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 in the present day introduced iOS 17, a significant launch that upgrades the communications expertise throughout Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages; makes sharing even simpler with AirDrop; and offers 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 observe gratitude, and StandBy, a brand new method 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 each day,” mentioned Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Software program Engineering. “Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages are central to how we talk, and this launch is full of updates we predict 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 attempt it.”
Main Upgrades to the Telephone Expertise
The Telephone app is central to the iPhone expertise, and it receives an enormous replace with personalised Contact Posters, offering a brand new method for customers to precise themselves. Customers can customise how they seem, bringing a totally new look to incoming calls, and select stunning therapies for photographs or Memoji, in addition to eye-catching typography and font colours. Contact Posters may even be out there for third-party calling apps.
Dwell 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 gained’t seem as Dwell Voicemail, and can as a substitute be immediately declined. With the ability of the Neural Engine, Dwell Voicemail transcription is dealt with on-device and stays completely 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 isn’t out there, they will 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 could be activated via easy gestures, and third-party video calling apps can reap the benefits of them as properly.
In an thrilling replace to Apple TV 4K, FaceTime now extends to the largest display screen within the house. Powered by Continuity Digital camera, customers can provoke a video name instantly 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 could have excellent framing whilst 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 Dwell Stickers by lifting topics from photographs. Customers can even add results to Dwell Stickers that deliver 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 potential for customers to start out a search and add extra filters to slender 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 is going to replace in actual time proper within the dialog. When sending an audio message, it’s transcribed mechanically so customers can learn it within the second or hear later.
Messages additionally introduces Examine In, an necessary function for when a person needs to inform a member of the family or good friend that they’ve made it to their vacation spot safely. After a person initiates a Examine In, their good friend or member of the family will mechanically be notified as quickly because the person arrives. If they aren’t making progress towards their vacation spot, helpful info shall 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 simple to share a file with a colleague or ship photographs to a good friend 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 can even share content material or begin SharePlay to take heed 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 — enhancing the expertise and accuracy for customers each time they kind. It additionally receives a refreshed design to raised help typing, and sentence-level autocorrections can repair extra sorts of grammatical errors. Customers will now obtain predictive textual content suggestions inline as they kind, so including total phrases or finishing sentences is as simple as tapping the area 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 Data 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 facet and charging. StandBy is ideal on a nightstand, kitchen counter, or desk, and could be personalised to show a spread of lovely clock kinds, favourite photographs, or widgets, together with Sensible Stacks, which floor the precise widgets on the proper time. With help for Dwell 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 deliver up StandBy anytime by tapping the display screen, and on iPhone 14 Professional with the At all times-On show, it’s at all times out there.
A New Option to Admire Life’s Moments with Journal
Journal is a brand new app that helps iPhone customers mirror and observe gratitude via journaling, which has been proven to enhance wellbeing. Utilizing on-device machine studying, personalised solutions could be offered to assist encourage a person’s journal entry. Options are intelligently curated from current exercise, together with photographs, folks, locations, exercises, and extra, making it simple to start out a journal entry, and scheduled notifications may 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 Options API, builders will be capable to add journaling solutions to their apps.2
Further options in iOS 17 embody:
- Safari provides better safety for Non-public Looking, each from trackers as a person browses, and from individuals who may need entry to a person’s machine. Superior monitoring and fingerprinting protections go even additional to assist forestall web sites from monitoring or figuring out a person’s machine. Non-public Looking 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 presents new psychological well being options. Customers can log their day by day moods and momentary feelings; see what is likely to be contributing to their frame of mind; and simply entry melancholy and anxiousness assessments usually utilized in clinics, plus sources out there of their area. Moreover, growing the gap the machine is seen from may help kids decrease their danger of myopia and provides grownup customers the chance to scale back digital eyestrain. Display screen Distance in Display screen 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 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 USA, and helps electrical car drivers with real-time charging availability info.
- AirTag could 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 be capable 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 pals simpler than ever earlier than, and SharePlay within the automotive permits all passengers to simply contribute to what’s taking part in.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 lodges, permitting customers to simply take pleasure in their favourite content material on the TV when touring. Constructed with a basis of privateness and safety, this functionality shall be out there earlier than the top of the yr in choose lodges, beginning with manufacturers from IHG Inns & Resorts.
- AirPods obtain highly effective new options, together with Adaptive Audio, Customized Quantity, and Dialog Consciousness, that redefine the non-public audio expertise. Plus, enhancements to Computerized Switching and name controls make AirPods even simpler to make use of.
- The Residence app provides the flexibility for customers to view as much as 30 days of exercise historical past throughout door locks, storage doorways, alarm methods, and make contact with sensors. Moreover, two standard HomeKit lock options — faucet to unlock and PIN codes — at the moment are out there for Matter-compatible locks, offering much more methods to attach the house.
- Reminders incorporates a grocery checklist that mechanically teams added objects into classes to make procuring simpler. Customers can change how the objects are grouped and the checklist remembers their preferences.
- Visible Look Up is now out there in paused video frames. Now customers can determine meals, storefronts, indicators, and symbols, and raise particular person topics from photographs and movies.
- Siri could be activated by merely saying “Siri.” As soon as activated, customers can difficulty a number of instructions in succession with no need 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 preserve youngsters secure 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 photos. A brand new function, Delicate Content material Warning, helps grownup customers keep away from seeing undesirable nude photos 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 better ease and independence; Dwell Speech, which supplies nonspeaking customers the choice to kind and have their phrases spoken in particular person, or on telephone and FaceTime calls; Private Voice, which supplies customers prone to speech loss the choice to create a voice that feels 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 accessible to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning in the present day, and a public beta shall be out there subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options shall be out there 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 out there in all areas, all languages, or on all units. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, 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 units 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 shall be out there on Apple Watch in an replace later this yr.
- The Journal app and Journaling Options API shall be out there in a software program replace later this yr.
- Collaborative Playlists shall be out there in an replace later this yr.
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