Apple Announces iOS 17 With 'StandBy' View, Journal App, Siri Changes, and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced iOS 17, the next major operating system for the iPhone, introducing a range of new communication and sharing features.

iOS 17 features personalized contact posters with photos, Memojis, and eye-catching typography that appear during calls and in the updated address book. A new Live Voicemail feature brings live-transcription in real-time, allowing for old-school call screening. Users can now pick up the phone mid-voicemail and transcription is handled-on device.

Messages now offers improved search features, an arrow to jump to the first unread message in a conversation, easier inline replies with a swipe gesture, inline location sharing, and a new Stickers experience. iMessage apps and the camera have now been moved to a new plus button.

Check In is a new feature that gives updates on your location to let family or friends know when you get home safely. If you're delayed, it can recognize that and check in with you. If you don't respond, it can share an alert with friends, sharing location, battery, and cell service status.

Users can AirDrop content by bringing their iPhones close together and transfers can now occur in the background. It is also now possible to swap numbers with someone new via "NameDrop," enabling users to share contact information when phones are brought close together.

There are updates to keyboard and dictation, bringing improvements to autocorrect via a new "transformer" language model and sentence-level correction.

iOS 17 also introduces a new "Journal" app. The app sources new memories using people, places, activity, music, and photos that users can add to daily journal entries. Users can set reminders to remember to write a daily entry. Journal comes to iPhone later this year.

A new mode called "StandBy" provides a view for displaying the time, widgets, and other information when the iPhone is horizontal. Users can now simply say "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri," and Siri will understand follow-up commands that do not include the trigger word.

Article Link: Apple Announces iOS 17 With 'StandBy' View, Journal App, Siri Changes, and More

 

[sza]

Now you will see naked bxxches when you get spam calls…nice

 

[dk001]

I wonder what a Carrier will really allow?

While some of this sounds nice, I live in an iOS/Android world and iOS specific only functionality does not lend itself to helping, only hindering.

 

[Johnny907]

Thank GOD for that new Plus button.
Putting the icons above the text bar has annoyed me from day one.
Huge improvement for me frankly.

 

[McWetty]

Nothing about getting rid of the damn green bubbles. Is there a sticker for being an obstinate tool bag and not improving Android texting?

 

[Johnny907]

Now you will see naked bxxches when you get spam calls…nice

I’m sure they’ll have a toggle to block this on anyone not on your contact list.

 

[dk001]

Nothing about getting rid of the damn green bubbles. Is there a sticker for being an obstinate tool bag and not improving Android texting?

Especially with the recent increase in SMS centric attacks.

 

[aespana]

Thank GOD for that new Plus button.
Putting the icons above the text bar has annoyed me from day one.
Huge improvement for me frankly.

100% agreed. Those text bar icons were really annoying.

Really like the new functions of Messages

 

[FruityLoop]

Apple today announced iOS 17, the next major operating system for the iPhone, introducing new communication and sharing features.

iOS 17 features personalized contact posters with photos, memojis, and eye-catching typography that appear during calls and in the updated address book. The update also brings live voicemail, updates to phone, FaceTime, Messages, and more.

A new Live Voicemail feature brings live-transcription in real-time, allowing old-school call screening. Users can now pick up the phone mid-voicemail and transcription is handled-on device.

Messages now features search features, an arrow to jump to the first unread message in a conversation, easier inline replies with a swipe gesture, inline location sharing, and a new Stickers experience. iMessage apps and the camera have now been moved to a new plus button.

Check In is a new feature that gives updates on your location to let family or friends know when you get home safely. If you're delayed, it can recognize that and check in with you. If you don't respond, it can share an alert with friends, sharing location, battery, and cell service status.

More to follow...






Article Link: Apple Announces iOS 17 With New Communication and Sharing Features

So you removed that AirDrop change you made to please the Chinese Government?

 

[arggg14]

Autocorrect learns ****!

 

[Nabby]

Ducking word. Definitely my favorite reference in a Keynote ever!

 

[ghostface147]

A ducking word. Hilarious.

 

[iMerik]

And for those moments when you just want to type a ducking word, autocorrect will learn that too.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Loving the iOS 17 features so far! Jam-packed. I like it.

 

[decypher44]

Ducking finally!!!!!

 

[_Spinn_]

Lots of good stuff coming!

 

[HiRez]

"As you capture your life's precious moments, you can mark important ones"

Um...wouldn't all of the "precious moments" be important ones?

 

[Duncan-UK]

Loving the iOS 17 features so far! Jam-packed. I like it.

Really? It’s just one never to be used again gimmick after another. We’re not all children or hyper easily pleased millennials…

 

[USB-Adapter]

Bells and whistles so far, so boring. No macOS apps on the iPad, no Samsung DeX like feature on the iPhone.

 

[Johnny907]

When will my ducking phone stop autocorrecting words I spelled correctly two-three words AFTER I type them?
Nothing like having to go back and reread everything I wrote before hitting send because my phone loves to substitute words on its own.

 

[Duncan-UK]

I’d love “Cregg” to deliver me a terminal disease diagnosis. Imagine how hyper and enthusiastic he’d be…

 

[fanboy-ish]

I need that Craig sticker, also in gif format, and that voice note transcription feature, being someone who despises voice notes it would be very handy, I hope third party apps will follow suit and adopt that feature

 

[MathersMahmood]

Beyond underwhelming.

 

[oofio2461]

iphone x support? sideloading support??

 

[driekraaien]

Again no update of the health app?

Stickers and moments lol.

Unbelievable.