Questions tagged [ios6]

iOS 6 was announced by Apple on June 11, 2012 and released on September 19th, 2012. It runs all iPhones from 3GS and up.

iOS 6 was announced by Apple on June 11, 2012, and released on September 19th, 2012. It has been succeeded by , which was released on September 18, 2013. iOS6 is compatible with the following devices:

  • iPhone: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5
  • iPad: iPad 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation and iPad mini
  • iPod: iPod Touch 4th and 5th generation

This update provides more than 200 new features, including a new Maps application, Siri updates, Siri for iPad (3rd generation), Facebook integration, PassBook, Shared Photo Streams, Mail has VIPs and pull to refresh, refreshed store apps, guided access feature for children/accessibility and many more.

For a complete rundown of the new features, visit Apple iOS 6.

Find out what's new, the update notes, or the release notes. The API differences compared to iOS 5.1 can be found here.

See for further information.

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Keyboard shows partially ios6

I've got stuck on resolving why does keyboard in my app appears on screen partially or doesn't appears at all. It's just a simple view controller presented with; [self presentViewController:vc_browser animated:YES completion:^{}]; The first time I…
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iOS 6.0 Apple LLVM Compiler 4.1 error

Updated Xcode to latest version and now getting a strange compiler error when I try to compile my existing project. I assume this is some build setting which needs changing but can't work out where. Apple LLVM Compiler 4.1 error clang: error: the…
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Handling Invitations for Programmatic Turn-Based Game

Thanks to the updates to GameKit API in iOS 6, I am finally able to implement my turn-based board game the way it should be, complete with turn timeouts and better programmatic creation of matches. However, I am running into an issue that I cannot…
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MGTwitter is not working

I don't want default twitter to open because it should be compatible with ios < 5 also . I've used MGTwitterEngine. But it doesn't post tweets. Before few days it was working fine with ios5 too. But now it's not working. I think twitter demo url is…
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On iOS 6, PhoneGap 2.1 iPad app no longer autorotates

When running the app on iOS 6, my app no longer successfully autorotates. I have updated to Cordova 2.1, and I have the following code in my MainViewController.m file (which is a subclass of CDViewController, to be compatible with the new iOS6 way…
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Go to App Store Reviews in iOS 6

It appears that using the itms-apps//.... URL scheme doesn't work in iOS 6 with the new App Store to show the product reviews area. Now I'm using the code below, but it just shows you the product. How do you get to the review area to ask for a…
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iOS 6: Youtube embed video (MPAVController) in a browser can lock app in landscape mode

I'm embedding a Youtube video in a browser which is part of an all portrait application. When you launch the youtube video, it plays in MPAVController and rotation in Landscape is permitted. This is not an issue for me, but the problem is if the…
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iOS6 Interface Orientation broken

just had to update an iOS 5 App to iOS 6 and of course stumbled over the interface orientation issues. I now already know that things changed and I even know what changed, still I can't seem to manage it on my own. My App consists of several…
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ios6, UITableViewCell background

I have a trouble with ios6 and UITableViewCell. The backgroundcolor is not set, this is what it used to work in ios5 -(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *) tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { UITableViewCell *cell =…
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MPMovieNaturalSizeAvailableNotification is not working?

I added a notification with the following code, [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(videoLoadingComplete) …
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Editing mode in a uitableviewcell works only in ios 5.0 properly

I have made a custom tableviewcell and override the method -(void) setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated so as to hide a UISwitch for the editing mode. This is my code -(void) setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated { [super…
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How to invoke python scripts in iOS apps?

I want to make a native iOS app. It will be written mostly in Objective-C. But I need to invoke some python scripts. I have been researching on this for hours. Questions: 1: I found this post(Running python/ruby script on iPhone? From the iPhone OS…
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Reachability issues since updating to iOS 6

I have a tried and tested enterprise iPhone app that's been in heavy use for over a year, and works great. The app makes frequent use of asynchronous NSURLConnectionRequests to fetch data from a server. I monitor availability of network…
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IOS 6 Issue with MPMoviePlayerController

Please check the below code: (void) moviePlayerDidExitFullscreen:(NSNotification*)notification { MPMoviePlayerController *player = [notification object]; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self …
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upload Video to Facebook using iOS6 Social Framework

I want to publish a video file to facebook. Previously I used the Facebook iOS SDK3.0 and it works. However, for iOS6 Social Framework, there is problem. __block ACAccount * facebookAccount; ACAccountStore* accountStore = [[ACAccountStore…
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