My fellow writer wrote about what Apple needs to add to iOS 5 but after playing around with iOS 5 and an iPhone 4S few the weekend I’ve noticed some interesting missing features that were actually there before the upgrade and are now missing without explanation.
Inability to turn off 3G
It seems Apple has taken away the ability to turn off 3G data on the iPhone 4S. I noticed this while camping this weekend and I wanted to preserve battery (since there was no electricity), I was quite shocked to learn this was taken away.
No camera zoom
Now I am a bit rusty but from what I remember, my iPhone 4 that was running iOS 4 had zoom capabilities when using the camera. When you use Apple new amazing camera on the iPhone 4S, it is gone. Maybe this was overlooked to get the iPhone out quickly but hopefully will be returned soon.
UPDATE: The camera does pinch-to-zoom, but it seems it is now the only way to zoom.
Cannot delete Photo Stream pictures
With the iCloud came a useful feature called Photo Stream. It automatically grabs the photos you’ve taken from your iPhone, or put into by iPhoto and syncs them to all iCloud registered devices. Of course, not every picture is gold and perfect but unfortunately Photo Stream does not allow deleting of individual photos. You must disable and delete all photos.
Siri requires data, no matter what
Siri is great and its the first huge step towards voice automating our lives, but Siri has one weakness, it requires internet. For example, while camping I wanted to set an alarm and show off Siri. Although the Alarm app is on the iPhone itself, it still needs cloud assistance to complete the task. Lets just say my Android loving friend will not let me live that down.
Newsstand app cannot be put into a folder
We brought this up already but the Newsstand app needs to be able to be put into a folder. No glitch required.
That’s all I’ve noticed in the short term. How about everyone else?
