Apple installed a brand new app on your iPhone last month. Today is the perfect time to try it out.We introduced the journal for free. At the same time as iOS 17.2rolled out globally on December 11, 2023, also included camera performance adjustments and several security bug fixes.
The Journal app is designed to digitize your diary. You can write about everyday events or special moments and include photos, videos, audio recordings, location data, podcasts, and music in your posts.
Apple has made it easy to make journaling one of your New Year’s resolutions by providing scheduled notifications that remind you to record your thoughts and memories every day.
Journaling is proven to dramatically improve your mental health, so it’s a good habit to develop in 2024. Multiple studies have shown that writing in a diary regularly can reduce stress levels and anxiety. Researchers claim it may also reduce the risk of dementia.
As shown in the example above, you can record podcast episodes, location data, and photos in the Journal app along with the text of your latest memories.
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Apple offered a sneak preview of the Journal app during its Worldwide Developer Conference keynote in June, before bundling the software with the latest iOS update last month. Journal is currently only available on iPhone, so don’t download it to your iPad from the App Store.
When you open the app, you do Displays a timeline of your latest diary entries and be short summary Text, image and location data saved from each entry. Scroll through your memories and Filtering entries Find photos, workouts, locations, and more.
If you need some inspiration before you put pen to paper, the Apple-developed Clever AI-powered prompts that can provide suggestions for new entries. this the system surface Location-based suggestions you recent visitors you connected to podcast you Listen, take photos and videos on your iPhonetraining habits, or specific song you It was on repeat.
Everything is analyzed on the deviceAs such, none of the suggested content will be hosted on Apple’s servers. all diary entriese end to end previously encrypted They are is stored in iCloud.
On-device AI analyzes your recent activity and makes intelligent suggestions for new journal entries, including new contacts to connect with, recorded workouts, photos from your day, and prompts for questions and writing.
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If you don’t want anyone to see your Journal app, you can lock it using your passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID. This means that even if you give your girlfriend’s unlocked iPhone to a friend or family member, I don’t You can jump into your journal and start reading.
photos, videos, text, good result and location data Everything is stored in the journal backup, so erase photos from you iCloud photograph library and it will continue saved in your diary entryy.
the clever failuresafety This means that no matter what you do, your journal will remain intact. erase from Other apps to back up iCloud.HauevWell, ifyou I’m constantly battling low storage warnings from iCloud. Feel free to take a look at the photos and videos included. your journal entryas all intention Two copies are stored in Apple’s servers.
Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of worldwide product marketing, said of the new iOS app: Journal makes it easy to preserve rich and powerful memories and practice gratitude by intelligently curating your personal information directly from your iPhone.and was Other journaling apps can now offer similar personalized suggestions. maintain The highest level of privacy. ”
Interestingly, even if you’ve already invested in a third-party diary app, you might still get some benefits from Apple’s foray into journaling. That’s because other developers can incorporate the Journaling Suggestions API, an AI engine that powers writing prompts, into their apps.
Day One and Stoic are two popular apps that have already coded journaling suggestion APIs into their apps on iPhone.