Categories: iOS

iOS 7.1 Now Available

Apple today released a new update iOS 7.1

  • Carplay

iOs experience designed for the car

Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle

Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages and 3rd party audio apps

Control with Siri and the cars touchscreen, knobs and buttons

  • Siri

Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you’re done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking.

New more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin, Chinese, UK English, Australian English and Japanese

  • iTunes Radio

Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favourite artist or song

Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing

Subscribe to iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

  • Calendar

Option to display events in month view

Country specific holidays automatically added for many countries

  • Accessibility

Bold font option now includes the keyboard, calculator and many icon glyphs

Reduce Motion option now includes Weather, Messages and multitasking UI animations

New options to display button shapes, darken app colours and reduce white point

  • New Camera setting to automatically enable HDR for iPhone 5s
  • iCloud Keychain support in additional countries
  • FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device
  • Fixes a bug that could occasionally cause a home screen crash
  • Improves Touch ID fingerprint recognition
  • Improved performance for iPhone 4
  • Fixes display of Mail unread badge for numbers greater than 10,000
  • Continued user interface refinements

 

Michael

a professional musician but a technophile at heart. When not rehearsing can be found gazing adoringly at his iPhone/MacBookAir or looking for a little white ball in tall grass....

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