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iOS 17.2 Beta Introduces Journal App

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The iOS 17.2 beta that Apple seeded to developers today includes the first iteration of the Journal app that Apple announced way back in June when iOS 17 was initially previewed.

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Apple's Journal app will let iPhone and iPad users record their daily thoughts and activities. It incorporates data like photos, music listened to, workouts, and more, plus it suggests topics to write about.

Entries can have integrated photos, music, and audio recordings, and important moments can be highlighted.

The Journal app is passcode and Face ID protected for privacy purposes, and all of the suggestions are done on-device. Entries are end-to-end encrypted.


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Odd. I have it on my iPhone but not my iPad.
 
msackey said:
This Journal app is intriguing, but I also ask, "Why"? Why is Apple making this app? What's their interest?

I'm a little wary of Apple going into apps like this for a number of reason. Many years ago (I think more than 15 years ago), the two major post-photo editing tools for Macs were either Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. I spend several hundred dollars and went with Aperture because I thought having a tool that is well-integrated into Apple's ecosystem would be a plus. Well, it was a plus for a while until some years later Apple stopped developing Aperture then eventually gave it up. That was several hundred dollars down the drain, but worse is migrating things over to Apple iPhotos which then became Apple Photos.

After that experience, I didn't fully trust Apple to make apps in which usually you would think third-parties would be the one to do them instead.

So why is Apple venturing into journaling apps?
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Hey msackey I’am in the same boat with you regards Aperture spent much Dollars and time and effort building Systems round Aperture still furious at  for giving up on it. Once had the Producer of Lost and the Writer of Braveheart staring at my Mac Set up during a Movie Shoot and Aperture was running the whole thing - you can't Buy that kind of Advertising! The good news is it still works!! Some kind soul on GitHub made a nifty App that renders Aperture usable on current OS! Will send details when get back to Desk.

Not to Mention They still Support Logic and Final Cut but Professional Photographers Not so Much!!

Oh and just Installed iPad OS 17.2 and can’t find Journal
 
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racep said:
I'm amazed that this is it for this app.
There doesn't seem to be much complexity or features. I'm curious as to why it took so long for this to come out with such little functionality. And also is not showing up on my iPad.

No Tag capability, No Filters, No Check-in Capability, No Searching Capability
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It’s beta 1.
 
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Innise said:
I tried it. The cooler features are not there (yet?), such as pulling in data from Workouts, Music, Podcasts, etc. You can enter text, pictures, voice and a location. That's it. Hopefully that's still on-track.
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We are about 4 hours from when this dropped. Let’s see what happens overnight. It may pull stuff in in the evening. I don’t think this is it.
 
tonyisit said:
Are you worried that it take up to much space on your phone ?
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no, but with watchOS 10 it downloaded apps onto my AW and then tried sync'ing, specifically the News app showed up as a widget trying to fetch data, so deleted it from the iPhone to stop that.
 
bladerunner88 said:
Hey msackey I’am in the same boat with you regards Aperture spent much Dollars and time and effort building Systems round Aperture still furious at  for giving up on it. Once had the Producer of Lost and the Writer of Braveheart staring at my Mac Set up during a Movie Shoot and Aperture was running the whole thing - you can't Buy that kind of Advertising! The good news is it still works!! Some kind soul on GitHub made a nifty App that renders Aperture usable on current OS! Will send details when get back to Desk.

Not to Mention They still Support Logic and Final Cut but Professional Photographers Not so Much!!

Oh and just Installed iPad OS 17.2 and can’t find Journal
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WOW! Amazing to know that Aperture can still work on current Macs! That’s amazing. It been like I think at least 5 years since Aperture stopped working, no?
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
And yes there are no iPad or Mac apps yet… Do you naysayers really believe Apple would make this iPhone-only? That makes absolutely no sense.
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I totally agree that it makes no sense to restrict a journaling app to the device without a physical keyboard or ability to write the entries by hand. But, it also makes no sense that the iPad doesn’t have a calculator, the Mac doesn’t have the Health or Translate apps, that the iPad doesn’t have a dialer for WiFi calling, etc. Not to mention the fact that it took years for basic apps like Health and Weather to make their way over to iPadOS. It really really aggravates me when Apple restricts their own native apps from their own devices like this. Especially now that we have Catalyst and it’s easier than ever for apps to have cross compatibility. You’d think they’d want to be leading the way in this regard…
 
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boston04and07 said:
I totally agree that it makes no sense to restrict a journaling app to the device without a physical keyboard or ability to write the entries by hand. But, it also makes no sense that the iPad doesn’t have a calculator, the Mac doesn’t have the Health or Translate apps, that the iPad doesn’t have a dialer for WiFi calling, etc. Not to mention the fact that it took years for basic apps like Health and Weather to make their way over to iPadOS. It really really aggravates me when Apple restricts their own native apps from their own devices like this. Especially now that we have Catalyst and it’s easier than ever for apps to have cross compatibility. You’d think they’d want to be leading the way in this regard…
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sounds like being lazy
 
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bunty said:
"The Journal app is passcode and Face ID protected for privacy purposes"

Will this passcode be unique to the app or just another use of the phone's passcode (again...) If Apple can protect this app that way, why not the Settings app to protect privacy and offer more account protection? Just gimme an optional unique passcode option for the settings app.
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No one wants to remember many passwords. Best to use only one.
 
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Yeah Day One has nothing to worry about. This isn’t on iPad or Mac, it’s intensely limited, no export option- nothing.

At best it’s good as a “daily thoughts” kind of thing whereas day one is much better for long form content.

And both are end to end encrypted. This feels a lot like Freeform to me- which I’ve never ever used
 
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