Apple Announces iOS 17 With StandBy Charging Mode, Better Autocorrect (theverge.com) 44
At WWDC today, Apple debuted iOS 17. "Highlights include new safety features, a built-in journaling app, a new nightstand mode, redesigned contact cards, better auto-correct and voice transcription, and live voicemail," reports The Verge. "And you'll be able to drop the 'hey' from 'Hey Siri.'" From the report: Your contact book is getting an update with a new feature called posters, which turns contact cards into flashy marquee-like images that show up full-screen on your recipient's iPhone when you call them. They use a similar design language as the redesigned lock screens, with bold typography options and the ability to add Memoji, and will work with third-party VoIP apps. There's also a new live transcription feature for voicemail that lets you view a transcript of the message a caller is leaving in real time. You can choose to ride it out or pick up the call, and it's all handled on-device. You'll also be able to leave a message on FaceTime, too.
Some updates to messages include the ability to filter searches with additional terms, a feature that jumps to the most recent message so you can catch up more easily, transcriptions of voice messages -- similar to what the Pixel 7 series introduced -- and a series of new features called Check In that shares your live location and status with someone else. It can automatically send a message to a friend when you've arrived home, and it can share your phone's battery and cell service status to help avoid confusion if you're in a dead zone. Stickers are getting an overhaul, too, with the ability to add any emoji or photo cutout as a "sticker" positioned on iMessages or anywhere within the system. Live photos can be turned into animated stickers, too, and you can now add effects to stickers.
AirDrop gets an update to send contact information -- cleverly called NameDrop -- which will send your selected email addresses and phone numbers (and your poster) just by bringing two iPhones near each other. It also works between an iPhone and an Apple Watch. Photos can be shared the same way, and if the file is a big one, it's now possible to move out of range while continuing the download. iOS 17 also includes keyboard updates, including enhancements to autocorrect. It now relies on a new language model for better accuracy, plus an easier shortcut to revert to the original word you wrote if necessary. There's now in-line predictive typing and sentence-level autocorrections to correct more grammatical mistakes. It'll finally learn your favorite cuss words, too; Apple's Craig Federighi even made a "ducking" joke onstage. Dictation uses a new AI model, too, that's more accurate.
A new app called Journal automatically suggests moments that you might want to commemorate in a journal entry. Your entries can include photos, music, and activities, and you can schedule reminders for yourself to start writing. It's end-to-end encrypted, too, to keep things private. StandBy is a new mode for charging that turns the screen into a status display with the date and time. It can show information from Live Activities, widgets, and smart stacks and automatically turns on when your phone is in landscape mode while charging. You can swipe to the right to see some of your highlighted photos, and it comes with customizable clockfaces. Siri will surface visual results in StandBy, and the display shifts to a red tone at night to avoid disrupting sleep. Last but not least, Siri gets a boost, too, and finally lets you drop the "hey" from "Hey Siri." It will also recognize back-to-back commands. iOS 17 is available to developers today, with a public beta released next month.
Some updates to messages include the ability to filter searches with additional terms, a feature that jumps to the most recent message so you can catch up more easily, transcriptions of voice messages -- similar to what the Pixel 7 series introduced -- and a series of new features called Check In that shares your live location and status with someone else. It can automatically send a message to a friend when you've arrived home, and it can share your phone's battery and cell service status to help avoid confusion if you're in a dead zone. Stickers are getting an overhaul, too, with the ability to add any emoji or photo cutout as a "sticker" positioned on iMessages or anywhere within the system. Live photos can be turned into animated stickers, too, and you can now add effects to stickers.
AirDrop gets an update to send contact information -- cleverly called NameDrop -- which will send your selected email addresses and phone numbers (and your poster) just by bringing two iPhones near each other. It also works between an iPhone and an Apple Watch. Photos can be shared the same way, and if the file is a big one, it's now possible to move out of range while continuing the download. iOS 17 also includes keyboard updates, including enhancements to autocorrect. It now relies on a new language model for better accuracy, plus an easier shortcut to revert to the original word you wrote if necessary. There's now in-line predictive typing and sentence-level autocorrections to correct more grammatical mistakes. It'll finally learn your favorite cuss words, too; Apple's Craig Federighi even made a "ducking" joke onstage. Dictation uses a new AI model, too, that's more accurate.
A new app called Journal automatically suggests moments that you might want to commemorate in a journal entry. Your entries can include photos, music, and activities, and you can schedule reminders for yourself to start writing. It's end-to-end encrypted, too, to keep things private. StandBy is a new mode for charging that turns the screen into a status display with the date and time. It can show information from Live Activities, widgets, and smart stacks and automatically turns on when your phone is in landscape mode while charging. You can swipe to the right to see some of your highlighted photos, and it comes with customizable clockfaces. Siri will surface visual results in StandBy, and the display shifts to a red tone at night to avoid disrupting sleep. Last but not least, Siri gets a boost, too, and finally lets you drop the "hey" from "Hey Siri." It will also recognize back-to-back commands. iOS 17 is available to developers today, with a public beta released next month.
How about a functioning, modern browser? (Score:3)
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Please, let me browse the super gay web.
Better?
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I browse all over the web on an iPad without trouble. Is the iPhone version that much worse?
In fact I have more trouble with Firefox on Linux. There is one blog site that won't let me read the comments there, but it works fine on Safari.
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Please, just let me browse the web.
I heard that browsers which don't rely on the same WebKit rendering engine will be allowed in the App Store [9to5mac.com].
Palm Pilot (Score:2)
NameDrop -- which will send your selected email addresses and phone numbers (and your poster) just by bringing two iPhones near each other.
iPhone finally got back a useful pervasive function since the Palm Pilot, but was unfortunately lost when IR was dropped from phones.
