iOS 5 is presently in developer beta release and will be released to the public in the fall of this year. According to 9to5Mac, the new iPhone is reaching the final testing stage, which means it’s still on track for the rumored September release date.

In honor of this news, here is an exhaustive list of new features:

1. Updated Lockscreen

2. New Welcome Screen when you start using the phone for first time.

3. PC Free Activation.

4. Notifications Center

5. Quick Camera launch from Lockscreen

6. Stocks and weather built into Notifications Center

7. iPod app is renamed to Music with new icon.

8. New Videos.app

9. iMessage

10. SMS bubbles are green in color and iMessage appears baby blue.

11. Newsstand for Magazines and Newspapers

12. Ability to Create and Delete Photo albums.

13. System wide Twitter Integration.

14. New Twitter keyboard with # and @ buttons.

15. Ability to edit photos

16. Grid System in Camera

17. New rounded buttons

18. Notification Center has ability to sort notifications by “Manually” or By Time.

19. You can choose what applications to be included in Notifications Center

20. Ability to rename your device within the settings.

21. Over the Air Delta Software updates

22. The Usage screen now shows how much of the memory is consumed by each app.

23. Wireless iTunes Sync

24. You can enable or disable Voice Dial while the phone is locked in Security Settings

25. Ability to add keyboard shortcuts. Default one included “omw” which expands to “On my way!” when you type it anywhere.

26. New Speak Selection option in Accessibility Settings

27. Ability to add custom vibrations

28. New Assistive Touch Settings

29. LED Flash for Alerts

30. Ability to Set Left or Right for Mono Audio

31. New iCloud options in Settings app

32. You can create additional @me.com email address within the Mail settings

33. Ability to Increase Quote Level in Mail Settings

34. Twitter integration on contacts

35. You can edit your number in Settings.

36. New Facetime option in Settings window. You can also set your facetime caller ID to be your email or your phone number

37. New Private Browsing option in Safari

38. Ability to remove custom Website Data

39. Ability to toggle iMessage ON or OFF in settings.

40. Ability to enable Read Receipts

41. iMessage sent as SMS when iMessage is unavailable

42. You can now set how much time a message alert has to be shown again if you don’t 43. respond to the phone when it notifies of a new message.

44. Separate settings for Music and Videos

45. Photo Stream

46. You can set the default account for notes to be synced to in Notes options

47. Toggle ON or OFF for Automatic Downloads.

48. Setting to use Automatic Downloads only when the device is connected to WiFi

49. Alternate Routes in Maps

50. Purchase History in App Store.

51. Individually delete entries from the call history.

52. iCloud Backups

53. Take pictures using Volume button

54. If you tap and hold on a song name in Music.app, a popup shows all the details.

55. Ability to drag email address’ between fields while sending a mail in Mail.app

56. Mail notifies you before sending a mail if you’ve forgotten to put a subject line.

57. New and updated tiny icons on Mail for Windows Live Mail, Gmail, Exchange etc.

58. Rich Text Editing in mail

59. System Wide Dictionary

60. Printing Support in Maps

61. Ability to Hide Traffic in Maps

62. You can set custom vibration tones for each contact, so when it vibrates in a specific pattern you know who’s calling.

63. The notes.app shows the number of notes made on the header

64. New Learn More Links across the settings app for further help

65. Photos in Game Center

66. Ability to make your Profile public and private on Game Center

67. Points in Game Center, shows you how many points you have on the home screen of Game center

68. Sort and View friends on the basis of Points.

69. Friend Recommendations in Game Center

70. New Games are now downloaded through Game Center

71. Game Recommendations in Game Center

72. New Friend requests screen

73. Voice Memos app rotates in all direction, including upside down.

74. Set custom text tone for each contact.

75. Local Weather in Weather app

76. Hourly weather updates

77. Reading list in Safari

78. Tabbed browsing in Safari on iPad

79. Reader view which removes all clutter from web pages on iPad

80. Split Keyboard on iPad

81. AirPlay Mirroring

82. You can use your phone while its being synced with iTunes.

83. Emoji Support

84. Tweet photos and links from iOS

85. When you landscape your phone in iCal, it gives you a week view.

86. New Music App in iPad

87. iCloud Document Sync and Backup

88. Slight fadeout on the right of the Safari Address Bar.

89. Reading list support on Safari

90. Location Based Reminders

91. Calendar now lets you navigate from day to day by swiping. (Thanks @Garner)

92. When you’re in camera mode, swipe left to reveal most recent photo. Swipe right to go back to the camera.

93. Watermark in text entry box says “iMessage” or “Text Message” accordingly

94.‘Unsecured Calls’ warning lets users know if they are talking on unencrypted networks

95. Group Messaging in iMessage.

96. Send photos, videos using iMessage.

97. Ability to use multiple Apple IDs for different purposes. (This has been one of the widely asked questions)

98. When a notification is on the lockscreen, swipe it to open the specific app.

99. Swipe on the weather to the left or right on the Notification Center drop down to view five day forecast.

100. Multitasking Gestures in iPad. Use four or five fingers, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.

101. S/MIME Support in Mail.app

102. Facetime works without having a SIM card on your phone. Works with your email alone.

103. When you receive a non-contacts phone call, the main display also shows the city name (or area/county if identifiable), not just the phone number.

