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iOS 17
Version of the iOS operating system
iOS 17 homescreen on an iPhone 13
DeveloperApple Inc.
Written inC, C++, Objective-C, Swift, assembly language
OS familyiOS
Working stateCurrent
Source modelClosed with open-source components
General
availability		September 18, 2023; 7 months ago (2023-09-18)
Latest release17.5[1] (May 13, 2024; 4 days ago (2024-05-13)) [±]
Marketing targetiPhones
Available in40 languages[2]
Update methodSoftware Update
Package managerApp Store
Platforms
Kernel typeHybrid (XNU)
Default
user interface		Cocoa Touch (multi-touch, graphical user interface)
LicenseProprietary software with open-source components
Preceded byiOS 16
Official websiteapple.com/ios/ios-17
TaglineEvery day. More extraordinary.[3]
Support status
In public beta. Drops support for all A11 Bionic chips, including the iPhone 8/8 Plus and iPhone X.
Articles in the series
iPadOS 17 (derivative for iPad)

iOS 17 is an upcoming release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone and the successor to iOS 16. It was announced on June 5, 2023, at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, and released as a developer beta.[4] iOS 17's developer beta is the first one that may be downloaded with just an Apple ID account; previous releases required a paid subscription to Apple's developer program.[5]

The public beta of iOS 17 was released on July 12, 2023, with the public release scheduled for September 18, 2023.[6]

Development

According to Mark Gurman, iOS 17's internal codename was Dawn. Apple leaders initially intended iOS 17 as a "tuneup release" similar to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, allowing them to focus on their new mixed reality headset. Still, several major features were added later in the development cycle.[7][8][9]

Features

User interface and system features

Interactive widgets

The widgets are now interactive, on the Home and Lock screens. For example, users can turn on the lights or shutters of the house by pressing the corresponding button of the Home widget; or mark a task complete by pressing directly on a reminder in the widget, etc.

Wallpaper improvements

The brightness of the wallpaper image changes depending on the dark or light mode. Resized photos are automatically extended to the top with a gradient that fills the missing space. Live Photos are now also supported. The font weight for the text on the lock screen can be adjusted more freely.

StandBy mode

StandBy mode is automatically enabled when the phone is charging while horizontally oriented. It displays information via widgets in intelligent stacks and Live activities. The appearance of this information changes according to the ambient light, so at night they appear with less flashy and less bright colors.

Autocorrect and text prediction improvements

The keyboard's autocorrection and dictation are powered by a new on-device transformer model, which Apple says is more accurate and personalized to users' writing styles. Unlike previous versions of iOS, it can learn not to autocorrect swear words.[10][11] Autocorrected words are underlined, and can be reverted with a tap. Word predictions are shown inline, and added when the spacebar is tapped.[12]

AirDrop improvements

  • AirDrop file transfers continue over the Internet if devices become out of reach.
  • NameDrop: by tapping an iPhone or Apple Watch against another, users can start a file transfer, a shared activity with SharePlay, or exchange a customizable contact card.[13]

Spotlight improvements

The global search now allows users to change system settings directly from the search results. For example, if the user search for the word "wifi" from the Home Screen, the switch to turn the Wi-Fi off or on appears directly in the search results.

Focus mode improvements

Silence Notifications: a new option for notifications in focus mode that allows users to choose to mute notifications Always or When blocked.

Visual Lookup improvements

Visual Lookup is now able to recognize in photos the symbols of the various lights in the car, the symbols in the labels of clothes, etc.

Siri improvements

  • Users can now simply say "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri" to activate Siri with their voice. Subsequent questions asked to Siri do not require the user to re-say the "Siri" command.
  • Users can now say "Hey Siri send a message" and then choose the application to use through a drop-down menu. After the first change, Siri will remember the choice and speed up the operation.
  • Users can ask Siri to read a page in Safari.
  • Ability to find a lost Apple TV remote with Siri.

Faster Haptic Touch

In the Haptic Touch duration settings is a new third duration that is even shorter than the other two available on iOS 16.

Advanced AutoFill in PDFs and scanned documents

The information saved by the user in Contacts can be used to automatically and securely fill in the fields of a form of a PDF or scanned document.

Accessibility improvements

  • Personal Voice uses machine learning to let users recreate their own voice as a text-to-speech model.[14]
  • Using Point and speak, the phone will read what is written on the push-button panels of household appliances.
  • Assistive Access: it is an extremely simplified iOS user interface that can be activated from the Accessibility settings, useful for people with cognitive disabilities.

