Apple has released IOS 5.1

According to twitter, I've seen someone tweet about an issue where you get a SMS, and you get 2 slide to reply elements.

Just to check we're all om the same page - do you mean that the albums/artists/songs are spoken when third party apps tap into the iPod library? That's huge for me! Shame it'll take a while for a jailbreak to appear.

Everything generally seems fine after the update but wo things of note; firstly I turned back on the automatic time zone detection after updating to 5.1 to see if this was fixed but I still get the same behaviour as before (i.e. the location services icon is permanently on with this feature selected) so I turned it back off again. I'll just have to remember to turn it on whenever I get off a plane for a minute so that the clock can adjust and then turn it off again. The other issue is that several times now on unlocking the phone it goes straight into the phone app (specifically the dialpad screen). This is regardless of where I was when I locked it.

hi all, anyone try to conect to the blue tooth braille display after updated to 5.1? my friend said that it can not conect with Fucus blue 40.

I really don't like the new camera feature when the iPod/iPhone is locked! You know the take picture button! It totally beats the purpose of security.! To reproduce this issue! 1. Lock your iPhone/iPod! 2. unlock it! 3. After that slide to unlock or double tap! thing swipe to the right! 4. Double tap on the take picture button! 5. It brings up the camera app! 6. Hit the home key! and it will be on the home screen! I think this beats security purpose!

Another issue I was having was when I unlock my iPod it would bring up the Messages app! And it would put me on the fields to write a iMessage or a text message and it would do this several times! Huge bugs in my opinion!

I have found a solution which requires you to replace the dns settings on your wireless network with 8.8.8.8., 8.8.4 and renew the lease and then the ios 5.1 update will take place. When finished, the article says to forget wireless network and then locate to update to your original wireless network but it is working, see article here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3786800?start=0&tstart=0

Hi, I can use my iPhone with iOS 5.1 with Focus 40 Blue. Steps to connect the display: Pairing: 1. Reboot the iDevice (I'll explain why later) 2. Go to Settings/General/Accessibility/VoiceOver 3. Select Braille 4. If the iDevice finds your display, pair it with the device. The code is 0000 You have to reboot the iDevice before you can pair the display with the device, because without rebooting, the iDevice will not find your display. This is a bug, i Think. If you want to use the display, first, you have to lock the screen. Next, you can turn on the display and unlock the screen. If you use your phone (for example, read an e-mail message) and turn on the display, it will not be recognized even it is paired with the iDevice. This is a bug too, but perhaps the same as the above-mentioned. But if your display is turned on and you unlock the iDevice, the display will be recognized. You have to unlock the device and you can continue your work.

Also experienced the doc bug where the Phone Button is activated after unlocking phone although this only happened after unlocking the phone from when I had music playing. Seems to be fine at all other times.

Hi folks, I have been trying to check for updates on both my iphone 4 and ipad 1. I have received a notification that an error occurred when checking for the update. I am assuming I can check for and update the software via iclowd? Thanks.

hi all. well i will say that i think that the ios5.1 update is somewhat snappier. navigon certainly has no lag issues anymore which i'm very glad to read. which makes me wonder just how much of the previous issue was down to apple more so than navigon? touch wood, haven't yet had the phone issue pop up although i bet when i write this i'll get it lol. not sure what else to report at this moment. i haven't noticed any real new features with vo although if anybody has i'd like to read about them.

I got the chance to try out VoiceOver on a friend's iPhone 3GS, and we both agree that VoiceOver is definitely more responsive. Bravo Apple!

