Apple's iOS 17.2 brings journaling-focused iPhone app and other features
'Journal' app users can put things like photos, videos and music in their entries
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People with iPhones now have access to a new app centered on journaling.
The app, fittingly called "Journal," allows iPhone users to "capture and write about everyday moments and special events in their lives," Apple said Monday.
The iPhone maker included it in the iOS 17.2 update that contained a slew of other things, such as an Action Button translation feature and spatial video recording.
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In addition to the text that "Journal" app users put in a given entry, they can also incorporate a wide variety of content in them. That includes photos, videos, audio recordings, news articles and music, among other things, according to Apple.
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The "Journal" app can also surface personalized suggestions for journaling ideas, either by "on-device machine learning" or by third-party apps via its Journaling Suggestions API, the company said. For the machine-learning journaling suggestions, the app looks at user activity.
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Users can have the app automatically encourage them to make entries on a designated schedule.
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Apple touted the privacy of its new app, pointing to the encryption it has both on the iPhone when the device as a whole has a passcode and when a person uses iCloud to store what they’ve written. Users can make it so that the "Journal" app can only open with their passcode, Face ID or Touch ID on top of that, according to the company.
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Apple Worldwide Product Marketing Vice President Bob Borchers said the iPhone maker was "excited to bring the benefits of journaling to more people."
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Multiple reports said iPhones from as far back as 2018 can support the overall update.
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The company officially introduced its latest slate of iPhones — the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max — back in mid-September. More recently, it unveiled new interactions of its iMac and MacBook Pros.
Separately, on Monday, its Apple TV platform also got a revamp.
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