Since a number of us have or will have this, I’m thinking a specific thread makes sense.
So, I like it. Nice and stable and it has some nice little UI tweaks. Plus super nice on iPad too.
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The features I’m looking forward to are the live voicemail and transcribed voice notes in iMessage.
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Me too. Initially I wasn’t but after seeing how stable the beta was on the iPad I couldn’t not.
Some slight hangs when changing wallpapers and the WhatsApp bar doesn’t always stay at the bottom but worth it
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If you try to use an accessory incompatible with just “Siri” it will let you know:
Also found my first bug. When playing a podcast this morning I could pause via the Lock Screen but not in the podcast app. When I closed the podcast app the podcast kept playing and even when I played music it played over the podcast.
Had to start to turn the iPhone off to get podcast to stop.
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Oh I’m sure but I think this pops up for any accessory that won’t respond just to Siri so it’s still useful; it just happens to be AirPods I screenshotted.
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Yes I noticed this too. So much nicer. As is the UI tweaks elsewhere on watch.
One thing I can’t get my head around is the “Smart Stack”. I mean it’s nice but they could’ve just updated the Siri face IMHO. I don’t know why you would have both now.
What’s more strange is that if you have the Siri face, you can’t then access the Smart Stack because the gesture is the same. I’m amazed apple let that one slide, that’s not something I would expect.
Yeah a few little ones have started to surface. But none are too bad, as yet. I also had a charging stop last night @andrew_fishy but I put that down to my charging pad which has been known to do this before. You’ve got me thinking now…
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Offline Maps is really nice, if a little hard to find. There doesn’t seem to be a meaningful limit on how much you can download either, which is useful (when I last used Google Maps on Android, this wasn’t the case- not sure if that’s changed).
Most of the UK mainland comes to around 8GB, for reference.
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Other than the sticker thing and accidentally stumbling across the password auto clean up for OTP, nothing else is different or changed for me.
Doesn’t feel any quicker either, maybe I’m too simplistic to notice change 
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Ghost widgets.
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I don’t think it will do. When I had iOS 16, watchOS showed an update to watchOS 10 but I couldn’t do it until my iPhone was on iOS 17
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Bit the bullet and installed on my iPad this morning given the lack of apparent issues being reported - so far so stable! Will wait until after Glastonbury to install on my phone though.
Think the interactive widgets and customisable home screen on iPad are the biggest things for me this year. Interactive widgets feels like such a ‘finally’ and excited to see all my favourite third party apps updated when it’s actually released.
Lots of other nice little bits of course (Siri, autocorrect, the contact sharing etc.) and WatchOS improvements look fine, although def a let-down compared to some of the rumours about much bigger redesign/re-imagining.
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I think your Optimised Battery Charging has gone screwy and it doesn’t know when to charge beyond 80%.
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There’s a setting somewhere that does this and I’m sure it’s to do with power management such as when device goes in or out of low power or saving mode.
Might be confused with android though.
Strange. Mine turned out to be the pad again, it charged to 100pc fine last night.
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Just wondering @AlanDoe we appear to have two threads (and I started one to be fair) both talking about iOS 17. Is it worth merging as I’m losing track of them both currently.
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Yes, I particularly think this about the new plus icon in messages and every option being there, it feels the most non-apple like interface I’ve seen in a while. Almost, android like
Not that this is bad. Overall it’s a great move and things look super nice.
Blimey I’d be highly embarrassed if my own music actually blared out. Often I am quite happy nobody knows what utter crap I listen to!
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