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Apple today provided the third beta of the upcoming iOS 17 software release to developers for testing purposes, and as with all betas, there are small refinements and tweaks to various features and interface elements in the update.

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This guide highlights everything new in the third beta of iOS 17.

Deleted Photos

In the Recently Deleted album, Apple has made tweaks to the interface. Rather than separate Delete and Recover buttons, there's now a small three-dot menu icon at the bottom of the display that can be tapped to bring up the recover and delete options.

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With no images selected, options include Delete All and Recover All, but with images selected, there is an option to recover or delete specific images. When dealing with Live Photos, if you select one or more Live Photos and tap the management icon, there is a new Save as Video option.

If you are deleting or recovering images of a person, you can choose the "Feature This Person Less" option.

Mental Wellbeing

Apple has made minor design refinements to the Mental Wellbeing section of the Health app, giving it a more streamlined look and color scheme. The colors for various emotions have been changed, and the buttons and background now match mood choice.

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Very unpleasant is a lighter purple with more blue and less red, neutral is more of a blue green shade than before, slightly pleasant is a brighter green with more yellow, pleasant is yellow instead of green, and very pleasant is orange.

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There's also an option to turn on reminders to log moods on a scheduled basis. Times include in the middle of the day and at the end of the day, with a customized schedule available.

Apple Music Song Credits

In the Apple Music app, there's now an option to view song credits by tapping on the three-dot icon next to a song that is playing, searched for, or in a playlist. Credits show all of the performing artists, composition artists, and those who were involved in production and engineering.

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This section also houses the option to see the full lyrics, which has been removed from the standard dropdown menu, plus it offers information on the audio quality available such as Lossless or Dolby Atmos.

Home App

There's now a splash screen that lets you know what's new with the Home app. For lights that support multiple colors and tones, there are now pre-selected options at the bottom of the interface for quickly changing the color. The color options also show up in Control Center when accessing a specific light.

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The Home app in the third beta also now supports the Activity History, which can be turned off or enabled for the previous month. Activity History shows activity events for smart locks, garage doors, and home security systems.

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iOS 17 Public Beta

It's likely that the third developer beta of iOS 17 is the same beta that will be provided to public beta testers, and we could see a public beta in the near future.

Apple promised a public beta in July, and now that are well into July, it could be coming at any time.

Article Link: Everything New in iOS 17 Beta 3
 
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Kissmo1980

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Just fix the battery drain first!!
I used to jump on betas in the past.
After killing 2 iPhone batteries, I decided to not do the same on the new iP14 PM.
I am also super excited about the new features, but my wallet cannot take another hit.

I noticed that it’s the heat that devices have - and it also coincides with summer in the northern hemisphere.
So you have 2 issues: hot weather outside, hot running phone - charging more frequently.
Hence - battery health gets destroyed.


If you use this on your primary device - might want to consider reverting back to a released version.
It depends, on you of course - I for one - am barely able to refrain from installing 😂
 

AriaAmaris

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In the Photos app, does it allow the user to sort images in a way that they vanish from the main library if moved into an album?

I have tens of thousands of images in my Library. I‘d like to create albums and sort these images into albums. The problem is simple yet very frustrating. There is no way to know which images have been sorted because the moved image doesn’t disappear from the main Library. It’s very difficult to know which ones have been sorted and which ones are still to be sorted. I’m forced to use Lightroom because of this, but I’d much rather use the Apply Photos app.
 

WildSelkie

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In the Photos app, does it allow the user to sort images in a way that they vanish from the main library if moved into an album?

I have tens of thousands of images in my Library. I‘d like to create albums and sort these images into albums. The problem is simple yet very frustrating. There is no way to know which images have been sorted because the moved image doesn’t disappear from the main Library. It’s very difficult to know which ones have been sorted and which ones are still to be sorted. I’m forced to use Lightroom because of this, but I’d much rather use the Apply Photos app.

If you have a Mac you can create a smart album showing images not in an album - sadly not available on iOS
 

zachz

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So far this years’ betas have been stable and usable from the start (obviously with bugs but that’s to be expected).

However many of the bugs from the Home app and Home section in Control Center have remained… I really hope the final release fixes it for all.

Almost impossible to set my Hue bulbs to the preset colors saved in home. They’ll more often than not just go to a random color despite the preset color showing what it was saved as. Hue app has no issues so it should be possible for Apple
 
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zakarhino

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The Apple Music credits section is useless for me unless I can click on each credit to see more of what they've created, this is already possible on Tidal and one of my favorite features. You can also visit an artist's profile and see every track they have a credit on with the ability to filter by credit type ("Show me everytime Pharrell Williams had a Mixing credit", for example).

Come on Apple, you still have some way to go before I can switch to you permanently over Tidal.
 

randomthoughts

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The “Save as Video” doesn’t show up for me with Live Photos in the Recently Deleted album, but I do see “Feature a Person Less.”

Probably a bug that it’s showing something other than Delete or Recover given it’s in Recently Deleted.

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phenste

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been bugging the hell out of me that I can’t see songwriters in the “show full lyrics” area since getting the beta, glad to see they were just expanding on that feature in general
 
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