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These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch | Journal app, Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, AirDrop Transfers via Internet

www.macrumors.com These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch

Apple is expected to release iOS 17 in mid to late September as a free software update for the iPhone XS and newer. The update includes a wide range...

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yes, what about sideloading / installing apps not using their store without the certificate crap?
- That’s gonna be EU only. There’s no trace of it in the public beta in the US right now.
  
  Oh man this is gonna suck if that’s true.
  
  I wonder if there will be a way to use it when outside the EU? I am an EU citizen but live in Brazil 🤔
- Yea thats the only feature I care about. But I never see it mentioned anywhere.
  
  Same. It's the largest paradigm shift in iOS since the first iPhone. I had expected some kind of announcement at WWDC so devs could prepare, but radio silence. Apple could play out the clock on this one until February/March next year, but that would be a huge risk. Any issues with deployment and they risk a recurring fine of up to 20% of global revenue. The EU is hungry to make an example, too. If they're not dumb, the EU will get side-loading (AKA installing applications on our phones) next month. I look forward to installing all kinds of apps.

Interesting that the Journal app won't be ready at launch. Doesn't seem like that much of a groundbreaking software.
- Therein may lie the point; when I worked there, teams were forever over-burdened with outstanding tasks and under-budgeted with time and resources. So the only way to work in that environment is to stack rank priorities and defer less important stuff to later updates. And well, a journal app is a pretty low priority, compared to performance and stability of the OS as well as more important features like iMessage, Maps and so on.

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