IOS5 New Features

If you managed to get through the traffic and successfully upgraded to IOS5 you are now wanting to use those fancy new features but it is not obvious how to activate them without a few tips.

Notifications have been organized so you can access them just by dragging down from the top of the screen. Push the handle icon back up to hide them again.

To use the quick camera feature you need to know that you tap the home button twice when the ios device is sleeping to display the camera icon that takes you directly to the camera app. You can then use the volume up button to snap the picture.

iMessage, which is a free Apple to Apple device replacement for SMS text messaging offered by the telcos, has lots of promise to communicate with fellow iOS device users but how do you activate it on an iPad which doesn’t have the regular text messaging app? Instead of launching a messaging app you activate iMessage through your address book which has a messaging button for each contact. You need to select either the phone number or email that the person used to register their apple-id. For iMessage to work the person must have an idevice (iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad ) and have upgraded to IOS5.