Your iMessage apps no longer clutter up the top of the keyboard, but now live inside a small + icon. Tap it to expand them and it will sort the list based on the apps you use the most. You can swipe up to see the rest of your iMessage apps. And when you join a chat with dozens of new messages, you can tap a new fetch arrow to jump to the first new message. You can also swipe right on any message to send a reply.
When someone shares their location with you in iMessage, you can now see it directly in the conversation without having to leave the app. If they send an audio message, you’ll see the transcript immediately below it, which is handy if you can’t hear it right away.
As for FaceTime, you’ll be able to leave a video or audio message for anyone who doesn’t answer your call (about time!). FaceTime is now making its way to Apple TV as well, and you can use your iPhone as a camera. During the call itself, you can create augmented reality reactions, such as confetti, hearts or fireworks, with certain hand gestures. You know, in case the person is bored with your normal reactions.
Sticker mania
Apple is putting a big emphasis on stickers in iOS 17, so much so that they are now integrated into the emoji keyboard, making them more accessible in third-party apps. Last year’s iOS 16 brought the ability to cut out a subject from any captured image by simply tapping and holding it, and now you can turn them into your own stickers for great meme potential. You can add effects to these stickers and even create Live Stickers with Live Photos. Create embarrassing friend stickers on demand. Truly, we’re in the best timeline.
Standby iPhones
Google Pixel phones have a feature that turns them into a smart display when placed on one of Google’s wireless chargers, but Apple is going even further with StandBy. This allows any iPhone, when placed in landscape mode while charging, to transform into a more useful display. You can have it display the clock (you can choose from different clock designs), photos from your library or interactive widgets. If you specifically place it on a MagSafe charger, your iPhone will remember your favorite view. If you have an iPhone 14 Pro with Always on Display, this feature will always be on, but otherwise you’ll need to tap the screen.
A new diary app
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iOS 17 comes with a brand new app! It’s called Journal, and as the name suggests, it tries to make you write down your thoughts and memories. You can add photos, audio recordings and music to your diary entries and even set goals. Apple says Journal uses on-device machine learning to suggest moments to write about, too.
Better autocorrect
You do late hate apple autocorrect? You’re not alone, but the company is finally making things better. Autocorrect now uses a transformer language mode for better word prediction. It’ll correct more types of grammar errors than ever before, and you’ll even see predictive text recommendations as you type, just like what you’ll find using Gmail’s Smart Compose. These improvements also extend to voice dictation, which uses a new speech recognition model that supposedly makes it more accurate.
New communication security features
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Apple’s Communication Safety feature, which helps prevent children from seeing nude images in iMessage, is expanding its reach in iOS 17. Now it will bring these protections to other services and apps in iOS, from AirDrop and Contact Posters to FaceTime messages . It also works with video content. Even adults can take advantage of the feature, as it can blur sensitive videos and photos and allow you to choose whether to view them. Apple claims that all image and video processing for these protection features happens on your device and nothing is sent back to Apple.
More new changes
There are a number of small improvements of note:
- Adaptive audio: If you have second-generation AirPods Pro, there’s a new listening mode called Adaptive Audio. This is a combination of Apple’s Transparency mode and Active Noise Cancellation, so you can block out annoying sounds but hear the important ones. If you start talking, Conversation Awareness will automatically lower the media volume, reduce background noise and enhance the voices in front of you. Also new is the ability to tap the stem of AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation), AirPods (3rd generation), or the Digital Crown on AirPods Max during a call to mute and unmute.
- CarPlay Gets SharePlay: Travelling? If the car has CarPlay and everyone in the car has an iPhone, anyone can control and contribute to the playlist.
- AirPlay Hotels: Apple is bringing AirPlay to hotel rooms. You can simply scan a QR code from your TV to share videos, photos and music from your device on the big screen. Apple says it’s starting with IHG Hotels & Resorts brands.
