Because isn't that the crux of this? That we feel the inherent need to reply right away, as if we will be judged harshly if we don't? I know, watching my own teenagers, they can't go a minute after that notification noise. The feature will enable users to set up auto-texts to tell whomever is texting you that you are driving and will get back to them. The do-not-disturb-while-driving feature still, to me at least, stands out the most. You can check out all the updates to iOS 11 and the rest of the WWDC announcements here. Some of these additional updates to iOS 11 include synchronized messages across all devices via iCloud, Apple Pay person-to-person payments (a direct attack on Venmo type services), a hideous update to Control Center, special effects in Live Photos and Siri improvements including on-the-fly translation.

Within iOS 11 were a few changes that piqued my interest, but since I'm Android-4-life, the fact that it still takes five taps to turn off location tracking in iOS will keep me from holding an iPhone for quite a while. In between the stoner jokes about the new MacOS being called 'High Sierra', Safari updates to block auto play videos and the brand spanking new iMac Pro, Apple introduced iOS 11. All we need to do is use it.ĭo you really want your last words to be a series of emojis? Or the reason you are being charged with vehicular manslaughter being that you had to get through your Snapchat feed before the next intersection? With this iOS 11 update, Apple is providing a solution. Even if you are using voice-to-text, that still causes your eyes and attention to not be on the road. There was a time when we had no communication options in our cars and while I'm not suggesting the roads were safer then, there was at least one less distraction. This is just plain stupid (not to mention ironic) and many companies are working technology into their products to help us control this idiotic obsession with having patience.

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