Posts Tagged ‘iOS 5’

Updating iOS 5 with the new over-the-air update function

Posted on: 10th November 2011 No Comments

Today, Apple released the first iOS 5 update, updating from 5.0 to 5.0.1, fixing the battery problem. And this was the first chance to use the new over-the-air update, meaning updating the iOS without plugging it into a computer. So how does it work? Let me show you.

If you don’t get a pop-up telling you about the update, you can go look for it by choosing Settings -> General -> Software Update on your iOS device. Your device will perform the check, and show you the result. If it finds an update, just press Download and install, and the process is pretty self explanatory.

Updating iOS over-the-air

Starting updating iOS over-the-air

You must have over 50% left of your battery, or be plugged into a socket, to do the update,

Updating iOS over-the-air

Finishing updating iOS over-the-air

Unlike the previous updates, this update just sends you the updated parts, not everything as it used to do.

Worked like a charm.

Missing iBooks covers after iOS 5.0 update

Posted on: 10th November 2011 No Comments

After I updated my iPad to iOS 5.0, the covers of most of my books in iBooks went missing. Don’t know why, but I know many had the same issue.

Missong covers in iBooks

Missing covers in iBooks

I didn’t look at it until tonight, and found the solution to be simple, but successful: Remove the books, and then add them again. Seems like overkill, but it is the only way I could make it work.

And how do you do it? Just pop into iTunes while connected, go to the Books tab, and un-tick the Sync Books box. iTunes will tell you it will delete the books from the iPad, and that’s OK for you.

Un-sync books in iTunes

Un-sync books in iTunes

And after the books are gone from the iPad, tick the box again, and the books will be transferred back. It takes a couple of minutes before it registered all the covers, but I have all mine now.

Udating iBooks covers

Udating iBooks covers

And here are the good part: If you had created different collections iBooks, it will remember these, and sort your books for you. But they will not be in the same order.

Covers in iBooks

Covers in iBooks

Turn on wi-fi syncing in iTunes

Posted on: 19th October 2011 1 Comment

To enjoy the new cable free syncing between your iOS 5 device and iTunes, you first have to turn it on. Logically.

To do so, just plug in your device, go to iTunes and highlight your device in the sidebar, and click on summary (if it doesn’t go there automatically).

Summary in iTunes

The summary page of your device in iTunes

Scroll down to the Options menu, and enable the wi-fi syncing for the device.

Device options in iTunes

The Options menu of a device in iTunes

And that’s it. And when you want to sync, just go to Settings -> General -> iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and press Sync Now. And presto. Or plug it into a charger, and it does it automatically.

Sync screen in iOS 5

Settings -> General -> iTunes Wi-Fi Sync

The sync requires iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5, and the use of the same wi-fi of iTunes and the device.

I’ve used iPhoto to import my photos from my iPhone earlier, but this doesn’t work with this method. Now I must either set up picture syncing in iTunes, or use the new Photo Stream function with iCloud.

So far, it works like a charm.

Microsoft Outlook 2011, iCal and iCloud

Posted on: 13th October 2011 20 Comments

Almost as expected, there would be some Outlook 2011 issues with the introduction of iCloud this week. But this time, I blame Apple as much as I normally blame Microsoft.

For me, the issues was that my Outlook calendar went missing (as always). As many Outlook users, I use Sync Services to sync between Outlook and iCal, and therefore with my iPhone. But after I installed the latest Lion update, that laid the pavement for iCloud, and signed up for it, the Outlook calendar went blank. All of my calendar entries remained in iCal, but they did no longer talk.

Maybe a simple fix for this would be to turn of iCloud for my calendar, and just continue to sync that old school? Well, it turns out that when you turn of iCloud for the calendar, it removes iCloud content: And iCloud content means your entire calendar, even if the entries originated from iCal to begin with. Nice feature, Apple! If you turn it off on the iPhone, you can choose if you want to keep the calendar entries.

Deactivate iCloud warning

What do mean "user friendliness"? We've stopped doing that.

If you try to export your iCal calendar as an iCal archive, turn off iCloud, and import, the iCloud will be turned back on automatically.

So my solution to keep a happy sync between Outlook and iCal, was to export each calendar (for some reason I have many) from iCal as  .ics-files while on iCloud. Then turn of iCloud, import them in iCal, and we were back were we was before the update. If you want to merge some of your calendars you could do so, or keep them separated.

Export ics from iCal

Export ics from iCal

(Update 14/10: As Ian points out in his comment below: If you have a Time Machine backup of your system from before you turned on iCloud, you can use that for a roll back.)

Another solution would of course be to abandon Outlook, at least until something pulls out a finger from somewhere, and fixes this.

So now I can once again sync Outlook with my iPhone. Surprisingly, the address book sync works like a charm.

Maybe I’ll just go back to pen and paper.