The full 100+ new features in iPhone 3.0 software should get you drooling in time for the official release on the 16th June…
1. Cut/Paste
2. Copy/Paste
3. Shake to undo/redo typing
4. Text selection for easy mass deletion
5. MMS
6. Landscape keyboard in Notes
7. Landscape keyboard in Mail
8. Landscape keyboard in Messages
9. Forward texts or picture messages
10. Delete individual texts or picture messages
11. Sending progress bar in Messages app moved to title instead of over the keyboard area (allows typing new message while the first one is sending)
11. Sending progress bar in Messages app moved to title instead of over the keyboard area (allows typing new message while the first one is sending)
12. USB tethering
13. Bluetooth tethering
14. Stereo bluetooth (A2DP)
15. Spotlight search (searches all app titles, mail, media, contact details, and calendar appointments)
16. Search in Notes
17. Search in Mail
18. Search in iPod
19. In-App purchases
20. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Spotlight Search
21. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Camera
22. Preview icon in lower left hand corner for last shot taken in Camera app
23. Shake to shuffle in iPod
24. Scrolling of screenshots in App Store
25. Type of phone used under each call in Recents (i.e., mobile, home, work, etc.)
26. Call history log (including call duration)
27. Option to Share Contact in each contact listing
28. Hold link in Safari to Copy
29. Hold link in Safari to Open in New Page
30. Auto Fill contact information, usernames and passwords in Safari
31. Login to your YouTube account
32. See Comments in YouTube
33. Subscribe in YouTube
34. Rate in YouTube
35. Shake to undo what you have typed
36. Option to retry sending failed text messages, indicated by red exclamation point next to text
37. Turn-by-turn GPS capabilities
38. Maps can be run inside other applications
39. Access to dock port for accessories to communicate
40. Peer-to-peer connectivity using Bluetooth (no Wi-Fi required)
41. New Voice memo application
42. Extended Parental controls
43. Anti-phishing
44. Wi-Fi auto login
45. Note syncing in iTunes
46. Improved Stocks app
47. New calendar types (CalDAV)
48. Prompt to confirm deleting a note
49. Prompt to confirm deleting a photo
50. Option to select multiple photos to attach to an email
51. “Find My iPhone” option for MobileMe users
52. Unlimited size podcast downloads over 3G
53. Pushing home button on first home screen takes user to Spotlight
54. Pushing home button on Spotlight takes user to first home screen
55. Variable speed playback for audio books
56. App Store subscriptions
57. Push notifications
58. Audio/Video tags
59. New video streaming capabilities (HTML 5 video, h.264 and HTTP)
60. Calendar subscriptions
61. iTunes login
62. iTunes account creation
63. Encypted profiles
64. LDAP (directory services)
65. VPN on-demand
66. EAP SIM
67. Proxy support
68. OTA profiles
69. Revoke certificates
70. Exchange ActiveSync Policies
71. Media scrubber
72. More languages
73. Improved keyboards
74. Failed app updates now are shown in a duplicate icon and labeled “Paused”
75. When selecting multiple emails to forward/delete, any unread emails’ blue dot are shown next to the red selector dot instead of being overridden by the red selector dot
76. Non-contact phone calls list their city and state of origin in Recents and Visual Voicemail under the number.
77. Ability to change ringtones straight from Favorites
78. Lap time display now displayed smaller and above time in Stopwatch
79. Polished Phone, Messages, and iPod icons
80. Swipe to delete notes in the Notes app
81. Advanced Bluetooth options for Handsfree devices
82. Option to close a single web page in Safari page view, which immediately opens a new blank page
83. Improved predictive dictionary
84. Blue dot now displayed in center of location circle in Maps (V1 only)
85. Listening to music while charging the battery now displays the album art instead of the battery
86. Smaller font for song title on lock screen
87. Option in Phone Settings to choose your phone number
88. Option to disable text message reminder alerts
89. Option to disable text message previews
90. Option to show subject field in text messages
91. Ability to integrate iPod music into apps
92. Clickable email links in App Store app descriptions
93. JavaScript 3x speed boost
94. 11 homescreens now allowed
95. Reboots to “slide to unlock” screen instead of homescreen
96. In Settings>General>Home>Search Results, users can choose what is searched on the phone and in what order.
97. Application count added in Settings>General>About
98. Option “Load Remote Images” added in Mail settings
99. Global address book option available if Exchange account is set up
100. Speed control in audiobooks
101. 30 second repeat option for audiobooks
102. Improved scrubbing speeds when holding white dot in song progress bar in iPod
103. When sending a text, your text box where you typed smoothly fades from white to green instead of instantly changing from white to green.
