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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Max zoom scale in iOS 6.0 maps?

i have been throtting through the iOS 6.0 Map documentation, but I am unable to find any way to define a max zoom on the MKMapView. Have anyone found a way to do this ? I had a method that worked on the 5.1.1 maps, but it listenes to zoomScale,…
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Will removing support for armv7s architecture still work fine for the iPhone 5 screen?

I am using Xcode 4.5 and using the base SDK, iOS6 and am porting my app for iPhone 5. Some of the libraries that I use for my app are still not built for armv7s architecture. Will removing support for armv7s architecture still work fine for the…
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iOS 6 throwing error when using Google's OAuth

Over the weekend I upgraded my version of xcode to the newest version, and the latest SDK (iOS 6.0). This morning when I went into it to take a look at how our app had faired in the transition, I noticed something strange. I get errors such…
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iOS 6 Mobile Safari Session Variables not retained when set via AJAX

Possible Duplicate: Is Safari on iOS 6 caching $.ajax results? I have been having a problem with session variables set via AJAX in mobile Safari iOS 6. I included a sample that will set a session variable, redirect to another page, abandon the…
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UINavigationController popViewControllerAnimated: crash in iOS 6

The code below works fine in iOS 4 and 5 but crashes in iOS 6 with EXC_BAD_ACCESS. I'd appreciate any help in troubleshooting it. This code is being called in a UITableViewController that handles my app's search logic: CATransition *transition =…
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Hiding Address Bar in Mobile Safari With Reader Button Visible

Ok, so I'm using the suggested window-scrollTo method and it's working just swimmingly everywhere except for one little sticking point. When Safari decides to show the "Reader" button figuring I might want to save my page for later reading, it keeps…
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Monotouch iOS 6 crash when using MFMailComposeViewController

I get a strange error when I use MFMailComposeViewController in Monotouch iOS 6, but it worked fine in iOS 5.1: *** Assertion failure in NSDictionary *_UIRecordArgumentOfInvocationAtIndex(NSInvocation *, NSUInteger, BOOL)(),…
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Unwanted Vertical Padding from iOS 6 on CATextLayer

Background: I started my project in iOS 5 and built out a beautiful button with layer. I added a textLayer onto the button and center it using the following code: float textLayerVerticlePadding = ((self.bounds.size.height - fontSize) /2); …
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Modal dismissals do not account for status bar (new iOS 6 issue?)

Didn't have this issue at all until I began adapting my app for iOS 6. Whenever I return from a modal segue (with dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion:), my main view is shifted up by about the status bar's height worth of offset (and is…
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NSURLConnection timing out on iOS 6 but not on iOS 5

I have an app that used NSURLConnection and worked just fine on iOS 5, now that same code is getting an instant timeout in iOS 6. Any idea on what might have changed between the two releases of 5.1 and 6.0?
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iOS 6 landscape and portrait orientation

I have a table with a big list of stuff that comes from a plist file and clicking each of them takes you to a new view, a xib. I have 2 views inside that .xib, one for portrait and one for landscape In my h file I have this: IBOutlet UIView…
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Supporting iOS 6 and armv6

I am building my application for iOS6 and i want to support armv6 so i had added the armv6 in architecture and valid architecture. Now application is giving lot of errors when build on apple llvm 4.1 but it compiles on llvm gcc 4.2. And when i build…
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UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency worked in ios5 but not in ios6

I had a perfectly working project until i have updated to ios6. when i tab on a bar item to show a popover with a view the app crashes... here is the error i'm getting "reason: 'A view can only be associated with at most one view controller at…
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AudioToolBox leak in iOS6?

When I use AudioToolBox for playing music, memory leaks heavily. AVAudioPlayer *newMusicPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithData:data error:&error]; I use this code to play music. In iOS5 and iOS4, it works properly. But in iOS6, if data's size…
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Is it possible to implement 3D mapviews with iOS 6

I would like to implement the great "Google Earth" look of the new iOS6 map app in 3D mode. I've looked thru the latest version of the MapKit framework, as well as Apple's doc set, and I can't find any mention of how to implement it. Does this…
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