If you have already installed the iOS 17 public beta, these are the first features you should try.
The iOS 17 public beta is now available for download and anyone with a compatible iPhone can experience the benefits of Apple’s new operating system. Despite the fact that from the outside it may seem that iOS 17 arrives with few new features, testing it is when you will find many small improvements very interesting.
Therefore, despite being a beta, we bring you 10 features worth installing iOS 17 right now beta. And, in case you have already installed it, we encourage you to try them on your iPhone.
1. At rest
It is one of the best features of iOS 17. When you put your iPhone to charge and position it horizontally, you will see a new screen where we can have a table clock, our calendar, the music player or our favorite photos. And best of all, it’s completely customizable.
From Settings> At rest you can activate different options. To customize what appears on the screen, charge your iPhone, lock it, and rotate it to landscape. By sliding to the sides and up and down you can change what appears to show what you like.
2. Contact posters
This is a function that improves the call interface when someone important and well-known calls. You can customize both your contact poster, to share it with other users, and that of any contact.
Just go into the Contacts app and select the contact you want to create a poster for. Tap Edit in the top right, then tap Edit below the photo. Now tap Customize and you can create the contact poster by modifying images, colors, texts or Memojis.
3. Offline maps in Apple Maps
A new maps function in iOS 17 allows us to download maps to consult them when we do not have an internet connection. A very useful function, especially if we visit a country and we do not have data. You just have to do this:
- Enter the Apple Maps app on the iPhone.
- Tap on your avatar in the lower right area.
- Enter the Offline Maps section.
- Tap on Download new map.
- A box will appear on the map and everything inside will be downloaded, you can adjust it by zooming and moving around the map.
- In the lower area you will see how much that downloaded area of the map occupies.
- Tap on the Download button below
4. Interactive widgets
This is a novelty of iOS 17 that may have gone unnoticed by the vast majority but is of brutal importance. Apple now allows the widgets are interactive and not a mere direct access to the app in questiongiving them a lot of utility.
At the moment there are not many apps with interactive widgets, but while they are coming we recommend the music widget from which you can pause and play our songs or the home widget, from which we can turn on lights simply from the widget.
5. Visual safety distance
This iOS 17 function will help our eyesight since when activated will detect if we are using the iPhone too close to the eyes. You can activate it from Settings> Usage time> Screen distance.
To help reduce eye strain and the risk of myopia in children, the “Screen Distance” feature will alert you when you’ve been holding an iPhone or iPad with Face ID too close to your eyes
Yeah you already have iOS 17 these are the first functions you should try. The new operating system of the iPhone keeps many secrets and little by little you will discover them.