Apple releases iOS 9.2 -- Apple releases tvOS 9.1, delivers Siri for Apple Music on Apple TV

MacDailyNews ^ | December 8, 2015

[Swordmaker]

Apple today released iOS 9.2 which contains improvements and bug fixes including:

• Apple Music improvements
     Apple today released iOS 9.2 which contains improvements and bug fixes including:

Apple today released iOS 9.2 which contains improvements and bug fixes including:

• Apple Music improvements
  
  • You can now create a new playlist when adding a song to a playlist
    
  • Your most recently changed playlist is now listed at the top when adding songs to playlists
    
  • Download albums or playlists from your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button
    
  • See which songs have been downloaded with the new download indicator next to each song in My Music and Playlists
    
  • See works, composers, and performers while browsing Classical music in the Apple Music catalog

• A new Top Stories section in News so you can stay up to date with the most important news of the day (available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia)
  
• Mail Drop in Mail for sending large attachments
  
• iBooks now supports 3D Touch to peek and pop pages from the table of contents, your notes and bookmarks, or from search results inside a book
  
• iBooks now supports listening to an audiobook while you browse your library, read other books, or explore the iBooks Store
  
• iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter to import photos and videos
  
• Improved stability of Safari
  
• Improved stability of Podcasts
  
• Fixing an issue that caused mail attachments to be inaccessible for some users with POP email accounts
  
• Resolving an issue for some users that caused attachments to overlap text in mail
  
• Fixing an issue where Live Photos could have turned off after restoring from a previous iCloud backup
  
• Addressing an issue that could cause search in Contacts to display no results
  
• Resolving an issue that could have prevented Calendar from displaying all seven days in week view
  
• Fixing an issue where Camera screen on iPad could be black when attempting to capture video
  
• Addressing an issue that could cause instability in the Activity app when viewing the day of Daylight Savings Time transition
  
• Fixing an issue that could prevent data from appearing in Health
  
• Fixing an issue that could prevent Wallet updates and Lock screen alerts from displaying
  
• Addressing an issue where updating iOS could prevent an alarm from going off
  
• Fixing an issue where some users were unable to login to Find my iPhone
  
• Fixing an issue that prevented some manual iCloud Backups from completing
  
• Addressing an issue where using the iPad keyboard could unintentionally trigger text selection mode
  
• Improved keyboard responsiveness when using Quick Reply
  
• Improved punctuation input on the 10-key Chinese (Pinyin & Stroke) keyboards with new expanded view of punctuation symbols and better predictions
  
• Fixing an issue on Cyrillic keyboards where caps lock would be enabled when typing in URL or email fields

• Accessibility improvements
  
  • Fixing issues with VoiceOver when using Camera face detection
    
  • Adding support for VoiceOver to wake up the screen
    
  • Adding support for VoiceOver to invoke app switcher with 3D Touch gesture
    
  • Fixing an issue with Guided Access when trying to end phone calls
    
  • Improved functionality for Switch Control users when using 3D Touch
    
  • Fixing an issue with speech rate of Speak Screen

• Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/HT201222Apple Music improvements

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“Apple today released tvOS 9.1, the first major update to the tvOS operating system that runs on the fourth-generation Apple TV,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “tvOS 9.1 has been in testing since November 3, just a few days after the final version of tvOS was released alongside the new Apple TV in October.”

“tvOS 9.1 can be downloaded over-the-air through the Settings app on the fourth-generation Apple TV by going to System –> Software Update,” Clover reports. “Siri for Apple Music on the Apple TV works similarly to Siri for Apple Music on iOS devices, enabling queries like ‘What was the top song in 1980?’ or ‘Play Adele’s latest single.'”

Clover reports, “The tvOS update includes several bug fixes for issues discovered in the current version of tvOS, and according to beta testing notes, it features improvements to networking and scrolling.”

Full article here.

[Swordmaker]

Apple releases iOS 9.2 and tvOS update for Apple TV today. Also there's an update for OS X.10.11.2 to fix some security issues. -- PING!

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[Swordmaker]

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[Swordmaker]

Apple today released OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 which improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

This update:

• Improves Wi-Fi reliability
• Improves the reliability of Handoff and AirDrop
• Fixes an issue that may cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
• Fixes an issue that prevented Mail from deleting messages in an offline Exchange account
• Fixes an issue that prevented importing photos from an iPhone to a Mac using a USB cable
• Improves iCloud Photo Sharing for Live Photos

Enterprise content:

• Resolves an issue where reinstalling a configuration profile containing a certificate payload causes the certificates to be removed instead of updated
• Resolves an issue that caused multiple authentication prompts in Safari when using NTLM authentication
• Allows for deferred enablement when using the “fdesetup” command to enable FileVault with mobile accounts

For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple Security Updates.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Breakthrough stuff.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)

Just what your 7th century jihadi needs.

"Siri, kill,the infidels."

"Siri, explode my vest,"

"Siri, set AK47 to full auto."