TLDR:
- Advanced search in Messages
- Your iPhone can read laundry symbols
- Figure out the meaning of warning lights in your car
- Cropping photos is a lot easier
- Make the most of interactive widgets
- Listen to articles instead of reading them
- Easily share passwords with your family members
- Ping your Apple Watch from your iPhone
- Set up a separate search engine for incognito mode
- Reset forgotten passcodes
- Automatically delete one-time passwords
- Remove tracking information from links
- Adjust the speed of haptic touch
Personally, I thing the Visual Look Up of laundry or car symbols is so coool. Can’t wait to try it out!
Your iPhone can read laundry symbols
Okay, I don’t have an iphone, but if I did that would make my life a lot easier.
Also, what about sideloading of apps? Is that a thing in iOS 17 now?
Well technically you can install 3rd party apps using AltStore since iOS 14 (?). It’s a hassle to set up and you have to be at home every week (it needs to be at same network with your pc). But you don’t need rooting!!!
And since I sideload only YouTube and YouTube music (same apps as I had sideloaded with android) and I after Covid still don’t travel for longer than 1 week.
(Yes, I lost bet and I had to start using iPhone for two years)
I believe it is US/some regions only, unfortunately :(
I thought it was the other way around since it’s the EU that’s forcing the change.
Oh sorry! My comment was a bit vague, meant the feature which recognises symbols and such (visual look up?).
Companies identified as gatekeepers under the DMA have until 6 March 2024 to comply with all of the Act’s provisions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
I would expect Apple to drag its feet and wait until iOS 17.3 or 17.4 to finally enable sideloading.
Pinging Apple Watch from the iPhone is such a niche feature. Can’t imagine people using that much.
I really hope they fix some bugs…
Very gimmicky for a major release. I do not need any of these features.
These are some some small changes of the update, not the flagship features. Let me ask you, what other simple small features would you like to see added?
I have a photo gallery that is a mess to scroll and find anything. I would like to see a new approach to solving this problem (if possible at all).
I’d settle for hiding photos in albums from recents, as that would tell me what I need to organise and don’t.