just kidding it's me ion I need help with okay that's not quite how the call
screening feature in iOS 17 works but if Apple's demo can be believed the real
thing is going to be even better I mean that alone is enough to get me to
consider an iPhone and there's way more I'm talking contact posters checkin
FaceTime video mail and air tag sharing
I mean that last one was barely even a foot note in Apple's keynote but has
been generating a lot of Buzz here at the office I mean it's a fair question
what if I need to find my wife's keys
I'm really impressed I mean sure a lot of it's not new whether we've seen it
before in Gmail or Whatsapp or even just plain old Android but the whole package
looks like a big quality of life Improvement for iPhone users and it puts
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someone you get to decide what their iPhone displays whether you want a more
professional looking black and white head shot or a silly pick of yourself
photoshopped onto a gorilla the possibilities are endless but don't
worry there's also a new content filter system that should block any unsavory
content whether it's in a contact poster or an incoming pick or video I'm not
sure if they came up with this out of the blue or if it was that guy airdropping a dickpick on a crowded
plane last year that lit a fire somewhere at Apple HQ the Mac Address
team did some quick testing by the way and the filter does appear to work
though I wouldn't be surprised if jerks find creative ways around it I mean have
you seen a Call of Duty Lobby lately it's better than it used to be but uh
life finds a way another call Related update is called
live voicemail which is what I was talking about in the intro and this is
so cool on the recipient side it lets
you view a realtime transcription of any voicemail that is being left so you can
either leave your ex pathetically pleading to have you back to a machine
or you can decide you want to pick up the call and tell them no in real time
you can also turn on silence unknown callers and send new people straight to
live voicemail I love this I mean for
anyone born after 1999 this may surprise you but this used to be the norm people
would screen their calls all the time by just listening to it being recorded on
their answering machine then picking it up if it was someone they actually
wanted to talk to and apple brought it back and one thing live voicemail does
better than an answering machine is that it can autore reject any calls that your
carrier identifies as spam that's a feature Android already has but hey it's
nice to see Apple keeping up good job little buddy now something else they've
caught up on at least compared to third party chat apps like WhatsApp and
Discord is interacting with text messages they've implemented swipe to
reply so if someone sends you 15 texts
in a row and you really only want to reply to one of them from the middle you
can now just swipe right on it instead of holding to reply that way they know
haha cool story refers to the bit about last Friday night and not the recent
death in their family catchup is also so new if you open your phone to a giant
wall of messages you can just tap the arrow and it'll take you to the top of
the Unseen messages I mean I don't think that one's a huge deal personally but
I've also never been in a hyper toxic relationship so your mileage may vary
speaking of toxic relationships you can now use check in to let someone know
that you've reached your destination okay joking aside this actually would
have been a great feature for me just yesterday my badminton coach was
freaking out because his wife said I'm going out then he missed a call from her
around the time that she should have arrived at the mall he tried to call her
back a few minutes later many times but even though she's usually really good
about picking up nothing which doesn't
seem like a big deal but let me put it this way as a husband and a dad I know
what would be going through his head did she call cuz she's at the Walmart and
wanted to know if I need anything or did she call because she's bleeding out on
the side of the road and she just wanted to hear my voice one last time before she dies with check-in he'd have known
that everything was fine and she was at the mall and we could have started our
session on time I also see this being amazing for anyone who's going somewhere
new or meeting up with someone for the first time until you check in it tracks
your progress and will ping you for responses which will notify expecting
parties if you don't respond with helpful information like your location
your battery level and whether or not you have cell service all of this
information is end to-end encrypted by the way just in case you were worried
that Apple suddenly got lacks about security and if a friend who already checked in
heads somewhere else they can just send the new location to you with a simple
tap from the plus button it'll go straight to your conversation no more
exiting to another window this is going to be a great way for people to help
their friends stay safe and another location related news you can finally
share air tags got a dog that you like to keep track of but your partner's out
walking her well now you can just share that air tag and you can both keep track
together you can share with up to five people just be careful who you give
access to since they will be able to play sounds to pinpoint the air tag
whenever they're nearby another big Improvement is the revamped search
function now with filters in Apple's own words you can find the message you're
looking for Faster by combining search filters to quickly narrow your search
honestly wow thank you this is something
that Android can't do yet and if it works as advertised it's going to be a
game changer I mean I can't stress enough just how frustrating a bad search
function is yes Windows and Microsoft teams I'm not just looking at you I'm
staring into your soul do better please
and there are some more message specific updates like finding all of your most
used iMessage apps by tapping the new plus button along with the ability to
create stickers from objects and photos react to specific messages with those
stickers or my personal favorite audio
message transcription don't you flip and hate it when someone sends you a voice
