Maps
Apple designed vector based maps
Major OS release · iOS
iOS 6
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Siri improvements
Sports: scores, player stats, game schedules, team rosters, and league standings for baseball, basketball, football, soccer and hockey
Facebook integration
Single sign-on from Settings
Shared Photo Streams
Share selected photos with the people you choose
Passbook
One place for boarding passes, store cards, movie tickets and other passes
FaceTime improvements
FaceTime over cellular support for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (3rd generation)
Phone improvements
Do Not Disturb to suppress incoming calls and notifications
Mail improvements
VIP mailbox to quickly access mail from important people
Safari improvements
iCloud tabs to see open pages on all your devices
App Store and iTunes Store improvements
Updated store design
iPhone Software / iPhone OS / iOS
Device support
Archive-product links show the canonical products represented by this project. The full device-name list preserves the broader structured support evidence, including hardware refreshes that do not have their own archive node.
Supported archive products10 mapped products
Full device coverage22 device names
- iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi
- iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
- iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular (VZ)
- iPad (4th generation) Wi-Fi
- iPad (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
- iPad (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi (Mid 2012)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
- iPad mini Wi-Fi
- iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular
- iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM)
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 4 (CDMA)
- iPhone 4 (GSM)
- iPhone 4 (GSM, 2012)
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 5 (CDMA)
- iPhone 5 (GSM)
- iPod touch (4th generation)
- iPod touch (5th generation)
Support dropped at this major
Archive products
Device names in support data
- iPad
- iPod touch (3rd generation)
Public releases
Public release history
Every canonical public release assigned to this major version, including the initial release and later point updates.
2012
- 6.0Initial major release
- 6.0.1Point update
- 6.0.2Point update
2013
- 6.1Point update
- 6.1.1Point update
- 6.1.2Point update
- 6.1.3Point update
- 6.1.4Point update
- 6.1.5Point update
2014
- 6.1.6Point update