iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 brings minor stability improvements

No copy and paste here, move along everyone! What you can expect in the new, just-released 2.2.1 software update for the iPhone (and iPod touch) is "improved general stability of Safari" -- always encouraging -- and a fix for saved Mail images not showing up just right in the camera roll. It's like Christmas in January!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[redscorpion Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:08PM]

I must of missed the last update with MMS =[

[Almo Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:08PM]

With text message forwarding...

[Almo Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:17PM]

iPhone Dev Team Message:


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Hold your horses!

There is an iPhone and iPod update available in iTunes - it is numbered 2.2.1 (5H11a).

Please DO NOT update. We will investigate and report back to you ASAP.
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[jakem Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:01PM]

Must have, not must of.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 8:42PM]

How long do we have to express our interest in these features until Apple responds?

The iPhone is still incomplete and these minor bug fixes barely warrant a 200+MB download!

Come on Apple, listen to us...please?...

[Mr Death Posted Jan 29th 2009 9:13AM]

@Juaquin

Dude, I'm still waiting for the ability to cut and paste between folders in OS X.

Apple seems to think that copying and pasting between folders - then going back to the original and then deleting it - is an efficient use of my time. Muppets.

[Sachin Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:08PM]

does anyone know whether:

it's also released for the ipod touch as of yet?

if it's possible to go from a jailbroken 2.2 touch to a jailbroken 2.2.1 touch via quickpwn yet?

[blaineoliver Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:30PM]

Dont use this update until your dev team posts on if it will brick your iphone or ipod touch etc.

[Nerdtalker Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:08PM]

Wow, iPhone firmware? This totally merits yet another story.

Wonder what this one will (inevitably) break more things as well.

[davidhildreth Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:17PM]

Someone need a hug?

[Brad Hubbard Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:33PM]

They left out another feature.

■ iPhone firmware 2.2.1 breaks all the current jailbreaks and may brick your jailbroken iPhone / iPod.

[Decoy Posted Jan 27th 2009 4:05PM]

Sure missed the stories about the instability of Safari.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 4:58PM]

Eeeew...... gross. (I meant your picture).

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:09PM]

safari crash???? never!!!!

[Raul7 Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:51PM]

Actually Safari crashes more often on my MacBook than on my iPhone.. True, I have Safari 4 Dev Preview so it's not as stable yet, but on the iPhone it's not so bad!

[fastm3driver Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:10PM]

Safari crashes several times a day on my iphone. It's very annoying that it doesn't ell you why either. You can go back to the same page and it works fine??? I'm not that impressed.

[Jakob Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:15PM]

Patriks -> Try visiting let's say a skyscraper site (SSC) with a lot of constructions pictures, news and even more pictures. The little Safari in iPhone do not like I tell you ;)

[Gabe Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:16PM]

safari cashes so much i want to throw my phone.

it can't handle pages like gizmodo.

er but it handles engadget

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2009 9:51PM]

Thank you for attending our class. Today's discuss was on "Sarcasm".....you all failed.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:09PM]

Every lit fix helps...

[Imran Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:55PM]

That's what she said... right before I left her.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:09PM]

"minor stability improvements"
"move along everyone! "

Makes you wonder why this made the cut for a post, doesn't it?

I keed, I keed... but not really.

[anexanhume Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:40PM]

How many people own an iphone? Every psp, psn, xbl update gets mentioned, why not this?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:12PM]

idk, maybe a lot of people send the news in so they decide to post it, if 100 people sent this in, then Engadget thinks people want to hear about it, and if only 1 person sent it in, then maybe its not on the priority list.....

[spin cycle Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:10PM]

I'm guessing it more likely fixes that pesky "yellowsn0w" bug.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:26PM]

I guess your guessing is tragically true.

[KarlW Posted Jan 27th 2009 5:00PM]

Probably, but I also read on a 3rd party developers site (not sure which, might have been Tweetie), that features were being held back due to memory leaks in Safari, and that they were investigating it with Apple. If they found something concrete, this would also explain the update.

I posted here yesterday mentioning how the iPhone's 1.X firmware was great and that Apple bottled it with 2.X. Next thing I know, there's an update fixing Safari. Hey, Apple - the teleportation feature's crashing fairly often as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:12PM]

Christmas in January? I don't know about you, but I expect more from Christmas.

[rob40wilson03 Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:17PM]

haha +1

[Mr Nuclear Posted Jan 27th 2009 6:37PM]

I see what you did there..
You explained Paul Miller's sarcasm for those it was way too subtle for the first time. Thanks!

[Flaystus Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:13PM]

SURELY you left out on accident I"m sure the part about Push?


Its not there!? *sigh*

[wora Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:15PM]

PUSH NOTIFICATION...



When??????

[Raul7 Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:53PM]

Last November! Or so they said..

[holycow Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:14PM]

I think I'll pass on this one and get the 2.3 when it comes out...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:18PM]

Finally!!! The minor enhancements I've been waiting so many months for.

[djmere Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:18PM]

did it just cause

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:20PM]

Is it really too much to ask that I could send appointment requests to others from this thing? It emails. It creates appointments. It can't create an appointment and email it. WTF?

[PhoenixFox Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:22PM]

None, because the Razr didn't fail at what it tried to do, and didn't try to be something it's not.

[Don Corleone Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:26PM]

All these months for "minor stability improvements"?

My iPhone been running quite well, no crashing, nothing unusual, etc...

How about a real update with the features we've been longing for?

Oy frickin Vey Apple

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 5:48PM]

Why fix what's not broken? You admitted yourself that your iPhone has been working great, what exactly are you complaining about?

Last time I checked, additional features should just be considered the sugar on top - not what you expect.

[digitalspys Posted Jan 28th 2009 6:17AM]

Wompa it's not really sugar on top when every other smart phone on the market does what the majority of Iphone users want.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:26PM]

I tried to update and it wouldn't work because I don't have Paul's iPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:30PM]

Boo. That's it. I'm hijacking my iPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:30PM]

Yeah, because the Razr never had any problems....... fixed.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/125094/motorola_razr_problem_is_history.html
http://www.fixya.com/support/p401500-motorola_razr_v3_cellular_phones

[Brad Hubbard Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:34PM]

How many updates? Quite a few, if you were on Verizon or Sprint.

What, ATT still doesn't support OTA updates? What is this...1998?

[pocketdoc Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:38PM]

I think I'll wait.

Not much to see here. Please move along.

I agree, this may be for the jailbreakers.

[User7 Posted Jan 27th 2009 4:54PM]

I just updated mine and is sure did take a long time for a minor update.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 2:57PM]

Just installed the update, tried to sync my playlist... starts to sync and then it suddenly stops. No errors, no warnings, just it does not sync. Anyone with the same issue? Would it be because I'm running Windows 7?

[bolezhinkov Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:02PM]

277.7MB. its like a PS3 style update or something. I just finished installing on 2nd gen ipod touch - no issues here.

[KirbyKoot401 Posted Jan 27th 2009 3:07PM]

is iTunes even certified to work with Windows 7?