note or an audio message and it's not a convenient time or place to check it
right now because you know you have a life maybe you're deaf and someone
you've been communicating with online doesn't know that and they send you an audio clip well with this feature you
can say goodbye to that annoying back and forth and say hello to just reading
what they said for real though this is a fantastic upgrade and feels just as much
convenient as it does inclusive love it
and if you like communicating through FaceTime that's also gotten a few albeit
more minor updates now when someone misses your call you can just record a
video or an audio message and send that off which continues Apple's iOS 17 trend
of improving on voicemail and FaceTime is also coming to more devices those
messages we just mentioned those can be checked on your Apple watch and you can
now connect your iPhone to your Apple TV as long as it's second generator
actually there are a lot of asterisks about model specific features in this
rundown but assuming you've got the right Goods you can finally use your
iPhone as your camera and your TV to display who you're talking to just make
sure you're wearing a button-up shirt from LTT Store.com so you look sharp during that call tell you every year we
get closer and closer to living and back to the future I mean first Trump becomes
president now your Apple TV can sort of call someone but what about when you're
not using your phone and you want to completely ignore it well Tim Apple
decided that that's simply not an option so Apple has added new standby features
soon you'll be able to display key info while charging your phone like a claw
talk in calendar you can display Precious Memories or even just the music
you're listening to and you can use live activities to show more pertinent
information like how far along your delivery order is or who's winning that
game that you bet on but don't care to watch because you're not actually a sports fan you're just a gambling addict
Siri hopefully that didn't trigger your phones um can also bring up information
for you in standby now which is pretty neat and it's even easier now that
they've removed the hey from hey if feel like being more direct you
can also interact with widgets right from the lock screen or from standby
which is super handy if you've got a smart home but your hands are too full
to pick up and unlock your phone actually the first phone I had that I
could interact with things from the lock screen was a uh Droid something the one
with that ballistic nylon back it was freaking amazing oh airdrop is also
getting worked on in a number of ways with one of the biggest feature updates being the ability to just walk away and
let your transfer finish that's right if the network drops or you can't wait
around you can just allow the transfer to complete over the internet as long as
both you and the recipient are signed into iCloud that's not out until later
this year but it sounds great they've
also made sharing your name number and other files easier letting you airdrop
just about whatever you want simply by holding your iPhone near someone else's
and a big feature that's sure to kill basically every third party journaling
app is Apple's new Journal it's also
coming later but looks pretty robust and
should allow you to save your memories however you want to almost like a
digital scrapbook this isn't really new
I mean people have obviously been journaling in their respective mediums
for hundreds even thousands of years but now you've got an official app which
will be synced to iCloud using endtoend encryption the app will make suggestions
from time to time but this processing is apparently all done on your device and
apple says that not even they can view your Journal speaking of third party
apps getting sherlocked you can now make grocery lists that automatically sort
items into categories for easier shopping pretty neat but not as neat as
Apple finally getting its own PDF reader that can view and mark up PDFs research
papers and more it even has enhanced autofill so that you can use saved
information from contacts to quickly fill out a PDF or a scanned document
super cool but wait there's still more seriously man I'm considering it better
autocorrect and predictive text like you've got in Gmail so Safari profiles
to keep work and home separate autofill Verification codes from your mail visual
lookup to research objects in your photos password and pass key sharing
adaptive audio for airpods offline apps
it just keeps going they've improved quite a few things here and I'm of
course happy to see that but one of the biggest ones is one I haven't talked
about yet the health app they've got an entire separate page for this because
aside from it finally coming to iPad there are some new features it'll be it
coming soon but new features that look very promising especially these days
with Medical Care being harder to access and tons of people suffering from long
covid symptoms soon you'll be able to use more devices to better track
medication and know if anything you're taking could interfere with it you can
check your sleep metrics with insights into sleep stages share your health
issues with friends and family who might be involved in your care or even search
up your own medical records what's truly new though are the mental health and
vision features need a reminder to keep your phone further from your face how
notification that tells you to get some sunlight soon your iPad and your iPhone
will be able to do just that on the mental health side you'll be able to log
your momentary emotions and daily moods to see what states correlate with
lifestyle factors and you can take standardized mental health assessments
to see if you're at risk for depression or anxiety the however here is that
while it's nice that this is going to be available to a lot of people it is not a
replacement for proper health care and you shouldn't rely on your smartphone to
die diagnose you if you're suffering from anything serious I would highly
recommend you get checked out by a physician remember these devices are
fantastic little tools that have certainly come a long way in the last 16
years but they can't be trusted to solve everything you know who can be trusted
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