{"id":28408,"date":"2012-09-12T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=28408"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:44:56","slug":"apple-announces-release-of-ios-6-and-new-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-announces-release-of-ios-6-and-new-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple announces release of iOS 6 and new iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/apple-announces-release-of-ios-6-and-new-itunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28526\" title=\"iOS 6\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/iOS-611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>After <a title=\"WWDC 2012: Apple announces iOS 6\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/wwdc-2012-apple-announces-ios-6\">WWDC 2012<\/a> and experiencing the iOS 6 beta, there are a lot of improvements to the operating system.  The mobile team at Softonic highlighted their choices for the <a title=\"Editors Choices: 8 best new features of iOS 6\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/editors-choices-8-best-new-features-of-ios-6-2\">best new<\/a> features.\u00a0  Apple&#8217;s keynote solidified the features that will be present when it launches next week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 5 months since WWDC and the multiple beta versions have revealed a lot of interesting smaller features that were not shown during WWDC 2012. But some features like <strong>Passbook<\/strong> were not functional during the beta and they weren&#8217;t properly demoed during the keynote.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Apple announced:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>iOS 6<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch on September 19th, 2012<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing new was announced for iOS 6 on iPad, but the iOS 6 on iPhone 5 will feature updates over the iPhone 4S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Widescreen aspect ratio for larger screen<\/li>\n<li>Old apps run letterboxed (until developers update their apps)<\/li>\n<li>Shared photo streams through iOS 6 and iCloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Maps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100 million Points of Interest (POI) added<\/li>\n<li>Turn-by-turn directions with 3D map support<\/li>\n<li>Landscape and Portrait modes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tap to Tweet or post to Facebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Safari<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full screen support<\/li>\n<li>iCloud tabs to share tabs from desktop to iOS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Passbook<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accessible from the lockscreen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Photo stream<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose photos to share with specific people<\/li>\n<li>Comment and like photos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Siri<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated for more accurate results<\/li>\n<li>Use voice to post updates to Facebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatically send SMS when you can&#8217;t take a call<\/li>\n<li>Set a reminder at a certain time or place to call someone back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>iTunes 11<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28485\" title=\"iOS 5 App store on iPad\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/iOS-5-App-store-on-iPad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/iOS-5-App-store-on-iPad.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/iOS-5-App-store-on-iPad-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple announced that the new <strong>iTunes would launch in late October<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New iTunes store on iOS devices<\/li>\n<li>Features Facebook integration<\/li>\n<li>Share directly to Twitter or Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Simpler design<\/li>\n<li>Default grid layout for media<\/li>\n<li>Artists can share photos<\/li>\n<li>Using the search bar will show intelligent results as well as media that&#8217;s currently playing<\/li>\n<li>Updated mini-player<\/li>\n<li>iCloud integration with iTunes<\/li>\n<li>iCloud media sync so you can watch a video in iTunes then pick up where you left off on another iOS device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apple didn&#8217;t announce anything really new from the original WWDC keynote.  It did expand on features already announced and the release date is a week away.  Passbook is still an unknown app that has a lot of potential use, but Apple hasn&#8217;t really demonstrated the use of the app for every day use.<\/p>\n<p>The focus on increased Facebook and Twitter integration was expected, but there wasn&#8217;t a big jump in functionality from iOS 5.  When Apple releases iOS 6, a lot more will be explained on how to use the featured apps and the smaller improvements are revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After WWDC 2012 and experiencing the iOS 6 beta, there are a lot of improvements to the operating system. The mobile team at Softonic highlighted their choices for the best new features.\u00a0 Apple&#8217;s keynote solidified the features that will be present when it launches next week. It&#8217;s been 5 months since WWDC and the multiple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-announces-release-of-ios-6-and-new-itunes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple announces release of iOS 6 and new iTunes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":28526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2380],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-28408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionitunes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408","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\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333648,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions\/333648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=28408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}