Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices - Practical Mobile Forensics - page 63

1,500 new APIs to the developers. Starting with this release, multitasking was extended to
third-party iOS applications. Apple also released Game Center , an online multiplayer so-
cial gaming network along with this release.
5.x - Siri and iCloud
iOS 5.0 (known as Telluride ) was released with iPhone 4S. iOS 5 with iPhone 4S intro-
duced Apple's natural language-based voice control, Siri —a virtual assistant. This update
brought many new features, such as notification center, iMessages, Newsstand, Twitter in-
tegration, the Reminders application, and over the air ( OTA ) software updates. The
biggest addition to the release was the iCloud , Apple's cloud-based service that allows
users to synchronize their contacts, calendar, pictures, and much more to the cloud.
6.x - Apple Maps
iOS 6.0 (known as Sundance ) was released in June 2012 with the release of iPhone 5.
With iOS 6, the old, Google-powered Maps application was removed, and an all-new
Apple Maps with data supplied by TomTom was added. The YouTube application was
also removed in this update. iOS 6 brought many new features, such as Facebook integra-
tion, FaceTime over cellular network, Passbook, and many enhancements to the built-in
applications. Better privacy controls were added with this release.
7.x - the iPhone 5S and beyond
iOS 7.0 (known as Innsbruck ) was released in September 2013 with the release of iPhone
5S. The biggest change in iOS 7 and the most important was the system-wide redesign.
With this release, Apple took the interface experience from static to dynamic. A ton of
new features were introduced, such as control center, Airdrop, iTunes Radio, FaceTime
audio, automatic updates for applications, activation lock, and many more. With iPhone
5S, Apple's Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor, a biometric authentication technology,
was introduced.
All the iOS versions are not supported by all the iOS devices. Each iOS version is com-
patible only with a few devices, as shown in the following iOS compatibility matrix. This
table was created using http://iossupportmatrix.com/ .The blocks in green signify that an
iOS version was supported for that device. If a version is listed, it is the earliest version
supported for that device. The blocks in red mean no support for that device, and the
blocks in blue are still iOS versions supported by Apple.