iOS 17 Live Voicemail: Whats Old Is New Again

the iOS 17 update is going to change how everyone uses their iPhone and I'm absolutely serious when I say this might just be a pivotal point in iPhone history when it comes out oh sure last week Apple was going on about how spatial Computing and Vision Pro is going to change everything with their Star Wars Jedi Council hologram meetings no not that there is something coming

this fall in the iPhone software that's going to Target our everyday habits it's called live voicemail you will be able to see a real-time transcription of what is said as someone leaves the message and you can choose to pick up in the middle of it that's right Apple's going to get us all leaving voicemail messages again we're going back to the 90s folks screening our phone

features that have me pretty excited I'm Bridget Carey and this is one more thing this is the most excited I have been about an iOS update in years and I know that's kind of a weird thing to say I'll explain it in a bit but there are a few things coming this fall that really fix some major problems and change how we're going to be interacting

with the iPhone as I mentioned live voicemail is going to really shift how we message people I think for so long many of us have learned to avoid leaving voicemail messages people don't bother listening to them but it wasn't always this way growing up in the era before everyone had a cell phone my family always screened their landline house calls with an answering machine we were

basically trained not to pick up until we could hear what it was about and decide if it was really important or if we should Pretend We're not home okay maybe it was a little strange to do that but there are several upsides to being able to pick up a call while someone is leaving a mess message for one it gives you more time to answer if

you missed an important call you can catch them mid-message if you couldn't get to the phone fast enough two it encourages people to leave messages for that same reason if it's important maybe you can still catch them if you leave a long message and three you could be less duped by spam if I don't recognize the number now I can wait for a message to see

if it's worth picking up it gives me a little bit of a safety net because that's my biggest struggle these days maybe it's an important call from the doctor or maybe it's Rachel with card holder services with an offer to extend my vehicle warranty now I'll finally know I just wonder if we're gonna go back to being weird and talking to the message as if the

person is live listening Frank it's me Sergeant are you there I know you're there I know you're listening to me pick up Frank maybe you're not there all right call me back that's not the only iOS 17 update that I'm looking forward to how about this one soon it'll be easier to talk to Siri no longer will you have to say hey in front of Siri

to call upon the assistant for help you could just say Siri and it could understand back-to-back commands without you saying the name again and again so if you're like me and you yell at your homepod to do things you soon don't have to chop up every command with Siri in front of each sentence so helpful for multiple smart home tasks or having it stop playing one

song and play another we're getting closer to natural conversation of course we have to see how smooth it is in practice when it does launch and we'll have to see if my Amazon devices that answer to Ziggy think that I'm calling it when I say Siri or if my homepod responds to Ziggy because it sounds like Siri Ziggy Series this didn't make headlines but I'm also

pleased to report that there should be less annoyance when you are trying to airdrop a large file to someone because now you can airdrop and and leave walk away no more hovering over someone's phone when you're sending a big video file or many photos Apple says once you send an airdrop even if you leave the range it should still work there are some features in iOS

17 that did get more attention but I'm just being a little meh about them like the journaling app okay sounds nice not digging it right now feels like homework to tell you about my day I've been on the iPhone all day I don't need to tell my iPhone at night about how my day went there was a lot of Buzz about autocorrect getting better the system

is learning more of the words you use and I'm giving this a cool honorable mention in the list for changing everything only for one reason the phone will underline the word just corrected so you can quickly tap it and revert it back because the computer doesn't always know best so you can change it back to what I know I wanted to write thank you very much

but no thank you but thank you stickers are fun but yeah maybe I'll use it for a few laughs I'm probably not to go through the effort of making my own animated live photo stickers all the time it's not really changing my life even with the silly stuff I still stand by that iOS 17 is the most interesting and impactful updating years what was last year

editing a text message if you caught it in time okay it could save some headaches 2021 gave us Focus mode okay some people may think twice about bugging you but it has been a while since things that really mattered in your life got updated what did 2020 give us app Library black annoying a change I didn't care for before that we got dark mode 2018 memoji

cute but not Dixie my life before that we got a new app store before that we got a news app in 2014 for iOS 8. we got predictive typing now look at us talking about machine learning to get even better but look back 10 years ago and we are full circle iOS 7 gave us airdrop How Far We've Come air drops reveal back then makes fun

of things like The Bump app how you have to bump to share contacts and now we are back to bumping each each other with the new airdrop yeah this year Apple said that you can airdrop your contact info just by getting close but it wasn't that long ago that Apple also made fun of people who used the bump to share contacts remember this and you know

if you want to share with multiple people you just tap tap tap no need to wander around the room bumping your phone without it I'm telling y'all what is old is new again tell me what iOS 17 features have you excited or would make the biggest difference in your life be sure to follow to catch our weekly Apple show one more thing with episodes dropping every

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