104. When moving an app across homescreens, holding the app on either the left or right side will slowly advance the app one through one homescreen at a time, without leaving empty spots in the bottom right corner or each homescreen it advances through.
105. Album name displayed on lockscreen iPod controls
106. Shake to shuffle on lockscreen iPod controls
107. Podcasts saved on iPhone now show Run Time, Time Left and Date Published
108. Screen goes from dimmed to full brightness after each song when playing the iPod while plugged in
109. WAVE file support in Mail
110. Attachment no longer automatically downloaded until user taps the attachment in Mail
111. When using a bluetooth headset with iPod, volume bar is removed and bluetooth headset name is displayed in its place.
112. A hard reset on your phone (holding sleep and home for 10 seconds) now turns it off instead of restarting it.
113. A space is no longer needed between two words for predictive texting to function.
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June 12th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Excellent list, anything about the Mail app
Can you now create html emails?
Different signatures for each email account?
Universal Inbox for all email accounts?
June 16th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Excellent. can’t find a list like this anywhere else. Any idea what time the upgrade will be available on 6/17?
June 16th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Does anyone know how to download this for the phone?
June 17th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Jemz. to get the update, plug your iphone into your computer via USB wire, open iTunes, under Devices, click on your iPhone once it connects, make sure it is under the Summery tab, and click “check for update”. It should be simple to work your way through after that.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:25 am
great have not saw a list like this any where, really helpfull, but when i conect my phone and click check for updates it says its up to date? :S any help?
June 19th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Nice list, thanks!
Just one thing: #35 “Shake to undo what you have typed” seems to be a duplicate of #3 “Shake to undo/redo typing”…
June 19th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Here’s a feature that was inexplicably removed: you can no longer shuffle podcasts.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
What about the fact that you no longer have the ability to start a slideshow of photos from any photo other than the first
June 20th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I’ve downloaded the new iphone 3.0 software for my 2nd generation iphone 3G, however, I do not see an option for MMS (can’t fwd txt, can’t snd pics via txt). All previous indiations were this update would not work for 1st generation iphone, but it should work for the 2nd generation iphone. Does anyone know how to make this work?
June 20th, 2009 at 1:42 am
…and oh yes, thanks for this handy list…i’ve just fwd to several ppl. there were several items here that were not listed on other blogs.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:00 am
hi sarah…..
make sure boys and girls that you have the latest itunes update…its 8.2 …without this will not be given the option to upgrade phone to 3.0
hope this helps yall
June 21st, 2009 at 2:20 am
Also-
Phone number entered in Notes can be clicked and dialed
Address entered in Notes opens in maps when clicked
June 21st, 2009 at 2:47 am
Andre, MMS will not be released on AT&T until later this year. I believe there is some hack you can do to enable it, but as I only have an iPod touch 2gen, I’m not concerned.
Good Luck!
June 21st, 2009 at 2:54 am
@Andre – If you’re in the US, AT&T isn’t “ready” for the MMS feature so it’ll be available later in the year. If you’re in the UK (O2), you need to activate MMS support (text “MMS” to 1010, can take up to 24 hours to activate). Activation might be a requirement in other countries or on other networks, best check your networks website or contact customer services for the lowdown.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:15 am
Three clicks on the headset goes back a track when playing music on the iPod (On my Skullcandy Headphones but should work on offical iPhone headphones)
June 21st, 2009 at 3:59 am
The 3GS earphones are like the new shuffle earphones (vol + and + controls). A long clic on center button brings up Voice control !
June 21st, 2009 at 4:07 am
Two other features:
-Exchange support – can sync both Exchange and local contacts
-Exchange support – can sync both Exchange and local calendars
June 21st, 2009 at 4:33 am
Turning on Contacts Sync with MobileMe now gives the option to merge contacts instead of just replacing them all.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:41 am
You can also enter streat view in maps for current location. Before you needed to drop a red pin for the option. Looks like they tidied up a lot of tiny details that make the overall experience much better.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:48 am
I have another to add to the list:
- The volume meter no longer shows up while playing music when plugged into a line-out component through the dock connector (i.e. into a speaker dock, or with the Apple Component AV cable)
June 21st, 2009 at 4:59 am
Good list. Thanks!
You have a couple of duplicates and at least one (#112) that was a feature of 2.2.1.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:24 am
Majority of these “new” features for the IPhone are STANDARD with any Blackberry!
