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Apple Shares Lists of All New Features in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma

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Apple today shared in-depth lists of all new features coming with the iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma software updates, which are all set to be released later this month. The lists are available as PDFs on Apple's website.

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A key new feature of iOS 17 is StandBy, a new full-screen view that provides glanceable information designed to be viewed from a distance when an iPhone is on its side and charging. The customizable interface can show a clock in various styles, a calendar, favorite photos, the weather forecast, music playback controls, widgets, and more.

Additional new features on iOS 17 include Contact Posters, NameDrop, Live Voicemail, Check In, the ability to download Apple Maps for offline use, and much more, with a full overview of the update available in our iOS 17 roundup.

iPadOS 17 has many of the same features as iOS 17, plus adds widgets on the Lock Screen, Live Activities support, a Health app for the iPad, and more. For a comprehensive look at everything new for the iPad, read our iPadOS 17 roundup.

macOS Sonoma has an assortment of new features and enhancements for the Mac, including interactive widgets on the desktop, Apple TV-like aerial screensavers, enhancements to apps like Messages and Safari, a new Game mode that prioritizes CPU and GPU performance for gaming, and more, with more details available in our macOS Sonoma roundup.

iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 will be released on Monday, September 18, while macOS Sonoma will be released on Tuesday, September 26, according to Apple.

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They did not include the ability to edit the focus on portrait shots post facto, even old portrait shots.

It also adds 48 Mpix HEIF as an option in photos.
 
I found out that the iPhone 15 feature in which you can edit the focus point of a Portrait mode photo is available on older phones like my 13 Pro Max. That, combined with me not having enough money saved up at the moment and the lack of Thunderbolt, convinced me to hold on another year. Even though I hate Lightning, spending $2700 on a whole new phone when my phone still takes excellent pictures, has decent battery life, is still plenty fast, and has a screen far better than my TV is a tough pill to swallow. I'll probably upgrade to the 16 Pro Max or 16 Ultra or whatever. I'm still angry that I had to spend $400 to buy a whole new set of AirPods because they don't sell the USB-C case separately. I'm just done with Lightning
 
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This looks great actually. It will be interesting to see how much some of this bogs down my 3rd gen Air, and/or eats the battery charge, but that is a quality feature update list
 
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Really like these lists, it’s very easy for a lot of the lesser features to remain unexamined. I especially like the new ability in MacOS Sonoma to work with Memories in Photos, assigning photos from your collection directly to Memories and being able to drag and drop them around in the timeline.
 
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Eldaerenth Faexidor said:
iOS 17 is more impressive than the entire iPhone 15 lineup, imo.
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I don't know about more impressive but they certainly seem to have nailed it this year compared to recent years. The 17 RC is more stable and functional than the 16.0 final last year.

Funny thing about these three PDFs, most of the content is identical even across the macOS one. If you read the one for iPhone you've read it all. New "features" don't come to the Mac anymore, they just get ports of iOS ones. I'm sure there's lots of low level stuff but that never makes the announcements.
 
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Apple today shared in-depth lists of all new features coming with the iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma software updates, which are all set to be released later this month. The lists are available as PDFs on Apple's website.

General-iOS-17-Feature-Orange-Purple.jpg

A key new feature of iOS 17 is StandBy, a new full-screen view that provides glanceable information designed to be viewed from a distance when an iPhone is on its side and charging. The customizable interface can show a clock in various styles, a calendar, favorite photos, the weather forecast, music playback controls, widgets, and more.

