iOS 17.5 Released - What's New?

Apple just released iOS 17.5 and it

contains more than 15 new features and

changes for your iPhone so in this video

we're going to cover all of those

changes along with an update on the

performance battery life and if you

should update or not so first off the

podcast widget on the home screen now

changes color based on the dominant

color of the cover art so before on

previous versions of iOS you can see

that it just remained at that purple

color even when it was playing but now

now in iOS 17.5 that color changes based

on the cover art we also have a few

changes in the Apple News application so

if you were to put your device into

airplane mode you can see 17.4 on the

left 17.5 on the right we now have an

offline mode in iOS 17.5 so that when

you have no internet connection it now

says set up offline mode and if you tap

on the red text there it shows that news

downloads content for offline mode at

night when your phone is charging and

with Wi-Fi on and of course background

app refresh needs to be on as well and

if you go into settings we have a brand

new section here for news plus offline

mode where you have automatic downloads

and also download options where you can

select what you want to automatically

download and also a section for optimize

storage and you can see that before we

did have automatic downloads but it was

just to download issues of magazines but

this is for you know offline mode for

both magazine issues and also the today

view so you can see I'm still in the

airplane mode for both and if I want to

tap to try to view an article on 17.4 it

just says story unavailable whereas in

17.5 I'm able to go in there and view

that article in the today view while in

airplane mode without any connection

also in the news app if we go to the

following tab in the bottom right hand

corner and then go to puzzles there is a

new puzzle here in iOS 17 .5 also as you

can see from that popup we now have Game

Center integration so we'll talk about

that in a moment but you could see in

addition to crossword and crossword mini

we now have a new word game called

quartiles so this is just a puzzle word

game where you just combine these

different quartiles to make actual words

so for example th ra and Sh makes thrash

that's a word so we can tap on the check

mark and then it shows that we found

that word and we have our score up top

along with our next Rank and how many

quartiles so Tru and th makes truth

there we go and if you tap on the three

dots up in the top right hand corner you

get these different options right here

along with the option to reveal all

words if I do that it's going to reveal

all the words and you can also go back

in the archive and play previous puzzles

as well from previous days they don't

expire you can always go back and play

them now also like I mentioned we do

have Game Center integration and

rankings so if you go up top to this new

Option up in the top left hand corner

and tap on that star with the two

underlines you can see that we have cor

Tiles at first so it shows friends and

we also have a global leaderboard for

quartiles but if you go back you can see

we have also leaderboards for crossword

and crossword mini and then if you go

back again it shows you Game Center here

all of the activity from your friends

and if you wanted to turn off game

center for news plus puzzles if you did

not want to see your results on the

leaderboards you can turn that off with

this toggle and you'll also notice some

condensed settings here as well so

before we had automatic downloads for

download issues and download audio but

both of those have been added under the

news plus offline mode under download

options so in here you can see magazine

issues and also audio stories iOS 17.5

also includes a major change for those

in the EU and that's because EU users

can now download applications Direct ly

from websites so you can now download an

application and install it from a

thirdparty website such as alt store so

here is what that process looks like so

you get the popup to allow applications

from alt store in this example and you

hit on allow and then after that it will

show in settings under app installation

you can see that you've allowed for web

installation alt store in this example

you could remove it from there if you

would like to and there's also a new

section in settings now for app

installation it shows up under App Store

and here is the screen when you want to

install the thirdparty app Marketplace

of alt store you can install it right

there and that's what it looks like

where you can download the Delta

emulator and other applications that are

within that thirdparty app store iOS

17.5 also adds crossplatform tracking

detection so this allows you to receive

unknown tracking alerts when thirdparty

trackers are following you and not just

air tags anymore so Google recently

launched their own find my device

Network and they partnered with apple to

allow thirdparty trackers such as

chipolo and PBE to send the found moving

with you alerts across both Android and

iOS devices so basically now if somebody

is trying to stock you with a Tracker

from tile chipolo Samsung yui or

pebblebee you're going to get a

notification even if the device was

paired with an Android beforehand this

next change is a big one because with

iOS 17.5 there's a new repair State

feature that allows you to keep fine my

enabled when sending an iPhone to Apple

for repair so if you go into the find my

application and you find one of your

devices and you swipe over to remove it

when you go to remove it it's going to

say this cannot remove iPhone prepare

this device for repair and it says this

iPhone is linked to your Apple ID and

cannot be removed while it's online but

you can still prepare it for repair and

this is great because a feature like

this was possible before from icloud.com

like on the web but the device would be

removed from your account but now with

this change in 17.5 the device is never

removed from your account and F my

remains active so this is going to make

repair technicians lives a lot easier

because not only are you as a user not

going to have to worry about disabling

fine my before sending your phone in but

also these repair tchs are going to be

able to to bypass that 1hour delay that

is set by stolen device protection so

now you're going to have to do less when

you send your phone in and now these

repair techs are not going to have to

constantly receive phones and send them

back for the user to you know fix the

problems that they didn't do in the

first place such as removing fine my and

turning off St on device protection so

this is a win-win for both parties and

for those wondering if this is going to

be a security you know flaw a security

issue because technicians can bypass the

1-hour delay set by St advice protection

no fine my is still going to be active

like I mentioned which means the

activation lock is still going to be

active on your phone so that's not

