Apple has finally released the new update ‘iOS 9.1’ for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch today. Finally we get to get the middle finger emoji with a few other emoji characters. The update also comes with new wallpapers and developer support for Live Photos as well as improvements to the capture experience.
A few bug’s been fixed too and the Messages app can now be toggled to turn on or off contact photos on, this is only available to the iPhone 6 and later. Go to Settings > Messages > Show Contact Photos to change this setting, which is on by default.Apple’s News app is also available for use in the UK, Spain, and other countries around the world.
The update is available through the Software Update of the Settings app. Below is a complete list of the new features, improvements and bug fixes;
- Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos will automatically not record these movements.
- Over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis.
- Improved stability including CarPlay, Music, Photos, Safari, and Search.
- Improved performance while in Multitasking UI.
- Fixes an issue that could cause Calendar to become unresponsive in Month view.
- Fixes an issue that prevented Game Center from launching for some users.
- Resolves an issue that zoomed the content of some apps.
- Resolves an issue that could cause an incorrect unread mail count for POP mail accounts.
- Fixes an issue that prevented users from removing recent contacts from new mail or messages.
- Fixes an issue that caused some messages to not appear in Mail search results.
- Resolves an issue that left a gray bar in the body of an Audio Message.
- Fixes an issue that caused activation errors on some carriers.
- Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from updating from the App Store.
