iOS 17 to Include Dedicated Journaling App and Mood Tracking

macrumors.com

19 points·impish9208··8 comments

Naturally, the journalists and/or editors of the unofficial apple pr firm macrumours fails to even mention the controversy about this app

(Unofficial pr firm, not official or funded or anything like that. But macrumours is basically a hype outlet for apple)

What is the controversy?

That Apple dare build an app that makes use of OS functionality they don't give to other app developers. Manufactured outrage.

A shout out to Day One (https://dayoneapp.com/). That has gotten me into the habit of Journaling for over three years now. Maybe the dedicated Apple app will be nice, but the free version of Day One is quite usable and the paid option isn't too steep if you find it useful.

I assume I can disable this in its entirety?

> and there will be an "All Day People Discovery" feature that determines when a user is in close proximity to other people.

I do not want notifications that someone else owns an iPhone when I go on a walk or whatever.

Seems odd to Sherlock the daily journaling ecosystem when the Notes App could already be used for the same thing.

So basically the apps in the daily journaling ecosystem are useless, because the Notes App can already do what they do?

To be more precise, the Notes app could be used as a barebones version of a journaling app, which leaves enough room for dedicated types of note apps (in this case journaling) to flourish. As a platform maker, I think you have to walk a careful line between what you do in-house vs. what you let your partners provide. A daily journal seems niche enough to leave to the partners.

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