iOS 4 GM and iTunes 9.2 Beta Available For Download [Developers Only]

[Nick Hesson]

During the WWDC Keynote today, we were told "iOS 4 software will be available on June 21 as a free software update via iTunes 9.2 or later for iPhone and iPod touch customers". As you can imagine, the iOS 4 GM and the beta version of iTunes 9.2 is now available for developers through the Apple Developer portal.

One can assume that the official release will coincide with the iOS 4 release June 21st.

If your a developer, head over to Apple and download iOS 4GM and iTunes 9.2 now.

Whats New in iTunes 9.2

iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:

• Synce with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4 and iBooks 1.1
• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFS with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
• Organize your apps on your iPhone OS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
• Fast back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
• Performance improvements make scrolling much faster.

Psst.. StealthBravo.. let me know when iOS 4 GM is up


Image via RedmondPie

[whereswaldo]

lucky i'm a dev (hehe)

[SyChOpHoBiC]

Thank god im a developer as well. I sat on the developer page until the website was updated and I am now running Goldmaster OS4 and Itunes 9.2 Beta

[Cer0]

Do not post asking for Dev slots. That is why we have a buy/sell/trade section.

[moon#pie]

Safari 5 also is out. just downloaded.....

[kakolon]

Can it be installed from windows?

[Nick Hesson]

Can it be installed from windows?

iOS 4 requires the new iTunes, nope. The new iTunes is only available for Mac at the moment.

If you have windows and install iOS4, it will not work with iTunes

[godsrainbow1984]

Can it be installed from windows?

I highly doubt it, but hope for it

[flaviocontreras]

i just installed iOS 4.0 GM and multitasking is still not working with Pandora am i doing something wrong or any other developer out there have the same issues i am using a 32gb 3GS iphone.

[omnicube]

I could be wrong, but from what I remember in some past readings is that Pandora has to be updated to enable multitasking. I think the method apple is using for multi-tasking most apps will have to be updated.

[eortizr]

it seems that the latest update from pandora was not the one for multitasking....

[flaviocontreras]

U are most like right maybe Pandora needs to update but i tough the iphone software would do the job not just the individual app.

[delldude1989]

Does the iPhone 3g not get the home wallpaper ?

[rufio]

i just installed iOS 4.0 GM and multitasking is still not working with Pandora am i doing something wrong or any other developer out there have the same issues i am using a 32gb 3GS iphone.

Same here. Developers must update their apps first.

[gsmumbo]

It savestates just fine, but in order for audio to play in the background the dev has to code the background audio service in to the app. They will release that once 4.0 official releases. Until then it will only savestate.

[vegassteven]

Hahaha!

So it relies on the dev for multitasking!?

I have apps for audio which haven't been updated in a year and I'm supposed to believe they'll update now?

And kirikae works well now.

[mortopher]

iOS 4 requires the new iTunes, nope. The new iTunes is only available for Mac at the moment.

If you have windows and install iOS4, it will not work with iTunes

Not true, with the betas at least. iTunes will work on windows with the os 4 but you can not install/restore to it using Windows iTunes, that part must be done on a mac.

i just installed iOS 4.0 GM and multitasking is still not working with Pandora am i doing something wrong or any other developer out there have the same issues i am using a 32gb 3GS iphone.

I know multiple people posted about this but I figured I'd just quote the first one. If you were here last summer for 3.0's release then you should recall seeing iTunes shoot out a rush of app updates in the weeks leading up to the upgrade that all said "version: XXX (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)". The new features like multitasking are possible by utilizing the new apis that Apple gave devs access too with the 4.0 betas (3.0 was a couple hundred at most, 4.0 is like 1500 apis). Once those are implemented and the app update is released then your beloved Pandora can go to work taking advantage of our grandfathered-in unlimited bandwidth

[jbode4]

can we install it on windows? cuz my mac isnt working.

[eortizr]

In other words. Unless you are actually a real devoloper there is no reason to install ios4 cuz is like going a step back from a 3.1.3 jailbroked device.

[thecork]

Apps definitely need updating. At the iOS 4 preview event they talked about having to make apps background aware to work with multitasking. It really isn't that long to wait till 21st, them hopefully we will see a flurry of app updates released. I for one are praying Skype is one of them, considering they showed off their backgrounding app at the preview one would think its ready to go, but with their track record for updates, who knows!!!