iPadOS 17: personalization comes to the iPad

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

Without a doubt, WWDC 2023 will go down in history. However, it will not do so because of the news in the software but because of the hardware and the arrival of the VisionProiPadOS 17 was presented yesterday, the new operating system for the iPad. A new operating system that gains novelties but does not reinvent itself. In yesterday's presentation we weren't able to see all of the features built into iPadOS 17, but looking back we were expecting more than just new widgets, new lock screen customization, new native apps and the set of new crossovers along with iOS 17.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

A new opportunity for iPadOS: the turn of personalization

iPadOS 17 contains news that iOS 16 already incorporated but now on the iPad screen. One of them is the lock screen customization It was strange to see how iPadOS 16 did not have this novelty that we have finally ended up seeing in the new version of the operating system. The user may modify the font of the time, add complications to display information and change the wallpaper in a thousand and one different ways making your lock screen personalization unique.

They can also Animated backgrounds taken from images captured in Live Photos can be incorporated. On the other hand, it also incorporates Live Activities on the lock screen, What are those notifications or sections within the lock screen that are updated with dynamic information, For example, how close is the Uber to our position or how close is the food that we have ordered through an application.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

Widgets arrive on iPad

Widgets have arrived in iPadOS 17. Another novelty for the lock screen is the integration of this new type of personalized content. We can display a world clock, a list of cities with their time, show the battery of our devices or direct access to reminders. Besides, some widgets are interactive, For example, we will be able to interact with them by marking as completed some of the pending reminders.

Widgets also arrive at the home screen of our iPad. From now on we can configure the home screen with as many widgets as we want just as it happens on the iPhone home screen, as if it were a drag and drop game. Besides, the interaction of these elements is also guaranteed: skip songs without entering Apple Music, change songs, activate the light in a room connected with HomeKit... and a long etcetera.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

Messaging is revitalized: stickers, transcripts and much more

What's new in the app Messages are shared with iOS 16. First, the location of the applications is changed to an individualized menu where we have all the actions: pay, send audio, send location, etc. In this way, it is avoided having the row of apps at the top of the keyboard when we started to write. have also been integrated new search filters to improve the way we find messages such as filtering them by people, documents, images or videos.

Two more interesting novelties are the fact that share location. When shared in iPadOS 17, the location will always be visible in the Messages conversation. And on the other hand, If we can't listen to an audio that has been sent to us, iPadOS 17 will transcribe it to be able to read it without having to reproduce it. One more advance in artificial intelligence or machine learning, as Apple calls it.

And finally, the arrival of stickers in Messages it is already a reality. The stickers are synchronized with iCloud so all the ones we have will be available on any updated device. Will there be a tool capable of create our own stickers from our images And we can not only use them in Messages, but they are integrated into the iPadOS 17 keyboard so we can use it anywhere in the operating system.Health in iPadOS 17

The Health application lands on iPadOS 17

Another novelty lies in the Arrival of the Health app on iPadOS 17. This application incorporates all the information related to the physical state that the user registers or that other devices such as the Apple Watch or the iPhone register. In addition, the user will be able to make use of integrated options such as the notification of taking medication or the monitoring of the ovarian cycle. Remember that all this information is synchronized in iCloud.

News related to the mental health with mood logs that allow detecting possible depressive episodes. Or also monitoring the distance of the iPad to the eyes in young children to avoid long-term vision problems. When the iPad detects that the eyes are too close, it locks and prompts the child to move the device a little further away.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

Safari receives profiles to separate work and personal

Safari is the web browser of iPadOS 17 and has also received news. One is the creation of navigation profiles to separate tabs, favorites and histories depending on where we are. For example, we can create a work profile, another for studies and another for entertainment and switch from one to the other by keeping the windows open, organized by groups of tabs and even with different extensions.

It has also been added Face ID blocking of private browsing. On the other hand, the search results in the navigation bar they are much more responsive and display higher quality information. For example, when we search for a soccer team, we are shown the result of the last match. Finally, two very important novelties have been included and that were not commented on in the keynote.

Firstly, security code autofill sent for two-step verification directly from the mail. That is, without the need to access the mail, copy and paste it into the application in question. And on the other hand, the ability to share passwords with a group of people, for cases like shared subscription accounts, for example.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

A long etcetera of a set of transversal functions

And finally, although not specific to iPadOS 17, Apple wanted to include novelties and new functions transversally in all its operating systems:

  • New ways to create content in the Freeform app, the collaborative board of the Big Apple: new brushes, pencils, etc. In addition to being able to see how the rest of the collaborators act in real time on the board.
  • The possibility of using the iPad camera as an external camera in video calls from the Mac.
  • Improvements in Spotlight improving above all the visual results.
  • The removal of 'Hey Siri' to simply 'Siri'.
  • All the news of AirPlay such as the possibility of transmitting content to televisions that are not ours, such as those of a hotel, directly from iPadOS 17.
  • The set of news related to the that we discussed yesterday about the Adaptive Audio.

iPadOS 17, Apple's new operating system for iPads

iPadOS 17 compatibility and release

Apple has confirmed en su web that the devices compatible with iPadOS 17 are the following:

  • iPad (6th generation onwards)
  • iPad mini (5th generation onwards)
  • iPad Air (3nd generation onwards)
  • iPad Pro (all models and generations)

Remember This presentation of iPadOS 17 is a preview of the main news and that a beta period for developers has begun since yesterday. Next month Apple will release the first beta of this operating system to the public in its Public Beta Program so that any user who wants to help debug and find errors in the operating system will be able to do so. Later, in the month of October we will have the final version along with other operating systems.


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