Apple recently unveiled Journal, a brand-new iOS journaling app that lets iPhone users regularly track their daily activities. Journal, which was unveiled on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, joins other iOS apps like Fitness, Sleep, and Breathe that assist users in tracking and managing various aspects of their daily lives.
Journal will be made available on iOS 17, which is anticipated to launch in September of this year. Incorporating data from contacts, photos, music, workouts, location data, and more, Apple claims that the new iPhone app will employ on-device machine learning to produce personalized suggestions for users to memorialize within their digital journal.
For instance, Journal might suggest that users write about their most recent trip to the coast by highlighting a recent photo album with images taken at the beach and describing the location and music that the users were listening to at the time. When this suggestion is tapped, the user's Journal will automatically add this information to a draft post. Once published, important Journal entries can be marked to make them simpler to find and access in the future.
Journal only stores information locally on the phone, where even Apple claims it can't view it, and is end-to-end encrypted for privacy. It can also be locked to conceal it from prying eyes. Users of iPhones have control over what information about their devices is used to create journal writing prompt suggestions and when notifications are scheduled. Additionally, Apple intends to provide developers with an API that will enable them to incorporate these tailored writing recommendations into their own apps.
Journal will face competition from third-party journaling applications like Day One, which debuted in 2012 for Mac and iOS before extending to Android in 2018. In April, The Wall Street Journal reported that it had seen documents outlining Apple's ambitions for Journal, which was then still under development under the codename "Jurassic," highlighting parallels to currently available journaling apps. “It’s always the worst thing to have to hear that you’re about to be Sherlocked,” said Day One founder Paul Mayne upon being told about Jurassic by The Wall Street Journal.
“Sherlocking” is a two-decade-old reference to when Apple was accused of copying features from Watson, a third-party macOS search tool. The phrase now refers to Apple's propensity to release native services that seem to be heavily influenced by works created by other developers.
Journal will be made available on iOS 17, which is anticipated to launch in September of this year. Incorporating data from contacts, photos, music, workouts, location data, and more, Apple claims that the new iPhone app will employ on-device machine learning to produce personalized suggestions for users to memorialize within their digital journal.
For instance, Journal might suggest that users write about their most recent trip to the coast by highlighting a recent photo album with images taken at the beach and describing the location and music that the users were listening to at the time. When this suggestion is tapped, the user's Journal will automatically add this information to a draft post. Once published, important Journal entries can be marked to make them simpler to find and access in the future.
Journal only stores information locally on the phone, where even Apple claims it can't view it, and is end-to-end encrypted for privacy. It can also be locked to conceal it from prying eyes. Users of iPhones have control over what information about their devices is used to create journal writing prompt suggestions and when notifications are scheduled. Additionally, Apple intends to provide developers with an API that will enable them to incorporate these tailored writing recommendations into their own apps.
Journal will face competition from third-party journaling applications like Day One, which debuted in 2012 for Mac and iOS before extending to Android in 2018. In April, The Wall Street Journal reported that it had seen documents outlining Apple's ambitions for Journal, which was then still under development under the codename "Jurassic," highlighting parallels to currently available journaling apps. “It’s always the worst thing to have to hear that you’re about to be Sherlocked,” said Day One founder Paul Mayne upon being told about Jurassic by The Wall Street Journal.
“Sherlocking” is a two-decade-old reference to when Apple was accused of copying features from Watson, a third-party macOS search tool. The phrase now refers to Apple's propensity to release native services that seem to be heavily influenced by works created by other developers.
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