Public betas of Apple's platforms iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and others are now accessible.

 Details on the India-specific features included in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS-Sonoma, and watchOS 10 are shown below.

Apple released the public beta versions of its platforms for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17 on Thursday. In essence, it implies that common consumers may now test out these platforms on compatible devices before the official release, which is anticipated for later this year. Users must register for the public beta program on the Apple web in order to utilize the new features coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. The information on features in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS that are special to India is provided below:

Experience with bilingual Siri (iOS 17 and iPadOS 17)

For activities, users may communicate with Siri in a combination of English and Hindi. The combination of English with Telegu, Punjabi, Kannada, or Marathi is still the standard. Asking Siri for assistance with setting an alarm or timer, sending messages, making calls, playing music, checking the weather, or finding directions is all included in this multilingual experience.

Additional keyboards for transliteration that support the main Indian languages

New transliteration keyboards for popular Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam are included in iOS 17 for iPhone. Users will be able to converse with family and friends while switching effortlessly between English and another language. Urdu, Punjabi, and Gujarati transliteration keyboards were added by Apple in iOS 16.4. These were in addition to Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi, which were included in iOS 16. The top 10 languages spoken in India will feature transliteration keyboards on the iPhone with iOS 17.

Dual-sim experience

Users of iOS 17 may view Messages organized by both their primary and secondary SIM. Users may also customize the ringtones for each SIM separately. There will also be an option to use either SIM card to return missed calls from an unknown number.

Updates on living conditions

Signing into Apple ID: Users will be able to sign into Apple ID with a phone number rather than an email address with the upcoming versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

Additional call history:

On iOS and iPadOS-based devices, the Phone app's extended call history includes phone and FaceTime calls as well as calls received on WhatsApp.

Detailed screenshots:

The ability to save full-page screenshots as a picture or a PDF from the Safari, Mail, and Notes applications on the iPhone and iPad.

Messaging screening

On the iPad in addition to the iPhone, you may filter messages by unread, known senders, and unknown senders.

Punjabi dictionary built-in:

From a number of sources (including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS), users may quickly get meanings of words and phrases.