Apple Quietly Releases 5 New Features in iOS 17: Interactive Widgets, Auto-Fill Verification Codes, Automatic Deletion, Video Effects, and Locking Safari’s ‘Private Browsing’ with ‘Face ID’

2023-06-23 23:30:00
Apple spent just over two hours on Monday showing off its first augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro, and unveiling new Macs and Apple silicon. In addition, as with past Worldwide Developers Conferences (WWDC), Apple announced a number of software features coming to the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Courtesy June Wan/ZDNET But when you cram nearly a decade of research and development into the afternoon’s keynote, there’s some information that won’t be mentioned live. Such information is useful technology information that only avid enthusiasts and developers can discover. Those who can find it, perhaps, include a journalist who wants to write a blog post on “Apple Quietly Releases X Features.” It’s about me. Here are five new features in the first developer beta of iOS 17. iOS 17 will be officially released in the fall of 2023. After reading this article, you too should wish you could take advantage of these features right now. 1. Interactive Widgets Have you ever seen a widget placed on your home screen and wished you could tap, swipe, and interact with it without having to expand it to full screen? At WWDC, Apple announced interactive widgets for the iPad, but the feature is also available on the iPhone, allowing you to play or pause music, uncheck the Reminders tile, and smart home, albeit to a lesser extent than the iPad. Functions such as turning the device on and off can be accessed directly from the home screen. Interactive widgets seem like a graceful evolution of the resizable widgets first introduced in iOS 14 in 2020. Currently, apps that support this feature include first-party services such as Reminders, Apple Music and Home, and some third-party services such as Quizlet. By the time iOS 17 leaves beta, more apps should support interactive widgets. 2. Auto-Fill Verification Codes in Email As multi-factor authentication (2FA) becomes more prevalent, it’s clear that we need to streamline how we receive and enter verification codes on our iPhones. Apple has already implemented auto-filling of verification codes received via text message, and extending this feature to email is the most logical next step. With iOS 17, verification codes sent via the Mail app will also autofill into 2FA prompts, allowing users to more efficiently and quickly confirm sign-in attempts. Previously, you had to open a separate email, copy the code, and paste it into the verification text field. 3. Automatic deletion of used authentication codes Please do not misunderstand with the function introduced earlier. “Clean Up Automatically” tells iPhone to automatically delete verification codes in Messages and Mail that were used with AutoFill. This new feature is built into iOS 17’s Password Options. Some may wish they had offered it sooner. 4. Video Effects in Third-Party Apps Compared to Android, the iPhone arguably offers a better camera experience with third-party apps (Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.), but the new video effects feature , the gap between iOS and Android will widen further. With a third-party camera app open, swipe down on Control Center and you’ll see a video effects toggle. Within the app, you can set up studio lighting effects, portrait blur, and even AR reactions that are superimposed on what is being recorded in the background app. The effects of the iPhone’s built-in filters look more natural than those calculated by third-party services. 5. Lock Safari’s ‘Private Browsing’ with ‘Face ID’ With Private Browsing (Safari’s incognito mode), users don’t have to worry about trackers, browsing history, or sensitive information leaking to public devices. and enjoy surfing the web. iOS 17 introduces a new security feature that locks private browsing sessions with Face ID. Previously, anyone with access to a smartphone could see a user’s browsing activity if the smartphone was unlocked. It was the same even when using Private Browsing. With iOS 17, you can now protect your activity in Safari with Face ID scanning and passcodes. This article is an article from overseas Red Ventures edited by Asahi Interactive for Japan.
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