- Hey friends, we are getting closer and closer
to iPhone season, which means iOS 17 will be
officially released to everyone
not just the public developer beta.
So I've been using iOS 17 now for a while
and I'm just gonna show you my top five favorite features.
There are a bunch more and I did do
a further in-depth video, if you wanna check that out,
but now, that I've been using it for a while,
this is what I've been liking the most
and I'm not gonna lie, it is the stickers.
So in iOS 17, you're now able to make stickers
out of photos and live videos.
Live photos, not...
Well, they're technically videos, but they're live photos.
So you make a little live photo here.
So I'm gonna go in and I'm going to turn on live photo.
Live photo is on.
The interesting thing about doing these is you kind
of have to start the action before you hit record
because the live photo records shortly
before you hit record and then after.
So it's kind of an interesting thing,
but once you get it, you get it.
I'm gonna start waving.
So now, we're gonna go into my messages.
We're gonna go into the stickers
and here's ones that I've made before.
I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna make a new sticker.
It's so easy that it almost just hurts in my soul
as like a designer how incredibly easy it is to do things
that used to be very processor intensive, time intensive,
and now, it's just like that, that's it.
Like we go like this and I send it.
It's so easy, I freaking love it.
I can even go in here and make this even bigger.
I love it, they're so great.
Now, what's also interesting is you can add different types
of features, so you can make these stickers look
a little bit different.
So this one I'm just gonna take a regular photo, add effect,
so you can do like a little outline,
you can make it into a comic,
a little puffy sticker, or even a shiny sticker,
which I think that I like the shiny sticker,
so we're gonna go with that
and that's gonna be my shiny sticker.
It's just cool 'cause you can do this with any photo.
So let me find a picture of my dog,
I'm gonna make him into a sticker.
Add that right on top of hers.
Look at Maddie, he's walking. (laughs)
This is just adding so much more fun
and interactivity to iMessage and I'm also really excited
about the new keyboard, the predictive text.
It's just felt so much smoother.
So hello, Jenna, I am testing the keyboard.
It just feels better, like it just feels smoother.
The autocorrect isn't trying to correct things
that it shouldn't.
It's hard to explain until you actually use it.
I didn't think that it was gonna feel different,
but it does have a different feel to it.
Also, it is kind of weird 'cause I sometimes type
with like two fingers like this.
Like wow, look at me type.
Digital touch, I actually forgot about that.
Oh my, does anybody remember this?
That was like a thing.
I don't think...
I don't really know, does anyone use that?
I forgot about it.
So this is something I actually can't demo here,
but I can't wait for this.
It is the ability to leave a video voicemail
when you FaceTime somebody and they don't answer,
but now, you will actually be able to leave them
a video voicemail and I think this is such a cool idea
because obviously, if you're calling someone,
you are able to leave a voicemail.
Speaking of voicemail, this is also
one of my favorite things
is the voicemails now will auto transcribe.
So I hate listening to voicemails.
I also don't like listening to voice memos
because I don't know, I get distracted,
I don't know what someone's saying,
I need to be able to have like an account
of what they're saying, but the transcriptions
on the voicemail I think is key
because you can also choose to pick up
or you can just continue letting them leave that voicemail
and you can just read it as they're talking,
which is pretty awesome.
They have an updated thing called contact cards,
which allows you to customize your contact card.
So if you make a phone call to somebody,
you'll be able to customize your photo
and what's really cool is if you do have, I guess,
multiple contacts, like if you're at a business event,
you can have a business contact
and you can also have a personal one.
So maybe you wanna give people your phone number
or if you have a business number,
you might wanna give them that separate card
and it's really great because you can choose
which information you can share with people
even if you don't want to share information with them.
You can decide to leave off what you don't want to share.
So here's a few that I made already.
You can adjust the font, your photo, the colors.
So we're gonna create a new one
just so I can show you how this works.
We're gonna go into our photos.
I'm gonna find a photo of myself.
Oh, look at this, I've already got like a ton of pictures
that it suggested, so this is cool.
Oh, my gosh, I miss Hawaii, Hawaii is a wonderful place.
So here we go.
Look at me just chilling at the beach.
We're gonna change this to a different font,
I kind of like that one, you can pinch a crop,
so maybe we will center myself.
I can preview my poster and I can choose that the next time
that someone calls.
I needed a prop for this next one.
This next one is called standby mode.
You may have seen this at the Keynotes
where they were talking about it.
So basically, you have a stand and it charges your phone
at the same time and when you put it like this horizontal,
it will automatically switch to standby mode,
and now, this is showing some photos,
this is from south side of Pittsburgh,
that's my friend Susie,
and we can scroll through these, that's a terrible photo,
we're gonna just not use that one.
This is a nice photo from a hike that I went on and Maddie,
there he is, I knew when he was a baby he had short ears.
Now, you can swipe through and you can get
different watch faces.
This reminds me of the standby mode on the Apple watch
that's why I said watch faces.
This one's fun.
I added a bunch of widgets.
You can have reminders and you can also swipe on each one
of these to change it to be something different.
So depending upon what you want your nightstand
to look like, that is something that you can do.
Something else that I haven't been able to demo yet
is AirDrop over the internet.
I use AirDrop for absolutely everything.
Like I AirDrop photos, I AirDrop videos, content
from my phone to my computer, from my computer to my phone,
and it's one of my favorite things ever,
but if you've ever AirDropped someone before and you've kind
of went out of range of their phone, it fails,
but now, what happens is that content will then be uploaded
to the internet so then as the other person walks away,
they can connect to the internet and that will continue
to transfer when they're back in reception,
so you don't actually have to be near them anymore
and that is gonna be so awesome for events
and just even transferring files and photos here
even in the office, like if I decide to go outside,
like I don't have to worry
about something stopping AirDropping
like it'll just magically work.
So there's so much more in iOS 17,
but those are a few of my favorite.
I feel like I could probably sit here all day talking
about it, but before we know it, my friends,
it will be here and we'll all have access to it
if you do have a compatible device,
and then it's gonna be iPhone 15 time.
I am actually just I don't...
Where did this year go?
I have no idea.
I would love to hear from you guys though.
What are you looking forward to most in iOS 17
and what is something that you're most looking forward
to in the new iPhone 15?
Thank you guys for watching.
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So I'll see you here, bye.