Finally we are here! Apple has just released iOS 17 to all users after several months of beta testing. Here’s how to install this update.
Compatible devices
iOS 17 can be installed on the following devices:
- Phone XS and XS Max
- iPhone
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max
- iPhone 12 and 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max
- iPhone 13 and 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max
- iPhone SE (2nd and 3rd generation)
- iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max
How to install iOS 17
ALSO READ: What you should do before installing iOS 17
To install iOS 17, follow these steps on iPhone:
- Open Settings
- Go to General
- Click Software Update
- Start by installing iOS 17
Downloading and installing the new operating system should take between 5 and 10 minutes, however, in the initial stages, high traffic may slow down the iOS 17 download by a few minutes.
The most important new features of iOS 17
iOS 17 brings major updates to communication apps, easier sharing with AirDrop, smarter text input, and many other new features.
Phone app
The phone app has been updated with i Contact poster, which offer users a new way to share their personality. The user can customize the appearance, change the appearance of incoming calls, and choose between photo or Memoji effects as well as different font styles and colors. Contact posters are also available for calling up third-party apps.
Live voicemail allows the user to see real-time transcription of voice messages as they are left on the answering machine and provides the ability to respond while the message is being recorded. Calls identified by operators as spam will not be displayed as live voicemail but will be rejected immediately. Using the Neural Engine, live voicemail transcriptions are managed on device and remain completely private.
Facetime
Now FaceTime supports voice and video messaging. So if the user calls someone who is unavailable, they can leave a message to view or listen to later.
FaceTime calls are also made more expressive with reactions like hearts, balloons, fireworks, laser beams, rain, and more. The new effects can be activated via gestures and are also available for third-party video calling apps.
In addition, thanks to the Continuity Camera, it is possible to start a video call directly from Apple TV or start it from iPhone and then switch to Apple TV to see friends and relatives on the TV.
Messages
The app Messages With iOS 17 it was revolutionized. New features include the new emoji sticker experience and the ability to create live stickers from your own photos to make subjects stand out from the background. You can also add effects to live stickers to animate them, and a new keyboard drawer brings all your stickers into one place so you can easily access them anywhere in iOS.
A new sticker experience offers the ability to create live stickers by drawing designs from photos, and you can add effects to help bring stickers to life.
Thanks to the one-tap expandable menu to view apps for iMessage, the interface appears much cleaner. Searching is made more precise with search filters, allowing users to start a search and add additional filters to narrow the results and find exactly what they are looking for.
A new arrow shows the user where they left the conversation, and replying to a message is even easier as they can simply slide their finger over the text bubble. When the user shares their location, it is updated in real time in the conversation. Additionally, audio messages are automatically transcribed as they are sent, allowing the user to choose whether to read them now or listen to them later.
Messages also introduces Check In, an important feature that lets you notify friends and family that you’ve safely reached your destination. After initiating a check-in, the selected person will automatically receive a notification when the user arrives. If you don’t reach your planned destination, your contact will temporarily receive some information, such as: B. the exact location of your device, the battery charge level and the status of the mobile service.
AirDrop and NameDrop
With iOS 17 AirDrop offers even more opportunities to share. NameDrop allows you to exchange contact information by simply holding your iPhone close to the other person’s or between iPhone and Apple Watch.1
With the same gesture, the user can also share content or start SharePlay to listen to music, watch a movie or play a game with other iPhones nearby.
Automatic correction and dictation
The function of automatic correction has been updated with a Transformer Language Model, a next-generation on-device machine learning model for word completion, improving accuracy and typing experience.
AutoCorrect also has a redesigned design to better support writing, and sentence-level autocorrect can detect more types of grammatical errors. Now the user receives contextual word suggestions as they type and simply presses the spacebar to add the suggested term or complete the sentence, speeding up text entry. Besides that dictation uses a new speech recognition model to achieve greater accuracy.
