Apple’s iOS 17 improve brings notable new communication options, including performance to the Telephone app and the FaceTime app. The Telephone app helps you to customise what folks see if you name them, whereas FaceTime positive aspects video messages and the choice to take FaceTime calls on the Apple TV.
This information highlights every thing new with the Telephone and FaceTime apps in iOS 17.
Telephone
Contact Posters
Apple began letting you select the identify and photograph that you simply need to share with others within the Messages app, and now sharing extends to the Telephone app. You may create a Contact Poster that different folks see once they name you.
Contact Posters are created within the Contacts app by tapping by yourself identify, choosing the Contact Photograph & Poster choice, and tapping on the Edit button.
You may select to share a photograph, a Memoji, or simply your initials, and that is what folks will see if you name them. To go together with the photograph, it’s also possible to customise font measurement, model, and colour. Notice that you simply can’t change your identify from this interface – that must be achieved by altering your contact data.
There are a number of filters that may be utilized to photographs, together with black and white, duotone, and colour wash within the colour of your alternative. You may edit the crop of the photograph, and customise your Contact Poster independently of your shared Messages picture.
Contact Posters might be shared along with your contacts mechanically, otherwise you might be prompted to share with anybody who calls you so nobody sees your customized imagery with out your permission.
Contacts App
To account for Contact Posters, the design of the Contacts app has been tweaked. Once you faucet on a contact, you may now see that their contact picture, Memoji, or initials take up a a lot bigger portion of the display screen. This additionally counts for contacts the place you have assigned a picture.
You may have an choice to faucet on the Contact Photograph and Poster choice beneath the individual’s identify to decide on to replace to the newest data mechanically when your contact adjustments one thing like their profile photograph, or activate handbook updates so that you’re prompted for the replace.
Stay Voicemail
Stay Voicemail is a brand new characteristic that enables the iPhone to transcribe a voicemail because it’s being left, so you may decide up the cellphone if it seems to be one thing necessary.
The voicemail is displayed proper in your Lock Display because the individual on the opposite finish speaks, which can assist you keep away from missed calls if it seems an unknown quantity is a name out of your physician or one other necessary individual.
Stay Voicemail might be considerably complicated to people who find themselves not conversant in the characteristic. Apple’s default Stay Voicemail wording tells those that “the individual you are calling could decide up,” which has led to cases the place folks have referred to as iOS 17 customers and waited for a number of minutes for the individual with Stay Voicemail to reply. It is primarily not clear that it is a regular voicemail sequence.
This may be prevented with a customized greeting recorded by opening up the Telephone app, tapping on Voicemail, after which tapping on Greeting to make a brand new recording.
Stay Voicemail may also be turned off within the Settings app by going to Telephone > Stay Voicemail and toggling it off.
Up to date Name Log
A small however helpful replace to the decision log lets you recognize if a missed name resulted in a voicemail. If that’s the case, you may faucet that voicemail from the Recents interface.
Twin-SIM Upgrades
Those that use the Twin-SIM characteristic now have an choice to create totally different ringtones for every SIM, and select a SIM when calling again an unknown quantity. There’s additionally an choice to kind incoming messages primarily based on SIM.
FaceTime
Audio and Video Messages
Once you FaceTime somebody they usually aren’t in a position to reply, you may depart a video or audio message relying on the decision technique you used. In case you had been utilizing FaceTime video, you may depart a video message, and when you had been utilizing FaceTime audio, you may depart an audio message.
After the missed name, you may see a “File Video” choice, which can assist you to create a message. You may see a preview of your video, and the choice to re-record if it did not prove properly. As soon as despatched, the video message is within the FaceTime missed name log, the place the individual can watch the video and name you again.
Notice that there’s an choice for folks to avoid wasting video messages to their Digital camera Roll, so hold that in thoughts when sending a video to somebody.
FaceTime Reactions
The Messages app has had reactions that set off with sure phrases for a while now, and in iOS 17, Apple is bringing reactions to FaceTime. Fairly than being triggered by phrases, although, the reactions are triggered by gestures.
Gestures set off on-screen results like hearts, balloons, confetti, fireworks, and extra, with the results flooding the show over the FaceTime window.
- Coronary heart – Coronary heart emoji
- Thumbs up – Thumbs up emoji
- Two thumbs up – Fireworks
- Single thumbs down – Thumbs down emoji
- Two thumbs down – Cloud
- Peace signal with one hand – Balloons
- Peace signal with two arms – Confetti
- “Rock on” signal with two arms – Laser
Whereas the reactions are triggered with gestures, it’s also possible to lengthy press in your image in FaceTime to carry up an inventory of choices.
These reactions work by default in FaceTime, and third-party apps can undertake the results as properly.
FaceTime on Apple TV
With iOS 17 and tvOS 17, you need to use FaceTime on the Apple TV. There is a new FaceTime app on tvOS 17, however to make use of it, you want an iPhone operating iOS 17 or an iPad operating iPadOS 17 to function the digital camera as a result of the Apple TV would not have its personal digital camera.
You can begin a FaceTime name on the Apple TV or begin one on the iPhone and hand it off to the Apple TV. It is principally the identical as FaceTime on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, however with a a lot bigger show. The iPhone will should be positioned close to the TV for capturing your video, and the individual you are FaceTiming with shall be proven on the TV.
Middle Stage is obtainable to maintain you within the body as you progress round, and you’ll handoff a name from the Apple TV to an iOS machine if you must transfer to a different room, and vice versa.
Learn Extra
Extra data on all the new options within the iOS 17 replace might be present in our iOS 17 roundup.