iPhone OS 3.0, code-named Kirkwood, was previewed in April of 2009 and released on June 17, 2009. Tentpole features included in-app purchases for the App Store, push notifications, cut, copy, and paste, pervasive landscape mode, MMS, a Voice Memos app, Spotlight search, video recording, and Voice Control. iPhone OS 3., code-named Northstar, 1shipped on September 9, 2009. iPhone OS 3.2, code-named Wildcat, shipped with the original iPad on April 3, 2010 and remained iPad-only. The final version for iPhone and iPod touch was iPhone OS 3.1.3 released on February 2, 2010, and for iPad, iPhone OS 3.2.2 released on August 11, 2010.
09 August 20134By Rene RitchieThe App Store might have launched in 2008, but it didn't stop there. At the Apple iPhone OS 3.0 preview event, held in March of 2009, the iPhone and all its apps, first and third party, got copy and paste, Spotlight search as an ersatz secondary app launcher, and access to the dock port. Among 1000 other new and improved API, the previously announced push notification service was also re-introduced, which wasn't multitasking but would enable whole classes of apps to be more useful than previously possible. Arguably, however, the most transformative new feature in iPhone OS 3.0 was, for good and ill, in-app purchase (IAP).
09 August 20134By Rene RitchieThe App Store might have launched in 2008, but it didn't stop there. At the Apple iPhone OS 3.0 preview event, held in March of 2009, the iPhone and all its apps, first and third party, got copy and paste, Spotlight search as an ersatz secondary app launcher, and access to the dock port. Among 1000 other new and improved API, the previously announced push notification service was also re-introduced, which wasn't multitasking but would enable whole classes of apps to be more useful than previously possible. Arguably, however, the most transformative new feature in iPhone OS 3.0 was, for good and ill, in-app purchase (IAP).
11 July 2008By Rene Ritchie
If you need a past or present iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV iOS 3 (previously iPhone OS 3) firmware file, we've got 'em all here. Just browse to the device you want and click the firmware file you need. Your download should automatically start...
