Apple Pay takes on VenmoĪpple Pay is also expanding to include person-to-person payments, positioning Apple to take on Venmo and Square Cash. Your conversations will be stored on iCloud, which will make them easier to retrieve on your future Apple devices but might also open potential privacy and government snooping concerns.
Previously, you’d often have to deal with notifications twice or delete old conversations again. If you erase a message on your iPhone or iPad, that will now be reflected on your Mac as well. Messages is moving to iCloud, essentially. The first new iOS 11 feature demonstrated by Craig Federighi was a super convenient one: synchronized conversations across iCloud, iOS, and macOS. A public beta will be available later in June. iOS 11 will be released this fall - presumably alongside new iPhone 8 and iPhone 7S smartphones. Chief among them are new, improved productivity solutions for iPad, but other enhancements are coming to Messages, Apple Pay, and other apps.
The next major update to the operating system running on millions of iPhones and iPads will improve on the “core technologies” that power the OS and also introduce numerous new user-facing features. Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially announced iOS 11 onstage at WWDC 2017.
