iOS 5 , the next looping of Apple ’s engage system for the iPhone , iPad , and iPod touching , will be released on October 12 . The company harbinger the ship date during a press event Tuesday at its Cupertino headquarters .
Apple first unveiled iOS 5at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2011 , so attentive fan locomote into Tuesday ’s eventalready knowing plenty about the update .
Scott Forstall , Apple ’s senior vice President of the United States for iOS software system , reminded the press assembled at the fellowship ’s lease ’s Talk iPhone event about iOS 5 ’s stylemark feature , which admit : a revamp notifications arrangement ; iMessage , Apple ’s service for send free schoolbook , photo , and video messages between iOS devices ; a build - in , location - awareReminders app ; system of rules - full Twitter desegregation ; Newsstand , for coordinate iOS magazine subscriptions ; a change of updates to the Camera app ; and the “ microcomputer - Free ” power to setup and sync iOS devices without needing to link up them to your Mac . Forstall also reference the already - announced significant update to Safari and Mail .
Forstall say that iOS is the number one peregrine operating system , with 61 percent of the market place . He point that more than 100,000 developer are already using the iOS 5 developer Beta . Echoing Apple CEO Tim Cook , Forstall herald that Apple has sell more than 250 million iOS devices . The App Store now offers more than 500,000 apps , he pronounce , including 140,000 apps optimized for the iPad . Apple has compensate out more than $ 3 billion to developers from App Store gross sales .
If you ’re hungry for young sixth sense into iOS 5 , though , Forstall may have get out you disappointed ; there was little in his presentation that was n’t discussed back in June — save for the October 12 release date . Still , we ’ll have more details on Apple ’s iOS- and iPhone - related tidings as they become available throughout the Clarence Day .
Updated 12:55 p.m. PT for clearness and to correct the number of iOS devices sold .
