Apple launches the Journal app for iPhone
Apple has officially provided the Journal application to users of iPhone phones such as the iPhone 15 Pro and others, which is the application that it revealed for the first time in conjunction with the announcement of iOS 17 features Earlier last June 2023, which is now available through the new iOS 17.2 update, which provides many new features for iPhone users, most notably the Journal application.
What is the Journal app for iPhone?
Apple's new diary application, Journal, helps iPhone users write daily diaries or notes, which Apple says has proven useful in improving mental health, by recording daily moments and special events and writing about them easily, while supporting the inclusion of photos, videos, and recordings. Voice, location, and more to create rich memories.
Apple's new Journal application, based on machine learning techniques built into the iPhone itself, provides personalized suggestions to help the user record his diary, in addition to customized notifications to develop the habit of writing a diary.
Apple also provides a new programming interface called Journaling Suggestions API, which allows developers iPhone applications External Suggest moments for the user to record in the diary or write about through the Journal application.
What are the features of Apple's Journal app?
Various options for recording diaries And its classification
The new Journal app for diaries from Apple allows users to easily record the most important daily moments, whether in text, or by adding richer content that includes photos, video, or audio recordings for more context, with the ability to also add links, whether to a news article, a music clip, or an episode. Podcast.
Journal application users can also browse previous diaries or add them to favorites to make them easier to find, with many options for categorizing the diary, whether according to photos, videos, places, etc. The application supports getting scheduled notifications to help turn journaling into a habit.
Customized suggestions to help with journaling
But the custom suggestions feature is considered one of the best features of Apple's new Journal application for iPhone users, based on machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, so that the application suggests, for example, users to write about their diaries about new places they have visited or even photos taken recently, in addition to… To provide diary suggestions according to the songs the user has recently listened to or even the sports activities they have practiced.
The personalized suggestions that the Journal application sends to users to record diaries include text keywords, in order to help users write diaries and focus on positive feelings such as gratitude, kindness, etc., and Apple allows users to control the type of content that appears in the suggestions from the application.
And through the interface Journaling Suggestions API With the new software, external application developers can provide personalized blogging suggestions to the user, so that, for example, a fitness application suggests recording the completion of sports activity tasks in the diary or recording reaching a specific weight, for example, and Apple confirms that the custom suggestions feature takes privacy into account.
Maintain security and privacy
Apple also confirmed that all diaries in the Journal application are encrypted when using a passcode to secure the iPhone, with the ability to choose an additional method to verify or secure access to the application, including a fingerprint, face print, or password. To preserve privacy, Apple said that all diaries Or your notes will be fully encrypted when stored via iCloud for later recovery or on another iPhone.
How do you get the Journal application from Apple?
Users can iPhone phones that support iOS 17 Get the new Journal app from Apple now, by simply updating to the version iOS 17.2 Which Apple recently provided.
