iOS 17 is the seventeenth major update for the iPhone, announced on June 5, 2023, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and released to the public on September 18, 2023. Developed under the codename "Dawn," it was initially planned as a "tuneup release" but grew to include major features, and was succeeded by iOS 18 on September 16, 2024. Key innovations include interactive widgets on the Home Screen and lock screen, and a new StandBy mode that displays widgets and live activities when the phone is charging horizontally. For communication, NameDrop lets users share contact cards or start file transfers by tapping iPhones together, while Siri can now be activated by simply saying "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri." The keyboard's autocorrect was overhauled with a new on-device transformer model that offers inline word predictions and learns not to correct swear words, and Ukrainian was added to the system-wide translation feature.