iOS 9.1 Released With New Features, Improvements And Bug Fixes

Apple has released iOS 9.1 to the public with several improvements, new features and bug fixes. The OTA update should be available for all those who have a compatible iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. You should also receive a notification for the update on iTunes.

iOS-9.1

iOS 9.1 has been in beta for some time now and the final version includes all the features that were being tested. For example, the new update comes with over 150 new emojis. And on the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the Live Photos feature can now tell if you’re raising or lowering your phone to avoid weird photos.

The new update also comes with several bug fixes and other stability and performance improvements. Apple’s iOS 9 launch did not go very well, there were several issues with iOS 9, most of which were fixed in iOS 9.0.2, but there were few more things that the company needed to fix.

Here’s the complete changelog for iOS 9.1:

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

Direct iOS 9.1 IPSW download links (also available in our Downloads page):

Jailbreakers Beware: iOS 9.1 Patches Two Pangu Jailbreak Vulnerabilities

If you’re jailbroken on iOS 9.0.2, it is imperative that you do not update to iOS 9.1. Apple has indeed patched the Pangu 9 jailbreak on iOS 9.1 and credits the PanguTeam for discovering two vulnerabilities.

configdAvailable for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and laterImpact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privilegesDescription: A heap based buffer overflow issue existed in the DNS client library. A malicious application with the ability to spoof responses from the local configd service may have been able to cause arbitrary code execution in DNS clients.CVE-ID
CVE-2015-7015 : PanguTeam

GasGaugeAvailable for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and laterImpact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privilegesDescription: A memory corruption issue existed in the kernel. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.CVE-ID
CVE-2015-6979 : PanguTeam

Are you going to update to the iOS 9.1 firmware, or is a jailbreak more important right now? Let us know in the comments.

Update #1: Here’s how to downgrade iOS 9.1 to iOS 9.0.2 on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.