After a long wait and many rounds of developer releases Apple have finally released iOS 7.1 to the public.
Here is the information about the update from Apple.
This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:
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 car’s 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 favorite 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 to enjoy iTunes Radio ad-free
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 colors, 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
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Although it’s not mentioned on here there’s also hope that this will fix the long standing airplay issues. At present I’m still to test this but once I have I’ll update.
Update
Reports are coming in that this issue has now been fixed and AirServer have confirmed this on there support article about the issue here.
A word of warning although the update is only 200Mb in size to download the device actually needs 1.9Gb of space to install. So once again if you are only using a 16Gb device you will most likely need to tidy up your photos and video or remove some of those unused apps. If you do remove apps remember the data goes with it unless it’s backed up to iCloud. Once you have installed the update you can re download the apps if you wish.
Along with the iOS update Apple also released an update to Apple TV taking it to version 6.1. This brings features like hiding items from the main menu, remote app, security options to verify devices and airplay over Bluetooth support. More information can be found here.
Finally if you are managing multiple devices Apple have released an update to Apple Configurator taking the version to 1.5. This adds support to enrol unsupervised and supervised devices in an MDM via URL.
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