After the Journal app was launched in iOS 17, Apple continued to enhance it with new features. While there’s no signal of a macOS or iPadOS enlargement, Apple previewed a few of the upcoming features of the Journal app in iOS 18 at WWDC.
Journaling for wellbeing: One motive we journal is to deal with our psychological well being. With iOS 18, you possibly can log your frame of mind in the app. Apple says you too can mechanically add the time you spend journaling as conscious minutes in the Health app.
Track targets with insights view: View your writing streaks, a calendar with current entries, and different stats to aid you keep on prime of your journaling targets, akin to how lengthy you’ve journaled, what number of eating places you visited, and even what number of phrases you’ve written to this point.
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Sort and search previous entries: You can simply discover previous entries by sorting your Journal and utilizing Search to discover precisely what you’re wanting for by getting into key phrases or from the record of classes Apple presents, akin to exercises, music, podcasts, photographs, and so on.
Home Screen or Lock Screen widgets: With iOS 18, you possibly can take the Journal app to the subsequent degree by including a widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen with writing prompts that change all through the day. You can even add a widget to observe your present streak.
We’re nonetheless in the early days of the iOS 18 beta releases, so Apple may add much more features to the Journal app down the highway. We’ll inform you about them as they arrive.
To be taught much more about iOS 18, akin to the all-new Messages app features, the upcoming Mail experience, and all AirPods Pro tweaks that can be out there later this 12 months, take a look at our information under.
