Apple is releasing the preliminary variations of most of its main working system updates immediately, following their announcement on the firm’s Worldwide Builders Convention in June and the disclosing of latest iPhone and Apple Watch {hardware} final week. Appropriate gadgets can now obtain the iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17 updates with out signing up for certainly one of Apple’s beta applications.
The iOS 17 replace this yr is pretty gentle; it features a smart-display-esque characteristic known as StandBy that may hold your display screen on when your telephone is plugged in and positioned on a stand, plus “contact posters” that show full-screen images when somebody in your contacts listing is looking, improved autocorrect, and stay voicemail transcription.
Lots of iOS 17’s introduced options, together with a brand new journaling app, a number of Messages enhancements, and Web-enabled AirDrop transfers, can be coming in later iOS 17 releases. This can be a fairly typical apply for Apple today, although the listing of “later this yr” options (by way of MacRumors) does appear a bit longer than typical.
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