Apple spent some time talking about PDFs in the Notes app but didn’t talk about this nice upgrade. You can add links from one note to another.This feature, spotted by a Reddit user in the first iOS 17 beta, allows you to use Siri even when you’re on a call, expanding the ability to use Siri to hang up on a call, which was introduced in iOS 16. You can now invoke Siri during a call or FaceTime on your phone.Anyone sharing the list will be able to add, reorder, and remove songs, and they will be able to react to song choices with emoji. Though you could always share playlists, iOS 17 will let you fully collaborate on them with others.

The Now Playing strip at the bottom of the Apple Music app in iOS 17 floats above the rest of the UI in Apple Music, and the tabs beneath it fade into the rest of the UI on either side of the floating controls, as noted by MacRumors. And now, that feature is in the first iOS 17 beta, according to 9to5Mac. I hated that feature, but hey, maybe some of y’all liked it.

Old Apple iTunes for Mac fans might remember the ability to add a crossfade between songs, meaning the volume would fade out at the end of one song and the beginning of the next would fade in. Crossfade between songs in Apple Music.The shape recognition feature Apple mentioned during this section isn’t mentioned on the iOS 17 preview page, so it’s possible that’s exclusive to iPads. Some of this was mentioned in the keynote during the iPad section, but other tools coming to Apple’s collaborative whiteboard app include a ruler, watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, highlighter, and variable-width pen. Sign in with any email address or phone number listed in your Apple ID account.Apple News Plus audio stories will be available in Apple’s Podcasts app.Apple has sherlocked crosswords! Apple News Plus subscribers only. A footnote says this will only be available if you’ve upgraded the Home app to the new Apple Home architecture. The Home app will show who operated a door lock and when they did it as well as recent activity for garage doors, contact sensors, and your security system. Reminders will group your items automatically you can change how you want them grouped, and your preferences stick around. Automatically sorted grocery lists in Reminders.There’s also an expanded Lockdown Mode, allowing you to turn on Apple’s über private mode across all your devices, including the Apple Watch. Apple says you can choose which photos to share from within an app while keeping the rest of your Photos library private (though it’s unclear how that’s different from the same feature introduced in iOS 14 - I’ve asked Apple and will update if it responds), and apps can add events to the Apple Calendar app without being able to actually view the calendar. The company is also adding the option to have those images blurred so you have to take one more step to view them. That’s a pretty broad expansion to Apple’s warning system for nudity. It’s coming to AirDrop, photo picker, FaceTime messages, the new Contact Posters feature, and even third-party apps. You’ll also be able to get info about aspects of a video or a cutout you pulled from Apple Photos. Now, you can find recipes for similar dishes to ones you have pictures of in your Photos library. You’ve been able to learn about things you took pictures of since iOS 15 using the Visual Look Up feature. Visual Look Up lets you find recipes based on your food pics.So you can go straight to your preferred Apple Photo albums by searching for them from iOS Spotlight search, for example. App shortcuts will show up in the Top Hit card in Spotlight search.Google Maps has had the feature since 2019, and it’s pretty darn handy.

You’ll be able to see charging stations on your route, with “real-time availability.” You can pick your preferred charging network, and it’ll show you what’s available along your route. Eight years after Google Maps added it, Apple Maps will finally get offline downloads. This also includes any other Find My accessories, and you can share with up to five people. AirTag and Find My sharing is coming ! I’ve been silently begging for this in my quiet moments since AirTags came out, and it’s finally here.iPadOS 17 will lose support for the first-gen iPad Pro and fifth-gen iPad.Apple had a nice streak of support for older phones - iOS 13, iOS 14, and iOS 15 could all run on the same phones - but then, iOS 16 went and dropped everything up to the iPhone 7 and the first-gen iPhone SE. Looks like anyone hoping to keep Apple’s 2017 lineup up to date for one more year is out of luck. iPhones X, 8, and 8 Plus will no longer be supported.

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