Apple just unveiled Journal, a brand-new iOS journaling app that lets iPhone users regularly track their daily activities. Journal, which was unveiled on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, joins other iOS applications like Fitness, Sleep, and Breathe that assist users in tracking and managing various parts of their daily life.
On iOS 17, which is anticipated to debut in September of this year, Journal will be made available. According to Apple, the new iPhone app will draw information from contacts, photos, music, workouts, location data, and more to produce personalized suggestions for users to memorialize within their digital journal. It will use machine learning for the same.
For instance, Journal might suggest that users write about their most recent trip to the coast by highlighting a recent photo album with images taken at the beach and describing the location and music that the users were listening to at the time. When this recommendation is tapped, the user’s Journal will immediately include this information in a fresh post. Once published, key Journal entries can be marked to make them simpler to find and access in the future.
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Journal only stores information locally on the phone, where even Apple claims it can’t read it, and is end-to-end encrypted for privacy.
Users of iPhones have discretion over what information about their devices is used to create journal writing prompt recommendations and when notifications are scheduled. Additionally, Apple intends to provide developers with an API that would enable them to include these tailored writing recommendations into their own programmes.
