iOS 17 Anticipation

What feature excites you the most with the upcoming iOS update?

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I just want autocorrect to work again.
- It’s amazing in 17! Noticed first time typing. Especially on the iPad I make substantially less mistakes. It’s a smack in the face change.
  
  Yep. Not perfect but much much better than it was.
- this!

Sharing AirTags.
Live dictation of voicemail is a close second
- Yes! Sharing of AirTags!
  Finally I won’t get notified a million times that there’s an AirTag in my partner’s bag.

Better pwa support
- Any links to this? I didn't realize PWAs were getting any love in iOS 17.
  
  Hey , my bad. The pwa improvement are coming to macOS safari and not the mobile safari. I thought there were improvements on mobile safari too but nope.

SharePlay for CarPlay is going to be a huge quality of life improvement for carpooling
- I’m still not 100% sure how this works, but I’m excited for it with my wife in long car rides.
- I assume this only works with Apple Music, right? Been considering switching from Spotify for a few months now, but so far there's not really anything that would justify the switch.
  
  Unfortunately yes—anyone in your car can scan a QR code and help add to your queue, but it only shows up when using Apple Music

I just want to know how sideloading is going to work when it’s implemented in the EU.

The first couple betas had super speedy spotlight searching. This current beta has a basically broken spotlight. I’m hoping by the time 17 is released that spotlight is super speedy again. It’s been really slow for me on 16

iPadOS: Better Stage Manager
- What did they improve about it that excites you?
  
  From what I understand the “grid” where you can place app windows has been greatly increased, so it’s almost like you can place the apps where ever instead of it choosing the worst places on its own.

Opening up the browsers to allow ones that don't run webkit would be nice.
I rather miss being able to use Firefox and its plugins on mobile.
- The Firefox plug-in system is the same as Safari/WebKit, is it not?
  
  Not as far as I'm aware, since they use gecko for Firefox desktop.

The swipe to reply feature has been awesome. Also enjoying the new contact wallpapers.
- Sure have!

Video voicemail when using FaceTime. I don’t use FaceTime often, but this has seemed like a no brainer enhancement to FaceTime for awhile.

Better voice to text. I’ve been acting like a boomer a lot more recently by dictating things into text fields and judging from the accuracy of the LLM models like whisper, I could seriously see myself using voice to text for everything that doesn’t need to be spelled out.

I really look forward to the profile in Safari (both in macOS and iOS). If it's working properly in Sonoma, I won't be needing multiple accounts on my Macs to separate my work and porn addiction.

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