For those who already upgraded, are you having any issues with iOS 17? Any new features that you like in particular?
For those who already upgraded, are you having any issues with iOS 17? Any new features that you like in particular?
Interactive widgets are really nice so far. There’s also a new setting to adjust the time needed to trigger haptic presses, I have mine set to Fast and it’s so much better.
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Fantasical’s calendar widgets and Things 3’s interactive to-do lists are my favorites so far!
Thanks for the haptic press tip. It’s way better!
Offline maps for Maps is the biggest thing I was excited about. Was using a 3rd party app as a backup up until now.
I am curious, when would you need offline maps? Do you live in an area with bad cell network? Or is your data plan expensive?
Edit: thanks for all your answers. Next time I travel I will download the map of the destination area. Also I added hot spots such as the local stadium and the city center, hoping, that when I take the subway during rush hours maps will work snappier.
I use it when traveling and don't want to use up expensive mobile data. Google maps has had it for a long time now.
I often travel in somewhat rural areas with spotty mobile coverage, so offline maps are useful for me.
It’s sometimes useful to pre-download maps of urban areas if attending busy events etc, because the cell towers can get overloaded causing slow speeds.
I use it for when I’m camping/fishing in remote areas without service
I often travel to places that don't have cell coverage (camping, etc). Starting a trip with no coverage does not work without offline maps.
I use Google Maps, which has had this feature for years. I use it any time I am traveling. If I am going to another country, I may have no cell access at all. Or cell data may cost way more. But even if I am traveling with in the US, there is a chance that wherever I am going, I may not have a reliable connection. 95% of the time it's fine, but that 5% of the time, when I stressed, out of my element, I don't know where to go, and my phone has no cell signal, I wish so badly that at least I could use the fucking map at least so I could know where I need to go.
I also have to use it for the town I live in since I moved here, because it's rural and the cell access is spotty at best. At least that's improving, though.
Same here!
Seems like quite a lot of people on Reddit are suffering from some random apps (such as the phone app) taking gigabytes of space, which didn’t happen before.
I just checked and it doesnt look like that is happening to mine, 14pro. I updated yesterday.
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Not with iOS or iPadOS. The new WatchOS seems like a big pile of unnecessary and inexplicable.
I’m not keen on how the watch Activity app is divided into separate screens, and requires swiping to see each graph. I preferred the previous style, where they were all on one screen which could be quickly scrolled.
That is so annoying. My challenge for this month is to walk 3 miles and was able to just swipe up to check the steps/distance. Now I need to swipe/scroll 4 times. I hate the Watch OS update.
The weather app is so bloated! I like the new watch faces. But I really have to get used to using only one.
There’s a weird — but minor — bug where when I raise the watch my schedule complication flashes. Instead of just going from a white text to a dark text (when the background shows up) the whole thing flashes, and it’s the only item on the watch face that does this.
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I've been using Carrot since DarkSky got bought by Apple, so I don't know. I can try it today and report back.
I updated yesterday no issues so far.
iPhone 13 mini
Stickers are dumb but fun. Autocorrect is a lot better for me, but still early. It now finally fucking recognizes that I’m trying to type the indefinite article ‘a’ instead of randomly dropping a ‘s’ before words. And it no longer is obsessed with ducks. Not sure if the thing where it makes two words out of one and removes the ability to undo is gone.
Shiny stickers are the best 😎
Stickers in iMessage of your own photos is fun, maybe that was already there but found it now and the standby mode is great. I have a magnetic charger stand and am now finally able to see the snooze or stop alarm button when I wake up :)
Sad to see stickers do not work in telegram.
I was very excited for the pet albums in photos. It is still finding all of my pets.
I am not sure I am sold on the new notification sound.
The only other feature I knew about is the offline Apple Maps. Trying to figure out the contact card thing.
iPhone 14 Pro and iPad Pro 11” (2018) no issues so far, but I only updated last night just before I went to bed.
The new grocery list in reminders isn’t working for me. Tried converting a current list and making a new one. Nothing. Outside of that the update is working well for me.
I never used Reminders and checked it out after reading your comment. I keep my grocery list in Notes. I should move it there.
I’ve bounced between so many different todo lists and was using GoodTask before Reminders. It was overkill for what I needed but uses Reminders as the backend for syncing and all that. Vanilla Reminders has been great so far. Just wish it was easier to add a reminder to a specific list. Like Todoist.
You can add stuff to Grocery list in Reminders using Siri. Not sure if that works with Notes or if you use Siri for that purpose. I just add stuff when I’m cooking and see something run out.
I found that some items weren’t working until I re-added them.
Siri is broken for me when I ask it to “Play some music” or “Add this song to my library”. Just says “sorry there was a problem”.
I had similar issues with Siri in CarPlay until I reset my phone. All good now.
Thanks! I’ll give that a try.
Can’t permanently change the default alarm/alert on the timer in the Clock app. Will revert back to default on close.
The new conversation awareness feature with the AirPods has made me aware of how often I talk to my dog and myself. So my audio gets muted even though there’s little chance of either one of us responding and requiring the audio volume to be lowered. Looking forward to exploring other new stuff!