June 21st, 2009 at 6:31 am
Thanks for the list. #52 doesn’t work for me though over 3G. I still get the popup on podcasts over 10 mb saying I need to be on wifi or connected to a computer to download.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:28 am
Wow with all these great feature I hope the battery last for more then 1 hour.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:39 am
Andre, AT&T will has not supported MMS yet. I heard as soon as AT&T supports it there will another minor update to enable the functionality.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:44 am
112. A hard reset on your phone (holding sleep and home for 10 seconds) now turns it off instead of restarting it.
How is this a feature. You guys turn one feature into many, ex: unviersal search into mail search, notes search, etc.
June 21st, 2009 at 8:06 am
This list says you can download any size podcast regardless of there size over 3g. This is not correct. Podcasts sill have the 10mb cap for 3g download.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
How about how when you dock your iPod (or I assume iPhone) into a radio/set of speakers. The volume bar disappears. That makes sense really, as it did nothing in that situation before…
June 21st, 2009 at 9:19 am
And if you bring up the double-tap controls, the volume slider is replaced by “Dock Connector”
June 21st, 2009 at 9:21 am
And it no longer opens the Music app when you just plug it into a radio, it just starts playing (which is MUCH better!)
June 21st, 2009 at 9:24 am
I still miss the character counter in SMS.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
You can now add a new contact from within a phone call by pressing “Contacts” in the options pane and using the new “+” button.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hi Andre….
AT&T is not ready for MMS just yet on the iPhone, so while the phone will do it in other countries, it does not work here (I am assuming you’re in the US)
June 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
you can now invite attendees to new calendar events on exchange.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Too bad that you can only embed 6 photos to an email.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Summary: Excellent support for right-to-left languages (specifically Arabic)
The fonts and font rendering is updated. Arabic words (and words written in similar languages that use Arabic scripture) are now displayed correctly (connected) instead of being shown as a series of uppercase characters (not connected). Upon choosing a right-to-left language (e.g. Arabic) on the keyboard, the environment changes to allow user to type from right to left (e.g. in email, notes, …)
June 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I just noticed today that you can press/hold on a photo (in photos) and an option to ‘copy’ appears. ^.^
June 21st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
The cursor is now blue instead of black
June 21st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Home screen now completely translucent whereas before the areas around the top bar and slide to unlock features were black.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Add this to your list:
When docked with the ipod app running, the volume bar disappears from the bottom, leaving room for less error when trying to hit play or skip/previous
June 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
[ tony said:
Jun 21st @ 06:24 am
Majority of these “new” features for the IPhone are STANDARD with any Blackberry! ]
I guess Tony loves spending his time navigating through the endless unintuitive lists of features on the Blackberry…truly ridiculous.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Another nice one:
When restoring from backup, apps are restored in the same order that they were previously. (In 2.0, apps would be restored in alphabetical order after syncing them back over.)
June 21st, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Also, it displays the operator in the language. China mobile is now written in Chinese
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 am
One “new feature” (in fact I’d see it as bugfix) is that iCal now also syncs calendar colors – the calendars on the iPhone are now in the same color as in iCal.
One bug I found in Spotlight in OS 3.0 is that it still finds *deleted* eMails. If you delete an email and purge it from the trash, spotlight is still able to find it and can display it in Mail.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:54 am
I don’t know why every little change done is called a “feature”. Why are things that are supposed to be in there or just logical changes called features?
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Don’t know if n e 1 noticed this but I did – used to when u were in notes and u accadentaly brought up the keyboard it would think u had updated the note and it would change the date and reorder it to the top of notes ! NOW u have to actually type something like a space or letter for it to update the note !
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 am
113 things and not one mention of the built in Nike + Ability? No more little dongle to attach. also, i would think that since the phone can do that, there will be other things that can do that to.
secondly, i’ve noticed that the switch to turn my ringer or off is snappier to, and maybe just maybe moves the tiniest bit further. i can actually be sure now when it’s been toggled.
thanks for the list.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
You can no longer turn your phone upside down and have the photos turn with it. I used to turn my phone upside down then put it in my mesh organizer on my desk and plug in the charger then set my photos to play. now your photos will only turn landscape which sucks now. i suspect the cord will soon be destroyed by getting bent when i set it in the organizer right side up a hundred time.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
You can also sync 25 calendars with Google Calendar/iPhone built in calendar (using the exchange method) instead of 5.
July 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Is there any way to group contacts?
July 19th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
yup… try the app called Groups… its awesome, and syncs perfectly with a Mac if you have one…
July 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Groups works really well… definately recommend it.