Apple is also going to launch a major update to iOS later this year. The upcoming iOS 17 update will introduce many “nice-to-have” features, like personalized call poster, StandBy mode, live voicemail, and improved sticker experience.
Apple’s Vision Pro headset dominated the headlines at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event on Monday.
And Apple didn’t mention many of the apple new iOS features onstage due to lack of time. Here is the list of things that didn’t make it to the keynote:
- Visual Lookup now works in paused video: You may remember Visual Lookup from iOS 16 last year, which allowed you to analyze the subject of a photo, or tap and hold to remove it and save it as a separate image.
- Live Voicemail filters out Spam messages: Perhaps, when learning about Apple’s new Live Voicemail transcription feature in iOS 17, you feared your iPhone would just bombard you with speech-to-text versions of the spam calls we all love to hate.
- Contact Posters work outside the default Phone app: Apple only showed off the customizable Contact Posters in its own Contacts and Phone apps, but this isn’t the full picture of this feature. You’ll be able to see these Posters in third-party communications apps, meaning if you’re a keen WhatsApper or Google Voice user, for example, you should still see your carefully curated card (and those of others) when opening a contact.
- FaceTime on Apple TV can use Center Stage: Apple glossed over that the iPhone supports Apple’s Center Stage feature, seen on recent iPads and the Studio Display. This will automatically crop and move the video feed around to keep you centered in the shot.
- Safari automatically locks your Private Browsing tabs: Whatever you’re using them for, chances are you want to keep whatever you’re looking at in Safari’s Private Browsing tabs to yourself. iOS 17 is here to help you with that by offering biometric lock on your private tabs, either in the form of Touch ID or Face ID, depending on what your iPhone offers.
- StandBy doesn’t require MagSafe: Apple showed off its new smart display-esque StandBy mode with an iPhone on a MagSafe stand, and mentioned that the stand would remember the user’s preferred orientation of the phone between uses. That had us concerned that this fun new feature would be limited to users with Apple-approved accessories.
- You can share passwords and passkeys from iCloud Keychain with a group of contacts: Sometimes there’s no way around having to share passwords with other people. Apple’s iCloud Keychain is making this easier as of iOS 17 by letting you share end-to-end encrypted credentials with a designated group of contacts, with everyone free to add and edit the shared pool of log-ins.
- Reminders can help organize your grocery list: Nothing stopped you from using the Reminders app to track the groceries you needed to get at your next trip to the food store, but what Apple’s done now is set up a special list type designed to make this easier.
- AirTags and other Find My accessories can be shared with up to five other people: Apple is now letting you share devices with Find My support, such as the AirTag tracker, with up to five others.
- You can set your verification messages and emails to automatically be deleted: Clean Up Automatically is a new setting, found in the Settings app’s password options menu, that will remove texts and emails with 2FA codes for your accounts once they’ve been used.
- You can track your pet and its behaviour: Apple doesn’t offer a pet tracking app in iOS 17, but it offers the ability to do so. Thanks to new APIs that allow pet body pose monitoring and subject tracking on a motorized stand, it hopefully won’t be long until someone picks up what Apple’s putting down and creates an app that can automatically check on what your cat or dog’s up to at home.
