WWDC 2012: What you will get from iOS 6?

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2012 has started moments ago and one of the things Apple has announced that most people are looking forward to is iOS 6.

Here are just some of the things you can expect to receive on the next update:

Siri Enhancements

• You can ask Siri the score of a game (e.g. NBA, NFL) and she’ll be glad to give you an answer. I doubt Siri is going to cover PBA.
• Can provide player stats.
• Can provide restaurant info through OpenTable and Yelp.
• Movie info through Rotten Tomatoes
• Siri can launch apps.
• Car integration
• Will be available to the iPad

Facebook Integration

• Easier posting of statuses, photos, locations, Safari websites, etc, on Facebook. All accessible from the Notifications Center
• Events and birthdays will automatically show in the Calendar.

Enhanced Phone App

• Lets you reply to a missed call with a text message or just remind yourself to call back.

Do Not Disturb

• Stops the phone from bothering you with push notifications or text messages during a set time period. In other words, it prevents people from annoying you during your quiet times without putting your phone in Airplane mode.

FaceTime over Cellular Data

• You can now use FaceTime over cellular networks and not just WiFi.
Passbook
• A mobile digital wallet of your tickets, coupons, gift cards, etc.
All new Maps
• Local business search built into maps
• Yelp integration
• Anonymous, real-time traffic info from iOS users
• Turn by turn navigation
• Siri integration
• 3D mapping
• Doesn’t have anything similar to Google’s StreetView but has the Flyover (aerial view).

Will support iPhone 3GS and later, 2nd and 3rd Gen iPad (No support for the 1st Gen iPad) iOS 6 will be released in the later part of this year.

Diangson Louie
Diangson Louie
This article was written by Louie Diangson, Managing Editor of YugaTech. You can follow him at @John_Louie.
  1. No exciting new features for me. So even if the 3rd gen iPod touch is not supported, it is just fine.

  2. You forgot to mention Photo Stream sharing with comment features, sir. hehe. And, you can now “like” an app in app store.

    • Thanks for sharing this sir. :) Katulad ni sir Marcelino, puyat-puyat din ako dito kagabi. LOL

  3. Nagpaka-puyat ako last night for this.

    Medyo na-disappoint ako. Those features should’ve been added umpisa pa lang.

    iOS is getting boring. :|

    • Probably because Steve Jobs is no more…

      I may not be an apple fan nor an apple user (though I gave my son ipod touch but never tried to update it coz he might loose all his games there~jailbroken) but I think ios, IMO, lack luster nowadays.

      Those features are not new other platforms.

  4. The Passbook apps provides a room for NFC technology. I don’t think this is GPS-based. Kasi daw, when you arrive in a movie house, for example, the Passbook app will be launched automatically then instantly show your purchased tickets. Same goes with the coupons you’ll redeem from a certain deal. I really think the 6th gen iPhone will feature this NFC technology. From the word itself palang, Passbook, parang other word for “wallet”. Think of the possibilities: Sureseats, Groupon, Jollibee, BDO, Ticketnet/Ticketworld, etc.

    If some people predict that phones can replace ATMs and credit cards, we might also see our devices replace coupons, tickets, and even passports. hehehe.

    • Those features are already in japanese mobile phones for a long time.

    • Bakit lalayo pa kayo, eh those features eh meron na sa high end Android phones dito sa pinas.

      Eto nga meron ng tectiles na kahit ilan pwede mo ire-program sa pang araw2 na buhay mo..

      http://www.talkandroid.com/116430-samsung-introduces-tectiles-nfc-tags/

      Grabe naman kung mag-predict, bat hihintayin mo pa sa iOS eh ang dami ng ganyang technology na nangyayari bout NFC? Kase iPhone pa rin #1?

      If interested ka sa ganyan, bakit anjan ka? Napapaisip lang ako.. ganda mga pananaw mo eh.

  5. another feature was call back message, same with ICS. When you decline/reject a call you will be given option to send a message or create a reminder.

    more features here: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/

    • This was available to nokia phones long time ago. Same with the hdmi on macbook now. It was available on my cheap laptop years ago.

  6. most of the non-Siri and Facetime enhancements are already available to Android. *yawn* Wish they could’ve come up with something more spectacular than these.

    • no one’s forcing you to buy any apple products, if you think that android’s better *yawn* then stay with android.

    • No one is forcing you naman din to switch ah..
      Were just stating the facts..

      That iOS has introduced *yawn* complete RIP-OFFS from Android again.. And oh, half baked pa..

      1. Turn-by-turn, checked, but gmaps has offline maps pa.. Boom!

      2. FB (and TW) integration, but “share” button of Android will give you a LIST of ALL the apps that can handle your request.. ALL ang not just those 2.

      3. Dami pa, 200 new RIPPED-OFF features from android yun eh..

      Prove me wrong, just stating some facts.

  7. But i got to say iOS has now caught up with some of the best features of Android – maps with navigation, fb integration, video calling on cellular all baked in. I’m now considering getting an iphone.

    • Caught up? haha! all half a** baked features copied.. fb integration? eh sa android, integrated to any apps that can handle your request.. ANY APP, not twitter and fb lang..

      tapos sandamakmak nanaman bago sa android, next year nanaman ibibigay ng iphone? geez..

    • Papapau: Kaya nga sabi ko “caught up on some” lang eh. I know Android had the FB Integration for a while now (which I’m using) so it is nice to know this is now also available in iOS. Ok?

    • “FB Integration for a while now”

      – Linawin lang natin.. not for a while, but “since DAY ONE.”

      “Kaya nga sabi ko “caught up on some” lang eh”

      – Hindi pa rin caught up, kundi still catching up. hindi naman inabutan eh.

      At hindi yun ang BEST features.. normal features lang yang kino-caught up nila.

  8. i have a ip42 with iOs 5.1, having terrible battery and over heating issues with it. Sana ginawan nila ng improvement dito sa iOS6 mga issues na ito.

    • Don’t worry. iOS6 will surely include bug fixes. Siyempre Apple wouldn’t publicize this early ang mga ganitong issues. Iba ang bugs or issues compared to new features.

  9. the feature of “SIRI coming to the ipad” turned me down after this, siri will only be available to Iphone 4s and ‘new’ ipad.. bummer! aren’t the older gens of the ipad and iphone (+ ipods) not capable? theyre putting so much into the newly released products so that more people would switch to it, i hope app developers can create another siri, available for all.. or go jailbreak? hmmm.. but then the Maps surely will challenge google maps.

  10. tumpak sir. pasalamat nalang tayo at may free software upgrades. may updates nga lang talaga na hardware-dependent. Mas magalit tayo sa Apple kung available lang lahat ng OS upgrades sa new models ng devices nila. Ayaw ng Apple na hayaan maiwan ang previous customers nila. Pero at the same they’ll leave a room for dissatisfaction. Where this will be fulfilled only when they upgrade to new models. That’s business. :)

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