something that thieves are going to be

able to take advantage of because

thieves can't do anything when

activation lock is set on your phone

this update also includes new wallpaper

so if you go to your lock screen here

and you tap and hold and tap on the Plus

in the bottom right hand corner and

scroll down you will see that under the

pride section we have new wallpapers

here that have some really awesome

animations maybe my favorite animation

of any Apple wallpaper in the past so

we'll just select this one right here

and we'll just go ahead and tap on ad

and set this as a wallpaper pair which

by the way there were other Styles as

well so if you go into one of these you

could see the different styles that we

have here different colors and just

different Vibes it's a very neon type

style for these wallpapers which is

pretty cool and if you go into this and

you swipe up take a look at that

animation not only is it a cool

transition from lock screen to home

screen but also the orientation pun

intended changes every time you go to

your home screen from your lock screen

that is pretty awesome I think it'd be

really cool if Apple added this you know

in the future where you can maybe

customize some text and it shows with

the same animation we have a couple of

changes in the books application so if

you go into books you can see that the

reading goal up in the top right hand

corner has been redesigned so before

underneath of home we had today reading

and it would show 5 minutes left but now

an iOS 17.5 that has been condensed and

made it a lot more modern and minimal it

just says zero with the little reading

you know meter around it with five

underneath that represents the amount of

minutes remaining and when you tap on

that it will take you down to the bottom

just like it did in iOS 17.4 but we can

see a couple of changes here as well and

that change is right here for books read

this year so it says 1 2 and three three

more books to reach your goal and then

there's also a couple of other minor

changes in here so you can see that the

previous section before you had to go to

C all over here to be able to see all of

the previous books but now we just have

an arrow next to previous and that

allows us to go in to see all and the

same goes for every other one of these

sections as well so computers and

internet current bestsellers pretty much

everything here has an arrow next to the

title whereas before in iOS 17.4 you can

see that we just had the little C all

button beneath it which just kind of

expanded this section and was kind of

unnecessary so now it's been cleaned up

quite a bit with 17.5 there's also been

a very minor change to the weather

widget so this specific weather widget

here you can see that the current

temperature font size has been reduced

also the font size of the city has been

reduced as well and it looks like the

font over here for precipitation wind

all that looks to be more bold than it

was in 17.4 and if you switch to the

traditional current weather temperature

widget you can see that the font size

has been shrunk there as well so the

current temperature font size is smaller

as is the description underneath of it

and also the city up top seems to be

more bold as well if we head into our

settings and go to the privacy and

security section and then scroll down to

pass Keys access for web browsers

there's a new glyph icon to the left of

it to match up with everything above

whereas in 17.4 it was just missing and

it looked kind of awkward down down

there so now it looks a little bit less

awkward also in this update when you

type in Jerusalem it no longer suggests

an emoji so this is in response to

basically an i 17.4 if you typed in

Jerusalem it would show a Palestinian

flag here in the autocomplete section it

would suggest the Palestinian flag so

this has been resolved and now that no

longer shows up when you type in

Jerusalem and then taking a look at the

release notes we have a couple of

changes here so first off we have new

core motion feature so this is

specifically for developers and then

below that we also have a new feature

for eim so new Apple Universal link for

eim install so that should lead to

easier eim installation and then a

couple of other bug fixes that have not

been documented by Apple but I've

noticed have changed and from reading

your guys's comments as well I know have

been fixed or at least resolved for the

most part and the first one has to do

with apple music downloading over

cellular so that appears to be fixed

with iOS 17.5 before on iOS 17.4 and

17.4.55

and

17.4.55 Reddit but that appears to be

fixed here with 17.5 as well so when it

comes to Performance I would actually

expect a minor bump in performance with

iOS 17.5 compared to iOS 17.4 So I

myself have noticed a minor bump in

performance I'm not really seeing any

type of lag or stutter whatsoever on the

home screen lock screen when it comes to

app switching any of that here with 17.5

everything has been great for me I did

also run a geekbench 6 CPU test and we

scored a 2973 on the single core and a

7348 on the multicore a very high score

as you can see here compared to all of

my previous results it beat everything

in the past including 17.4 and

17.4.55 Battery remaining you can tell

me what I started this video with but

battery life also seems to be improved

here with iOS 17.5 over iOS 17.4 and

17.4.55

point1 so that is great news so with all

that being said should you update to iOS

17.5 and I would say that there there's

really no reason not to I would say that

if you're in the EU you have the biggest

Advantage you have the biggest you know

reason to upgrade because of being able

to install applications from thirdparty

websites but even if you're not in the

EU there are some changes to books you

know you have the new wallpapers you

have the big new change to sending your

Apple device in for repair how fine my

stays enabled and all that so you know

not anything super flashy with this

update but it's good in terms of

features and all performance and battery

life so for those reasons I think for

most people you should go ahead and

update and then finally I do want to

touch on what to expect next from Apple

so of course all eyes are going to be on

iOS 18 which is coming on day one of

Apple's

WWDC 2024 which is on Monday June 10th

that is when we will see the first

developer beta for iOS 18 beta 1 now in

the meantime we still have have you know

a few weeks to go before that but we

should also be seeing iOS

17.6 beta 1 roll out soon to beta

testers and we could also see another

public release before the release of iOS

18 beta 1 it will likely be a

17.5 point1 if we do get an update in

between you know 17.5 and iOS 18 beta 1

I would not expect iOS 17.6 to be

released until after iOS 18 beta 1 gets

released so it's probably going to be

you know potentially in late June if not

early July so that is IOS 17.5 if you

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