Apple iOS 17.4 Update for iPhones and iPadOS 17 for iPads included new iMessage features, personalised iPad lock screens, a Journal app, StandBy Mode on MagSafe charging stands, and other valuable improvements. After a few minor adjustments, 17.4 update has become available.
The iOS 17.4 iPhone update is a vast improvement, but only in the European Union. Apple must now allow alternative app marketplaces (e.g., third-party app stores like SetApp), third-party web browsers with their rendering engines, and a more straightforward way to change the default Safari browser.
These improved new features will only work on iPhones within the EU, as Apple has yet to be legally obligated to roll out identical capabilities in other countries.
Aside from geo-restricted features, iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 now offer automatic transcriptions in Apple Podcasts. When you’re watching an episode, a button displays a transcript highlighted with the current spoken segment, and you can search the full text for specific phrases. Podcasts on Spotify and YouTube provide a similar feature.
The update also includes new emoji such as a mushroom, phoenix, broken chain, and shaking heads. There are also 18 new people and body emojis, with the choice of facing left or right. The complete list of modifications for iPhones and iPads is provided below.
What is new in iOS 17.4?
Apple Podcasts
Transcripts allow you to follow an episode with text that highlights along with the audio in English, Spanish, French, and German.
The episode text can be read in full, searched for a word or phrase, touched to play from a particular place, and used with accessibility options like Text Size, Increase Contrast, and VoiceOver.
Emoji
The emoji keyboard now includes new mushroom, phoenix, lime, broken chain, and shaking heads emoji. Additionally, the 18 people and body emoji can be oriented either way.
This update contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:
Music recognition allows you to add songs you’ve identified to your Apple Music playlists, library, and Apple Music Classical.
Siri has a new option to announce messages received in any supported language.
Stolen Device Protection provides an option for additional security in all locations.
Battery Health in Settings displays the battery cycle count, manufacture date, and first usage on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models.
Apple-verified corporate names, logos, and department names can be displayed during call identification. Messages for Business offers trusted information for order status, flight notifications, fraud alerts, and other transactions.
Apple Cash, a virtual card number, allows you to pay with Apple Cash at merchants who do not yet accept Apple Pay by entering your number from Wallet or Safari.
AutoFill fixes a problem where contact images are blank. Fixes an issue for Dual SIM customers where their phone number shifts from primary to secondary and becomes accessible to messaged groups.
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You can now download the update for any iPhone or iPad that supports iOS 17. Open the Settings app and scroll to General > Software Update.
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