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iOS 17 to Include Dedicated Journaling App and Mood Tracking

maxrest said:
It's like they say- if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Also, how have they changed things for the worse? And how is changing the icons and the look of iOS going to change how you use your phone?
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im just bored of the same look year after year, something fresh will feel like im using a new phone, so many things they add I never need or use, and I know thats me, but I want ways to use the phone that change how I use it now
 
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Kylo83 said:
im just bored of the same look year after year, something fresh will feel like im using a new phone, so many things they add I never need or use, and I know thats me, but I want ways to use the phone that change how I use it now
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Android to the rescue!
 
Kylo83 said:
im just bored of the same look year after year, something fresh will feel like im using a new phone, so many things they add I never need or use, and I know thats me, but I want ways to use the phone that change how I use it now
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I understand where you're coming from but unfortunately that's not Apple's motto haha. It seems like they like to keep their designs and just refine them as time goes on- which I personally really like.
 
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myusernamedoesnotmatter said:
Honestly; so what? What *more* do you want from a home screen? Where is there room to innovate or improve? Change for the change almost never works. This isn't the "move fast and break things" of face book.
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Thank you.

Change simply for the sake of change is not a particularly useful way of living.

Of course the response you will get will be “let us put the app icons anywhere we want”.
 
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myusernamedoesnotmatter said:
I like the concept of a journaling application included in iOS, but this "mood tracking" integration seems really creepy to me. It's an invasion of privacy imo.
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If the information about moods stays with the user, how is using the feature an invasion of privacy?

Hopefully, the new app will be decent and I can forego my Day One sub.
 
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bodonnell202 said:
So more features that I will never use. I still hate focus modes as it took a simple do not disturb feature and made it unnecessarily complicated.
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completely agree all the new changes over the years is bloatware I never need it, I know its just me but so many features are a joke like free form doubt anyone ever uses it
 
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This is all a set-up for a 2024 Tim Cook introduction of the “Apple Mood Ring”…
 
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gwhizkids said:
Then don’t use them.

Problem solved.
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I don't - the problem is Apple tends to make features that were once simple more complicated when they roll out this stuff to try to force you to use them. My iPhone & iPad still send annoying prompts to setup focus modes even though I've deleted them all except do not disturb, which was better before Apple mucked it up.
 
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Day One: I’ve decided to try journaling everyday for positive wellbeing.

Day twelve: going great! Everyday so far!

Day sixty: hi sorry, I forgot to journal. The last few weeks have been good.

Day three hundred: …

Apple on year three: *silently discontinues app for non-use.*
 
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With the journaling app and the mood tracking functionality, Apple plans to bring the Health app to the iPad for the first time, allowing iPad owners to view their health-related data even when an iPhone is unavailable.
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Hope this means that this app is coming to the iPad (and Mac) as well. It sounds like it is along with the health app, but you never know…
 
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JM said:
Day One: I’ve decided to try journaling everyday for positive wellbeing.

Day twelve: going great! Everyday so far!

Day sixty: hi sorry, I forgot to journal. The last few weeks have been good.

Day three hundred: …

Apple on year three: *silently discontinues app for non-use.*
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Heh. I have a personal journal I've been keeping since high school back in the early 90s. It's just a text file, copied from platform to platform over the years and appended to with entries having the date.

It's contiguous, but it has long multi-year gaps in it when I just didn't journal. Even now I only write in it every few weeks or months when something significant happens.

But yeah. A text file. My journal will never be obsoleted because some company decided no one was using it.
 
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I keep a running journal in the Notes app, mainly to jot down ideas for my fiction writing, though I also use it to keep track of personal goals. I’ve never used a dedicated app for it. I journal when I feel like it, not every day, so I’ll use the app as long as it doesn’t bug me and shame me for not using it every day. :p
 
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Mood Tracking? I thought I was already doing that with Pill Reminders and Medication Tracking.

Maybe combined the two. 👊😝👍
 
I don’t know how I feel about mood tracking, especially if they’re using ML/AI to guess your mood based on other things you do on the phone. If it’s just somewhere in the health app where you can document your mood for the day that’s different, but is it a big deal?
 
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