Your iPhone is about to get a whole lot more useful.

TLDR:

  1. Advanced search in Messages
  2. Your iPhone can read laundry symbols
  3. Figure out the meaning of warning lights in your car
  4. Cropping photos is a lot easier
  5. Make the most of interactive widgets
  6. Listen to articles instead of reading them
  7. Easily share passwords with your family members
  8. Ping your Apple Watch from your iPhone
  9. Set up a separate search engine for incognito mode
  10. Reset forgotten passcodes
  11. Automatically delete one-time passwords
  12. Remove tracking information from links
  13. Adjust the speed of haptic touch
    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just tried it. In the first image it didn’t identify anything, so I took a second one. Now it can read the text. BTW it identified the laundry symbols as 的达叉＆网. The search results weren’t particularly helpful. I never saw any star buttons anywhere, so I guess this feature isn’t really a thing in my phone.

  • ChrisFhey@kbin.social
    62·
    1 year ago

    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?

      • ChrisFhey@kbin.social
        41·
        1 year ago

        Annoying, but as long as they do it I’ll be pleased. I’m hoping this’ll also mean that we’ll get some browsers that aren’t Safari in a trench coat.

    • markomas@lemmy.world
      52·
      1 year ago

      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)

        • Plantee@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh sorry! My comment was a bit vague, meant the feature which recognises symbols and such (visual look up?).

          • ChrisFhey@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Aah, I see. No worries. Just a slight misunderstanding. :)

            Bit of a shame really, that feature seems like it’d be really useful. Especially given my lack of knowledge regarding laundry.

    • randomaccount43543@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.deEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        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).

        • Sheltac@lemmy.world
          10·
          1 year ago

          I’d settle for hiding photos in albums from recents, as that would tell me what I need to organise and don’t.