When iOS 17 launches within the fall, it is going to deliver a wealth of enhancements and new options: Contact posters, reside voicemail transcription, StandBy, FaceTime messages, new autocorrect and dictation, Siri enhancements, and much more. However a number of the coolest options gained’t be there whenever you replace your iPhone. Whereas they’re a part of the iOS 17 characteristic set, they’re not coming till later this 12 months.
Apple does this yearly with iOS updates, and it’s no trigger for concern. It simply implies that some options are earmarked for iOS 17.1, 17.2, or 17.3, and Apple is telling us about all of them now. In actual fact, generally one or two of the “coming later this 12 months” options slip into the following 12 months. Listed below are the iOS 17 options Apple says are coming in an replace after the preliminary launch.
AirDrop over the Web
One among iOS 17’s nifty modifications to AirDrop is that you would be able to provoke it simply by bringing your iPhone close to the recipient’s iPhone. That half is coming with the iOS 17 launch.
However one other helpful change is that, if somebody is sending you a few huge movies and a number of other dozen images, you don’t have to take a seat there for ten minutes ready for the switch to finish. You can begin an AirDrop after which go your separate methods, and the AirDrop will proceed over the web, at full high quality. You and the sender simply should be signed into iCloud.
That second half, the web switch, gained’t be obtainable till a while after the preliminary iOS 17 launch.
Journal app
Apple confirmed off its new app Journal at WWDC, and it appears fairly nice. Make notes about your day, embody footage or music or areas, and all of the recommendations occur on-device and the iCloud syncing is end-to-end encrypted. You may even lock your journal.
However we’re going to have to attend till “later this 12 months” to start out our journaling…er…journey.
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Collaborative Apple Music playlists
Music followers have been asking for shared or collaborative playlists in Apple Music for years. It’s a type of issues that retains individuals on Spotify.
It’s lastly coming to iOS 17. Or no less than, iOS 17.1, or 17.2, or perhaps 17.3. That’s whenever you’ll have the ability to share Apple Music playlists with mates who can add, take away, and reorder songs, and you’ll all use emoji to react to tune selections in Now Taking part in.
AirPlay in lodge rooms
Taking part in your personal content material on a lodge TV is a serious ache. Apple’s going to work with lodge chains so as to add AirPlay to their TVs, which is simply what we would like. You’ll scan a QR code on the TV to connect with it, and simply stream what you need out of your cellphone to the TV in your room.
That one’s not coming till a while after the iOS 17 launch, and if we’re sincere, it’s in all probability going to be a 12 months or extra earlier than most vacationers encounter it. Just a few choose motels are anticipated to roll it out later this 12 months, with extra to observe.
NameDrop to Apple Watch
Along with the brand new AirDrop options comes NameDrop, Apple’s branding for a characteristic Android has had for a very long time. Simply deliver your iPhone actually shut to a different one to ship them your contact data (and you’ll management which contact data they get and don’t get). You’ll even have the ability to do it on somebody’s Apple Watch. Neat!
Besides the Apple Watch half is coming, you guessed it, later this 12 months in a software program replace. It additionally requires an Apple Watch Collection 6 or later, Apple Watch SE, or Apple Watch Extremely.
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