June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
iOS 17 makes iPhone extra private and intuitive
The discharge introduces main updates to communications apps, simpler sharing with AirDrop, extra clever textual content enter, and new experiences with Journal and StandBy
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple as we speak introduced iOS 17, a significant launch that upgrades the communications expertise throughout Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages; makes sharing even simpler with AirDrop; and gives extra clever enter that improves the pace and accuracy of typing. iOS 17 additionally introduces new experiences with Journal, an app that makes it simple for folks to apply gratitude, and StandBy, a brand new approach to view glanceable info when iPhone is about down and charging.
“With iOS 17, we’ve made iPhone extra private and intuitive by deeply contemplating the options all of us depend on every single day,” mentioned Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages are central to how we talk, and this launch is filled with updates we expect our customers are going to like. We’ve additionally reimagined AirDrop with new methods to share, autocorrect will get even higher, and we’re introducing all-new experiences with Journal and StandBy, plus a lot extra. We will’t wait for everybody to strive it.”
Main Upgrades to the Telephone Expertise
The Telephone app is central to the iPhone expertise, and it receives a giant replace with customized Contact Posters, offering a brand new means for customers to precise themselves. Customers can customise how they seem, bringing a very new look to incoming calls, and select lovely remedies for photographs or Memoji, in addition to eye-catching typography and font colours. Contact Posters may even be accessible for third-party calling apps.
Reside Voicemail offers customers the flexibility to see real-time transcription as somebody leaves a voicemail, and the chance to choose up whereas the caller is leaving their message. Calls recognized as spam by carriers received’t seem as Reside Voicemail, and can as an alternative be immediately declined. With the facility of the Neural Engine, Reside Voicemail transcription is dealt with on-device and stays fully non-public.
FaceTime Provides Audio and Video Messages, Reactions, and Extends to Apple TV
FaceTime now helps audio and video messages so when customers name somebody who just isn’t accessible, they’ll share a message that may be loved later.
FaceTime calls additionally get extra expressive with Reactions corresponding to hearts, balloons, fireworks, laser beams, rain, and extra. The brand new results might be activated by easy gestures, and third-party video calling apps can make the most of them as nicely.
In an thrilling replace to Apple TV 4K, FaceTime now extends to the largest display within the house. Powered by Continuity Digital camera, customers can provoke a video name immediately from Apple TV, or begin the decision on iPhone after which hand it off to Apple TV, to see family and friends on their tv. With Middle Stage, customers may have excellent framing at the same time as they transfer across the room.
A Recent Look and Huge Updates to Messages
Messages will get vital updates with iOS 17, together with an all-new stickers expertise with new emoji stickers and the flexibility to create Reside Stickers by lifting topics from photographs. Customers may also add results to Reside Stickers that carry them to life, and a brand new drawer within the keyboard places all of a person’s stickers in a single place for simpler entry throughout iOS.
New Messages options improve the way in which customers talk. An expandable menu that may be accessed with a easy faucet to show iMessage apps offers Messages a sleeker look. Search will get extra highly effective and exact with search filters, making it attainable for customers to start out a search and add extra filters to slim down the outcomes and discover precisely what they’re looking for. A brand new catch-up arrow signifies the place the person final left off within the dialog, and replying inline is so simple as swiping on a textual content bubble. If a person shares their location, it’ll replace in actual time proper within the dialog. When sending an audio message, it’s transcribed routinely so customers can learn it within the second or hear later.
Messages additionally introduces Examine In, an necessary characteristic for when a person needs to inform a member of the family or pal that they’ve made it to their vacation spot safely. After a person initiates a Examine In, their pal or member of the family will routinely be notified as quickly because the person arrives. If they aren’t making progress towards their vacation spot, helpful info will likely be quickly shared with the chosen contact, such because the system’s location, battery degree, and cell service standing. Any info shared is end-to-end encrypted.
Simpler Sharing with AirDrop and NameDrop
AirDrop makes it simple to share a file with a colleague or ship photographs to a pal in seconds, and with iOS 17, AirDrop will get new methods to share. NameDrop permits customers to simply share contact info by merely bringing their iPhones collectively, or by bringing an iPhone and Apple Watch collectively.1 With the identical gesture, customers may also share content material or begin SharePlay to hearken to music, watch a film, or play a sport whereas in shut proximity between iPhone units.
Enhancements to Autocorrect and Dictation Ship Extra Clever Enter
Autocorrect receives a complete replace with a transformer language mannequin, a state-of-the-art on-device machine studying language mannequin for phrase prediction — bettering the expertise and accuracy for customers each time they kind. It additionally receives a refreshed design to higher assist typing, and sentence-level autocorrections can repair extra kinds of grammatical errors. Customers will now obtain predictive textual content suggestions inline as they kind, so including complete phrases or finishing sentences is as simple as tapping the house bar, making textual content entry quicker than ever. Dictation leverages a brand new speech recognition mannequin to make it much more correct.
StandBy Shows Glanceable Info Whereas iPhone Is Charging
iOS 17 introduces StandBy, giving customers a full-screen expertise with glanceable info designed to be seen from a distance when iPhone is on its aspect and charging. StandBy is ideal on a nightstand, kitchen counter, or desk, and might be customized to show a variety of lovely clock kinds, favourite photographs, or widgets, together with Sensible Stacks, which floor the correct widgets on the proper time. With assist for Reside Actions, Siri, incoming calls, and bigger notifications, StandBy makes iPhone much more helpful when seen at a distance. When charging with MagSafe, StandBy remembers a person’s most popular view. It’s simple to carry up StandBy anytime by tapping the display, and on iPhone 14 Professional with the All the time-On show, it’s all the time accessible.
