{"id":59715,"date":"2012-09-12T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=59715"},"modified":"2012-09-13T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T06:43:25","slug":"ios-6-launch-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/59715-ios-6-launch-date-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"iOS 6 launch date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iOS 6, the new version of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a>\u2019s <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/464665-iOS\">iOS<\/a> mobile operating system, will be launching on 19 September 2012, the company announced at an event in San Francisco today (12 September 2012).<\/p>\n<p>An update to iOS 6 will roll out for free to the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3, iPad 2 and fourth generation iPod touch.<\/p>\n<p>According to Apple, the update to its mobile operating system will include over 200 new features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography, turn-by-turn navigation and Flyover view;<\/li>\n<li>New Siri features, including support for more languages, access to sports scores, restaurant recommendations and movie listings;<\/li>\n<li>Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps like Photos, Safari and Maps;<\/li>\n<li>Shared Photo Streams via iCloud; and<\/li>\n<li>Passbook, an app that keeps all your passes in one place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another new feature announced today is a redesigned version of <a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384017-iTunes\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said that the new design will run across all stores: books, music, and video.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a new design for every App entry on iOS, with <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> likes integrated in every entry.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said that it will now be possible to preview songs while browsing, playing samples while looking around the store.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"iPhone 5 unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/59711-iphone-5-unveiled.html\"><strong>iPhone 5 unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iOS 6 revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/52369-ios-6-revealed.html\"><strong>iOS 6 revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New Apple Maps app drops Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/52359-new-apple-maps-app-drops-google.html\"><strong>New Apple Maps app drops Google<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced the launch date of iOS 6, the new version of its operating system for mobile devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":56809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,12467,161,35,12461,39,1125,2634,611,2916],"class_list":["post-59715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-facebook","tag-headline","tag-ios-6","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-siri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59755,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59715\/revisions\/59755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}