Hi all, I am happy to have finally registered here! Hope to eventually become an active contributor. For now, I have already found many of the shared tips and app recommendations extremely useful! The only app I have found utterly dissatisfying so far is the Aurify game which does not work at all on my iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1 that was purchased at the very beginning of March or perhaps the very end of February. :-D Still being a relative newbie to the world of iPhone and iOS, I can in deed confirm the following problems with the 5.1 update, some of which I think persist since version 5.01 that my phone was originally shipped with, and others seem to be newly introduced bugs. Some of those that have already been mentioned here don't seem to occur to me though. Before updating, I only had my phone for just a few days and was struggling with many other issues that I eventually found to be my own lack of knowledge and/or experience, so I can't remember issues that were actual bugs in the software and have been resolved in this update any more. Here goes: 1. Voiceover occasionally stops speaking for a minute or a few but still keeps playing its sounds. Eventually, speech is always resumed after some time. This has happened so rarely and irregularly to me that I couldn't discover a pattern in this behaviour yet, if there is any in deed. 2. I have attempted to connect a friend's 32-cell Bluetooth Baum Super Vario 2 to the phone a few times. It never found anything at all and always kept hanging in the Bluetooth settings dialog for an infinite amount of time (once I even let it wait for ten minutes or more), the latest piece of information displayed being that it was searching for available devices. Note: The others I keep experiencing regularly, probably every day and sometimes even several times a day: 3. The dock bug (after unlocking the phone, focus is immediately placed in the dial tap of the phone app). I suspect that this happens only if I attempt to touch something rather quickly after double-tapping the unlock button though. 4. Sometimes after I lock the screen, it gets immediately unlocked again. In these cases, focus is placed on the current time which is the first element of the unlock screen that appears once the home button is pressed. I suspect that this happens after I press the home button to get to the home screen from an open app and then press the lock/power button quickly, before the home screen can actually appear (or perhaps before Voiceover can start reading the first icon). 5. If I have an unread message and see the notification about it on the unlock screen, sometimes Voiceover reads both the "reply" button belonging to the unread message and the "unlock" button as "reply". Again, this seems rather irregular to me, although not so rare. 6. I have Voiceover set to read new notifications even while the phone is locked. If it reads a notification about a new incoming message this way, it always reads it once more about a minute since it finished reading it the first time, in exactly the same way. 7. This is not probably a real bug but I still find it pretty annoying: There seems to be some conflict between the general audio playback volume setting and the one that belongs to Voiceover, if there are in deed two separate volume settings at all. If I use an app that renders its own audio, make a phone call, turn off an alarm and so on, usually the volume gets messed up so that Voiceover or the other audio is either played incredibly quiet or way too loud. Is there anything I can do to sort this out somehow? 8. I would also love to have a brief startup alert of some kind. To me, this is a quite serious accessibility inconvenience. I love the Symbian phones because they always vibrate when you turn then on. 9. I have noticed that if my phone's battery gets completely depleted during usage so that it turns off on me, and I later connect it to the computer, it takes about 5 or 10 minutes or so before the phone actually starts up. I don't think that this is a bug, probably just a precaution to improve battery life and management or something like that, but do you know if this has been discussed before and if Apple has provided an official explanation for this behaviour? Or has it just always been there since the very first release of iOS and/or model of iPhone, is it something so common and well known that it has never been actually talked about? :-D Other than that, I find the system, device and the entire experience absolutely awesome, amazing, wonderful! :-D I would just like to ask one more question: What's the best way to officially report issues to Apple for investigation and to keep track of any possible progress and/or further discussion on them? Thanks in advance for any answers. Hope these relatively small but still unpleasant issues get addressed soon! :-) Happy idevicing, Lukas

Hi! I installed IOS 5.1 on my iPhone 4S the day after this update was released, and the installation went smoothly over the air: since this kind of update installation has existed since IOS 5 and I've only had my iPhone since October 2011, I have never done any IOS updates with iTunes. I am mostly satisfied with this new update, although, like many others, I experienced the "dock bug" mentioned above, where an app on the dock opens when you double-tap at the bottom of the screen to unlock the i-device, and in my case that was Safari until I moved that off the dock because I don't use it a lot: however, when I started sliding to unlock my iPhone instead of double-tapping, this "dock bug" didn't occur, and, even though VoiceOver focuses on the Phone app when I do this, it doesn't open it. I've never had any problems with speech cutting out since I've had IOS 5.1, nor any strange happenings with SMS text messages: also, even though sliding my finger across the screen to unlock my phone seems to land me on the Take Picture button before the phone unlocks, that has never yet led to me accidentally taking a photo.

As I posted in another forum, I am having the speech issue that many voiceover users are mentioning. I might be in safari or mail or a third party app like ap mobile and the issue occurs randomly but daily and multiple times throughout. speech is completely dead, but the clicks and gestures for voiceover are still working and it takes anywhere from 3-5 minutes for the speech to return. If I touch the screen during that no speech period, the no-speech seems to reset and I have to wait another 3-5 minutes. I've had 4 iphone 4s over the past 6 months and it has happened on all of them. Evn on my old iphone 4, it occurred as soon as I installed ios 5.0 and it has continued to ios 5.1. I seem to be able to reproduce it when voiceover is reading something like a paragraph on a webpage and I flick to the right before it has a chance to finish what it is saying. This seems to make it happen every single time.