iOS 17 brings new features that improve your everyday tasks. Express yourself like never before when calling or messaging someone. Share content in convenient new ways. Do more with new experiences on iPhone.
iOS 17
editor : Jennifer Lee
UPDATED: 04 Jan 2024 6:36 PM
Every day.
It has become more special
Phone
Personalize your phone calls
Customize what people see when you call.
Real-time voicemail
Send calls to voicemail and see a live transcript of your messages.
Messages
All your iMessage apps in one place
Tap the new plus button to see everything you send most, including photos, audio messages, and locations. Swipe up to see the rest of your iMessage apps.
Tell your friends when you arrive safely
Check-in automatically notifies friends and family when you arrive at your destination, such as home.
Catch up and swipe to reply
The new catch-up arrows let you jump to the first message you haven’t seen in a conversation. You can now swipe right on the message to reply.
Search Filter
Combined search filters to quickly narrow your search and find the message you’re looking for faster.
A new way to share and view your location
Use the plus button to share your location or request a friend’s location. When someone shares their location with you, you can see it right within the conversation.
Read audio message script
Audio messages are now converted to text so you can read them immediately and listen to them later.
All stickers in one place
The new Sticker Drawer gives you access to all your Live stickers, emojis, Memoji, and other sticker packs in one place. Stickers sync with iCloud so you can use them on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices.
Stickers
Create unique stickers
Create live stickers using your own photos.
Style Live Stickers with Effects
Add effects like glitter, fluffy, comical, outline, and more, or create animated Live stickers made with Live Photos.
Use stickers in more places
The sticker drawer is in your emoji keyboard, so you can use your stickers anywhere you can access emojis, including apps on the App Store. Use Markup to add stickers to photos, documents, screenshots, and more.
FaceTime
Please leave a message
Record a video or audio message if someone misses a FaceTime call.
React with your hands
Add reactions that fill the camera frame with fun 3D augmented reality effects like hearts, confetti, fireworks, and more. You can also share your reactions with just a hand gesture.2
FaceTime on Apple TV
Use your iPhone as a camera and start calls directly from the FaceTime app on Apple TV, or forward calls from your iPhone to your TV.3
StandBy
New full screen experience
Leading your iPhone on its side while charging makes it more useful.
Real-time activity in full screen
Full screen real-time activity lets you see what’s happening in real time, like game scores or food delivery progress.
Siri results at a glance
Siri takes StandBy one step further with rich visual results that can be viewed from a distance. Now it’s easier to check the weather or set a timer without using your hands.
Interactive Widgets
Accomplish tasks with just one tap
Try to perform tasks such as playing music or turning off the lights. Right from the widget.
AirDrop
Exchange numbers with NameDrop
To use NameDrop, place your iPhone close to someone else’s iPhone or Apple Watch4. Both people can select specific phone numbers or email addresses they would like to share and can instantly share them with their contact poster.
Share with Intention
There is a new way to share with those around you. To start a transfer via AirDrop, simply bring your phones close to each other.
Complete sending transfer via internet
AirDrop transfers continue even when you leave.
Start SharePlay
Just bring two iPhone devices close to each other and a SharePlay session will start immediately.
Journal
A new app to write and remember
A whole new way to enjoy life’s moments and preserve memories.
Recommend personalized journals
Using on-device machine learning, iPhone creates personalized suggestions for moments to remember and write about, based on photos, music, exercise, and more.
Your diary is yours
No one but you can access your journal.
Keyboard
More accurate auto-correction5
Autocorrect provides better support as you type. Autocorrected words are temporarily underlined so you know what’s changed and can be reverted to the original word with a tap.
Predicted search terms appear inline as you type.
Press the space bar to end a word or entire sentence.6
Safari and Passwords
Create Profile
You can use different profiles in Safari to search separately for topics such as work and personal. Profiles allow you to separate your history, extensions, tab groups, cookies and favorites. You can quickly switch between profiles as you browse.
Fast, more relevant searches
Safari search is more responsive, easier to read, and more relevant than ever before.
Enhanced Private Browsing
Private Browsing now locks the Private Browsing window when not in use, completely blocks known trackers from loading on pages, and removes identifying tracks added to URLs as you browse.
Autocomplete verification code received by email
The one-time verification code you receive via email is automatically entered, so you can log in without leaving Safari.
Share passwords and passkeys
Share your password set with trusted contacts.
Music
Play music together
SharePlay now makes it easier for everyone, including those in the back seat, to control music in the car, so everyone can play their favorite music and participate in what’s playing.
Collaborate on playlists
If you invite friends to your playlist, anyone can add, reorder, or delete songs. React to your song selections with emojis in Now Playing.
