The iOS 17 Features

Apple said the next iPhone software will be released to the public in the fall.

Apple announced a number of new software updates at its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, including the iPhone's next software version, iOS 17. While the next iOS won't be available to the general public until the fall, the software brings a lot of new and exciting features to your iPhone. 

I switched to iOS from Android about a decade ago, and I've been testing iOS 16 betas since last year. While iOS 17 doesn't fulfill all my iOS wishes, it has some new features that I'm really looking forward to.

Here are the cool and useful new iPhone features I'm most excited about in iOS 17.




  • New Journal app
  • StandBy mode
  • New Messages improvements and features
  • New Contact Posters
  • No more 'Hey, Siri'
  • Back-to-back Siri requests
  • The Maps app gets a boost
  • Sensitive content warnings
👉New Journal app

Journaling can help you manage stress, achieve your goals and more, and your iPhone will get a new journaling app, called Journal, later this year with iOS 17. Other journaling apps are out there already, but Apple's will use on-device machine learning to create personalized prompts to help you out. You'll also be able to schedule notifications to remind yourself to write. The app keeps all entries private with on-device processing, end-to-end encryption and the ability to lock the app.

If you're more comfortable typing than using a pencil or pen and notebooks, this app could help you get into, and stay consistent with, journaling. 

👉StandBy mode

With iOS 17, you get a new mode called StandBy. If you enable this mode on your iPhone while it's charging and in landscape mode, your phone can act as a smart display. It will be able to display the time, widgets, Live Activities and more in this mode.


This feature is helpful, especially if you charge your phone in your kitchen while you cook or on your bedside table at night, but it won't work for all iPhones. Right now, only the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max can use this feature effectively because of these models' always-on display. Earlier iOS 17-compatible iPhones can use StandBy mode, but your screen will turn off at a certain point. 

👉New Messages improvements and features

Messages gets some upgrades with iOS 17, too. The new Check In feature, for example, lets you quickly and easily tell a family member or friend that you made it to your destination. And if you're a parent you can use this new feature to make sure your child made it safely to their friend's house.

You will also be able to jump to the first message you haven't seen in a conversation in Messages with iOS 17. This can be especially helpful if you're in a lively group chat. Imagine you go into an hour-long meeting and come out to find the group chat you're in with your friends has 50 notifications. With iOS 17 you can go back to the first unread message and read all the context of the latest drama. After all, no one likes spoiled tea.

And if you want to reply to a specific message in Messages, you can also swipe on that message to reply to it directly. Before you had to long hold on the message and select Reply.

👉New Contact Posters

A fun new feature that iOS 17 brings to your iPhone is Contact Posters. Think of these posters as highly customizable contact cards. On previous iOS versions, you could differentiate contacts with their own ringtones and thumbnail photos on your phone. Contact Posters takes this further, letting you customize contacts with emoji pictures, editing the color and font of contacts and more. 

Apple also said Contact Posters will be available for third-party calling apps, not just your iPhone's contacts.

👉No more 'Hey, Siri'

On iOS 17, you no longer have to greet Siri to activate it. With the update, you can just say "Siri" and the digital assistant will activate and listen for any questions or commands you might have, similar to how you can address Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa. 

You can also still greet and be respectful to your digital assistant; that way if there's a robotic uprising in the future, the robots might leave you alone because you were nice to their great-grandparent, Siri. I know what I'm picking.

👉Back-to-back Siri requests

You'll also be able to ask Siri back-to-back requests with iOS 17. So once you activate Siri, you can ask your digital assistant to send a text to your partner, then ask Siri to set an alarm for later without having to say "Hey Siri" or "Siri" again. 

This will make talking with Siri feel more conversational, and for me, it'll help me keep my train of thought when I'm asking for Siri's help.

👉The Maps app gets a boost

Apple's Maps app is getting an upgrade with iOS 17. With the update, you'll be able to download a map for a specific area, access turn-by-turn navigation, see estimated times of arrival and more while offline. Apple also said park trails in the US will be easier to find and EV drivers will be able to see charging station availability within the app.

Being able to use Maps offline can be very helpful if you're a hiker and hiking an unknown trail, or if you're visiting or driving through a remote area. This new feature, as well as the iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite and the Apple Watch Ultra, makes it feel like Apple is making a push to make products for all your home, office and outdoor digital needs.

👉Sensitive content warnings

This new iOS 17 feature is meant to help protect you from any unwanted nude images or videos you might run across. You can blur those images or videos before you view them, and this feature will be available in Messages, AirDrop, Contact Posters in the Phone app, FaceTime messages and third‑party apps, according to Apple.

Looks like some guys on dating apps will have to figure out how words work and not just send unsolicited nudes to people.

Apple released iOS 17 to developers Monday, and beta testers will be able to download a beta version of the software in July -- here's how you can sign up to be an iOS beta tester. Apple plans on releasing iOS 17 to the general public in the fall. 

For more Apple news, check out CNET's WWDC recap and what to know about Apple's Vision Pro headset and its new 15-inch MacBook Air.

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