104. Camera, tap and hold to lock/unlock AE/AF

105. Camera, use two-finger spread/pinch gesture to zoom in/out accordingly

106. In Calendar month view, besides tapping on the ‘+’ button to add an event, you can also tap and hold on any day.

107. When receiving a call from a number not in your phonebook, the phone will display the location of the phone area code under the number… i.e. + 1 (514) 321 2345 will display Quebec, Canada in a smaller font under the number and not just in the call history.

108. Use current location in Weather.app.

109. Flagging Support in Mails. app

110. In settings you can switch what option you get when you tap and hold on links in 111. Safari: either open in background or in a new page.

112. Swipe left and right to change months in calendar on iPad

113. Swipe to delete songs (Thanks @Derek)

114. Buy More Storage option for iCloud

115. Ability to set custom sound for alerts (New Message, New Voicemail, News Mail, Sent Mail etc.)

116. Define your own words in Offline Dictionary

117. Apps fades to homescreen when crashes, rather than flicking off.

118. Ability to Enable/Disable Badges on Apps

119. When you download an app on the iTunes on your PC, the app is automatically pushed to your iDevice and installed.

120. Streaming Song details such as Track and Artist info to Bluetooth audio devices.

121. When your alarm goes off you can snooze it from lockscreen or slide to turn off. (Note: This is an updated style, you slide on the notifications area, just below the clock, rather than the previous “Slide to Unlock” location.)

122. You can add multiple twitter accounts and choose what account to send a tweet from.

123. Delete each app’s data

124. iTunes Tune Store

125. Real-time stock quotes

126. VoiceOver item chooser

127. Option to speak text selection

128. When your phone is locked and you switch to Ringing from Silent, the Ringing indicator also shows the volume level bar.

129. You can choose multiple Emails and mark them as read

130. Download more than one app simultaneously. No waiting for the previous app to be completed

131. You can choose if to display Weather and Stock Widges on Notification Center.

132. New Voice in Voice Control

133. You can re arrange the preference of apps in Notification Center. (Eg: You can set the Weather widget to be always on top, Messages next etc..)

134. Ability to set maximum messages downloaded through email to 1000 instead of 250

135. Sponsored links in Google Maps

136. Double-tap the home button while watching a YouTube video to display who uploaded the video

137. Scrolling titles for YouTube videos

138. Time mid-call invitation alerts

139. Set up Airport / Time Capsule on your iOS device

140. Invitation alerts to FaceTime while taking a call

141. Arabic Language Support in VoiceOver

142. Links can be opened in the background

143. Integrate Twitter user pictures to Contacts. Sync them

144. Native 1080p video playback in iPad 2

145. Japanese or Buddhist calendars support

146. Year View in iPad cal

147. Native Support for turn based games in Game Center

148. Search Within the contents of an email

149. Indentation Control in Mails.app

150. Individual Site Data can be deleted from Safari

151. iOS 5 address book has a field for Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace. (iOS 5 to integrate more social networks?

152. Specific ‘search on page’ area integrated in the ipad keyboard (hit google when in safari)

153. Have one app updating while others say “waiting…,” then you pause the app updating. You then immediately put the iDevice on sleep. Next, when you wake up your iDevice, all of them will be paused. You can tap more than one app to have more than one downloading.

154. Personal Hotspot settings are now found under ‘Network’ settings.

GIFs are animated when sent through iMessages. It’s not animated in Photos.app.

155. New and Updated VoiceOver voices for some regions.

156. Double tap to add an event in day view in Calendar app

157. Tap and drag to move an event (different day or different time) in Calendar app

158. Tap and hold in “all-day events” to create a new all-day event in Calender app

159. Twitter installs directly from the settings page if it’s not installed directly, you aren’t even taken to the App Store.

160. Hotmail integration in the mail app.

iPod touches have never been able to automatically set time. This is now possible in iOS

161. If you tap hand hold the back button in safari (ipad) you get a list of all you previous sites.

162. Turning on private browsing changes Safari’s color from blue to black.

163. Auto-correct can be turned off independently of spell check

164. Add “Related People” to a contact (mother, father, brother, sister, child…)

According to the WWDC keynote, there are 200 features in the new iOS - so the community is close to finding all of them.

I’m excited to try these features out. The effort seems to be to streamline the experience as much as possible and have an incredible amount of customization options.

[Via MacRumors]
[List Via IEatApples]