iOS 17 Beta 2 Released - What’s New?

iOS 17 Beta 2 Released - What's New? | iOS 17 Beta 2 Features, Changes, Performance & Battery Life

Apple just released iOS 17 Beta 2, alongside updates to iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, macOS 14 Sonoma, and tvOS 17.

But as usual, in this video, we are going to cover all of the new features and changes included in the 2nd Beta update. These features include changes to the software update screen, Safari, Clock and alarms, a new mystery location toggle, and much more. We also discuss the performance and battery life on iOS 17 Beta 2, and determine whether or not you should take the plunge and update. Enjoy!

Also released today:

Chapters:
0:00 First Change in Beta 2
1:42 What's New?
2:22 My Favorite iOS 17 Feature is HERE!
3:48 New Music Features
4:58 Shortcuts from LS
5:19 Podcasts
5:39 Several Clock/Alarms Changes
7:29 Notes
8:05 StandBy, Storage
8:40 Mystery New Location Toggle
9:06 Safari, Contact Posters
10:00 Messages
11:02 Bug Fixes
11:35 Release Notes
12:21 Bugs in Beta 2
13:50 Performance & Battery Life on iOS 17 Beta 2
15:30 Should you update? Safe enough?
16:31 iOS 17 Beta 3 Release Date

Thoughts on iOS 17 Beta 2? Will you be updating from iOS 16, or still waiting?

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[BrandonButch]

Wooo iOS 17 isn't as broken anymore! 🥳

Also note: AirDrop doesn’t need to be set to “everyone” for NameDrop to work!

[techwithtyler]

The buttons on wallpaper customization have new icons and the depth effect is now a menu instead of a toggle. Appearance now goes straight to the appearance options on all dark mode-supported wallpapers instead of having an unnecessary menu.
The futuristic effect where the wallpaper extends upward and blurs into black has been changed for when you edit/add a wallpaper.

[Conannnnn]

I’ve never enjoyed iOS as much as I have with iOS 17 so far. Brilliant.

[shauryakaushal]

where do you get all these cool wallpapers??

[GioserP]

There is also a graphical change when sending messages with Siri.
There is a context menu that makes you choose the Messaging app you want 😊

[jubicudis]

Been on the public beta for over a decade and never did the developer beta, but when Apple recently updated to allow us to choose between public beta, developer beta, or regular, i somehow got the developer beta option. I was surprised to say the least

[matthewburno]

I have a feeling since we are already getting a glimpse of it that iOS 18 is going to be an ios7 like overall since iMessage and the update area seems to have a new theme and the contact and file sharing bump animation shows signs that they want to go crazy with blur and ripple type animations! I can't wait!!

[joerobinnettebiden]

Did I get that right? So I must first activate „AirDrop received by everyone“ in order to be able to use „Name drop“

[andreshinojosaaa]

Isn’t the contact sharing a safety concern? What if someone unwillingly taps someone else’s phone while locked and is able to obtain their phone number and info.

[devilsposterboy]

Ngl having to switch it to everyone when it only lasts 10min kinda kills the feature on arrival… they need to change it back to not being timed

[lukas_FPV_X]

I click on update but it dont start downloading

[supercar]

I hope you can restrict name drop to phone being unlocked… someone who you don’t want having your number could easily get it or if you say put your phone in a bin of phones (like for a test in school or college) everyone’s contacts might start bouncing around.

[realkoko-loco]

The spotlight search is EPIC. I don’t have to launch a browser anymore. Literally everything is in spotlight. It’s extremely well organized, concise, and complete. From dates, calculations, definitions, quotes, phone numbers, pictures-whatever-it’s all there and unlike just opening a browser and navigating to Google, it scrubs my personal stuff so if I have the query anywhere in my notes, chat text, email, photos, etc, that shows up too. I don’t hear people talk about this enough. It’s really AMAZING!

[austinfisher]

I’m really excited about that hand off contacts feature it looks really great

[OmPlayz]

The wallpapers you have, where can I get them?

[caribgrl]

I’m in beta but how did you guys get this one ?

[georgebarlowr]

Seems that you're right with the MicroLocation explanation. After looking into it more it can use a few different technologies to return a location in a given space to a few inches. The most common are BLE and UWB, so this would make sense for Airdrop, Airpods show device info when close to the device, etc... I think now it is just given a space in the settings so it is more explicit that they are using this technology.

[XxCremeDeLaCreme]

I’m not getting the beta 2 update to show 😢

[DesignTechie]

I’ve had the beta 2 for about five minutes and the keyboard prediction is vastly improved since the first update

[jefe-]

I can’t update my 11 pro max is bugged it says I have no storage so I optimised photos and now I have like 130 gb left but on the update screen it’s still bugged and says I need additional 13 gb wth