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 right this moment introduced iOS 17, a serious launch that upgrades the communications expertise throughout Cellphone, 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 straightforward for folks to observe gratitude, and StandBy, a brand new solution to view glanceable info when iPhone is ready down and charging.
“With iOS 17, we’ve made iPhone extra private and intuitive by deeply contemplating the options all of us depend on day-after-day,” stated Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Software program Engineering. “Cellphone, FaceTime, and Messages are central to how we talk, and this launch is full of 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 are able to’t wait for everybody to attempt it.”
Main Upgrades to the Cellphone Expertise
The Cellphone app is central to the iPhone expertise, and it receives an enormous replace with personalised Contact Posters, offering a brand new approach for customers to precise themselves. Customers can customise how they seem, bringing a totally new look to incoming calls, and select lovely remedies for images or Memoji, in addition to eye-catching typography and font colours. Contact Posters may also be obtainable for third-party calling apps.
Reside Voicemail provides 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 personal.
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 will not be obtainable, they’ll share a message that may be loved later.
FaceTime calls additionally get extra expressive with Reactions reminiscent of hearts, balloons, fireworks, laser beams, rain, and extra. The brand new results may be activated by means of easy gestures, and third-party video calling apps can reap the benefits of them as nicely.
In an thrilling replace to Apple TV 4K, FaceTime now extends to the most important display screen within the house. Powered by Continuity Digicam, customers can provoke a video name straight 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 can have excellent framing whilst they transfer across the room.
A Contemporary Look and Large 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 images. Customers may add results to Reside Stickers that convey 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 best way customers talk. An expandable menu that may be accessed with a easy faucet to show iMessage apps provides Messages a sleeker look. Search will get extra highly effective and exact with search filters, making it potential for customers to start out a search and add further filters to slim down the outcomes and discover precisely what they’re searching 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 is going to replace in actual time proper within the dialog. When sending an audio message, it’s transcribed robotically so customers can learn it within the second or hear later.
Messages additionally introduces Examine In, an necessary function for when a person desires 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 robotically be notified as quickly because the person arrives. If they don’t seem to be making progress towards their vacation spot, helpful info can be quickly shared with the chosen contact, such because the machine’s location, battery stage, and cell service standing. Any info shared is end-to-end encrypted.
Simpler Sharing with AirDrop and NameDrop
AirDrop makes it straightforward to share a file with a colleague or ship images 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 share content material or begin SharePlay to hearken to music, watch a film, or play a recreation whereas in shut proximity between iPhone gadgets.
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 help typing, and sentence-level autocorrections can repair extra varieties of grammatical errors. Customers will now obtain predictive textual content suggestions inline as they kind, so including complete phrases or finishing sentences is as straightforward as tapping the house bar, making textual content entry sooner 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 may be personalised to show a spread of lovely clock kinds, favourite images, or widgets, together with Good Stacks, which floor the proper widgets on the proper time. With help 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 straightforward to convey up StandBy anytime by tapping the display screen, and on iPhone 14 Professional with the All the time-On show, it’s at all times obtainable.
A New Strategy to Respect Life’s Moments with Journal
Journal is a brand new app that helps iPhone customers replicate and observe gratitude by means of journaling, which has been proven to enhance wellbeing. Utilizing on-device machine studying, personalised ideas may be offered to assist encourage a person’s journal entry. Solutions are intelligently curated from latest exercise, together with images, folks, locations, exercises, and extra, making it straightforward to start out a journal entry, and scheduled notifications will help construct a journaling behavior. With the flexibility to lock the app, using 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 Solutions API, builders will have the ability to add journaling ideas to their apps.2
Extra options in iOS 17 embrace:
- Safari provides larger safety for Personal Searching, each from trackers as a person browses, and from individuals who might need entry to a person’s machine. Superior monitoring and fingerprinting protections go even additional to assist stop web sites from monitoring or figuring out a person’s machine. Personal Searching now locks when not in use, permitting a person to maintain tabs open even when stepping away from the machine.
- For simpler and safer password and passkeys sharing, customers can share passwords with a gaggle 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 every day moods and momentary feelings; see what is likely to be contributing to their frame of mind; and simply entry melancholy and nervousness assessments usually utilized in clinics, plus sources obtainable of their area. Moreover, growing the gap the machine is seen from will help youngsters decrease their threat of myopia and provides grownup customers the chance to cut back digital eyestrain. Display Distance in Display Time makes use of the TrueDepth digital camera to encourage customers to maneuver their machine farther away after holding it nearer than 12 inches from their face for an prolonged time period.
- Maps provides offline maps, so customers can obtain a particular 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 hundreds of trails in parks throughout the USA, and helps electrical automobile drivers with real-time charging availability info.
- AirTag may 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 gaggle will have the ability to 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 gadgets, 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 also work with supported televisions in resorts, 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 can be obtainable earlier than the tip of the yr in choose resorts, 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 Automated Switching and name controls make AirPods even simpler to make use of.
- The Dwelling app provides the flexibility for customers to view as much as 30 days of exercise historical past throughout door locks, storage doorways, alarm programs, and call sensors. Moreover, two widespread HomeKit lock options — faucet to unlock and PIN codes — are actually obtainable for Matter-compatible locks, offering much more methods to attach the house.
- Reminders incorporates a grocery record that robotically teams added objects into classes to make purchasing simpler. Customers can change how the objects are grouped and the record remembers their preferences.
- Visible Look Up is now obtainable in paused video frames. Now customers can establish meals, storefronts, indicators, and symbols, and carry particular person topics from images and movies.
- Siri may be activated by merely saying “Siri.” As soon as activated, customers can difficulty a number of instructions in succession while not having to reactivate the assistant.
- In Pictures, the Folks album makes use of on-device machine studying to acknowledge extra images of a person’s favourite folks, in addition to cats and canines.
- Privateness updates embrace the enlargement of Communication Security past Messages to assist maintain youngsters 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 pictures. A brand new function, Delicate Content material Warning, helps grownup customers keep away from seeing undesirable nude pictures 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 embrace Assistive Entry, a customizable interface that helps customers with cognitive disabilities use iPhone with larger ease and independence; Reside Speech, which provides nonspeaking customers the choice to kind and have their phrases spoken in particular person, or on cellphone and FaceTime calls; Private Voice, which provides customers vulnerable to speech loss the choice to create a voice that seems like theirs; and Level and Communicate, 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 right this moment, and a public beta can be obtainable subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options can be obtainable 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 alter. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas, all languages, or on all gadgets. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Immediately, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- NameDrop can be obtainable on Apple Watch in an replace later this yr.
- The Journal app and Journaling Solutions API can be obtainable in a software program replace later this yr.
- Collaborative Playlists can be obtainable in an replace later this yr.
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