Stand by
Stand by Provides a full-screen view with information visible from a distance when iPhone is on its side and charging. Ideal for when the iPhone is on a stand, kitchen counter, or desk at night, the StandBy option can be customized by choosing what appears from a range of clock styles, favorite photos, or widgets, including Smart Slacks Show the right widgets at the right time.
By supporting real-time activities, Siri, incoming calls, and larger notifications, StandBy makes iPhone even more useful when remotely. When charging via MagSafe, StandBy remembers the user’s preferred view. To display the information in standby, all you have to do is touch the screen, while on the iPhone 14 Pro with always-on display it is always visible.
More news about iOS 17
Other iOS 17 features include:
- safari introduces additional protections for private browsing sessions, both against trackers while browsing and against anyone who may have access to the user’s device. Advanced tracking and fingerprint protection has been improved to prevent websites from tracking or identifying your device. Private browsing is now blocked when not in use, allowing the user to keep panels open even when walking away from the device.
- To make it easier and safer Sharing passwords and passkeys, you can share it with a group of trusted contacts. Anyone in the group can add and change passwords to keep them up to date.
- The app Health offers new functions for mental well-being. You can record your day’s moods and momentary emotions, see what may be contributing to your mental state, and easily access depression and anxiety assessments commonly used in hospitals, as well as resources available in your area. Additionally, increasing the distance from which you look at the phone will help reduce the risk of nearsightedness in boys and girls and allow adults to curb vision fatigue. Screen Distance in Screen Time uses the TrueDepth camera to encourage the user to move the device further away when held closer than 30cm from the face for long periods of time.
- cards Now offers offline maps, allowing the user to download maps of a specific area and access navigation, view estimated time of arrival, find locations in the app and do much more offline.
- AirTags can be shared with up to five other people, so family and friends can also find items in Find My. Anyone in the group can see where the shared AirTag is, play a sound, and use Precise Location to determine their exact location when they’re nearby. Sharing also works with all other accessories in the Doveè network.
- Apple Music introduces collaborative playlists that make it easier to listen to music with friends, and SharePlay in the car allows everyone in the cabin to easily contribute their own songs. Anyone can control music from their device, even if they don’t have an Apple Music subscription.
- Share content Air game With iOS 17, this is easier as the intelligence on the device now learns the user’s preferences. AirPlay also works with select TVs in hotels, allowing users to enjoy their favorite content on the TV even while traveling.
- The app Home provides the ability to view up to 30 days of activity history for door locks, garage door locks, alarm systems and contact sensors. Additionally, two popular HomeKit features, Tap to Unlock and PIN codes, are now available for Matter-compatible locks, giving you even more ways to connect your home.
- The shopping list from memorandum Automatically groups items into categories to make shopping easier. The user can change the grouping mode and the list remembers their preferences.
- Visual search is now available in paused video frames. Now users can identify foods, storefronts, signs and icons and highlight individual subjects from photos and videos.
- Siri It can be activated by simply saying “Siri”. After that, the user can issue different commands one after the other without having to activate the assistant again.
- In photoPeople Album uses on-device machine learning to recognize more photos of the user’s favorite subjects, including cats and dogs.
- Updates for the Protection of privacy Add the Improve Communication Security extension beyond Messages to protect you when sending and receiving content via AirDrop, Contact Posters, and FaceTime messages, as well as when selecting content to send in Photos. In addition to images, it also protects video content. A new feature, Sensitive Content Warning, helps adults avoid unwanted nude photos and videos.
- Updates to the features of Accessibility include Assistive Access, a customizable interface that helps users with cognitive disabilities use iPhone more easily and independently; Live Speech, which allows those who cannot speak digitally to have their words spoken, both in person and during phone conversations and FaceTime calls; Personal Voice offers users at risk of losing their ability to speak the ability to create a voice similar to their own; and Point and Speak, which helps blind and visually impaired people read text on physical objects simply by pointing the camera at them.
Here you can find the detailed article about all the new features of iOS 17.
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