One feature I’m enjoying is that text message verification codes are automatically deleted once you autofill them. Not a huge change but good quality of life improvement.
Contact Posters aren’t syncing properly and displaying on each other’s phones.
I’ve had little to no luck with contact posters so far. I created one as soon as I installed iOS 17, but it is not showing up for anyone. I also can’t see anyone else’s when they have called. A couple do show up when I look the up in Contacts though.
I’ve seen a lot of people online complaining it doesn’t work for them either. Either the feature itself is broken or whatever part of Apple's backend syncs the contact posters is overloaded.
Not a great look whatever the cause as this was touted as one of the main iOS 17 features.
Yeah I read a thread on Macrumors, and one person described the steps on how they got it to work, but no one could replicate.
The one little syncing that worked for me was that my MacBook account updated with my new contact photo.
I updated my Watch, iPhone and Apple TVs today. So far, I haven’t noticed any huge problems.
I was Airplaying my YouTube video to my Sonos speaker and I noticed that volume control was weird, but I think that is an app issue that will hopefully be fixed. I’ve also noticed some issues with PiP in YouTube, it seems inconsistent on when it works and when it doesn’t. But again, I’m assuming that is an app issue and it is also something I’ve noticed pre-update.
As far as features I’ve noticed, the biggest thing is the keyboard and autocorrect. It seems a lot better so far.
I still haven’t dived into the big headline features yet. I haven’t made a contact card or anything like that yet, but I’m planning to this week.
Can’t add gifs to messages anymore, texting my wife is a lot more boring now
Uh? But you still can? I just did. You press the « + » then you should have the choice to send a GIF. You may need to press « more » to see it but it’s there.
I upgraded both iPhone and iPad on Monday, with no issues so far.
The autocorrect feels better when typing in English, but I think that it’s a bit more janky in German than before. It also straight up refused to capitalize iPhone and iPad when I typed the first sentence.
My favorite thing so far are the improvements to the camera app: the level indicator when taking photos, and the added ability to take 48 MP HEIF photos on the 14 Pro. Other features, like Standby, are either underwhelming or I don’t use them at all, like iMessage.
I've been on the betas (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, audioOS, Air Pods Pro 2 firmware) since they dropped. The first few were train wrecks, but the last 3 or 4 before RC were gold. Minor issues but they flew. RC dropped and literally every device suffered somehow. It happens every other year where something they add back in before it GMs. Dogs the build on launch, I don't know. I was hoping RC was RC and we would get a GM; different build.
As for the features, yeah, HUGE huge HUUGGEEE boost to gaming. Most of my Windows games play well enough or in most cases flawless through Apple's GPTK and Sonoma with upgrades to metal, gfx.
iOS 17 is phenomenal and I love the StandBy screen, bought a new stand specifically for it lol. watchOS too, big improvements, especially on UX, UI is bigger and cleaner, more focused on controls.
Reminders weren’t syncing between iPhone and iPad for a few hours after updating, but seems to have fixed itself overnight. The new grocery list sorting also didn’t work right away but now does.
I really like that it’s now easier to switch between regular tabs and private tabs in Safari.
I'm a simple person, I am happy photos can now find my pets and put them in albums, especially since two of them died this year. It can't tell the difference between the two that died - littermates, one all black, and one black with a little white spot on his chest - but honestly, if I couldn't see their chests, sometimes I couldn't tell them apart. So completely understandable! No other issues in regular use to report. 12 pro max.
I was a little disappointed in Standby. I was kind of hoping for something that could replace my old school nightstand alarm clock, but I have a hell of a time reading any of the clock “faces” without glasses in the middle of the night, despite the numbers being both larger and physically closer to my face than the little 7 segment display on the alarm clock. And the display turns off after a while, I guess if there’s no motion or something, even with AOD enabled. I could live with the latter since I understand it’s an OLED display, prevent burn in and all that. But the former makes it a no go for what I wanted. Maybe they will add some more faces next time around.
I LOVE sending unknown callers to voicemail that then types out the message. I get so many spam calls.
I’m having some odd behaviour with podcasts and my Apple Watch. iPhone and Watch both updated to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. Whenever I play a podcast from the Podcasts app on my iPhone, the Podcasts app on the Watch opens, instead of the Now Playing app.
But the Podcasts app doesn’t show any controls or info about the currently playing podcast, just the podcasts menu. There is a small icon in the top right that looks a now playing indicator, but tapping it does nothing. I keep having to manually switch to Now Playing app, but even then sometime it switches back to the (useless) Podcast app.
I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug, whatever it is it’s not very useful.
Must be a bug, it’s automatically opening the player controls in the Podcasts app for me.
Podcast playback controls are now working for me, I closed the Watch app a few times and it then started working without issue.
Something must have got stuck during the upgrade process I guess.
No real issues so far but it’s annoying that we can no longer quickly swipe between watch faces. I have my main one and then the next one shows my health/activity stats. Used to just flick back and forth when I wanted to check out my steps. Takes longer now. Can’t even add the pedometer app to the widgets so that doesn’t help.
And battery use seems higher considering I just got hit with a 10% warning when it’s usually still around 40% or higher right now.
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