I LOVE sending unknown callers to voicemail that then types out the message. I get so many spam calls.

I've been on the betas (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, audioOS, Air Pods Pro 2 firmware) since they dropped. The first few were train wrecks, but the last 3 or 4 before RC were gold. Minor issues but they flew. RC dropped and literally every device suffered somehow. It happens every other year where something they add back in before it GMs. Dogs the build on launch, I don't know. I was hoping RC was RC and we would get a GM; different build.

As for the features, yeah, HUGE huge HUUGGEEE boost to gaming. Most of my Windows games play well enough or in most cases flawless through Apple's GPTK and Sonoma with upgrades to metal, gfx.

iOS 17 is phenomenal and I love the StandBy screen, bought a new stand specifically for it lol. watchOS too, big improvements, especially on UX, UI is bigger and cleaner, more focused on controls.

No real issues so far but it’s annoying that we can no longer quickly swipe between watch faces. I have my main one and then the next one shows my health/activity stats. Used to just flick back and forth when I wanted to check out my steps. Takes longer now. Can’t even add the pedometer app to the widgets so that doesn’t help.

And battery use seems higher considering I just got hit with a 10% warning when it’s usually still around 40% or higher right now.

I’m having some odd behaviour with podcasts and my Apple Watch. iPhone and Watch both updated to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. Whenever I play a podcast from the Podcasts app on my iPhone, the Podcasts app on the Watch opens, instead of the Now Playing app.

But the Podcasts app doesn’t show any controls or info about the currently playing podcast, just the podcasts menu. There is a small icon in the top right that looks a now playing indicator, but tapping it does nothing. I keep having to manually switch to Now Playing app, but even then sometime it switches back to the (useless) Podcast app.

I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug, whatever it is it’s not very useful.