Apple Releases iOS 9.1 for its devices

Yesterday,October 21, 2015, Apple released iOS 9.1 to fix issues that have affected the iOS 9+ series. "Slide to upgrade" was the major issue in iOS 9.0 affecting iPad, iPod and the iPhone but other issues remained.

 This release includes new features, improvements and fixes a number of bugs, including:
  • Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos will automatically not record these movements 
  • Improved stability including CarPlay, Music, Photos, Safari, and Search 
  • Improved performance while in Multitasking UI 
  • Fixes an issue that could cause Calendar to become unresponsive in Month view 
  • Resolves an issue that zoomed the content of some apps 
  • Resolves an issue that could cause an incorrect unread mail count for POP mail accounts 
  • Fixes an issue that prevented users from removing recent contacts from new mail or messages 
  • Fixes an issue that caused some messages to not appear in Mail search results 
  • Fixes an issue that caused activation errors on some carriers 
  • Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from updating from the App Store 
  • Over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis 
  • Among others 
There is also an update for iTunes for 12.3.1 

Before you update, always remember to back up your phone before proceeding For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

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