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nah, you can tap Android phones and swap business cards over NFC. Less aiming than Palm.
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turns contact cards into flashy marquee-like images that show up full-screen on your recipient's iPhone when you call them
That settles it, I will NEVER own an iPhone.
I can't imagine suffering the average idiot's full-screen animation every time they call me.
The HTML "blink" tag was taken outside and strangled for a reason.
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Check this shit out too:
StandBy is a new mode for charging that turns the screen into a status display with the date and time. It can show information from Live Activities, widgets, and smart stacks and automatically turns on when your phone is in landscape mode while charging.
Another brilliant invention by Apple!
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It's interesting that pretty much everything new is just ripped off from Android.
Does the transcription work on-device? One of the best features of Pixel phones is that they do voice transcription locally, without any data being sent to the cloud. As well as better privacy, it reduces latency a lot. The words appear on the screen practically as soon as you finish saying them.
That leads to other useful features, like letting Google Assistant answer calls for you. It talks to the caller and displays what they
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It's interesting that pretty much everything new is just ripped off from Android.
Snore.
Does the transcription work on-device? One of the best features of Pixel phones is that they do voice transcription locally, without any data being sent to the cloud. As well as better privacy, it reduces latency a lot. The words appear on the screen practically as soon as you finish saying them.
Transcription on iOS CURRENTLY works like that. On-device, instantaneous.
Better AutoCorrect? (Score:3)
Better autocorrect is a selling point?
We've had autocorrect figured out for decades. The only way it gets better is if apple gets rid of the dial on their apps to always make them just hardly work perfectly.
The entire thing is ducking crazy.
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Better autocorrect is a selling point?
Maybe it'll stop people posting "artistic" punctuation symbols on slashdot.
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Right after /. supports Unicode. What was the excuse for that again?
You really want people to be able to type all those stupid Unicode emoticons and other graphics on here? How about animated GIFs, should we have them, too?
Re: Better AutoCorrect? (Score:1)
Re: Better AutoCorrect? (Score:2)
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The US site inherited the same code and is fully Unicode compatible. However, those site admins decided they didn't wan to k
Re: Better AutoCorrect? (Score:2)
How about my country's currency symbol: £
Re: Better AutoCorrect? (Score:2)
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We've had autocorrect figured out for decades. The only way it gets better is if apple gets rid of the dial on their apps to always make them just hardly work perfectly.
Let me guess..autocorrect strikes again? What?
8 apple stories on home page? (Score:3)
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Well this isn't tech news either. The cool kids don't use Apple I hear. I'm not cool but I don't like Apple. I'm a Commodore kid.
Re: 8 apple stories on home page? (Score:2)
I like Komodo dragons too.
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Maybe he's Apple's fanboy being paid. LOL. /. used to just post ONE Apple story with all the announcements.
Re:8 apple stories on home page? (Score:4, Informative)
8 apple strories by BeauHD? With helpful links to apple.com and pricing? Is there no other tech news?
Could it be there was a hugely anticipated tech event hosted by Apple this week? An event that generates a lot of news that is relevant to people here?
Are you one of those people who posts this complaint every single year? If so maybe just note WWDC down as a few days where you don't read Slashdot along with April 1st and just move on with your life.
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Could it be there was a hugely anticipated tech event hosted by Apple this week? An event that generates a lot of news that is relevant to people here?
Spreading it across eight stories actually makes the discussion shittier, and is done for literally no reason but to increase ad impressions.
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Spreading it across eight stories actually makes the discussion shittier, and is done for literally no reason but to increase ad impressions.
Eight might be excessive, but one would be a headache. The people interested in their gaming headset probably don't have a lot of overlap with people who are interested in what is changing in iOS, and Slashdot doesn't exactly have a history of folks keeping topics to a single thread.
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Spreading it across eight stories actually makes the discussion shittier
Spreading what across 8 stories? Do you suggest maybe we run a single mega thread where we can have a discussion about shitty VR/AR interjected by iOS features, praising how great the M2 Ultra looks all the while lambasting a company for releasing a Mac Pro with an upper limit of RAM 1/5th of what was available 5 years ago all in between the general complaints that Safari is still a POS?
No. Spreading different news stories across ... well different news stories makes the discussion actually make sense.
Re: 8 apple stories on home page? (Score:2)
When you lot come around and bitch about it ads get served. Think about it.
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I was starting to wonder that, too.
You know, there is a world outside of Apple, and there are people who don't give a fuck about entering a walled garden for no particular reason. The only reason I finally clicked on one of those ad stories is to ask whether we can get some other news or whether I need to find a new news source that isn't clogged with corporate spam.
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"You know, there is a world outside of Apple, "
Not yesterday there wasn't. It's the one day big event for developers. The other big day will be when they release the new phone, that day I'll be ignoring the Apple articles too.
I also ignore all android articles at any time.
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"Check In" (Score:2)
This considered a bad thing in a prison sense.
Stop autocorrecting to duck (Score:3)
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Duck was explicity listed as a feature. They even joked about it.
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A Fun work around to this problem
Create a contact with the name, Fuck, and another contact with the name, fucker, and the other another with the name, Fucking and then auto correct will Work correctly.
This message was fucking typed using auto correct
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Ho Hum (Score:1)
It's getting hard to pack anything useful into an OS that people will get excited about. Move along.
Dropping the "Hey" (Score:1)
THE JOKER: "Why... so... SERIOUS?"
IPHONE: "Here's what Wikipedia has to say about 'us'. 'Us' is a pronoun used to both the speaker and one or more additional parties."