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iOS 17 brings with it some awesome new features to the apps you use to communicate every day
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iMessage and FaceTime, and also to the app you use to communicate as little as humanly
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possible, phone. That's right, I'm going to show you five awesome features of iOS 17, which you can get right
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now if you're watching this video in about mid-September. Starting with number one, live voicemail
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It works like this. When you have a phone call come in, you can tap the voicemail button to instantly send
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the call to voicemail. After about a moment or so, if the caller decides to leave a voicemail, you'll start
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seeing a live transcription as they place the voicemail. And at any time, you can answer the phone call if it actually turns out to be something
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important, or you can just let it go. Now unfortunately this feature is only available in the United States right now, probably because
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it requires a lot of work with cell phone carriers. Number two, you can also leave voicemails over FaceTime
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Video mails. FaceTime video messages. You can send a video. So if you spontaneously FaceTime somebody to show them a cute thing that your dog or
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your human child is doing right now, and for whatever f***ing reason they don't answer
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the phone, well you can record a video message that they can watch later
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If the call fails, hit the record video button. You'll see a brief five second countdown
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You can pause it if you need a moment to get ready, and then it'll start recording
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You still have a button in the bottom right where you can reverse to the rear camera to show something off, just like you would in a normal FaceTime call, and you hit the stop
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button whenever you're done. You can hit cancel if you need to record another take, and whenever you're done, you just send
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it along. Number three, remember last year when you could copy a person or an object or an animal
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out of a picture, but there wasn't really anything you could do with it
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Well now, they can all be made into stickers that you can paste into iMessage, into mail
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into notes, into Snapchat, anywhere. You don't have to copy and paste
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You don't have to drag and drop. You just tap add to stickers, and you can access all of your stickers from the emoji keyboard
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You can even add effects. This white outline makes it look like it was just peeled off a sticker sheet, and this
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sort of shiny effect makes it look like one of those puffy, bubbly stickers
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It truly puts the multicore graphical power of the A16 Bionic chip and the Metal Graphics
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API to their most full potential. It's a lot of fun to use in a group chat
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Number four is a feature called check-in. Now every time I leave my mom's house, she always says as I'm going out the door
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text me when you get there. And I don't think I have ever successfully texted her when I have gotten there
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So check-in can do that for you. It's a bit like sharing an ETA in Apple Maps, except it's more fine-tuned for personal safety
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So from iMessage, you tap the plus button, you swipe up, and you tap check-in
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The first time you do this, you'll see a few screens explaining how it works, and you'll
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tap continue. The next screen asks you how much data you want to share with the recipient, limited
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or full. And here's what that means. As you're going along your trip, if you come across an unexpected delay, be it at
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a gas station or if something actually happens to you, your phone will send you a notification
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and ask you to respond to confirm that you're alright. If you don't respond, then your phone will share details about your current location
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your battery charge, and your cell connection. But if you tap full, it'll share your entire location history across the trip
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So limited can preserve your privacy a little better, but full could be more helpful in
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an emergency situation. So tap send a check-in to send the invitation
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The recipient will be notified that you've checked in, they'll be able to see your ETA
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and they'll be able to rest easy once you've arrived. Finally, here's a quick rundown of tweaks to the iMessage app that make it easier to use
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As you saw previously, the app bar is no more. Now you tap the plus button if you want to attach a picture, make an Apple Cash payment
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or share your location. And you swipe up to access your old stickers, look up a GIF, or play Game Pigeon
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Now you can just swipe right on any earlier message to send a reply in a separate thread
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And finally, when you receive a voice message, you will see an inline transcription if you're
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not on the right time and place to listen to it. It's not perfect, but it's enough to give you the gist
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So those are all the best features coming to iMessage, FaceTime, and phone. If you learned something from this video, be sure to like and subscribe
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And check out other videos I've done on new iOS 17 features. I'm Dieger Finn-Jones with Cult of Mac
