My experience was that it would let me login to the iCloud homepage using my normal AppleID with a gmail address, but I couldn’t enable it in any other applications. Maybe iOS 5 will rectify this situation. Most bizarrely it told me to find the iCloud preferences in System Preferences on my Mac, which simply don’t exist for me. I assume Mac OS 10.7.2 will be released soon to fix this.
[via MacRumors]
Find My Friends is the vaguely invasive app that lets you see where your friends are located, assuming they’ve opened up their privacy settings wide enough to show it. Here’s the description:
Find My Friends allows you to easily location your friends and family from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Install this free app on your iOS 5 device and sign in with the Apple ID you use with iCloud. Adding a friend is easy – just send a request to see their location. Once your friend accepts using the Find My Friends app, you will then be able to see that friend’s location on a map. You can also choose to share your location for a limited period of time with a group of friends. Use Find My Friends to keep track of your traveling companions when you’re on a vacation. Or to see if the kids are home from school. Or to find the friends you’re meeting for dinner.
AirPort Utility unsurprisingly lets you setup, tweak and control your AirPort network from your iOS device, potentially saving you from breaking out your computer to reset the router or change the password or anything minor like that. Here’s the official description:
Use AirPort Utility to manage your Wi-Fi network and AirPort base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and TimeCapsule – right from your iPad, iPhone, ir iPod touch. See a graphical overview of your Wi-Fi network and devices. Change base station and network settings, or manage advanced features such as security modes, wireless channels, and more. AirPort Utility works with all Apple 802.11n Wi-Fi base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule.
With over 200 new features, Apple’s iOS 5 is a must-have update. If you haven’t already, please check out our preparing to upgrade to iOS 5 and our iOS 5 Guide. If you need help or want to share your iOS 5 experiences, please visit our iPhone forums.
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You’re out of town and your special someone is back home so you decide to secretly snap some racy pictures of yourself and sext them on over. Meanwhile they’re just finishing showing off the new iPad or Apple TV to mom and dad, the screen saver or slide show kicks in, and your private pics just start Photo Streaming by…
And they can’t be deleted. Not until they’re automatically removed from your iOS devices after 30 days or 1000 photos, so you’re logging out of everything for a month or taking 1000 pictures of the floor or something to flush the stream… because otherwise you’re stuck.
While iOS 5, iCloud, and Photo Stream are awesome if you want to take a picture of your family at a party or your little ones during the game or some flowers or clothes you like or want to remember, that same “automagically everywhere” Camera Roll sync can easily — easily — turn around and bite you in the apps.
So if you’re going to take photos — or save them from Safari, Messages, Mail, etc — that are NSFW, you should probably consider them not safe for Photo Stream either.
Jump into Settings > iCloud and turn off Photo Stream while you have your fun, then delete them from your Camera Roll, then — when you’re ready to go back to family pics and landscapes — turn Camera Roll back on.
And if you work in Hollywood, this goes quadrupal for you!
So you just updated to iOS 5 and you find you have a problem — you go to use Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot feature and… it’s gone?! Don’t fret. Stop cursing. It’s happened with previous upgrades too. Truth is, It’s not really gone, it’s just hiding, and here are a couple things you can do to coax it back.
Look for it where it lives.
Once it re-activates, you should find it back where it was before, on the first page of Settings.
If that doesn’t work, it’s time to escalate reset the Settings.
Wait for your iPhone to restart, and if you still don’t see it, repeat Solution 1.
That’s a lot but that’s it. You should have your Personal Hotspot back up and running. If you’ve experienced this bug and used these solutions, let us know how they worked for you. If you tried something else that worked, let us know about that too!
For extra help, jump into our iOS 5 Forums
AppleTV has also scored an update to version 4.4.
Also newly updated? Safari and the iOS versions of iWork now have iCloud syncing support.
What say we all go and hammer Apple’s servers even more, and make it take longer to download any and everything? Sounds like a plan to me!
