•

These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch | Journal app, Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, AirDrop Transfers via Internet

These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/16/ios-17-features-not-available-at-launch/?

Apple is expected to release iOS 17 in mid to late September as a free software update for the iPhone XS and newer. The update includes a wide range...

These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch

Journal app, Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, AirDrop Transfers via Internet

17 comments

See all comments

redsol2

•

Interesting that the Journal app won't be ready at launch. Doesn't seem like that much of a groundbreaking software.

sparky

•

Therein may lie the point; when I worked there, teams were forever over-burdened with outstanding tasks and under-budgeted with time and resources. So the only way to work in that environment is to stack rank priorities and defer less important stuff to later updates. And well, a journal app is a pretty low priority, compared to performance and stability of the OS as well as more important features like iMessage, Maps and so on.