Networking improvements

  • Private 5G and LTE networks: iOS 17 adds support for private cellular networks, allowing to connect an iPhone to a private 5G or LTE cellular network, using an eSIM or physical SIM that has been specifically provisioned for that network.[15]
  • A new setting for cellular networks allows users to disable cellular data usage statistics if they do not care which apps are consuming data.

iPhone Storage improvements

iPhone Storage now shows the space occupied by data shared between multiple apps from the same manufacturer.

App features

Phone

With Contact Posters, users can customize the appearance of the incoming call screen shown to other iPhone users.[16] Customization options are similar to iOS 16's revamped lock screen, with the ability to pick a custom picture or Memoji as the contact photo, and change their name's font and color. On the incoming call screen, a new Live Voicemail button sends the call to voicemail and shows a live transcript on-screen, so the user can decide whether to pick up the call.[4][17][additional citation(s) needed]

Other improvements:

  • Different ringtones for each SIM.
  • Increased the number of calls in call history to 2000.
  • Users can choose which SIM to use to call all unknown numbers.
  • The buttons to end a phone call, mute the microphone, etc. are positioned at the bottom instead of being in the center of the screen, so they are more accessible when using the phone with only one hand.
  • Added more than 20 new ringtones.

Messages

The Messages app has a new "Check In" feature. The user picks a contact and sets a destination, and Check In notifies the contact once the user reaches the destination safely. If the user stops moving towards the destination and does not respond to prompts, the user's location, route, and battery level are automatically shared with the contact. The contact otherwise has no access to the user's location, and this information is encrypted end-to-end.[18][19][20] The Messages app also shows a transcript of voice messages. Emojis and photo cutouts (created through the "remove subject from background" tool) can be used as stickers, and stamped on bubbles in iMessage conversations or in other apps.[21]

Journal

iOS 17 bundles a new app, Journal, an end-to-end encrypted journaling app that lets users log their daily activities.

FaceTime

FaceTime supports the ability for callers to leave a video or audio message when the recipient is unavailable. Effect reactions have been added to FaceTime calls, similar to the reactions feature in Messages.

Apple Music

  • Collaborative playlist: it allows a group of users to add and remove songs from a shared playlist.
  • Cross-fading effect between played songs.
  • Animated album artwork in music player: Albums that support animated album artwork will now show the animation in the music player on Apple Music.

Maps

  • Offline maps: maps can now be downloaded for use without an internet connection.
  • Charging stations for electric vehicles: it is possible to see in real time the availability of charging points for electric vehicles, in particular how many free slots there are at that particular charging point, the type of connection, etc.
  • Search for people by name: users can search people on the map by name if they have shared their location.

Safari

  • Profiles: Safari supports Profiles to keep users browsing activities separate when they are at work or school from those at home or personal. Individual Safari extensions can be enabled or disabled by profile.
  • Private browsing protected by Face ID: the pages previously opened in Private browsing mode require Face ID to be reviewed.
  • Private search engine: in the Safari settings, users can set a separate search engine to use in private mode.
  • Listen to Page allows users to listen to the entire page as audio read from the phone.
  • The browsing history now shows favicons next to the site name and description.
  • Added support for JPEG XL and HEIC image formats.

Notes

  • Users can create links between notes to quickly jump from one note to another.
  • Users can view and annotate PDFs directly within the app.

Reminders

The list of a reminder can now be organized into sections.

Photos

  • Recipe search: users can search for recipes on the Internet using a photo containing food.
  • Pet recognition: dogs and cats are automatically recognized and categorized within the people section.
  • Simplified cropping: when a user zooms in on a photo, a button automatically appears to crop the photo without having to go into photo editing first.
  • Search for objects in videos: in the search box, users can type the name of an object to find the exact frame in the video where that object appears.

Camera

The Camera app has two new optional settings: "Level" shows a horizontal line that turns yellow when the subject is aligned to the horizon, and "Lock white balance" can disable automatic white balance adjustments when recording a video.

Deferred Photo Processing: the Deep Fusion post-processing process is performed in the background, instead of taking place at the same time as the "shot" and only when the camera is not in use. This ensures significantly higher recording sessions, without shutter blocks, allowing the user to capture new photos at any time.[22]

Find My

Find My supports sharing AirTags with up to five people.

Clock

The Clock app supports multiple simultaneous timers.

