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Bug: iOS 5 Newsstand icons out of place on iPhone and iPad Home screen

Submitted by Andrew Wray on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:12

I noticed an oddity on the Home screen of my iPad 2 the other day. One of the magazines that I'm subscribed to in Newsstand decided to place itself on the Home screen, instead of where it's supposed to reside in the Newsstand folder. Luckily there's an easy fix, and today we're going to show you how to get around it if you ever experience the same problem.

SwitcherLyrics adds music lyrics to the Fast App Switcher [Jailbreak]

Submitted by Andrew Wray on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 12:15

SwitcherLyrics is a new jailbreak mod in Cydia that offers the ability to view lyrics for ~~any~~ most tracks stored in your iPod music library.

Google Voice update preventing users from actually making Google Voice calls

Submitted by Jared DiPane on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 15:57

Today's Google Voice app update seems to have -- wait for it -- actually broken the ability for users to place calls with their Google Voice number.

When attempting to make a call it appears as though it is connecting like normal, but if you look at a caller ID it will show you your actual cell phone number, not your Google Voice number.

Hopefully Google will fix this will all due haste. In the me

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iMessage issue causes headaches for stolen iPhone users

Submitted by Andrew Wray on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 22:48

Multiple users who've had their iPhones stolen are reporting that iMessage is still linked to their stolen device even after they've conducted a remote wipe, deactivated their iPhone with the carrier, and even changed their Apple ID password. This means that whomever steals or buys a stolen iPhone may have the ability to iMessage from the original owners account, pretty much impersonating them.

Although Apple has yet to comment on the situation, Ars Technica was able to get iOS security expert Jonathan Zdziarski to chime in on his thoughts of why this may be occurring.

iOS Bugs: All apps stuck on "Waiting" to install

Submitted by Anthony Casella on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 00:50

After updating to iOS 5.0.1 via iTunes and rebooting, I found all the App Store apps installed on my iPhone were suddenly waiting to download. That's right. All of them. Just "Waiting". Unable to launch.

I tried force-quitting the App Store app. I tried rebooting. I tried resetting. I logged into and out of the App Store app. I checked if there were any iTunes Store downloads, like podcasts, that might have gotten "stuck" (there weren't). I checked if any large apps like Navigon were slowly -- very slowly -- downloading (they didn't appear to be.) I tried re-syncing with iTunes on my desktop (the apps came back, still waiting).

Facebook for iPhone bugs: Pictures showing up wrong

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 10:09

On the current version of Facebook for iPhone and iPad, whenever I tap on a picture someone uploaded, it either brings up a totally different picture, or when I flip over to comments, they don't match the comments that go with that specific picture. It's incredibly annoying if you want to comment on a picture and can't even get the correct one to pull up.

If you use Facebook for iPhone or iPad you're probably aware that it doesn't come without a bug or two. This one we've had several readers report and it's something I've experienced myself since the newer revamped version of Facebook was released.

The only workaround I've found is to actually go in and open the album the picture is in and click on the picture in the grid of photos. That typically tends to load the correct image and bypass the issue.

Caching bug in iOS 5 Safari

Submitted by Anthony Casella on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 10:31

On some websites, like CNN shown in the video above, when I hit "back" to return to the previous page, instead of getting the previous page I get a version of the previous page that's from some time in the past, as much as a day or so. I've also had this happen on sites like Reddit. Unless Apple included highly advanced tachyon-based time travel functionality in iOS 5, there's some problem between the web server, the cache, mobile Safari, and my eyes that's conspiring to give me pages from the past.

What is Notification Error "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application?

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 14:15

TiPb's getting a lot of questions about Notification Error "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application, what it means, and what can be done about it. Reason being, Google released their new Gmail for iPhone and iPad app today today, and subsequently pulled it due to some launch-time bugs involving Push Notifications.

iOS 5 Bugs: Disappearing Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 23:56

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So you just updated to iOS 5 and you find you have a problem -- you go to use the Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot feature and it's gone. Don't fret. It's not really gone, it's just hiding, and here are a couple things you can do to coax it back.

Apple's servers hammered, iOS, other updates causing frustration

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 17:30

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