Eerder dit jaar tijdens de WWDC liet Apple weten dat iOS 5 maar liefst 200 nieuwe features met zich mee zal brengen. iOS 5 is vorig week woensdag officieel te downloaden via iTunes. Zo is iCloud geïntegreerd in bijna elk iOS-apparaat en we hebben iMessage. iMessage is een instant-messaging app vergelijkbaar met BBM/WhatsApp, maar dan exclusief voor iOS-apparaten!

De 200 nieuwe features zit u allemaal hieronder.

iMessage

• Free instant messages
• Facebook button
• Turn on or off in settings
• Read receipts
• Configure to use SMS when not connected to Internet
• Group messaging
• Ability to send photos and videos
• Blue message bubble indicates it’s an iMessage
• See if other person is typing a message

Reminders

• Location-based reminders
• Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange integration
• Support for iCal and Outlook

Newsstand

• Dedicated area for news publications
• Download more via the App Store
• Background downloading
• Changeable application icon

Calendar

• Add, rename or delete calendars
• View attachments from within the app
• Landscape mode gives weekly view
• Default alert times
• Year view (iPad only)
• Switch days by swiping
• Japanese calendar support
• Buddhist calendar support
• Page turning

Notification System

• Notification Center
• Displays missed notifications
• Touching a notification takes you to the app
• Clear notifications
• Widgets: Weather and Stocks
• Weather: Week view
• New notification system
• Toggle Notification Center
• Choose how many recent items
• View in lock screen
• Banner style notification
• Choose which notification for specific apps
• Toggle app icons on or off
• Custom vibrations
• LED flash alerts
• Sort notifications manually or by date
• Enable or disable badge alerts
• Slide specific notifications to go directly to its respective app
• Displays Calendar tasks

Keyboard

• Split keyboard
• Emoji keyboard
• Twitter keyboard, with @ and # buttons
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Hide keyboard icon

“PC free”

• Wireless activation
• Wi-Fi sync
• Automatic downloads
• Use a device while it syncs with iTunes
• Over-the-air software updates

iCloud

• Create a free @me email account
• Everything in-sync
• Photo Stream
• Find My iPhone
• Online backup
• iTunes in the cloud
• iTunes Match
• iCloud section of the Settings app
• Purchase History
• Buy more storage
• Documents/Data Sync

System

• Multitasking gestures
• AirPlay Mirroring
• Tone Store
• Tones for individual contacts
• Music app with new icon
• New Videos app
• Information on tracks
• Send song details over Bluetooth
• Delete individual tracks
• New icons for Hotmail, Google Mail and Microsoft Exchange
• Enhancements to the Mail app
• Enhancements to the Notes app
• Rounded toggle buttons
• New welcome screen
• Application data can be deleted
• Traffic in Maps can be hidden
• Game Center improvements
• New color for SMS bubbles
• Ability to rename a device in the Settings app
• Disable Voice Control
• Speak selection option
• Assistive touch settings
• Custom gestures
• Native 1080p playback on iPad 2
• Set left and right audio
• Edit number in Settings
• Personal Hotspot moved to Network section of Settings app
• Remove custom website data
• FaceTime section in Settings app
• Pick message alert length
• Separate settings for music and video
• Learn More Links
• Configure message alert length
• Choose default account for Notes
• Turn automatic downloads on or off
• Unsecured calls warning notification
• Multiple Apple IDs for different services
• Access applications from the Lock screen
• Make FaceTime calls without a SIM card
• Define your own words in the built-in dictionary
• App fades when crashing
• Snooze alarms from the Lock screen
• Sort friends using “points”
• VoiceOver item chooser
• Speak selected text
• Multiple downloads
• New voice in Voice Control
• New maximum for downloaded emails: 1,000
• Double-tapping the Home button in YouTube shows author
• Configure AirPort
• Support for Arabic
• Native support for turn-based games
• Updated Lock screen
• Create and delete photo albums
• Access camera from lock screen
• Crop, rotate, enhance, and remove red-eye in Photos app
• Camera Grid
• Lock Auto Exposure & Auto Focus
• Font and time-stamp layout changes in Messages app
• Cards app: Compose, Send, Print cards
• Find Friends & Family app
• Profile pictures for Game Center
• Friend recommendations for Game Center
• App Store in Game Center
• S/MIME Security
• Change device name via Settings app
• Improved FaceTime video quality
• FaceTime over 3G
• More equalizer presets
• New voices for Voice-Over
• Help center
• Application Updates in background
• Voice roaming can be turned on or off
• ‘Tell a Friend’ via AppStore
• Advanced assisted touch gestures
• Re-design for video time-line under Photos app
• AirPlay FaceTime calls
• Siri Voice AI (iPhone 4s exclusive)

Mail

• Rich text formatting
• Search through entire mail messages
• Quote level control in Mail settings
• S/MIME support
• Flag emails
• Mark multiple emails as read
• Maximum recent email messages limit to 1,000 instead of 200
• Swipe left or right from your  mailboxes folder list to navigate to other mail accounts

Safari

• Private Browsing
• Read Later
• Reader View
• Open link in background
• Tabbed browsing (iPad only)

Twitter Integration

• Single sign-on
• Tweet from Safari
• Tweet from Photos
• Multiple Twitter accounts
• Tweet picture from the camera roll
• Tweet website URL from Safari
• Tweet video from YouTube

Maps

• Alternative route
• Sponsored links
• Contacts
• Social network integration
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Flickr
• LinkedIn
• Myspace
• Weather