πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 Beta 5 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A274d was released 6 May, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch. (1st gen.)

iPhone OS 2.0 beta 5 doesn't do a whole lot else besides throwing in small tweaks to the UI, tweaks to the developers tools and some bug fixes. No big feature addition like last time, but you gotta update if you're making iPhone apps. You just gotta! There probably won't be very many more of these before the next iPhone's out.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 Beta 6 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A308 was released 29 May, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch. (1st gen.)

πŸ—£Those people familiar with the software say both scrolling and transitions have seen vast improvements over the previous builds.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 beta 7 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A331 was released 9 Jun, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

πŸ—£Most notably, all references to .Mac setup have been re-branded for the upcoming MobileMe replacement service. The build also repaired a nagging issue where an IPSec VPN account with pre-shared key authenication would fail to establish a connection.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 GM (Big Bear)
Build - 5A345 was released 26 Jun, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

πŸ—£Gold master, release coming soon...

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 (Big Bear) πŸ“Ί
Build - 5A347 was released 11 Jul, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

This update:
β€’ $9.95 - upgrade for iPod Touch (1st generation).
β€’ Added language support:
β€’ Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese language interface in iPhone, formerly these languages were only in the iPod Touch since 1.1.1
β€’ Extra keyboard languages including Chinese and Korean and Russian
β€’ Support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese handwriting recognition.
β€’ Mail, contacts, calendars
β€’ Grouped settings.
β€’ Mail
β€’ Push e-mail
β€’ Ability to select an outgoing email account within Mail application
β€’ Support for BCC in Mail application
β€’ Multiple email delete/move
β€’ Ability to view MS Office attachments
β€’ Ability to view iWork attachments, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
β€’ Contacts
β€’ Contacts icon on "Home" screen (iPhone only, it was formerly on the iPod Touch)
β€’ Ability to search contacts
β€’ Global Address List
β€’ Push contacts
β€’ Ability to import SIM contacts.
β€’ Calendar
β€’ Multiple calendars supported in Calendar with colour-coding (desktop colours only preserved if using Mobile Me)
β€’ New "Calendar" menu in "Settings"
β€’ Push calendar.
β€’ Enterprise enhancements
β€’ Enforced security policies
β€’ Device configuration
β€’ Remote wipe.
β€’ iPod
β€’ Video can be shown in either landscape orientation (instead of just landscape left)
β€’ Videos in playlists & music videos can be shown in portrait or landscape orientation
β€’ Sound fade-out when exiting a video.
β€’ Other
β€’ App Store (to manage third-party applications) with home screen icon- Store for apps
β€’ Certificates and Identities
β€’ WPA2/802.1X
β€’ Ability to turn Wi-Fi back on while in Airplane mode
β€’ Cisco IPsec VPN support
β€’ Ability to take screen captures
β€’ Ability to save pics from Safari or Mail to Photos
β€’ Bonjour service discovery protocol
β€’ Support for SVG
β€’ Addition of Parental controls
β€’ Password letters are momentarily visible while typing
β€’ Ability to turn Location Services on or off
β€’ Applications that use Location Services now prompt user for confirmation 3 times
β€’ Tapping status bar to scroll to top shortcut
β€’ Updated calculator with extra features in portrait mode, a scientific calculator in landscape mode and an updated icon
β€’ Updated iTunes with a new icon and reordered category icons within iTunes application
β€’ Camera now supports Geotagging
β€’ YouTube plugin for Safari.

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πŸ—£Days between beta 3 and 4. This week without a beta???
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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.0.1
Build - 5B108 was released 4 Aug, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Resolved Issues:
β€’ Performance and stability of Contacts and Calendar applications dramatically improved
β€’ Performance while flipping to landscape mode in Safari improved
β€’ Performance in Mail app improved
β€’ Release improves application crash rates
β€’ Keyboard responsiveness improved.

