While Apple prepares to release iOS 17.5 to the general public, you may have missed all the features the tech giant included in iOS 17.2. That update was released in December and was packed with new and useful features, like the long-awaited Journal app and Contact Key Verification. It also has fun features like the ability to react to messages with Live Stickers.
Here are the features you may have missed in iOS 17.2.
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The Journal app
Apple finally released the Journal app with iOS 17.2. The tech giant announced the app at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference event in June alongside iOS 17, but it was absent from the update’s launch on Sept. 18.
Apple said at WWDC that the app uses on-device machine learning to create personalized writing suggestions. Some of these suggestions are created using information on your iPhone, like photos you’ve taken and music and podcasts you’ve listened to throughout the day. If you forget what podcast you listened to earlier in the day — like I regularly do — the app shows you that information when you go to make an entry.
Journal shows you multiple Reflections at a time by default.
The app also shows you a handful of topics to write about, called Reflections. Some of mine included, “Write about a time you gave someone an unexpected gift,” and “Who cheers you up when you’re feeling down?”
If you don’t want to write about whatever you listened to or use a Reflection, you can just write by tapping the New Entry button. In New Entry, you can write whatever you want, create a voice note, take a photo or create a video to add to your journal entry.
You can also lock the app after it’s closed for a set amount of time for some privacy. If you close the app and don’t reopen it for a certain amount of time (like five minutes) it will ask for your Face ID or passcode to open it again.
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