Additional new features on iOS 17 include Contact Posters, NameDrop, Live Voicemail, Check In, the ability to download Apple Maps for offline use, and much more, with a full overview of the update available in our iOS 17 roundup.

iPadOS 17 has many of the same features as iOS 17, plus adds widgets on the Lock Screen, Live Activities support, a Health app for the iPad, and more. For a comprehensive look at everything new for the iPad, read our iPadOS 17 roundup.

macOS Sonoma has an assortment of new features and enhancements for the Mac, including interactive widgets on the desktop, Apple TV-like aerial screensavers, enhancements to apps like Messages and Safari, a new Game mode that prioritizes CPU and GPU performance for gaming, and more, with more details available in our macOS Sonoma roundup.

iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 will be released on Monday, September 18, while macOS Sonoma will be released on Tuesday, September 26, according to Apple.

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Well, this best macOS sonoma features are already ready to use. you should definitely start using them
 
I am dismayed (yet again) that still another release of a MacOS after the time of the Catalina version has not restored the ability to EDIT METADATA of library items in the Books app, nor even to display or sort items by some of the metadata categories that publishers used to supply, much less things like purchase date, date added.

All you get shown in the list is the item's title, author and the percentage read so far-- and the ability to sort the list by title, author, "recent" (but dates are not displayed) or "manually". Exasperating.

The workaround for some of us with large holdings in the Books app is to rely on a plethora of custom "collections" including some temporary ones with labels like "PDFs added in August" and the like, or "current" so as to be able to corral and retain sub-collections that might simply disappear if one re-sorts a list that had previously been "sorted manually" per Apple's option to do that.

Can't be sure from the pathetic summary of Sonoma changes to the Books app, but still also among the missing fixes, I will assume, is ability to remove display of a book's cover artwork icon in list view. That view became pretty useless as of Catalina for anyone with a large library of ebooks and/or PDFs, since one used to be able to display say 30 items on a desktop/laptop screen, versus now it's about 5 or 6 items... and the list has no "index" sidebar to allow for skipping to a particular section of the list.

And yes of course I have supplied feedback to Apple. Over and over.

Apple's interest in books seems limited to wanting to sell you more of them. I sometimes almost yearn for the day when one PURCHASED certain Apple apps and therefore had more leverage in getting them maintained and supported.
 
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I am dismayed (yet again) that still another release of a MacOS after the time of the Catalina version has not restored the ability to EDIT METADATA of library items in the Books app, nor even to display or sort items by some of the metadata categories that publishers used to supply, much less things like purchase date, date added.

All you get shown in the list is the item's title, author and the percentage read so far-- and the ability to sort the list by title, author, "recent" (but dates are not displayed) or "manually". Exasperating.

The workaround for some of us with large holdings in the Books app is to rely on a plethora of custom "collections" including some temporary ones with labels like "PDFs added in August" and the like, or "current" so as to be able to corral and retain sub-collections that might simply disappear if one re-sorts a list that had previously been "sorted manually" per Apple's option to do that.

Can't be sure from the pathetic summary of Sonoma changes to the Books app, but still also among the missing fixes, I will assume, is ability to remove display of a book's cover artwork icon in list view. That view became pretty useless as of Catalina for anyone with a large library of ebooks and/or PDFs, since one used to be able to display say 30 items on a desktop/laptop screen, versus now it's about 5 or 6 items... and the list has no "index" sidebar to allow for skipping to a particular section of the list.

And yes of course I have supplied feedback to Apple. Over and over.

Apple's interest in books seems limited to wanting to sell you more of them. I sometimes almost yearn for the day when one PURCHASED certain Apple apps and therefore had more leverage in getting them maintained and supported.
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I’ve learned the hard way not to buy content from Apple. If they could start over fresh today, they would probably not sell any content. It’s just a holdover from the iTunes days. Books, TV shows, Movies, they don’t care about providing a good experience anymore. They just want you to rent from TV+ and Apple Music. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them either stop selling eBooks or start a subscription service for them. But without improving the Books app, of course.

Apple makes better software than Amazon in almost every instance, but Apple doesn’t seem to care about the Books or TV app experience because those are two areas where Amazon makes clearly better software than Apple. Apple should be ashamed of that. It’s not because Amazon’s software is so good, it’s because Apple doesn’t care to make theirs better.
 
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