1/9/2024 0 Comments Hidden folks ios![]() ![]() (And, indeed, Memories are even surfaced within the app’s suggestions at times.) But Photos does this automatically 1, presenting memories as a fait accompli for you to revisit, rather than waiting for users to actively go in and manually create them. ![]() Journaling Suggestions seem to use the same algorithm that Photo’s Memories do, looking at pictures and videos taken within a certain time period or at a certain location, and grouping them together with a theme. I’ve been using the Journal app on the iOS 17.2 beta for several weeks now, and despite my best intentions-including not just turning on the notifications that gently remind you to journal, but even keeping the Journal app on my Home Screen-I’ve racked up a grand total of nine journal entries.Īs I looked back over the entries that I’d made, I came to the conclusion that Apple has kind of done this feature already-and arguably better-in the Photos app. It’s a clever idea, and one that’s clearly meant to ease people into the habit of journaling by answering the age-old question “What do I write about?” But I’m not convinced it’s enough. That comes in the form of Journaling Suggestions, a machine learning-based feature that can gather all the data your iPhone has about you and try to synthesize it into a prompt for you to write about. But to set itself apart, Apple is applying the secret sauce-the fact that it is the platform owner and can leverage data that no third-party developer would ever have access to. Like so many of Apple’s apps, Journal isn’t a wholly new idea: there are plenty of popular pre-existing journal apps for Apple’s platforms. The Journal app was one of the big marquee announcements of iOS 17 at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, but like an increasing number of features announced as part of the company’s big annual software updates, it didn’t arrive with the initial release, instead getting pushed off to a subsequent update: iOS 17.2, which arrives today. And, frankly, if they already are, I’m not sure Apple’s Journal app is going to sway those folks from their current journal of choice. Though Apple may have great hopes for its new Journal app, I think it unlikely that it will transform the average person into an avid journal-keeper if they aren’t already. It’s led me to the conclusion that you’re either someone who can stick with keeping a journal or you’re not. At various points, I’ve tried: on and off throughout high-school and college, while I studied abroad, during a cross-country roadtrip, but these always seemed to peter out eventually. I’ve never really been someone who journals. IOS 17.2’s Journal app offers introspection, surface-deep ![]()
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