Apple is anticipated to announce iOS 17 throughout its WWDC 2023 keynote on June 5, which is simply over a month away. Forward of time, rumors counsel the replace will embody no less than eight new options and adjustments for iPhones, as outlined beneath.
The primary iOS 17 beta needs to be made obtainable to members of Apple’s Developer Program moments after the keynote, whereas a public beta will seemingly be obtainable in July for members of Apple’s Beta Software program Program. As ordinary, the replace needs to be extensively launched in September, across the time that new iPhones launch.
A few of the options and adjustments listed beneath won’t be added till later iOS 17 variations, comparable to iOS 17.1 or iOS 17.2.
iMessage Contact Key Verification
In December, Apple previewed a brand new iMessage Contact Key Verification safety function and mentioned it could launch globally in 2023. This timeframe means the function can be obtainable in iOS 17, though it might launch earlier.
iMessage Contact Key Verification permits customers who face “extraordinary digital threats,” comparable to journalists, human rights activists, and authorities officers, to additional confirm that they’re messaging solely with the folks they intend. In conversations between customers who’ve enabled iMessage Contact Key Verification, customers are alerted if a state-sponsored attacker or different malicious actor have been ever to succeed breaching cloud servers and inserting their very own gadget to snoop on the dialog.
As an extra layer of safety, iMessage Contact Key Verification customers can examine a Contact Verification Code in particular person, on FaceTime, or by means of one other safe name to additional confirm they’re speaking solely with whom they intend.
Management Heart Revamp
iOS 17 will function a revamped Management Heart, in line with @analyst941, a supply who precisely leaked some particulars in regards to the iPhone 14 Professional’s Dynamic Island earlier than the gadget launched final yr. The supply mentioned Management Heart shall be extra customizable, and the flashlight brightness slider would possibly turn out to be freely adjustable up or down, whereas it’s at present restricted to 4 preset brightness ranges.
Pockets App Revamp
iOS 17 will embody enhancements to the Pockets app, in line with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The leaker @analyst941 claimed the Pockets app shall be redesigned with tabs and search performance, as proven within the mockup above.
A revamp for Pockets might make sense as new options proceed to be added to the app, together with Apple Pay Later and Apple Card Financial savings.
Subsequent-Technology CarPlay
At WWDC 2022, Apple previewed the subsequent technology of CarPlay, which can function assist for a number of shows, widgets, and integration with car features just like the instrument cluster, local weather controls, and FM radio.
Apple mentioned the primary automobiles with assist for the next-generation CarPlay expertise can be introduced in late 2023, with dedicated automakers together with Acura, Audi, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Volvo, and others. Apple mentioned it could share extra particulars in regards to the subsequent technology of CarPlay later this yr, and this timeframe suggests will probably be an iOS 17 function.
Journal App
Apple is creating a journaling app for the iPhone that might compete with the likes of Day One, in line with The Wall Avenue Journal. It is unclear when the app shall be launched, however it might be launched alongside iOS 17 if prepared.
App Sideloading in EU
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman final yr reported that Apple was getting ready to permit app sideloading on the iPhone with a purpose to adjust to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. This is able to enable customers to put in apps exterior of Apple’s App Retailer, however the change is barely anticipated to be made in European Union international locations, no less than initially.
Gurman mentioned Apple has aimed to have the sideloading performance prepared as a part of an “replace to iOS 17,” comparable to iOS 17.1 or later.
Temper Monitoring
iOS 17 will embody new instruments for monitoring emotion and managing imaginative and prescient situations within the Well being app on the iPhone, in line with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. He additionally expects the Well being app to launch on the iPad this yr.
Undesirable Monitoring Alerts Growth
Apple and Google lately submitted a proposed trade specification to assist fight the misuse of Bluetooth merchandise trackers for undesirable monitoring of people. As a part of this initiative, Apple plans to increase AirTag-like undesirable monitoring alerts to third-party merchandise trackers in a future model of iOS. Tile, Chipolo, Samsung, Eufy, and Pebblebee have expressed assist for the draft specification, in line with Apple.
Apple plans to launch a “manufacturing implementation” of the specification by the tip of 2023 that may then be supported in a future model of iOS. Based mostly on this timeframe, undesirable monitoring alerts will seemingly be expanded in a later model of iOS 17.