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πŸ“‹Menu navigation: iOS Version history

β€’ iOS 16
β€’ iOS 15
β€’ iOS 14
β€’ iOS 13
β€’ iOS 12
β€’ iOS 11
β€’ iOS 10
β€’ iOS 9
β€’ iOS 8
β€’ iOS 7
β€’ iOS 6
β€’ iOS 5
β€’ iOS 4
β€’ iPhone OS 3
β€’ iPhone OS 2
β€’ iPhone OS.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.0.2
Build - 5C1 was released 18 Aug, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Resolved Issues:
β€’ Improved communication with 3G networks
β€’ Transition from music list to Cover Flow has changed
β€’ Tilt to left from landscape no longer switch to portrait when watching video, fixes 2.0 bug
β€’ The "Update All" button in the App Store's update tab has been removed.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.1/2.1.1 πŸ“Ί πŸ“„
Build - 5F136 was released 9 Sep, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Free for iPod Touch users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0.

New Features & Changes:
β€’ Genius playlist creation
β€’ More information provided within iPod Music lists (artist and album are now shown below song title when selecting music in addition to remaining time on podcasts)
β€’ More information is provided for audiobooks, such as displaying time left in active audiobook
β€’ New podcasts and videos had "filled" blue bubbles next to them to indicate that they were new, now if you have "half-played" a podcast or video, it will include a half filled blue bubble
β€’ Sound from iPod now fades out if you start syncing device with iTunes
β€’ Bookmarked home screen apps open in full screen.

Companion changes in/with iTunes 8 for this release:
β€’ Displays capacity and used space of information on iPhone
β€’ Dramatically reduced time to back up to iTunes
β€’ Does not remove all media after restore
β€’ Faster firmware installation and data sync
β€’ Application updates downloaded from iTunes have new finder naming convention.

OS enhancements:
β€’ Triple-click on the control button of headphones now jumps music to prior track played
β€’ SMS app can alert up to two additional times if you don't acknowledge an incoming text message (will play the alert sound/vibrate again after a period of time as if a new message just came in)
β€’ Update supporting languages
β€’ Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts (after 5 attempts, the device will disable itself for 1 minute. After the 6th attempt, it will disable itself for 5 minutes. In the 10th attempt, it will wipe all data)
3G, EDGE, and GPRS indicators changed
β€’ The camera can now be turned off within the restrictions page
β€’ When taking a screenshot of your phone, there is now the camera shutter noise
β€’ iPhone never gets locked when placed in dock and playing music.

Bug fixes, performance enhancements:
β€’ Security fix to prevent from bypassing the double home button exploit
β€’ Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
β€’ Faster installation and updating of 3rd party applications
β€’ Updating applications keeps their icons in place on the home screen
β€’ Improvements to Mail stability
β€’ Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
β€’ Faster loading and searching of contacts
β€’ Auto-correct now appears above the text instead of below (fixing a usability problem people were having where auto-correct would appear above the first row of keys)
β€’ Smoother browsing in Safari, particularly when scrolling up/down on a web page
β€’ Significantly better battery life for most users
β€’ Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
β€’ Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
β€’ Calculator bug fixed affecting calculations involving Pi.

iPod Touch (2nd generation) only:
β€’ Nike+ Support.

iPod Touch only:
β€’ Settings for individual speaker sounds. Sounds can no longer be turned off en masse. All sounds must be turned off individually to mute sounds
β€’ New speaker sound when sending mail.

Apple security updates:
β€’ iPod Touch
β€’ iPhone.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.2 πŸ“Ί
Build - 5G77 was released 21 Nov, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch 2G, 1G (1st gen.).

Free update for iPod Touch owners that upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0 or 2.1.

β€’ Enhancements to Maps:
β€’ Google Street View
β€’ Public transit and walking directions
β€’ Display address of dropped pins
β€’ Share location via email
β€’ Cache of recent locations.

β€’ Enhancements to Mail
β€’ Resolve isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
β€’ Improved formatting of wide HTML email.