Weather

  • The wind map has been added.
  • The Weather app now lets users compare today's weather with yesterday's.
  • Moon phase: a new section shows the current state of the moon, the time until the next full moon, the times of moonset and moonrise and the lunar calendar.

Screen Time

Screen Distance checks and warns users if they are holding their iPhone too close to the user's face for a considerable period of time.

Health

  • The Health app lets users log and label their mood, and see how their mood correlates to various lifestyle factors over time. The app also let users take standardized assessments for anxiety and depression.[23]
  • Users can be notified if they forget to log that they have taken their medication.
  • Added summary of users' friends' training results.

Shortcuts

  • Commands associated with various apps are shown in Spotlight search when users search for that app. For example, when searching for the Camera app, commands to open the app in Selfie, Portrait, Cinematic, Time-Lapse, etc. modes are shown.
  • Developers can define the background color of commands created for their app. For example, for the Books app, the commands to open the current book and listen to the current book appear in an orange box like the color of the Books app.

Fitness

Apple Fitness+ can give users custom workout plans, set workouts or meditations to play consecutively, or separately change the volume of the music and the instructor's voice.[24]

Security and privacy

One-time verification codes received in Mail can be filled in with a tap without leaving Safari.

Link-tracking protection detects user-definable tracking parameters in link URLs and automatically removes them. It is automatically enabled in Mail, Messages, and when browsing with Safari in Private Mode.

Shared group passwords allows the user to create groups of passwords to share with family and friends. Users can recover passwords for up to 30 days. After changing the lock screen passcode, the old code can be used for 72 hours to reset the new passcode if it is forgotten. There's also a button to expire previous passcode immediately.

iOS 17 contains several changes for app permissions. When an app wants to add an event to the user's Calendar, the event is added without the app being able to read the entire contents of the calendar. When apps ask to access the user’s entire photo library, the user can share specific photos with apps while keeping the rest of the library private.

A sensitive content warning detects nudity in photos and videos received in AirDrop and other apps, obscuring them with a blur effect before they are displayed.

Lockdown mode can block the iPhone from connecting to 2G cellular networks and from auto-joining insecure wireless networks, and it disables more APIs in Safari susceptible to being attacked, such as IndexedDB, File API, FileReader API, WebSpeech API, WebLocks API, and more.[25] Apple's simultaneously-announced watchOS 10 gains support for Lockdown mode, and the mode is automatically enabled on Apple Watch when it is enabled on a paired iPhone.

Supported devices

iOS 17 requires an A12 Bionic chip or later. It drops support for devices with A11 Bionic[26] SoC. However, devices with either the A12 Bionic[27] SoC or A13 Bionic[28] SoC have limited support.[note] Devices with an A14 Bionic SoC[29] or newer[30] are fully supported.[3]

Due to iOS 17 dropping support for the iPhone X, this is the first version of iOS to drop support for an iPhone with Face ID and no home button.

The iPhone SE (2nd and 3rd generations) are the only supported devices to feature a home button.

Release history

The first developer beta of iOS 17 was released on June 5, 2023.[4] Unlike previous years, the developer beta program is open to anyone with a free Apple Developer account, without requiring a subscription.[31]

Previous release Current release Current beta release Security response
Version Build Release date Release notes
17.0 beta 1 21A5248v June 5, 2023
17.0 beta 2[32] 21A5268h June 21, 2023
17.0 beta 3[33] 21A5277h July 15, 2023
21A5277j July 11, 2023 Public beta 1
17.0 beta 4[34] 21A5291h July 25, 2023
21A5291j[35] July 31, 2023 Public beta 2
17.0 beta 5 21A5303d August 8, 2023 Public beta 3 (August 9, 2023)
17.0 beta 6 21A5312c August 16, 2023 Public beta 4
17.0 beta 7 21A5319a August 22, 2023 Public beta 5
17.0 beta 8 21A5326a August 29, 2023 Public beta 6
17.0 RC 21A329 September 12, 2023

Notes

^ Effect reactions, inline word prediction and completion with the tap of the spacebar, and Point and speak will not be available on devices older than the iPhone 12 series.

See also

References

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  26. ^ iPhone 8
    iPhone 8 Plus
    iPhone X
  27. ^ iPhone XS
    iPhone XS Max
    iPhone XR
  28. ^ iPhone 11
    iPhone 11 Pro
    iPhone 11 Pro Max
    iPhone SE (2nd generation)
  29. ^ iPhone 12 series
  30. ^ iPhone 13 series and later
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  35. ^ "iOS 17 beta 4 (21A5291j)". Apple. July 31, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
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