- Offline Maps: Google Maps has had it for years, but Apple has finally caught up. You can now save an area of a map to your device and use it when you don’t have an internet connection, including turn-by-turn navigation.
- Accessibility Updates: There’s a new feature called Assistive Access, which adds a customizable interface to make the iPhone easier to use for people with cognitive disabilities. Live Speech offers a way for people who cannot speak to have their words spoken in person or over the phone. Personal Voice allows people at risk of speech loss to create a voice similar to their own. And then there’s Point and Speak, which helps blind and visually impaired people read text on physical objects by pointing their phone at the object.
- Visual Search: When you tap a subject in a photo to lift it (to create a sticker or paste it elsewhere), you can also press Search to get more information about it. It also works in paused video frames.
- Simpler Siri: You no longer have to say “Hey Siri” to activate voice assistant; just say Siri.” Likewise, you no longer have to keep saying it when running back-to-back commands. Just add another command.
- Health app updates: Apple lets you log your daily moods in the Health app, with access to depression and anxiety ratings typically found in clinics (and other resources). Also, if you’re using Apple’s Screen Time feature for your kids, there’s now a Screen Distance tool that will use the TrueDepth camera to encourage kids to move away if they hold their phone more than 12 inches away from their face for any length of time. prolonged of time. Apple says this can help reduce the risk of myopia and reduce digital eye strain in adults. Also, the Health app is finally available on iPad.
- AirTag Family: You can share your AirTag with up to five people, and everyone will be able to track the item in the Find My app.
- Fur friends in pictures: The People album in the Photos app is now the People and Pets album, because it can finally identify your furry friends. No, it won’t show pictures of just any dog or cat, but it will know intelligently your pet.
iPadOS 17 main features
As usual, iPadOS 17 will have many of the same exact features that we saw in iOS 17, but there are also some exclusive tablet-specific updates. For the full list, check out Apple’s preview page.
Lock screen changes
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Google’s new Pixel Tablet turns a standard tablet into a smart display, and Apple is thinking along the same lines with some of its lock screen changes in iPadOS 17. Now you can customize so much more about your lock screen from new wallpapers to Live Photos wallpapers, and even add live activity so you can track certain events like timers, match scores, and the status of your Uber Eats order. Finally, you can add interactive widgets on your lock screen so you can do more without having to unlock the screen and launch an app.
Improved autofill for PDFs
If you often work with PDFs, Apple insisted on how much easier it is to enter information not only in iPadOS 17, but also in iOS 17. The software now uses machine learning to identify fields in a PDF so you can quickly add details, and the Notes app now lets you organize, read, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs as well.
Safari Updates
There are some changes to Safari in iPadOS 17, and this is another one that also affects iOS 17. In Safari, you can now create work and personal profiles (and more) to keep your browsing separate, by segmenting your history, cookies , the Groups and Favorites tabs. Do you use Apple’s private browsing feature? You can now lock tabs with Face ID or Touch ID, instead of closing them completely in case you need to step away from your machine.
If you save your passwords and passkey with Safari, you can now create a group of people you can share certain accounts with. You can remove someone from the group at any time and passwords stay up to date. By the way, if you receive a one-time verification code in Mail, it will automatically fill in Safari so you don’t have to search for the email.
Stage manager
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Apple’s Stage Manager feature since iOS 16 is getting some refinements. Get more flexibility in moving and resizing windows to customize your app layouts exactly how you want them to appear. Stage Manager now also supports built-in cameras on external displays.
Free form
Freeform, the collaborative whiteboarding app that Apple debuted last year, is getting some new tools. (This applies to Freeform on all Apple platforms, including iOS 17.) The new tools are a watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, highlighter, variable-width pen, and ruler. Now you can also draw any shape and the software will perfect it, so you don’t have to be embarrassed about your circles.
Freeform is also getting a feature called Follow Along, which lets you keep track of which area of the whiteboard your collaborators are working on. The screen will show you what they are looking at as they move across the canvas. Useful for really big whiteboards!
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