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Apple’s iOS 17 update is now official after a great WWDC 2023 event that also revealed new hardware. But while the Vision Pro headset gets all the attention, there’s still plenty going on in the iPhone world.
The iOS 17 update brings some quality of life improvements and a new Journal app looks poised to help people become more aware and pay more attention to their well-being.
But one of the more notable improvements to iOS 17 is something we’ll all use several times a day — Apple says we can look forward to some big autocorrect improvements.
Machine learning comes to the rescue
Apple detailed what to expect from the improved autocorrect as part of a wider iOS 17 press release, adding that we can look forward to a “comprehensive update”.
That update will use a transformer language model, we are told. That’s a “state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model for word prediction” that promises to improve autocorrect accuracy in iOS 17 and above.
Apple is also making changes to how we actually interact with autocorrect.
Autocorrect “also gets a refreshed design to better support typing, and sentence-level autocorrects can fix more types of grammar errors,” Apple says. “Users now receive predictive text recommendations inline as they type, so adding whole words or completing sentences is as easy as tapping the spacebar, making text entry faster than ever.”
All of that will be available as part of the iOS 17 update that’s expected to ship to the public in or around September. The update is now in the hands of developers and will likely enter public beta in the coming weeks as well.
Apple’s WWDC 2023 featured a host of other software announcements, including iPadOS 17, macOS 14 Sonoma, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17. All of those updates will also ship later this year.