AirPlay
Smart device recommendation
On-device intelligence learns your AirPlay preferences over time.
AirPlay in a hotel room
AirPlay will soon be available in hotel rooms. By scanning the QR code on your room TV, you can safely share videos, photos, and music from your iPhone to your TV.
To be updated in 2024
AirPods
Adaptive Audio
With all-new listening modes on AirPods Pro (2nd generation), Adaptive Audio dynamically blends transparency and active noise cancellation to personalize your noise-control experience as you move through changing environments and interactions throughout the day.7
Press to mute and unmute
You can quickly mute or unmute yourself during a call.
Switch between devices without missing a beat
The auto-switching update makes moving between Apple devices with AirPods easier, faster, and more reliable.9
Maps
Download the map for offline use
Save specific areas of the map to your iPhone and explore them offline. Find information like times and levels on place cards, and get step-by-step directions for driving, walking, biking, and riding public transit.
Improved Electric Vehicle Pathways
Check real-time charging station availability along your route.
Learn more about improved electric vehicle pathways
Siri
Activate Siri
Just say “Siri”.
Continuous requests
Siri, text Emma that you’re on your way
Remind me to water my plants when I get home
Spotlight
Go to the most popular apps
When you search for an app, Spotlight intelligently provides app shortcuts to the next task within popular items. So when you search for music, you can go straight to your favorite album.
Rich visual results
Familiar app colors and icons that appear in search results help you find what you’re looking for faster.
Visual Look Up
Discover more in photos and videos
Find recipes for similar dishes in the photos.
Find out what you just lifted
When you pull out a subject in a photo, you can find information about it right from the callout menu.
Visual view of video
Identify plants, animals, landmarks and more through visual inquiry. Pause the video in a frame, tap and hold your subject, and select Find for more information.
Health App
Learn more about Health app updates
A new way to put your health first
New mental health and vision health features deliver powerful insights.
Privacy and Security
Communication Safety
Communication Safety now includes protection for sensitive videos and photos. It also expands beyond Messages to include content sent and received in AirDrop, a system-wide photo picker, FaceTime messages, contact posters in the Phone app, and third-party apps.
Sensitive content warning
You now have the option to blur sensitive photos and videos before viewing them. This feature is available in Messages, AirDrop, Contact Poster in the Phone app, FaceTime Messages, and third-party apps.
Enhanced Permissions
Gives you more control over what you share.
Lockdown Mode
Extended lockdown mode enhances security to help protect against sophisticated cyber attacks. Now turn this feature on on all your Apple devices, including your Apple Watch.
And so much more.
Accessibility. Assistive Access distills apps and experiences into essential features that support users with cognitive impairments. Personal Voice12 helps people with speech impairments create a voice similar to their own and use it with Live Speech to communicate on calls and conversations. And Point and Speak13 makes it easier for people with visual impairments to interact with physical objects with text labels.
Memoji. Express yourself with three new stickers: Halo, Smirk, and Peekaboo.
Notification. Grocery lists make shopping easier by automatically sorting items by category. If you change how items are grouped, the list will remember your preferences.
Note. View and mark up PDFs, presentations, assignments, research papers, and more. You can also add links to related notes, such as a travel itinerary or recommended restaurant list.
PDF. Enhanced autocomplete lets you create PDFs or scanned documents faster by securely using information stored in your contacts. Promptly return the completed form to the email sender.
Fitness. The redesigned Share tab provides highlights of your friends’ activities, including workout streaks, awards, and more. Create a workout and meditation schedule based on exactly what you want with Apple Fitness+’s custom plans.
Find me. You can share AirTags or Find My Network accessories with up to five other people. Any member of the group can use Precise Find and play a sound when the shared AirTag is nearby to pinpoint its location.
Home. Activity history lets you see who locked or unlocked your doors and when. It also shows recent activity for garage doors, contact sensors, and security systems.14 And Grid Forecast shows when relatively clean or less clean energy sources are available on your electric grid, so you know when to run your appliances. You can plan.
News. Apple News+ subscribers can dive into the daily crossword puzzle in the News app. And you can listen to Apple News+ audio stories in the Podcasts app.
Photo. The People album better recognizes your favorite people and even includes cats and dogs as part of your family.
Apple ID. Sign in securely to your iPhone using a nearby device or the email address or phone number registered to your account.
Free format. Try out new drawing tools while brainstorming, including watercolor brushes, fountain pens, highlighters, variable width pens, and rulers.
See the full list of what’s new in iOS 17.
iOS 17 is compatible with these devices.
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 15 Plus
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone SE(2nd generation or later)
See how to update to iOS 17.
Developers will love iOS, too.
Learn more about developing for iOS
iPadOS 17
Even more capable. Even more you.
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