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to the celebration or dismay of many Apple has finally released iOS 6 at WWDC to developers a lot of the changes were good but most of them were kind of overdue I'm high memory letter with pocketnow.com and let's go through iOS 6 beta 1 and all of the minor changes after the update the biggest disappointment I know many of us have is seeing the same grid of icons as always Apple seems dangerously reluctant to change the style of their homescreen and I guess we'll just have to wait another year if you want to see a change in that the UI has changed then some minor extent though some integrated applications have changing their UI dramatically like for example the App Store the Music Store and others and there are some minor UI elements that have changed in mail for example and settings to make the experience more fluid the music application has changed dramatically it's completely different to what you knew before and yeah even the dollar has changed to some extent though I wouldn't even consider that a feature there's this interesting use of blue at the top status bar within built-in applications like settings and while we're talking about settings you now finally get a Bluetooth button at the top and there's a new privacy setting for you to check which applications you're doing within your stuff breezing through the major changes you'll see that Facebook integration is now supported just like Twitter was in iOS 5 but both services are now deeper with an eos than before for example you can now view calendar information birthdays or even your facebook contacts within the built-in iOS applications you can now tweet and update your facebook status from Notification Center and yes you can also do that through Cydia speaking of Siri it's now supported by the new iPad which is a big reason to say finally it now allows you to launch applications and also provide services like scores schedules are even player information and different sports aside from also bringing you details at even trailers and movies it also now supports additional languages like Spanish Italian Korean and Chinese sadly it's still a work in progress since additional language supports sense all your questions to the browser instead of providing from WolframAlpha like you see in English for example when getting a call sliding up now allows you to decline the call reply with a message or even get reminded of returning that call later which is also a welcome feature every one of these enhancements now works through FaceTime as well and speaking of FaceTime it now finally allows you to make video calls through your data connection which is something long overdue it also allows you to add your phone number to your FaceTime calls on your Mac and iPad but sadly the phone number integration doesn't seem to work it on beta 1 but it's gonna be a cool feature in the future to have your phone number work on every one of your iOS devices Notification Center now has a Do Not Disturb feature which is very welcome but sadly only have done see do not disturb is beyond good in cases like blocking incoming calls from everyone or people that aren't in your favorites lists are on a specific group you can also schedule when you don't want to be disturbed which is also quite welcomed the problem with the service are at least for beta 1 is that it only works when your phone is on standby and I don't know about you but in my case when I'm watching a movie or reading a book on my iPad I don't want to be disturbed when activated look out for a small moon icon beside the clock in the status bar Safari now includes a really cool feature called iCloud tabs it allows you to view what tabs are currently open on your other iOS devices or Macs sort of like chrome sharing in some way aside from that you can also get offline reading lists for articles that you want to save for later and you probably want to read whatever you don't have a data connection very useful for the non 3G or 4G iPad a very long overdue feature is your ability to now upload photos to websites directly from Safari and yeah you finally get full screen support at least on landscape and Safari which is also long overdue the iCloud photo stream also got enhanced you can now share certain folders with friends and even interact with comments though sadly this feature doesn't seem to work at least completely on beta 1 mail also gets enhanced you can now add filters for VIPs so you can focus on their messaging only you can also get filters for flagged messages these filters can even be rearranged at your convenience is also this really neat feature that allows you to add photos into messages without having to look for the photo within the separate application first mail now refreshes with a pool though the animation does seem kind of weird separate signatures for email account is also a welcome feature and now it even supports HTML for that Apple is also implementing something called passbook which has the idea of collecting all your boarding passes tickets store cards and coupons though sadly this is not working in beta one for us to review Maps is probably the biggest improvement and most overdue change it ditched the Google map says the backend that is now using its own software partner with TomTom and others it provides turn-by-turn navigation even if you're on the lockscreen and it's even integrated with Siri 3d maps are awesome especially with its flyover feature sadly though 3d maps or even normal maps aren't really ready for international locations at the moment they'll most likely be ready for the iOS 6 launch in the fall overall iOS 6 bring some welcome changes I know many of you will be happy with but Apple is definitely not planning to make any groundbreaking changes here some of these features like turn-by-turn navigation and maps or sadly catch ups the competition and don't really dramatically improve what others do already other features like passbook and photo stream sharing are quite unique and great improvements but these are sadly not selling points for the UI the company seems reluctant to change their five year old user interface and while that's good to some people it's definitely boring for others like you and me if you have access to the beta I sadly can recommend that you get it now there are just too many bugs that make the experience intolerable and if I were you I'd wait for beta to that's it for our preview of iOS 6 make sure you subscribe to our channel for more videos or future beta enhancements of iOS 6 and don't forget to give us a thumbs up if you like what you saw that's it for now