Interactive widgets are really nice so far. There’s also a new setting to adjust the time needed to trigger haptic presses, I have mine set to Fast and it’s so much better.
What apps have some good interactive widgets?
Fantasical’s calendar widgets and Things 3’s interactive to-do lists are my favorites so far!
Thanks for the haptic press tip. It’s way better!
Offline maps for Maps is the biggest thing I was excited about. Was using a 3rd party app as a backup up until now.
I am curious, when would you need offline maps? Do you live in an area with bad cell network? Or is your data plan expensive?
Edit: thanks for all your answers. Next time I travel I will download the map of the destination area. Also I added hot spots such as the local stadium and the city center, hoping, that when I take the subway during rush hours maps will work snappier.
Perfect for flights. Once in the air gps still works. Just no cellular. I always had to ensure maps cache won’t die so I can track where I am during the flight.
Worried about getting lost along the way?
No just like to know what I see below.
I use it when traveling and don’t want to use up expensive mobile data. Google maps has had it for a long time now.
I often travel in somewhat rural areas with spotty mobile coverage, so offline maps are useful for me.
It’s sometimes useful to pre-download maps of urban areas if attending busy events etc, because the cell towers can get overloaded causing slow speeds.
I use it for when I’m camping/fishing in remote areas without service
I often travel to places that don’t have cell coverage (camping, etc). Starting a trip with no coverage does not work without offline maps.
I use Google Maps, which has had this feature for years. I use it any time I am traveling. If I am going to another country, I may have no cell access at all. Or cell data may cost way more. But even if I am traveling with in the US, there is a chance that wherever I am going, I may not have a reliable connection. 95% of the time it’s fine, but that 5% of the time, when I stressed, out of my element, I don’t know where to go, and my phone has no cell signal, I wish so badly that at least I could use the fucking map at least so I could know where I need to go.
I also have to use it for the town I live in since I moved here, because it’s rural and the cell access is spotty at best. At least that’s improving, though.
Same here!
Seems like quite a lot of people on Reddit are suffering from some random apps (such as the phone app) taking gigabytes of space, which didn’t happen before.
I just checked and it doesnt look like that is happening to mine, 14pro. I updated yesterday.
I’m not having this issue.
However I did not know I have ove 22GB of podcasts downloaded…
Not with iOS or iPadOS. The new WatchOS seems like a big pile of unnecessary and inexplicable.
I’m not keen on how the watch Activity app is divided into separate screens, and requires swiping to see each graph. I preferred the previous style, where they were all on one screen which could be quickly scrolled.
That is so annoying. My challenge for this month is to walk 3 miles and was able to just swipe up to check the steps/distance. Now I need to swipe/scroll 4 times. I hate the Watch OS update.
There’s a weird — but minor — bug where when I raise the watch my schedule complication flashes. Instead of just going from a white text to a dark text (when the background shows up) the whole thing flashes, and it’s the only item on the watch face that does this.
I had that happen yesterday
The weather app is so bloated! I like the new watch faces. But I really have to get used to using only one.
Does your watchOS now take nearly an hour to update the weather in the morning?
I thought it was a one off but it’s been two days in a row the weather just never loads.
I’ve been using Carrot since DarkSky got bought by Apple, so I don’t know. I can try it today and report back.
I updated yesterday no issues so far.
iPhone 13 mini
Stickers are dumb but fun. Autocorrect is a lot better for me, but still early. It now finally fucking recognizes that I’m trying to type the indefinite article ‘a’ instead of randomly dropping a ‘s’ before words. And it no longer is obsessed with ducks. Not sure if the thing where it makes two words out of one and removes the ability to undo is gone.
Shiny stickers are the best 😎
Stickers in iMessage of your own photos is fun, maybe that was already there but found it now and the standby mode is great. I have a magnetic charger stand and am now finally able to see the snooze or stop alarm button when I wake up :)
Sad to see stickers do not work in telegram.
I was very excited for the pet albums in photos. It is still finding all of my pets.
I am not sure I am sold on the new notification sound.
The only other feature I knew about is the offline Apple Maps. Trying to figure out the contact card thing.
iPhone 14 Pro and iPad Pro 11” (2018) no issues so far, but I only updated last night just before I went to bed.
Siri is broken for me when I ask it to “Play some music” or “Add this song to my library”. Just says “sorry there was a problem”.
I had similar issues with Siri in CarPlay until I reset my phone. All good now.
Thanks! I’ll give that a try.
The new conversation awareness feature with the AirPods has made me aware of how often I talk to my dog and myself. So my audio gets muted even though there’s little chance of either one of us responding and requiring the audio volume to be lowered. Looking forward to exploring other new stuff!
Can’t permanently change the default alarm/alert on the timer in the Clock app. Will revert back to default on close.
One feature I’m enjoying is that text message verification codes are automatically deleted once you autofill them. Not a huge change but good quality of life improvement.
The new grocery list in reminders isn’t working for me. Tried converting a current list and making a new one. Nothing. Outside of that the update is working well for me.
I never used Reminders and checked it out after reading your comment. I keep my grocery list in Notes. I should move it there.
I’ve bounced between so many different todo lists and was using GoodTask before Reminders. It was overkill for what I needed but uses Reminders as the backend for syncing and all that. Vanilla Reminders has been great so far. Just wish it was easier to add a reminder to a specific list. Like Todoist.
You can add stuff to Grocery list in Reminders using Siri. Not sure if that works with Notes or if you use Siri for that purpose. I just add stuff when I’m cooking and see something run out.
I found that some items weren’t working until I re-added them.
Contact Posters aren’t syncing properly and displaying on each other’s phones.
I’ve had little to no luck with contact posters so far. I created one as soon as I installed iOS 17, but it is not showing up for anyone. I also can’t see anyone else’s when they have called. A couple do show up when I look the up in Contacts though.
I’ve seen a lot of people online complaining it doesn’t work for them either. Either the feature itself is broken or whatever part of Apple’s backend syncs the contact posters is overloaded.
Not a great look whatever the cause as this was touted as one of the main iOS 17 features.
Yeah I read a thread on Macrumors, and one person described the steps on how they got it to work, but no one could replicate.
The one little syncing that worked for me was that my MacBook account updated with my new contact photo.
I updated my Watch, iPhone and Apple TVs today. So far, I haven’t noticed any huge problems.
I was Airplaying my YouTube video to my Sonos speaker and I noticed that volume control was weird, but I think that is an app issue that will hopefully be fixed. I’ve also noticed some issues with PiP in YouTube, it seems inconsistent on when it works and when it doesn’t. But again, I’m assuming that is an app issue and it is also something I’ve noticed pre-update.
As far as features I’ve noticed, the biggest thing is the keyboard and autocorrect. It seems a lot better so far.
I still haven’t dived into the big headline features yet. I haven’t made a contact card or anything like that yet, but I’m planning to this week.
