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iOS 17 Launching Tomorrow for iPhones With These 10 New Features

did they fix all the usability-destroying bugs from ios 16? like cant use touchpad during a call, or battery drain overheating boot loop? apps stalling or crashing? ill stay on ios 15 thanks.
 
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StandBy: I want my room to be dark
Contact Posters: Will never use it
NameDrop: Number of times I got a contact directly like that in the last three years: 1
Live Voicemail: Nobody sends me voicemail in English
Swipe to Reply in iMessage: People outside the US don't use iMessage
Interactive Widgets: Might actually be useful
Improved Autocorrect: Not working for me
Apple Maps Offline: I use Google Maps
Stickers Drawer: ???
"Hey Siri" Shortened to Siri: Siri is useless for me

So, iOS 17 brings interactive widgets, that's it. Meanwhile, essential things such as copy-paste and undo/redo are still a pain to use.
 
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slomtbr said:
Did you submit the addition of your road to Google?
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Twice.

Acknowledged but map has not been updated.

(Reports I have made to Apple have been acknowledged and acted on.)

Given their claimed AI technology, you might have thought they would check correspondence between their maps and actual vehicle movements. They'd find one part which never has vehicle (because the map shows a road that does not exist). And another part along which vehicles regularly drive but where there is no road.

Obviously not every vehicle, every journey, every day. A reasonable sampling would by now have highlight a mismatch.
 
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I must be the only one who’s looking forward to the iMessage updates. I currently use WhatsApp most of us in the UK do, however I’d much prefer to use iMessage since it’s baked into the system, plus WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.
Apple seriously need to improve the reliability of voice notes in iMessage, as well as a few other things. If they have managed to do that then I would delete my WhatsApp account and use iMessage solely.

IOS 17 seems to be a nice little update, I will download later today (6pm here in the UK)
 
I'd like to do a backspace on the Apple Pencil without risking crashing apps like DuoLingo with poorly-designed selection/editing features. Nothing like being almost done with a course and a typo I try to correct ends up in multi-line editor mode and crashes, forcing me back to the beginning.

WiFi Analyzer was on Android years ago and continues to be one of the most useful apps in existence for people who live in busy areas. iPhones - for some inexplicable reason - still do not have this API available.

I want a multi-account mode on my iPad like I have on Apple TV. I have been living outside of the US for over 10 years and my non-transferrable iTunes collection constantly keeps me frustrated.

Not being able to update apps downloaded on another account without switching to that account is also extremely annoying.
 
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v0lume4 said:
YES SIR, brought the screenshots!! Love to see it.

On a 2022 SE myself, 15.7. Absolutely solid, stable, with killer battery life. Gonna ride this bad boy out until apps aren’t being updated for iOS 15 anymore!
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Around iOS 16.4, the battery life went bad, especially considering that I have an Apple Watch Series 7, WiFi version. The battery life on the watch has improved dramatically, but the iPhone SE is just okay. It's not hovering around 34% at night, but often 50+% is probably not where it should be.

I hoping for iOS 17.1.1 to be better.
 
Are we getting any better battery life from iOS 17??
With my iPhone 14 Pro Max before the few most recent iOS updates i use to get 2 days of use out of my phone and come charge time it would be between 50-60% remaining.
Now with similar use and perhaps slightly less im getting between 25-35% remaining from 2 days use :/
 
chriswhv6 said:
Are we getting any better battery life from iOS 17??
With my iPhone 14 Pro Max before the few most recent iOS updates i use to get 2 days of use out of my phone and come charge time it would be between 50-60% remaining.
Now with similar use and perhaps slightly less im getting between 25-35% remaining from 2 days use :/
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That's really good battery life, how are you getting that, do you not use apps or your phone that much? I charge my phone every night, use it throughout the day and by the time I go to bed I have about 30% left.
 
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bousozoku said:
Around iOS 16.4, the battery life went bad, especially considering that I have an Apple Watch Series 7, WiFi version. The battery life on the watch has improved dramatically, but the iPhone SE is just okay. It's not hovering around 34% at night, but often 50+% is probably not where it should be.

I hoping for iOS 17.1.1 to be better.
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I truly hope that you’re right. Me? I wouldn’t hold my breath. For years I have seen iOS updates wreak havoc and destroy otherwise fully functional phones. Been this way for 10+ years, no reason to think it is slowing down. :(

Though in terms of performance — not battery life — I have seen with my own two eyes TWO cases of iTunes Restores yielding big performance gains on a device that’s been OTA updated for years. iTunes Restore is the only way to get a true OS reinstall from the bottom up.

