Hands on with iOS 6: Social and sharing

20.09.2012

Social sharing

Tap to share content in iOS 6, and you'll be greeted by a new array of icons. As sharing options continue to proliferate, this new view seems better suited than the iOS 5 approach of old--an ever-longer scrolling list--to managing them all.

Most of the sharing and related options you'll see are holdovers from iOS 5, just presented in a new way. You'll see familiar icons for actions directly related to core apps, like Mail, Message, Twitter, and Facebook. Other options that don't link directly to a specific app--Print, Copy, Use As Wallpaper--will instead show grayscale icons related to the actions that they represent.

Tap on any of those buttons to trigger the related action.