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Apple has launched the first public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, bringing new features that enhance the user experience. Some features include bilingual Siri, full-page screenshots, and better SMS sorting for dual-SIM users.
Bilingual support for Sir allows users to ask questions in a mix of English and one of the selected Indic languages. For example, users can speak to Siri in both English and Hindi or English and Telugu, Punjabi, Kannada, or Marathi. This feature is helpful for India-based users who often use more than one language in their daily conversations. Apple is catching up with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, which introduced multilingual support in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Another feature that iOS 17 users will enjoy is the full-page screenshot feature, which lets users capture the entire content of a web page or a document as an image or a PDF file. This feature has been available on Android devices for years as "Scrolling screenshots." Previously, iOS users could only save PDF files of a full-page screenshot.
Dual-SIM users will also benefit from the improved support for per-SIM sorting of messages. You get separate ringtones for each SIM and the option to choose a SIM when calling back an unknown number.
Apple plans to release the stable versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma later this fall. Beta versions may have bugs, so install them on a secondary device or wait for the final public release.