Now you can do more with your iPhone thanks to the iOS 17 update.
If you just bought an iPhone 15, your phone will already have iOS 17 installed. But if you're using an older iPhone, here's what you need to do: Update your phone To take advantage of these new features:
Let's take a look at five of our favorite features Apple introduced in iOS 17.
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1. Download maps for offline use
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My personal favorite features introduced in iOS 17 are: Download Apple Maps. Now you can download maps to get directions and use GPS even if you don't have phone service.
You can now select any location in Apple Maps and save it for offline use. This is a useful feature if you know you can still find your way when traveling through higher altitudes where phone service can be unreliable.
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2. Real-time voicemail
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Apple's Live Voicemail is one of the most exciting features of iOS 17. It records what someone says in real time when they leave a voicemail message. This lets you know what someone is trying to call you and whether the call is important or not. Best of all, Live Voicemail allows you to answer calls while your voicemail remains.
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3. Visual inquiry
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One of the most exciting features of iOS 17 that I've already used a lot is visual lookup. You may not be able to decipher what the background of a photo is, but now your iPhone can. Visual lookup allows you to take a photo and search for everything in the background of the image. Whether it's a famous place, a dog breed, or even an unknown flower, visual inquiry tells you about everything you can see.
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4. Use Siri without saying ‘hi’
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Activating Siri just got easier in iOS 17. Now you can: Just say “Hey Siri”” Activates Apple's voice assistant. It may seem like a small change, but it's something Siri fans have been asking for since the assistant launched on the iPhone 4S in 2011.
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5. Turn your iPhone into a bedside table alarm clock
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Standby mode is a new feature introduced in iOS 17 that can turn your iPhone into a nightstand clock. While your phone is charging horizontally, it will display the clock face, calendar and weather in standby mode. You can also customize standby mode to display photos, widgets, or pretty much anything you want while your iPhone screen is in landscape.
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These are not all of the new features Apple has introduced in iOS 17, but these are the top five features available in the latest update. Apple is committed to improving the iPhone user experience with every major update and we are very surprised by these updates in iOS 17.
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