Apple announces iOS 17 with Journal app, FaceTime voicemail and more

Apple has officially announced iOS 17. Here’s what’s in store for the next major iPhone software update. The update has four focuses: communication, sharing, intelligent input, and new experiences.

phone:

• Receive personalized contact posts that you set others to see when you call them; Also available in the Contacts app; Similar to customizing the lock screen
• Receives live voicemail with voice-to-text transcription before answering; Transcription is handled on device
• FaceTime brings up voicemail via a quick video recording

Message:

• Search contains abbreviated words for accurate results
• Swipe to reply on any bubble
• Audio messages are transcribed
• Location sharing now inline with chat
• Check In is a new feature to notify family when you’ve arrived safely; Automatically recognizes when you don’t make progress or don’t respond and shares updates with family
• iMessage apps “gracefully away” under new + button
• All emoji are now stickers
• Remove Background feature now turns themes into stickers

Airdrop:

• NameDrop is a new way to share phone numbers and emails between nearby iPhones
• Sharing media has also been revamped, and longer media transfers may continue over the Internet
• SharePlay API adding AirDrop integration

autocorrect:

• The keyboard now takes advantage of the “Transformer language model” to improve predictions.
• The keyboard can learn what you really mean by “ducking”… ffff
• Personalized predictions by your words and usage
• dictation upgrade

Journal:

• Uses on-device machine learning to create personalized suggestions for journaling – Suggestions API for other apps
• Contains photos, workouts and interactions as prompts
• Entries can be marked as important to standout
• prompts to prompt you to write
• Journal can be locked and is end-to-end encrypted for privacy

to support:

• New full-screen experience that displays information in landscape mode
• Can be personalized to show data such as clocks, photos, widgets, weather, home controls, and third-party widgets
• supports live activities
• Siri works with a special landscape user interface in standby
• Apple Watch Ultra-like red tones are used to display the watch at night

More

• Siri no longer requires Hey before Siri for voice activation
• live stickers
• offline maps

iOS 17 will be available in the summer as a developer beta and a public beta. iPhone users can update to the final release this fall. Here’s what’s new in iPadOS 17.

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