How to get to the new features of iOS 5 on iPhone

To get the camera icon on home screen

Double click on home button on iPhone

To take a picture, just press the "volume up" button on the left side of the iPhone.

Notification window

Slide/swipe down with your thumb from top bar(where it shows time, battery meter and network signals) once you are on the main page.

iCloud settings
Settings > iCloud  - Select the items you would like to be in the cloud

iCloud Storage plan upgrade

Settings > iCloud > Account > Storage Plan

Updating iOS automatically after iOs 5 update

Settings > General > Software Update

iTunes Wi-Fi Sync

Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync > Sync Now

Keyboard Shortcuts

General > Keyboard > Turn  "." shortcut ON
To add a new Shortcut, tap, Add New Shortcut.

Accessibility
Settings > General > Accessiblity

Twitter settings on iOS5
Settings > Twitter > Sign in your twitter username and password and you can add multiple account

Private Browsing in Safari
Settings > Safari > Turn Private Browsing ON under Privacy

iMessage 
iMessage is an integrated feature in Messages, but make sure to turn it on inside the settings of Messages.
Settings > Messages> Turn iMessages ON

Read Receipts
Settings > Messages > Send Read Receipts option ON/ OFF

Creating Reading List
Open up a webpage in Safari
Click on the bookmark icon from the bottom, select Add to Reading List.

Opening/Retrieving Reading List
Click on the bookmark icon from safari("open book" icon). Select Reading List.

Updating iPhone from iOS 4.x to iOS 5

First and foremost: BACKUP !!!!!
Don't follow anything before you do backup.

Connect your iPhone to your PC/MAC. From the iTunes window, when the iPhone icon shows up on the left menu, right click and select Backup.

Just like me, if you were used to be App junkie(i am talking about 240 some apps), it may be a good time to reduce the number of apps you have.

Enough talk...Now lets get to work.

Once you have the backup done, select the iPhone icon, and from the right hand menu, click update and you will be presented with these series of windows.

1) When you click the update button, right next to iPhone image, this window will show up. Click "Download and Update"










2) I received this message because looks like it figured out that I am not using my primary computer where I had my iTunes library resides. But again, make sure you made a BACKUP before doing these steps

3) Click 'Next'

4) Click 'Agree'

5) Well now its the waiting game. Just follow whatever iTunes tells you.

PLEASE try not to do any other activities on your computer while doing this. Just wait till it finish.

Once everything is finished, you must be wondering what happened to all the Apps, songs and other missing things.

Well I went through the iCloud setup and all once the update was completed. 

But my main question was where are all the apps. 

The only solution I had was to reconnect my iPhone to my laptop and then when iPhone logo comes up, (Make sure its your primary computer/all of the backed up items are there) click on sync or apply from the right hand screen. 

So depending upon how much stuff you have on your iPhone, it could take hours to restore it back to the iPhone...

The main thing I noticed was that most of my folders were gone , now i have a boring process of creating them again.