iOS 17 brings new features to enhance the things you do every day. Express yourself like never before when you call or message someone. Share content in convenient new ways. And do even more with new experiences for your iPhone.
Use your own photos to create Live Stickers.
Add effects like Shiny, Puffy, Comic, and Outline or create animated Live Stickers made with your Live Photos.
Your stickers drawer is in the emoji keyboard, so you can use stickers anywhere you can access emoji — including apps from the App Store. Use Markup to add stickers to photos, documents, screenshots, and more.
Add a reaction that fills the camera frame with fun 3D augmented reality effects like hearts, confetti, fireworks, and more. And you can share a reaction with just a hand gesture.1
Use your iPhone as a camera and start a call directly from the FaceTime app on Apple TV, or hand off the call from your iPhone to your TV.2
With Live Activities in full screen, you can stay on top of things happening in real time, like the score of a game or the progress of your food delivery.
Hold your iPhone near someone else’s iPhone or Apple Watch3 to use NameDrop. You’ll both be able to choose the specific phone numbers or email addresses you want to share, and you can share them along with your Contact Poster instantly.
Using on-device machine learning, your iPhone creates personalized suggestions of moments for you to remember and write about based on your photos, music, workouts, and more.
Keep your browsing separate for topics like Work and Personal with different profiles in Safari. Profiles help you separate your history, extensions, Tab Groups, cookies, and favorites. You can quickly switch between profiles as you browse.
Search in Safari is more responsive than ever and shows easier-to-read and more relevant suggestions.
Private Browsing now locks your private browsing windows when you’re not using them, completely blocks known trackers from loading on pages, and removes tracking added to URLs as you browse.
One-time verification codes you receive in Mail are filled in automatically, so you can log in without leaving Safari.
Invite friends to join your playlist and everyone can add, reorder, and remove songs. Use emoji to react to the song choices in Now Playing.
Coming soonSoon, AirPlay will be available in supporting hotel rooms. Scan the QR code on your room TV and you can securely share videos, photos, and music from your iPhone to the TV.
Coming in an update in 2024Updates to Automatic Switching make moving between Apple devices with AirPods even easier, faster, and more reliable.8
Save an area of a map to your phone and explore it while offline. Search and view information like hours and ratings on place cards.
When you search for an app, Spotlight intelligently offers you app shortcuts to your next action within the Top Hit. So if you search for Photos, you can jump right to the Favorites album.
Find what you’re looking for faster with familiar app colors and icons in search results.
New mental health and vision health features provide powerful insights.
Communication Safety now includes protections for sensitive videos and photos. And it extends beyond Messages to include content sent and received in AirDrop, the systemwide photo picker, FaceTime messages, Contact Posters in the Phone app, and third‑party apps.
You now have the option to blur sensitive photos and videos before you choose to view them. This feature will be available in Messages, AirDrop, Contact Posters in the Phone app, FaceTime messages, and third‑party apps.
The expanded Lockdown Mode increases security to help protect against sophisticated cyber attacks. Turn it on across all your Apple devices, now including Apple Watch.
Assistive Access distills apps and experiences to essential features to support those with cognitive disabilities. Personal Voice9 helps people with speech loss create a voice that sounds like them, and use it with Live Speech to communicate in calls and conversations. And Point and Speak10 makes it easier for people with vision disabilities to interact with physical objects that have text labels.
Express yourself with three new stickers: Halo, Smirk, and Peekaboo.
Grocery Lists automatically sort items into categories to make shopping easier. Change how items are grouped, and the list remembers your preferences.
View and mark up PDFs and scans of presentations, assignments, research papers, and more. You can also add links to connect related notes, like a trip itinerary and a list of recommended restaurants.
Enhanced AutoFill allows you to securely use your saved information from Contacts to fill out a PDF or scanned document faster. Quickly return your completed form to the sender in Mail.
Your activity history is summarized in more detail with the addition of workouts, mindfulness sessions, and even dives.
Share AirTag or Find My network accessories with up to five other people. Everyone in the group can use Precision Finding and play a sound to pinpoint the location of a shared AirTag when they’re nearby.
The People album is better than ever at recognizing your favorite people and includes the cats and dogs that are part of your family too.
Securely sign in to your iPhone using a nearby device or any email address or phone number listed in your account.
Use new drawing tools like a watercolor brush, fountain pen, highlighter, variable-width pen, and ruler while brainstorming.