One Year with the Apple Journal App: New iOS 18 Updates & Exploring the Room For Improvement
What Has Changed With iOS 18 and What Needs To Improve with iOS 19
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About a year ago, Apple introduced a new app with the iOS 17 update. It was the Journal app and it came with some quality life updates, both for its users and the iOS APIs. The app made it possible to integrate with other native apps and bring some of their data home making it possible for users to journal about a song or podcast they heard (on Apple Music/Podcast), a workout they recorded (using Fitness), and even photos they took and saved in their Photo Library. When this app launched almost a year ago, I wrote a complete guide for this amazing app, which you can find below:
With iOS 18, Apple updated this app yet again. And it’s been somewhat of a hit or miss. Hit because it still tops the chart when we talk of quality-of-life apps and so every update to it is meaningful. And a miss because Apple didn’t give us…