{"id":13086,"date":"2010-11-22T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/ios-42-available-today-apple\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:08:03","slug":"ios-42-available-today-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-42-available-today-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 4.2 available today &#8211; Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, iOS 4.2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2010\/11\/22ios.html\">will be made available today<\/a> for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Apart from bringing iOS 4 to the iPad (it&#8217;s still stuck on 3.2 at the moment), this update also adds some fun new features to iPhone and iPod Touch. Here&#8217;s a rundown of the key additions and changes in iOS 4.2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/ipad-yawn.png\" alt=\"ipad-yawn.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>iPad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Multitasking now supported, allegedly not affecting battery life<\/li>\n<li>Folders added, letting users organize their apps<\/li>\n<li>Unified Inbox in the Mail app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>AirPlay &#8211; stream media from your iThing to your Apple TV or AirPlay enabled speakers<\/li>\n<li>GameCenter &#8211; adds a social layer to gaming on iOS devices<\/li>\n<li>AirPrint &#8211; the incongruously popular\/controversial printing solution<\/li>\n<li>Find my iThing &#8211; MobileMe\u00a0subscribers\u00a0can track down lost or stolen devices<\/li>\n<li>Various stability,\u00a0functionality\u00a0and security enhancements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, Steve Jobs still doesn&#8217;t want iOS device owners to use WiFi to sync their gadgets. Maybe that&#8217;ll come in 5.0?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, iOS 4.2 will be made available today for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Apart from bringing iOS 4 to the iPad (it&#8217;s still stuck on 3.2 at the moment), this update also adds some fun new features to iPhone and iPod Touch. Here&#8217;s a rundown of the key additions and changes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-42-available-today-apple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iOS 4.2 available today &#8211; Apple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334582,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions\/334582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}