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Even the title of this headline demonstrates how iOS fails to bring much to the 2017 update. It's the lack of features year for iOS.

We all know it is really just iOS 10.5 w AR.
Not the case at all for the iPad. iOS 11 should be good.
 
Running the GM on my iPad Pro for the past week says otherwise. Plenty of goodness here for the phone/iPod Touch, even if it does pale new feature-wise to the ipads.
The app switcher/multitasking features on the iPad and revamped dock for the iPad make this update night and day between the iPad and iPhone. On the iPhone i disagree with the plenty of goodness. Performance is always welcome as is integration but it speaks to a lack of innovation.

The truth is the new home screen-less X and Apple's contention it is the mark of the next decade of the smartphone means they could have presented us with something truly innovative for the full screen phone. Many of us would like to see Apple bring an overhaul to Springboard. Force/3D Touch is a tool that could be the doorway to doing that.

Instead the consolidated the lock screen and control center pages as well as a new App Store and some Siri changes along with Augemented Reality.

I'm not the only one who considers this a major disappointment and a missed opportunity.
 
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PSA: Yes. It's normal for your iPhone to get insanely hot after updating. It's doing processor-intense things like re-indexing and re-scanning your Photo library for face data.

Does anyone know how the face data sync across devices is going to work? I have face data on my iPhone but never bothered to set it up on my Mac or iPad. Would love the phone's face albums to start syncing to other devices.
 
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What happens after I update an iOS device over-the-air to iOS 11 and connect it to a computer running iTunes 12.6.2 (ie, the last iTunes version with the App Store)? Can iTunes 12.6.2 backup devices running iOS 11? Can it transfer files? Can it sync non-app items (music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, podcasts)? I assume the beta versions of iOS 11 did work with iTunes 12.6.2, so technically the GM of iOS 11 should so too.
 
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