All I want to know is...

...did Apple fix the Safari / iCloud / bookmarks / sync issue that 100s (maybe 1000s) of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch users have been discussing on their Support Forum with this release?

100s of pages of discussion on the topic of draining batteries, overheating, iCloud on/off, Safari bookmark.db syncing issues MUST have been noticed. And the PR of Apple gently admitting to the issue by saying something like "address Safari bookmark sync from upgraded iOS5 systems" would be enough.

I'll wait weeks before updating after spending months combating this problem on my iDevices. Let's hope the same discussions show signs of a fix with iOS6.1 updaters.

A minor addition is a new button allowing people to reset the advertising identifier.

Just FYI: the Advertising Identifier reset button is buried way down in Settings -> General -> About -> Advertising. There's also an on/off switch for the "Limit Ad Tracking" setting.

Originally Posted by Stuke

...did Apple fix the Safari / iCloud / bookmarks / sync issue that 100s (maybe 1000s) of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch users have been discussing on their Support Forum with this release?

I'm on an iPhone 4 so maybe that precludes me from having this issue, but not only is this not the case with me, I've never even heard of it until just now (and I have probably 200 iPhone owners who would have asked me about it if they were experiencing the issue, as I'm their primary Apple 'tech support.').

IME most of the reports you see in any forum (even Apple's) are from user error, but even allowing for that it does sound like some users are having odd issues there. Might want to take the opportunity of this fresh new release to do a "clean install" and restore as long as you have to upgrade anyway and see if that doesn't mitigate the issues.

I had an issue recently on my iPad 2 (but never on my iPhone 4S) where Safari bookmarks didn't show up (it was blank, with only the default set of bookmarks) for about a day, but it was fixed after I killed Safari and restarted it.

I did not see any draining of the battery, though.

@chas_m
The bookmarks were disappearing and coming back twice on my iphone 4 after upgrading to ios6. Of course, I did nothing wrong. Sorry, but you could stop talking constantly about errors on the users side just because you and your army of iphone owners didn't experienced something similar. I feel offended when somebody talks generally and put the guilt into the shoe of the user.
It's dead simply: you open safari on the iphone by pressing the icon, you want to select a bookmark and there is no bookmark. It's gone and you have no idea why. Even an idiot couldn't make the bookmarks disappear.

battery life

since bot my wife and myself updated to 6.1 to our 4S's, our battery life went in the tank. I got on an Apple forum and posed this predicament. One user told me it isn't true and to re download the update from iTunes. Another user said he was having the same issue. So, I guess I'll wait to see how many complaints this issue brings