If you’re having some battery woes, might be worth giving a shot.
 
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AndiG said:
Functions, functions, functions. Apple's iOS was once known for its tremendous simplicity. There was a golden rule: focus on 80% of the features, but make those features solid and easy to use.

But Tim never got that, and needed new features every year to sell more and more, while scrapping the simplicity of iOS.

The features Apple wants to sell should be outsourced to apps without touching the core functionality.

But Tim never understood that.
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Yep. And we ended up with an ecosystem of operating systems with more bugs than apps.
 
Dave245 said:
I must be the only one who’s looking forward to the iMessage updates. I currently use WhatsApp most of us in the UK do, however I’d much prefer to use iMessage since it’s baked into the system, plus WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.
Apple seriously need to improve the reliability of voice notes in iMessage, as well as a few other things. If they have managed to do that then I would delete my WhatsApp account and use iMessage solely.

IOS 17 seems to be a nice little update, I will download later today (6pm here in the UK)
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There's certainly some of us in the UK who have never allowed whatsapp infection on their devices!

For me, iMessage does everything I need. Though I do understand not everyone can ignore every other messaging app.
 
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Dave245 said:
That's really good battery life, how are you getting that, do you not use apps or your phone that much? I charge my phone every night, use it throughout the day and by the time I go to bed I have about 30% left.
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I dont do much phone calls overall however i do a lot of SMS/iMessages texting instead. Also where i live im not he border edge of 4G coverage so my phone stays constantly on one bar reception (which i know that makes battery life worse).
For apps there's heaps i use from banking, weather, Music, Find My, Postal tracking, car listing for sale, calendar, notes, supermarket shopping apps, rewards programs apps for the supermarkets, Fitness app/Apple Watch, Instagram, Twitter/X, heaps of YouTube, Wikipanion, IMDB, LG soundbar app.

Those are the apps that are used daily pretty much.
I am however more on wifi most of the time so not sure if that helps??

But since the last few updates ive noticed a much more rapid drop in battery life. Drops from 100%-99% way sooner once off the charger. I think before it would be like 3-4 hours before id see it drop down to 99% now once i take it off the charge maybe in 1-2 hours it will drop down to 99% also when im using the phone i am noticing the % dropping down more quicker. For example ill be on Instagram say for 10 mins and before id loose 1% compared to now losing 4-5% in 10 mins of use.

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I haven't noticed any discernible difference in battery life on my 14 Pro Max, I'm still getting approx a day and a half.
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Thats good to hear.
Perhaps ive just been more active with apps thats are using locations services more frequent or maybe just my poor 4G reception getting worse??
 
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Sorry if this is a stupid question:

If I do a clean install on a (new) iPhone and I then install only the apps I really need and want, is the data from these app preserved and transferred from iCloud to the new installed device? I am not talking iCloud messages for example, or WhatsApp, more like smaller third party apps like Growth+ in which I record body measurements from my kids since their birth... Should be, or?

What about text messages, SMS (the green ones)?

Thank you.
 
“The feature also works with the iPhone 14 Pro's always-on display”

Can someone clarify this perhaps?

Lazy of me perhaps, but I thought this was such a feature that StandBy was only available for always-on displays.

If all phones get this, it seems odd to me to point out that it will also work with the two latest generations of Pro models? Why would anyone thing it might not work with always on displays? Seems to be built for those, even if supported by other phones. How would you glance towards your phone during night and see the time on the clock if the display is not on? No matter how I look at it, I am confused. 🫤
 
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“The feature also works with the iPhone 14 Pro's always-on display”

Can someone clarify this perhaps?

Lazy of me perhaps, but I thought this was such a feature that StandBy was only available for always-on displays.

If all phones get this, it seems odd to me to point out that it will also work with the two latest generations of Pro models? Why would anyone thing it might not work with always on displays? Seems to be built for those, even if supported by other phones. How would you glance towards your phone during night and see the time on the clock if the display is not on? No matter how I look at it, I am confused. 🫤
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As I understood this one, they mean it's not an iPhone 15 exclusive, and that it would work on the 14.

I had AOD on my Galaxy S8 many years ago. I see no reason why any OLED iPhone (such as my Xs) can't support the feature.
 
In Switzerland, the update to iOS17 was ready for me on waking up this morning... downloaded it on an iPhone 14 Pro and works great.
 
"Hey Siri" simplified to "Siri" will bring much more accidental (unwanted) siri commands. I do not like it.
 
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