Apple offers iOS 17.2 in beta on iPhone. The update includes a new application from the firm: Journal. It uses AI to help you take the pulse of your daily life.
We are now used to it: between the WWDC announcements in June and the release of the new version of iOS, Apple leaves out a few functions along the way. Indeed, the first version of iOS 17 released with the iPhone 15 is not yet complete: some of the firm’s promises will only arrive with intermediate versions. For example, iOS 17 has so far skipped Apple’s new Journal application. It was only with the iOS 17.2 beta that users were able to start discovering it.
A Journal application with AI?
The Journal app is a brand new app from Apple for iOS. It should allow you to document your daily life and keep your memories, like a diary. You can add details about your day with photos, music or audio recordings.
It’s also one of Apple’s first apps to ostensibly use artificial intelligence to help you. Thus, the Journal application is able to suggest saving certain memories based on your location, your photos, the music you listen to or even your physical activity.
Apple obliges, the firm promises that these suggestions are only based on information stored on your device, without access from developers. This information is also encrypted and can only be unlocked by Face ID or Touch ID.
With its Journal application, Apple is competing with applications of the same type that are already very popular on the App Store. Developers of the latter will be delighted to learn that a new API dedicated to logs has been implemented. It allows apps to access the same memories or contribute memories to the Journal app.
iOS 17.2 is available in beta from developers. A public beta will soon be offered for all users.