Some of iOS 17’s best new features are coming in updates later this year.
iOS 17 is finally out, but it’s only partially out. It brings a wealth of improvements and new features: Contact posters, live voicemail transcription, StandBy, FaceTime messages, new autocorrect and dictation, Siri improvements, and a lot more. But some features you may be looking for won’t be there when you update your iPhone in September. While they’re part of iOS 17, they won’t be ready until later this year.
Apple does this every year with iOS updates, and it’s no cause for concern. It just means that some features are earmarked for iOS 17.1, 17.2, or 17.3, and Apple is telling us about all of them now. In fact, sometimes one or two of the “coming later this year” features slip into the next year. Here are the iOS 17 features Apple says are coming in a future update to iOS 17:AirDrop over the Internet
One of iOS 17’s nifty changes to AirDrop is that you can initiate it just by bringing your iPhone near the recipient’s iPhone. That part is coming with the iOS 17 release.
But another handy change is that, if someone is sending you a couple of big videos and several dozen photos, you don’t have to sit there for ten minutes waiting for the transfer to complete. You can start an AirDrop and then go your separate ways, and the AirDrop will continue over the internet, at full quality. You and the sender just have to be signed in to iCloud.
That second part, the internet transfer, won’t be available until some time after the initial iOS 17 release.Journal app
Apple showed off its new app Journal at WWDC, and it seems pretty great. Make notes about your day, include pictures or music or locations, and all the suggestions happen on-device and the iCloud syncing is end-to-end encrypted.
