new diary app coming to your iPhone (and more)

In iOS 17, a new diary app comes to your iPhone and two other apps get a major update. Curious what they are? We tell you more.

New diary app in iOS 17

Apple is coming this year with iOS 17 and according to the latest rumors, the update will bring a completely new app to your iPhone. This new app functions as a kind of diary, in which various data can be recorded. This makes it possible to make your own notes in the app, to look back on your day every day and to keep an agenda.

Also read: iOS 17 will be major iPhone update with ‘frequently requested features’

In the app (in English probably Journal) brings together various Apple services. You can see your Apple Watch workouts in the Diary app, your location in Maps, and the photos you’ve taken that day. For example, you should get an overview of what you have done on a specific day at a glance. It also becomes possible to describe how you feel on a day.

Find My app and Wallet are also getting a major update

So iOS 17 introduces a completely new app, but that’s not all. Two other Apple apps are being overhauled. The Find My app and the Apple Wallet are being improved and especially Find My is getting more functions. This fits in with the idea that iOS 17 will not be a major update, but mainly improves existing apps and services.

According to the usually reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman, the Wallet app will also receive a major update in iOS 17. He has not yet made any statements about what exactly will change in the app, but it is expected that Wallet will add a number of new functions. gets at. This will probably make the overview of all your cards clearer and you may be able to create multiple wallets.

Control Center gets an overhaul in iOS 17

In addition to these new apps and updates, Control Center for your iPhone is getting a complete overhaul in iOS 17. Control Center is the screen you see when you swipe down from the top-right edge of the screen. On an iPhone with Touch ID, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.

Also read: iOS 17 will be major iPhone update with ‘frequently requested features’

In iOS 17 it will soon be possible to determine how you set up the control panel. Now you can choose from only a limited number of functions to add to the control center, such as notes, sound recognition or your Apple Wallet. In iOS 17 this is no longer the case, because you then decide for yourself what you do and do not add to the control center.

New iOS update will appear in September

So iOS 17 is getting some cool new apps and updates and will most likely be announced at Apple’s WWDC in June. In September, iOS 17 can then be installed on all iPhones that receive support for the new update. Are you curious if you can install iOS 17 on your iPhone? Check out which iPhones will receive support for iOS 17 here.

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