A New Approach to Admire Life’s Moments with Journal
Journal is a brand new app that helps iPhone customers mirror and apply gratitude by journaling, which has been proven to enhance wellbeing. Utilizing on-device machine studying, customized ideas might be offered to assist encourage a person’s journal entry. Recommendations are intelligently curated from latest exercise, together with photographs, folks, locations, exercises, and extra, making it simple to start out a journal entry, and scheduled notifications might help construct a journaling behavior. With the flexibility to lock the app, the usage of on-device processing, and end-to-end encryption, Journal is constructed to guard a person’s privateness and guarantee nobody — together with Apple — can entry a person’s entries. With the brand new Journaling Recommendations API, builders will be capable of add journaling ideas to their apps.2
Extra options in iOS 17 embody:
- Safari provides larger safety for Personal Looking, each from trackers as a person browses, and from individuals who might need entry to a person’s system. Superior monitoring and fingerprinting protections go even additional to assist stop web sites from monitoring or figuring out a person’s system. Personal Looking now locks when not in use, permitting a person to maintain tabs open even when stepping away from the system.
- For simpler and safer password and passkeys sharing, customers can share passwords with a bunch of trusted contacts. Everybody within the group can add and edit passwords to maintain them updated. Since sharing is thru iCloud Keychain, it’s end-to-end encrypted.
- The Well being app affords new psychological well being options. Customers can log their day by day moods and momentary feelings; see what may be contributing to their way of thinking; and simply entry melancholy and anxiousness assessments usually utilized in clinics, plus assets accessible of their area. Moreover, growing the gap the system is seen from might help kids decrease their threat of myopia and provides grownup customers the chance to cut back digital eyestrain. Display screen Distance in Display screen Time makes use of the TrueDepth digicam to encourage customers to maneuver their system farther away after holding it nearer than 12 inches from their face for an prolonged time frame.
- Maps provides offline maps, so customers can obtain a selected space and entry turn-by-turn navigation, see their estimated time of arrival, discover locations in Maps, and extra whereas offline. Maps additionally makes it simpler than ever to find 1000’s of trails in parks throughout the US, and helps electrical car drivers with real-time charging availability info.
- AirTag might be shared with as much as 5 different folks, permitting family and friends to maintain monitor of an merchandise in Discover My. Everybody in a bunch will be capable of see an merchandise’s location, play a sound, and use Precision Discovering to assist pinpoint the placement of a shared AirTag when close by. This additionally works with all different Discover My community equipment.
- Apple Music introduces Collaborative Playlists that make listening to music with buddies simpler than ever earlier than, and SharePlay within the automobile permits all passengers to simply contribute to what’s enjoying.3 Listeners can management the music from their very own units, even when they don’t have an Apple Music subscription.
- Sharing content material utilizing AirPlay is even simpler with on-device intelligence now studying a person’s preferences. AirPlay may even work with supported televisions in motels, permitting customers to simply get pleasure from their favourite content material on the TV when touring. Constructed with a basis of privateness and safety, this functionality will likely be accessible earlier than the tip of the 12 months in choose motels, beginning with manufacturers from IHG Motels & Resorts.
- AirPods obtain highly effective new options, together with Adaptive Audio, Customized Quantity, and Dialog Consciousness, that redefine the private audio expertise. Plus, enhancements to Computerized Switching and name controls make AirPods even simpler to make use of.
- The House app provides the flexibility for customers to view as much as 30 days of exercise historical past throughout door locks, storage doorways, alarm techniques, and call sensors. Moreover, two in style HomeKit lock options — faucet to unlock and PIN codes — are actually accessible for Matter-compatible locks, offering much more methods to attach the house.
- Reminders incorporates a grocery record that routinely teams added gadgets into classes to make purchasing simpler. Customers can change how the gadgets are grouped and the record remembers their preferences.
- Visible Look Up is now accessible in paused video frames. Now customers can establish meals, storefronts, indicators, and symbols, and carry particular person topics from photographs and movies.
- Siri might be activated by merely saying “Siri.” As soon as activated, customers can subject a number of instructions in succession without having to reactivate the assistant.
- In Pictures, the Individuals album makes use of on-device machine studying to acknowledge extra photographs of a person’s favourite folks, in addition to cats and canines.
- Privateness updates embody the enlargement of Communication Security past Messages to assist maintain children protected when sending and receiving content material through AirDrop, Contact Posters, a FaceTime message, and when utilizing the Pictures picker to decide on content material to ship. It additionally expands to cowl video content material along with nonetheless photographs. A brand new characteristic, Delicate Content material Warning, helps grownup customers keep away from seeing undesirable nude photographs and movies. As with Communication Security, all picture and video processing for Delicate Content material Warning happens on-device, so Apple doesn’t get entry to the content material.
- Accessibility updates embody Assistive Entry, a customizable interface that helps customers with cognitive disabilities use iPhone with larger ease and independence; Reside Speech, which supplies nonspeaking customers the choice to kind and have their phrases spoken in individual, or on telephone and FaceTime calls; Private Voice, which supplies customers susceptible to speech loss the choice to create a voice that feels like theirs; and Level and Converse, which helps customers who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient learn textual content on bodily objects by pointing.
Availability
The developer beta of iOS 17 is obtainable to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning as we speak, and a public beta will likely be accessible subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options will likely be accessible this fall as a free software program replace for iPhone Xs and later. For extra info, go to apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be accessible in all areas, all languages, or on all units. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
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- NameDrop will likely be accessible on Apple Watch in an replace later this 12 months.
- The Journal app and Journaling Recommendations API will likely be accessible in a software program replace later this 12 months.
- Collaborative Playlists will likely be accessible in an replace later this 12 months.
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