Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a
look some of the new features in iOS 17 for the iPhone.
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Now there are a ton of new features in iOS 17. I count more than 100. There
are new things in just about every aspect and app that comes with your
iPhone. Here are some things that you can check out as soon as you upgrade.
First let's take a look at something called Contact Posters. So this what somebody else
sees when you call them. So you set this up by going into the Contacts app on your iPhone. Then
you tap on you rown contact there at the top and you look for Contacts Photo and Poster. Here's
where you can configure it. So the first time you do it you'll see this. You go through it. Now you
can customize your name. So what they see is your name. Then you can set either a photo or
use a Memoji. I'm going to select a photo and it has up there at the top Suggested. I'm just going
to use suggested ones with my face in it. I'm going to select this one and then I can go and
use it like that or can swipe to choose kind of a filter for it. Once I get a filter that I like
I can actually tap there's other options. A color option in this one. Color backdrop. I can select a
different color for instance. Like that and then I can tap here and I've got depth effect or not.
I can tap done. Then I'll see a preview of what it looks like. This is what
it will look like when somebody else gets a phone call from me.
Here you can see me do a Memoji right there. I'm going to use a Memoji instead. I'm going to tap
this one that I created myself and I'm going to select a pose. So a good pose will just be
like this one right here. Then Next. Then I'm going to pick a background color and from that
I'm going to go and once I get a color I like then tap Done. Again it will show me a preview.
I like that one so I'll continue. Then I also get to pick the contact avatar there. So I can crop,
basically, a version of what it is I created right there and get it setup what I want.
Position it and then choose and now I'm done. So I'll continue
and this is what other people will see when I call them.
Next we've got a feature called Standby Mode. This is what happens when you put your iPhone
in Horizontal Mode like if you put it on your nightstand at night and you're using the MagSave
charger and it kind of is just as easy to put it horizontal as vertical. When you do that
it will go into a mode that looks like this and there are several different options. So
you have this one that has a clock and some info, some widget info. You've got a Photos
option. You've got a bigger clock right here. You can tap and hold and then go and swipe or
tap these dots here on the right to choose from various things. There are different options for
each one. So you can customize it to be like what you want. If we go to this one here I can tap and
hold and I can go through some different options for a photos background one. For this one here,
this is like the widget one. So there are a bunch of different widgets and I
can tap and hold and select a widget, like a calendar widget for instance.
Here's a small feature but I know a lot of people are going to love this. The is when you're editing
your Home Screen, let's say you tap and hold and then drag something. You can now Undo. So
you shake your iPhone, just like you're going to Undo anything and the Undo action here will allow
you to Undo the move. This will work on a simple move like that or maybe something more complex.
Like I'll drag this to another screen here and it is going to push an icon off onto a further
screen. But I can shake, Undo, and everything goes back the way it was. You can see now I've got
the wallet app back there on the first one.
So here's a cool feature for the Phone App. If somebody calls you now and you let it go
to voicemail you can actually see a transcription of the voicemail. So it is not going to actually
speak the voicemail. You won't hear it. What happens is the phone rings and then you don't
answer it or you tap the Voicemail button and it will go to Voicemail and now as they talk
you'll see the text appear right here. So this is something I recorded earlier. You can see as
I start to talk that is what the message is. Then you could decide at some point to accept the call.
So you can tap that or you can tap Block if you're just getting spam at that point. Or just lock
your phone and put it away if you just want to continue having it record the voicemail as normal.
Now one of the things you're going to notice is the Call Interface has changed for the
first time in a long time. So now when you make a phone call, like I will right here,
and I put the call through, look at how the buttons are now all there on the bottom. The
idea is that you can reach them easier with your thumb or single finger. So you can use that to
end the call or you can, for instance, you know tap one of the other buttons,
like maybe tap the audio button to send it to speaker or tap the keypad button or the mute
button right there to use one of those. So everything is along the bottom and is easier
to get to. But it is going to trip some people up right after they have upgraded.
A lot of little tricks in Safari. One of them is when you go to a
page that has an article on it you can now tap on the Reader View button up
there. But there is now a Listen to Page button. It will speak the text for you.
Here's another one that I quite like. You can now have separate Search Engines in Safari for regular
browsing or for private browsing. So you can see there's a Search engine setting for a Regular
Search Engine and you can set a different one up if you were using a Private window.
Now here's a big one now in the Maps App. You can download maps. So you tap on your Profile Icon at
the bottom right. Then you go to Map Downloads there. You can download a suggested map. In this
case it is just my local area. Or I can search for an area or just start with the current location
and I can pinch In and Out and swipe to select an area. Once I get the area I want it tells me
how much space it is going to take up and I could tap Download and it will start to download this
map. So then I have access to the map information for this area even when I don't have an internet
connection. It could be really useful. Goggle Maps has had this for awhile. You have some options
here about when they get updated and whether or not to optimize storage and things like that.
There are a few new tricks when you do a Spotlight Search. One of the things I really like here is
that you can now search for a shortcut and it will show up there. You can actually execute
the shortcut. So here's my Resize Photo shortcut. I can execute it right here in Spotlight. I don't
have to go to the Shortcuts App or a button on the Home Screen. You can also search for
a Setting and some Settings, like I'm going to search for Bluetooth here actually will give you
the On/Off switch right there in Spotlight. You don't have to go to the Settings App.
Alright so there are more things you can now use Visual Lookup for. Here I am in
the Photos App and there is some food. If I do Visual Lookup here it will allow me
to lookup food and it will tell me what it is and also give me recipes for it.
You can also do things with the little symbols that appear either
on laundry labels. But also on your car's dashboard. So it will identify those items.
Now if you have a subscription to News+ then a new feature is Crossword Puzzles. They are not
just going to show them to you. You can actually play it. So it is a little game
inside of the News App. So if I just start a search here you see Puzzles is right at the
top and I'm going to get results here for both regular crossword and a crossword mini. If I
select the regular crossword you can see it is interactive. I can see the clues. I
can type letters there. There is a list there at the top. If I tap that little list button
you can see all the different clues. So a crossword puzzle you can play everyday.
One major new feature is Interactive Widgets. So we had widgets before,
like the one you see here. But notice how there are buttons now. I can say, you know,
tap the Call or Message button for the Contact Widget there. So you can put your important people
there are widgets. You've got a Play button for music. I can even tap items reminders to dismiss
them. If I look at the options for a widget you can see sometimes you have a Show Buttons
option. So you may want to check that if you don't get those buttons there on a particular widget.
So as I said before there are tons of new features in iOS 17. These are just some of
them. I'll be talking about others in future videos. Thanks for watching.