The video highlights 17 new features of iOS 17, including the ability to customize your contact poster, share contact information by bumping phones, leave FaceTime video messages, have live voicemail transcriptions, enable screen distance warnings, create a personalized synthesized voice, add custom stickers to photos, automatically check in with contacts when you arrive at a location, delete 2-factor verification texts and emails, listen to a webpage in Safari, download maps for offline use, reply to specific messages in Find My, set multiple timers in the clock app, use Siri without saying "Hey Siri," and decipher laundry symbols by taking a photo of the tag.
1. iOS 17 has a new feature where it warns the user if they hold the phone too close to their face.
2. Name Drop is a feature that allows two phones running iOS 17 to share contact information, photos or websites by bringing them near each other.
3. FaceTime video messages allow the user to leave a video message for someone who doesn't pick up the call.
4. Live voicemail is a feature where the user can see a live transcription of the caller's message and pick up the call in the middle of the message.
5. Standby mode turns the phone into a fancy alarm clock with different screens to choose from.
6. iOS 17 no longer autocorrects a certain profanity that rhymes with "duck" and also shows the original word in a bluish gray line.
7. Screen distance warns the user if the phone is too close to their face and prevents them from using the phone until they back up to the right distance.
8. Personal voice is an accessibility feature that allows the user to create a synthesized version of their voice, which requires face ID to create and on-device machine learning to ensure privacy.
9. Custom stickers and effects can be added to subject's in a photo and sent through messages.
10. Check-in messages allow the user to automatically text someone when they arrive at a destination. Bonus tips include two-factor verification texts and emails being automatically deleted, being able to download maps in Apple Maps, and being able to snap a photo of a laundry tag and find out what the symbols mean.