TheiOS 17reveal is less than two weeks forth and a new report card claims one of the primal features will turn the iPhone into smart show .
Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman says a new interface will show when the phone is locked and horizontal . According to thereport , Apple is hoping to make the iPhone more operative when it is sit on a desk , or on their bedside board .
Effectively , the interface could extend the same functionally of aGoogle Nest HuborAmazon Echo Showas well as its Fire tablets .
With that in head , users could see a host of actionable widgets for smart home devices as well as newsworthiness headlines , the weather and perhaps calendar appointments .
Apple began to buildLock Screen widget into iOS 16last year and , according to Gurman , the iOS 17 initiative will build on this . He says it ’ll be similar to effort on the Android side of things as well as what Amazon has offered with its FireOS - based devices .
consort to the reputation , the interface will have a darker backcloth that ’ll make it easier to interpret . It ’s not clean whether this will set in motion for iPad in iPadOS 17 .
Gurman writes : “ The Cupertino , California - free-base troupe is also work on a fresh horizontal interface for the iPad , but it ’s been slower to make major change to that equipment . The new iPhone ringlet screen from iOS 16 is n’t yet useable on iPads , and abode screen widgets that were launch in iOS 14 did n’t come on the tablet until iPadOS 15 . ”
Gurman has previously describe Apple is planning a smart presentation of its own that may be combined with its HomePod speakers .
Apple will launch raw operating system for both at the iPhone and iPad atWWDC on June 5during a keynote address . If the common precedent is take after , both platforms will be useable to beta trial throughout the summer and be available in the autumn .
