iOS 5 Beta 3 landed last night, and now we’re starting to hear all the crazy new features that have been unveiled with the new beta. By far the most exciting is that custom alerts have finally been enabled! All the betas have had a menu setting to “Buy More Tones”, but it has never been active — and now the menu also shows ringtones that you’ve made or bought already. So you can finally specify the sound to make when you get a text, set an alarm, receive an email and everything else. Yay for finally catching up to 10 year old technology!
The other major new feature is ”Assistive Touch” — an alternative to hardware and gesture controls. While present in previous betas, it’s only now active. You tap a hot corner on your iPad, and then can select a number of controls that would otherwise require twisting, flicking, swiping, or pinching. It’ll be doubtless very useful for people with limited motor abilities.
By far the most bizarre thing I’ve seen pop up — and it might be a bug — is a report that you can now drag icons anywhere, and aren’t limited to a grid. Yeah, I think it’s a bug.
What else? Location services have been overhauled, there are some new icons, and various bug fixes. CultOfMac has a pretty good rundown.
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