WWDC is a first opportunity for Apple to present its new operating systems. And at these events, it’s normal for them to announce a list of features that aren’t available on day one. Then others are even added, like all the views of iOS 17.4. What’s not so normal is that we’re already close to WWDC 2024 and we haven’t yet seen everything announced regarding iOS 17.
On June 5, 2023, the inaugural conference of WWDC 2023 was held in which, courtesy of Apple Vision Pro, iOS 17 was the protagonist. He presented two new features which were finally limited to certain countries and languagessince we are already close to iOS 18 and we have not yet seen anything about them if we use the iPhone in Spanish.
We keep saying “Hey, Siri”
It’s not that this is the flagship new feature of iOS 17. Far from it. However, the possibility of shorten the voice call to the assistant by shortening it to “Siri”so that we don’t have to say “Hey, Siri” in English or “Hey, Siri” in Spanish, even though those options were still available.
We emphasize that this is not a revolutionary change, but it is ultimately interesting in order to use the assistant in a more natural way as we use others like Amazon’s Alexa. However, This function reached English, but not Spanish. If we have the iPhone configured in English we will see it in the settings. Yes No No.
What about Predictive Keyboard 2.0?
For years, the iOS keyboard has provided a series of suggestions when writing that help you type faster. What was announced for iOS 17 went further so that thanks to artificial intelligence, I was able to finish complete sentences depending on what we were going to write at that precise moment.
Example of the predictive keyboard in English (Image: 9to5Mac)
For example, imagine that we have marked an appointment on the calendar at 2:00 p.m. and someone asks us on WhatsApp if we can meet for lunch at that time. Just write something like “I can’t because…” and it would automatically be completed with something like “…I have an appointment at that time.”
This is an important step in the predictive keyboard applied to the entire system and also based on our usual sentences, from which the artificial intelligence of iOS 17 is capable of learning, but we have been deprived of this. As in the previous case, Yes, it’s in English, but there’s nothing like that in Spanish. And it’s been a long time since it was launched…
At this point we may just have to wait for iOS 18
From WWDC 2023 when it was announced to today, 313 days have passed. 208 if we want to be fair and count on the global launch of iOS 17 in September. The fact that we’re already seeing beta versions of iOS 17.5 with no trace of these new features indicates that they won’t end up arriving with iOS 17.
It’s common for Apple to take longer to introduce certain new features in other languages, although it has rarely taken this long. This is why all hopes now rest on their arrival with iOS 18. Even more so when precisely iOS 18 will revolve around Siri and AI. Although, given the delay in these advances for languages like Spanish, we fear that in the end the same thing will happen with AI. Fingers crossed.
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