Interactive widgets are really nice so far. There’s also a new setting to adjust the time needed to trigger haptic presses, I have mine set to Fast and it’s so much better.

Offline maps for Maps is the biggest thing I was excited about. Was using a 3rd party app as a backup up until now.

Seems like quite a lot of people on Reddit are suffering from some random apps (such as the phone app) taking gigabytes of space, which didn’t happen before.

Not with iOS or iPadOS. The new WatchOS seems like a big pile of unnecessary and inexplicable.

I updated yesterday no issues so far.

iPhone 13 mini

Stickers are dumb but fun. Autocorrect is a lot better for me, but still early. It now finally fucking recognizes that I’m trying to type the indefinite article ‘a’ instead of randomly dropping a ‘s’ before words. And it no longer is obsessed with ducks. Not sure if the thing where it makes two words out of one and removes the ability to undo is gone.

I was very excited for the pet albums in photos. It is still finding all of my pets.

I am not sure I am sold on the new notification sound.

The only other feature I knew about is the offline Apple Maps. Trying to figure out the contact card thing.

iPhone 14 Pro and iPad Pro 11” (2018) no issues so far, but I only updated last night just before I went to bed.

Stickers in iMessage of your own photos is fun, maybe that was already there but found it now and the standby mode is great. I have a magnetic charger stand and am now finally able to see the snooze or stop alarm button when I wake up :)

The new conversation awareness feature with the AirPods has made me aware of how often I talk to my dog and myself. So my audio gets muted even though there’s little chance of either one of us responding and requiring the audio volume to be lowered. Looking forward to exploring other new stuff!

One feature I’m enjoying is that text message verification codes are automatically deleted once you autofill them. Not a huge change but good quality of life improvement.

Siri is broken for me when I ask it to “Play some music” or “Add this song to my library”. Just says “sorry there was a problem”.

Contact Posters aren’t syncing properly and displaying on each other’s phones.

Can’t permanently change the default alarm/alert on the timer in the Clock app. Will revert back to default on close.

The new grocery list in reminders isn’t working for me. Tried converting a current list and making a new one. Nothing. Outside of that the update is working well for me.

Can’t add gifs to messages anymore, texting my wife is a lot more boring now

Reminders weren’t syncing between iPhone and iPad for a few hours after updating, but seems to have fixed itself overnight. The new grocery list sorting also didn’t work right away but now does.

I really like that it’s now easier to switch between regular tabs and private tabs in Safari.

I updated my Watch, iPhone and Apple TVs today. So far, I haven’t noticed any huge problems.

I was Airplaying my YouTube video to my Sonos speaker and I noticed that volume control was weird, but I think that is an app issue that will hopefully be fixed. I’ve also noticed some issues with PiP in YouTube, it seems inconsistent on when it works and when it doesn’t. But again, I’m assuming that is an app issue and it is also something I’ve noticed pre-update.

As far as features I’ve noticed, the biggest thing is the keyboard and autocorrect. It seems a lot better so far.

I still haven’t dived into the big headline features yet. I haven’t made a contact card or anything like that yet, but I’m planning to this week.

I was a little disappointed in Standby. I was kind of hoping for something that could replace my old school nightstand alarm clock, but I have a hell of a time reading any of the clock “faces” without glasses in the middle of the night, despite the numbers being both larger and physically closer to my face than the little 7 segment display on the alarm clock. And the display turns off after a while, I guess if there’s no motion or something, even with AOD enabled. I could live with the latter since I understand it’s an OLED display, prevent burn in and all that. But the former makes it a no go for what I wanted. Maybe they will add some more faces next time around.

I'm a simple person, I am happy photos can now find my pets and put them in albums, especially since two of them died this year. It can't tell the difference between the two that died - littermates, one all black, and one black with a little white spot on his chest - but honestly, if I couldn't see their chests, sometimes I couldn't tell them apart. So completely understandable! No other issues in regular use to report. 12 pro max.

I've been on the betas (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, audioOS, Air Pods Pro 2 firmware) since they dropped. The first few were train wrecks, but the last 3 or 4 before RC were gold. Minor issues but they flew. RC dropped and literally every device suffered somehow. It happens every other year where something they add back in before it GMs. Dogs the build on launch, I don't know. I was hoping RC was RC and we would get a GM; different build.

As for the features, yeah, HUGE huge HUUGGEEE boost to gaming. Most of my Windows games play well enough or in most cases flawless through Apple's GPTK and Sonoma with upgrades to metal, gfx.

iOS 17 is phenomenal and I love the StandBy screen, bought a new stand specifically for it lol. watchOS too, big improvements, especially on UX, UI is bigger and cleaner, more focused on controls.

I upgraded both iPhone and iPad on Monday, with no issues so far.

The autocorrect feels better when typing in English, but I think that it’s a bit more janky in German than before. It also straight up refused to capitalize iPhone and iPad when I typed the first sentence.

My favorite thing so far are the improvements to the camera app: the level indicator when taking photos, and the added ability to take 48 MP HEIF photos on the 14 Pro. Other features, like Standby, are either underwhelming or I don’t use them at all, like iMessage.

I LOVE sending unknown callers to voicemail that then types out the message. I get so many spam calls.