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Latest Apple iOS 5 rumours

Fancy some iOS 5 rumours before all is officially unveiled? Salt shakers at the ready

Although the wires are abuzz with iCloud rumours, it’s been confirmed that Apple’s iOS 5 is also on the agenda for the WWDC next Monday. Here are some speculatively juicy morsels to keep you going till next week.

Widgets

That’s right, little green droids, run for the hills – your ace is an ace no longer. Expect the next iDevices to support live widgets, shoving weather, news and drunken Facebook statuses into your gadget-gorged face.

Notifications

The achilles heel of iOS has always been the basic notification system which has left much to be desired in terms of functionality and unobtrusiveness. Android and webOS have destroyed Apple in this arena, but hopefully we can expect a notification bar with scrolling messages as opposed to the rudely interrupting box that’s currently present.

Nuance voice recognition

Voice recognition powered by Nuance technology should ensure that developers can harness our voices for all sorts of innovative navigation and entertainment purposes. Expect motivational shouts and orders for catapulted avian armies to fill up train carriages shortly.

Music streaming

If iCloud integration isn’t present in iOS 5, we’ll eat our Macbooks. We can’t wait to stream our entire collection of tracks without using up a single gig of memory on our iPhone – until we go into a tunnel and lose signal, that is. Check out our wish list for more possible features.

Twitter built-in

Taking a leaf out of Windows Phone Mango’s book, iOS5 may have native Twitter integration with the ability to upload content directly to the gargantuan micro-blogging site. Expect an influx of accidental, inebriated tweets from your entire address book in the near future.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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