5 Cool Features We Want to See in iOS and iPadOS 17

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Apple has made impressive strides with its iOS and iPadOS updates over the years, delivering rich customization options, enhanced apps, and radically improved system-wide functionality. However, there’s always room for improvement, and we will soon see what Cupertino has in store for its phones and tablets at WWDC 2023.

Considering the constant pressure from Google’s Android operating system, the race to improve and enhance is never-ending. Apple's iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 were fantastic improvements over the previous year’s OS rollouts, and we have no doubt that version 17 will further enhance the ecosystem. Still, we hope the following five features make their way into the upcoming mobile OSes.

Apple uses a proprietary messaging service, iMessage, that lets you send text messages to other people. Many wonderful features are attached to the app, including Live Text, Visual Look Up, and the ability to edit messages. However, these functions are rendered useless when interacting with Android phones and tablets, as the mobile devices powered by Google's OS don't support iMessage's many unique capabilities.

Android uses Chat, a Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol. It is leaps and bounds above the functionality of basic SMS and offers convenient and accessible content-sharing functionality that's on par with Apple's iMessage. However, Apple does not support the protocol, which means your fancy Android Chat messages are received as bare-bones SMS messages.

Google has steadily improved its RCS protocol over the years, such as adding end-to-end encryption that keeps your communications secure and private. Hopefully, Apple will decide to play nice with RCS and announces compatibility with it during WWDC 2023.

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