Thank you. 🙏🏻. I enjoy testing the betas, I hope you enjoy 17.3 when it releases to the public. I think that Stolen Device Protection will be a pretty nice feature! 👍🏻Great thing about beta and beta testers is that they report that stuff to Apple so that myself and other non beta-testers get to enjoy the finished result
Glad the beta-testers are around, should really be appreciated more I think.
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iOS 17 Speculation Thread
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Doesn’t know you are at home for some people, me included.
And one action is not yet protected by biometrics, ie Reset all settings. That will bypass protection and open up your passwords and allows the thief to add their own biometrics. At least it let me do it. More testers required but don’t use your main phone to test it.
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Ok, I never heard about that. To be honest, I haven’t even tried Stolen Device Protection. Hopefully those bugs shouldn’t be too hard to fix. 👍🏻
I’m going to give my grand daughter my test phone in the holidays and ask her to try it (she knows my passcode) to make sure I didn’t overlook anything
The Stolen Device Protection looks like something Apple that was perfected in house for quite awhile before adding it in iOS 17.3 beta. I look at this like Universal Control which took several incremental iOS releases to perfect. Right now it seems perfect for some, but risky for others to use, like the fellow who just moved, and had no established home location that his phone recognized to unlock his phone when something happened. It's an example of Apple getting as much feedback as possible to perfect this feature.
It really should use pinned Maps locations not “smart” familiar ones IMHO.
In any case I’m retired and spend sometimes all day at home and the stupid thing still says its unfamiliar!
I would guess 17.3. But that’s just my guess.
Yeah, unless many bugs are found/reported, or one major flaw found, I think next release will be iOS 17.3, in January?
But if iOS 17.3 gets a long beta period, and goes to late January or early February, then I wouldn’t s discard a 17.2.2 release.
17.3 is projected to come out on januaury 22nd
It's a rather safe bet this time for January release date.
There is nothing about the current beta of 17.3 that makes me unhappy. I do feel that the stolen device protection is an Apple work in progress , don't use unless your faceID is working very well and the iPhone has your home location solidly pegged. Sometimes with wearing face mask, glasses, hats, consumers find faceID is problematic.
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Should work in the dark, it uses infra-red. (I just tried it in the closet under the stairs 😂). Even dim lighting is not great.
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Merry Christmas Eve also!
Merry Christmas Eve also!
Merry Christmas! Looking forward to what Apple brings this year, but cautiously anticipating Vision Pro and the rise of AI with iOS 18.
For the year looking forward speculation:
I was disappointed that AR enhanced apps that IOS/IPadOS 17 could have supported, went missing at WWDC 2023. Now we have to wait to see if WWDC iOS/IPadOS 18 offers that rather then only VisionOS w/Vision Pro solution.
https://www.apple.com/augmented-reality/
I really think Apple is hiding this against iPhones/IPads just to help promote that headset.
As for AI that is as bad as AR as far as what Apple might do. While we see some effort about Apple convincing news service partners utilizing AI for searching articles, the #1 issue is still the limited syntax with Siri.
Merry Christmas gang! 🎅
FaceID literally works in a pitch black room. I honestly think the people that are complaining about FaceID have faulty hardware as I've never had it miss a beat.It's a rather safe bet this time for January release date.
There is nothing about the current beta of 17.3 that makes me unhappy. I do feel that the stolen device protection is an Apple work in progress , don't use unless your faceID is working very well and the iPhone has your home location solidly pegged. Sometimes with wearing face mask, glasses, hats, consumers find faceID is problematic. Even dim lighting is not great.
Restart your router. This isnt a bug in ios17.3...it's been happening randomly for a long time after an update, a router reset fixes it.
Have a good night everyone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥂🍾🎉
iOS 18 is just around the corner 😍
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥂🍾🎉
iOS 18 is just around the corner 😍
I’m so excited about iOS and iPadOS 18, I think that will be a big update! 👍🏻
