iOS 17 Includes Updated Phone, FaceTime, and Messages Apps

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced new updates coming to Phone, FaceTime, and Messages in iOS 17 later this year.

With the new update, you'll be able to create your own custom contact poster with your photos or Memoji. This custom creation will then appear on other people's iPhones when you call them.

There's also a new Live Voicemail feature that provides live voice transcription in real time on your iPhone Lock Screen. Apple said that with this, you'll be able to make a more educated decision as to whether you want to talk to someone or not.

In FaceTime, you can now leave video messages if someone doesn't pick up your video call. They'll get a notification about the message and can watch it whenever they have time, like a voicemail.

Lastly, Messages has a ton of updates. There are new search filters, a new "catch up arrow" that quickly jumps you to the first unread message in a long conversation, and easier inline replying with swipe to reply.

Audio messages are also now transcribed right within the messages thread, and there's inline location sharing. Check In provides a way to give updates on your location within a messages thread, and if you're ever delayed it'll send an alert to friends.

Apps within Messages have been moved to a new "plus" button at the bottom left of the app. Stickers have been revamped and you can even create your own stickers and motion stickers from your own live photos.

These updates are a small portion of updates coming to iOS 17, so be sure to read more about the new iPhone software in our main post.

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[AppleFan91]

Let’s hope the interactive widgets from iPadOS 17 are also on iOS as well…

Edit: Craig just said they are!

 

[TruthWatcher412]

Let’s hope the interactive widgets from iPadOS 17 is also on iOS as well…

They'll save that for iOS 18 like they did customizable lockscreens for iPadOS 17

 

[Stenik]

Infantilization at its best.

 

[t0rqx]

Sounds awesome. Gimmicky but awesome.

 

[antiprotest]

X rated live stickers everywhere...

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I was really hoping for iOS 17 icons to turn into mac OS. Ughhh!

 

[MrGimper]

So uninspiring.

 

[ExAndroidUsr]

I thought iOS16 was a minor update, but this... they did not do jack in one year

 

[AppleFan91]

Let’s hope the interactive widgets from iPadOS 17 are also on iOS as well…

Yay - Craig just said they are!

 

[antiprotest]

Wait are the iOS widgets going to be interactive now?

 

[klasma]

Infantilization at its best.

And intrusiveness.

 

[ralph_sws]

knowing apple's implementations, most of the new features will start working from ios 17.4, i.e. spring 2024

 

[antiprotest]

And intrusiveness.

Imagine you sending a text, and the other person disagrees so he sends a live sticker of his actual ding dong streaming pee on your comment.

Edit: In case it's not obvious, it's just one of the things that I plan to do. I already have more ideas than I can keep track of. Time to take some live photos. Need to ask some male and female friends to be volunteers too.

 

[iFunk]

I'm really digging these updates!

 

[thenightfly42]

I REALLY hope that the Contact Posters can be turned off. I want to see my own customizations, not someone else's.

 

[klasma]

Imagine you sending a text, and the other person disagrees so he sends a live sticker of his actual ding dong streaming pee on your comment.

I'd prefer not to imagine that.

 

[d5aqoëp]

I thought iOS16 was a minor update, but this... they did not do jack in one year

Most of the time of engineers was spent travelling from home to workplace since Tim Apple didn’t want people to work from home. This is the result.

 

[Mimiron]

wow thanks apple for the minor .1 updates, what have you been doing the whole year?

 

[AppleFan91]

Wait are the iOS widgets going to be interactive now?

Yep - Craig confirmed it when talking about Mac OS widgets, said something along the lines of “and they are interactive just like in iOS and iPadOS”

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

No mention of Side Loading thought that was a biggie for iOS 17

 

[Egypt Urnash]

bgb, digging up a copy of ****** for my contact poster

I am also looking forwards to someone fuzzing the heck out of this and finding a way to completely p0wn any ios17 phone by just *calling it* with a precisely-malformed contact poster.

 

[AppleFan91]

No mention of Side Loadng thought that was a biggie for iOS 17

Supposedly that is only for the EU to comply with their legislation - that’s something Apple will not advertise. If it happens, it will be something in there that people find later I’d imagine

 

[_Spinn_]

Really looking forward to these updates.

 

[STOCK411]

I did a double take when I heard this

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