CNET - Apple surprised users this week by delivering its battery-life-fixing update to iOS 5 sooner than expected. But complaints about the problem continued.
The update arrived a little more than a week after Apple first acknowledged that some users were, in fact, running into problems with battery life after upgrading to the newer version of iOS. Apple then promised to deliver a software update to fix the issue, which the company said would be here “in a few weeks.”
Instead, the update came just eight days later, on both iTunes and as the first over-the-air update on devices–a feature that was added as part of iOS 5.
But the update doesn’t seem to be a fix-all for the problem. Yesterday, numerous users complained that the issue still existed, and some even said it was worse. Apple responded by saying the fix had addressed most aspects of the problem but that the company was continuing to investigate “a few remaining issues.”
Besides attempting to tackle the battery-life situation, iOS 5.0.1 brings multitasking gestures to owners of the original iPad, fixes a security issue for iPad 2 users with a Smart Cover, and brings an improved iPhone 4S dictation feature to Australian users.
Read on for a rundown of everything else that happened this week in Apple land.
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