Apple has seed the iOS 5.1 beta 3 today making it for developers only version, that as usual needs investigations to find out what this iOS firmware is offering.
Certainly bug fixes and improvements for certain areas are included.
However that assumption won’t be enough and satisfying for iOs community, they want to disclose all the curtains that cover the treasures or clues within.
At time being, Macrumors has done a good job enclosing the iOS 5.1 b 3 hidden clues to audience. 3Gs toggle to disable or enable (turn of f or on) 3G cellular data is discovered, apparently Apple decided to restore the feature and make it available for iPhone 4s. Nevertheless beware this feature can drain your battery life quicker than EDGE.
The second finding is a new API for excluding app content from being backed up.
iOS 5.1 introduces a new API to mark files or directories that should not be backed up. For NSURL objects, add the NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey attribute to prevent the corresponding file from being backed up.
Having this feature in hand will be helping iOS developers marking contents (files and folder) being stored for offline usage, instead put them away to a backup however not be subject to removal during the purging of caches.
Download iOS 5.1 Beta 3 via Apple developer site.
Via Macrumors.
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