β€’ App Store:
β€’ "Categories" section has been altered to display icons instead of a list
β€’ Individual applications pages now have 'Tell A Friend' and 'Report A Problem' buttons
β€’ In an app's description, multiple screen shots can now be viewed, instead of just one
β€’ "Update All" button added to "Updates" section
β€’ Option added to rate an application that is about to be deleted
β€’ Improved touch response when purchasing or downloading an application
β€’ Application icons display the install progress "in place" while updating, rather than on the last position of the page.

β€’ Safari:
β€’ Improved stability and performance of Safari
β€’ Layout changes for the address bar in Safari.

β€’ iPod:
β€’ The edit/clear icons on the on-the-go playlist have been changed
β€’ Podcasts now are being shown in catalogs
β€’ Users can no longer delete audiobooks via the device
β€’ Audiobooks without artwork are now shown with a book icon instead of a note icon.

β€’ Contacts:
β€’ US phone numbers now group correctly. (e.g., 1111 2222, formerly this would have shown as 1 111222 2)

β€’ Other:
β€’ Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
β€’ Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
β€’ Visual voicemail unavailability is shown in a screen instead of voicemail button not working
β€’ Improved performance overall, especially noticeable in Notes and Camera applications
β€’ Emoji for SoftBank users in Japan. Can also be enabled in all other countries using apps from the App Store
β€’ Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
β€’ Preference to turn on/off keyboard auto-correction
β€’ New languages are supported
β€’ Shows Update/Restore progress when update using iTunes
β€’ Security improvement
β€’ Developers can pipe video out to an external device
β€’ Better shift-key behavior
β€’ Automatic WebClip icon change
β€’ Locked screen screenshots
β€’ Ability to record from devices connected through the dock port.

β€’ iTunes:
β€’ iTunes now works over EDGE and 3G networks and no longer needs a Wi-Fi network
β€’ Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application. (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

β€’ iPod Touch (2nd generation) only:
β€’ Line-in audio has been enabled through the headphone jack
β€’ Add the Remote button to control other devices (e.g. Apple TV, etc.) on the Nike + iPod menu.

Apple security updates.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.2.1 πŸ“Ί
Build - 5H11 was released 27 Jan, 2009 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch 2G, 1G (1st gen.).

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
β€’ Improved general stability of Safari.
β€’ Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll
β€’ Updates baseband.

β€’ iPod Touch only:
β€’ Fixed issue that caused some Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio files to skip during playback.

β€’ iTunes 8.1:
β€’ Fixes calendar colour syncing issue. (Mac only)
β€’ Uses a new baseband which patches the exploit formerly used to unlock the iPhone 3G.

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πŸ“…iOS Release Dates

iOS 14 - xx Sep, 2020
iOS 13 - 19 Sep, 2019
iOS 12 - 17 Sep, 2018
iOS 11 - 19 Sep, 2017
iOS 10 - 13 Sep, 2016
iOS 9 - 16 Sep, 2015
iOS 8 - 17 Sep, 2014
iOS 7 - 18 Sep, 2013
iOS 6 - 19 Sep, 2012
iOS 5 - 12 Oct, 2011
iOS 4 - 21 Jun, 2010
iOS 3 - 17 Jun, 2009
iOS 2 - 11 Jul, 2008
iOS 1 - 29 Jun, 2007

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πŸ“…iOS Release Dates

iOS 14 - 16 Sep, 2020
iOS 13 - 19 Sep, 2019
iOS 12 - 17 Sep, 2018
iOS 11 - 19 Sep, 2017
iOS 10 - 13 Sep, 2016
iOS 9 - 16 Sep, 2015
iOS 8 - 17 Sep, 2014
iOS 7 - 18 Sep, 2013
iOS 6 - 19 Sep, 2012
iOS 5 - 12 Oct, 2011
iOS 4 - 21 Jun, 2010
iOS 3 - 17 Jun, 2009
iOS 2 - 11 Jul, 2008
iOS 1 - 29 Jun, 2007


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