This week Apple released a slew of updates for iOS, OS X and the Apple Watch.
For iOS, Apple released 9.1, which includes the following:
– Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos will automatically not record these movements
– Over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis
– Improved stability including CarPlay, Music, Photos, Safari, and Search
– Improved performance while in Multitasking UI
– Fixes an issue that could cause Calendar to become unresponsive in Month view
– Fixes an issue that prevented Game Center from launching for some users
– Resolves an issue that zoomed the content of some apps
– Resolves an issue that could cause an incorrect unread mail count for POP mail accounts
– Fixes an issue that prevented users from removing recent contacts from new mail or messages
– Fixes an issue that caused some messages to not appear in Mail search results
– Resolves an issue that left a gray bar in the body of an Audio Message
– Fixes an issue that caused activation errors on some carriers
– Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from updating from the App Store
For OS X, Apple released the first major update to El Capitan, 10.11.1, which includes:
– Improves installer reliability when upgrading to OS X El Capitan
– Improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016
– Fixes an issue where outgoing server information may be missing from Mail
– Resolves an issue that prevented display of messages and mailboxes in Mail
– Resolves an issue that prevents certain Audio Unit plug-ins from functioning properly
– Improves VoiceOver reliability
– Adds over 150 new emoji characters with full Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 support
And for the Apple Watch, Apple released the first update for Watch OS 2, which includes:
– Fixes an issue that could cause software updates to stall
– Fixes issues that were impacting battery performance
– Resolves an issue that prevented a managed iPhone from syncing iOS Calendar events to Apple Watch
– Addresses an issue that could prevent location information from properly updating
– Fixes an issue that could cause Digital Touch to send from an email address instead of a phone number
– Addresses an issue that could cause instability when using a Live Photo as a watch face
– Resolves an issue that allows the sensors to stay on indefinitely when using Siri to measure heart rate
– Contains new emoji characters