decided to grandfather us out of Workspace for Domains (with the replacement being too expensive for 25 users) resulting in my domain email address no longer being able to be registered to a new Workspace I created (for myself and another co-owner) so I could use Takeout and sync over some stuff to the new Workspace. Then I have my personal Google profile which I could be logged into on my desktop or Mobile, so I am saving passwords on one or the other, and when an URL changes another password for the same service gets added, it basically ends up being a giant mess. Unless I missed something is there a local decent password manager that can override the browser password managers for Chrome, Edge, Firefox (profiles) so that there is only one vault, and does that also support Passkeys (which to me are still confusing because sometimes it will ask for a Passkey on a phone I am no longer using!) Microsofts implementation of Passkeys is the worst!
    • It's utterly baffling that we have no idea when we'll get new features even well after they've been released. Why Microsoft thinks this is a good rollout strategy is beyond me.
    • If it makes anybody happy, others will need to be bitter about it. (apologies to Yogi Berra)
    • I owned a lot of Soundblaster cards over the years all the way back to the ISA slot era. I use a Soundblaster X3 external now because I'm able to run it through a KVM and have it follow the machine I happen to be using. It drives a set of JBL 305 powered monitors wonderfully. I'm not gaming or doing home theater through it, so rear channels aren't a consideration for me, though it does have side / rear / sub outputs.
    • I disagree that using browser based password managers is a bad idea, your passwords are encrypted by the OS password, but they also be synchronized to make them helpful. I would also use a password manager extension that supports MFA TOTP and Passkeys to manage the account that synchronizes the data. Ente is 100% free and allows you to vault important information, has password vault support, and supports 2FA TOTP support, I just don’t believe, it has a browser extension.
  • Recent Achievements

    • First Post
      DrWankel earned a badge
      First Post
    • Reacting Well
      DrWankel earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • Week One Done
      Supreme Spray LV earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      503
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      163
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      91
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      75
    5. 5
      Michael Scrip
      72
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!