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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