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The Journal app, coming to iOS 17.2, is Apple’s new mental health tool for reflection. CNET’s Bridget Carey has been using it for the past month and shares her impressions on what was helpful – and what was unexpected.
The Journal app, coming to iOS 17.2, is Apple’s new mental health tool for reflection. CNET’s Bridget Carey has been using it for the past month and shares her impressions on what was helpful – and what was unexpected.
0:00 Using Apple’s Journal App: What Surprised Me Most
1:00 Journal App Coming in iOS 17.2
1:51 Getting Started with Journal
2:59 Apple Claims Journal Apple Protects Users’ Privacy
3:55 Journal App Does Have Limits
4:53 Journal Posts Resist Sharing and Searching
6:29 CNET’s Second Opinion on Apple’s Journal App
7:46 Apple’s Journal is Worth A Shot
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As I’m scrolling through my phone at night 😂
Great video! Cant wait to try this.
No searching? 😢
Thanks for the quicky pictures of your beautiful family I was wondering what you family look like ~ Wishing you and yours the best for the New Year ~
So if your photo library isn’t safe as it is from government organizations and nefarious entities, we are just going to give a play by play on daily activities and personal insights….genius.
No search?! Wtf?!
Is there ANY such even comparable smart journal app on Android? Is it expected from Google or any of the other players?
Thanks for this overview of Journal. My main reason to avoid it is platform lock-in. As you said, I think it's another lock on the gate to the walled-garden. Another reason: it's iPhone only, not for iPad or Mac (yet). Third, I won't use it b/c it's kind of creepy how much the phone "knows" about my activities. Last, Apple is trying too hard to be helpful with health. Mental health is important, journaling is good (I already journal daily). But like your list of things Apple does to help your health, it's too much. Like, telling me to stand up, wash my hands (Apple Watch), and take time to breath, to reflect, to stop staring at the iPhone too closely, and then to stop staring at the iPhone too much/often, and to turn down my headphone volume…what am I, a kid? Too much "Apple knows best."
Bridget is cute 😊😊😊😊😊🥺🥺🥺💨🤓🤓🤓
😊😊😊😊😊😊 Bridget
Life cycle and geofence are much better.
Not having a search is a bummer. I usually search the amount that I paid in a barber I went to in a different location.
Good stuff looking forward to it the new app
See I’m an android phone user, but back in 2018 I try to switch to iPhone because I’ve been an iPad fan for, well as long as they’ve been about. But I just couldn’t do it. I spent a year with the iPhone and I just struggled, I didn’t like how they did things you know? I didn’t like not having a Home Screen, I didn’t like not having app folders, I just struggled with it. I love the freedom of an android and I found androids a lot more interesting than iPhones, so I’m a bit upset but I won’t be able to use the journal feature fully because obviously when I do have an iPad Pro and it won’t be able to give me the same suggestions as an iPhone. Still won’t switch to iPhone though.
Oh wow i had Journal app in galaxy s1…so innovatvie apple🎉
No searching? That’s garbage
Great video, makes some important points I haven't seen in other reviews, like the inability to search.
I can kind of understand why Apple didn't give us the ability to share stuff from the journal app.. Journals are generally intended to be private. Still, though, the multi-media journal entries you can create with it are sometimes going to be things you'd want to share, but can't.
Anyway, thanks for the thought and time you put into make this video review. It was really helpful.
This is the first time I have seen a video with Bridget. I really enjoyed her. Super likable and engaging. Good job!
Handwriting is better because the speed of writing slows down and allows the processing of emotions. Journaling is a dedicated time to stay off of a screen and reflect on recent emotional events. Also, I only clicked for Bridget's beautiful face.
Would have been nice if you had toned down the antics (seems like you are stopping yourself from laughing mid-sentence).
Came off as an insincere review and almost like you’re taunting Apple (keep in mind that this is just version 1).
Dear Bridget,
Since macOS now supports iPhone apps, you should be able to save your Journal's content on a Mac, photos included. I don't use an iPhone because the audio sucks, compared to my trusty LG V40 (with its high-impedance audio jack and LDAC codec support, ask Steve Guttenberg…), but I'm a writer and have been using Pages for over 20 years to keep a diary and write novels.
Pages supports all sorts of multimedia files and made me ditch MS Word when I updated my first iMac (the 1998 one with Mac OS 9) to Mac OS 10.2 Leopard. Word couldn't handle long files and hundreds of fonts without crashing twice an hour. Pages never let me down, except when Apple removed half of the advanced features for the iPad, but I had bought it and just stopped updating till 2 years ago, when they finally restored long-lost features, like footnotes and the double-page display mode, very convenient with a 27' screen, since you literally can see both of them at full size, plus sidenotes. Being light-sensitive, I'm a big fan of the dark mode as well.
Just know there's no point keeping a diary if it's just meant to be family-friendly. Social media serve your public persona; a journal's meant for processing your intimate thoughts without oversharing like Elon Musk, who should know better at 52, being a rocket scientist and all. I'm the same age and not as smart, but 32 years of journaling made me wiser, and a decent wordsmith in my native French language.
Take care, Mrs. Carey, and please keep making my Friday.
I want that on Mac
I loved the app by far. But m kinda looking for a folder structure. You know seperate journals for other aspect of our life! That would be phenomenal!
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why do people insist on calling or referring to apple improving their products and user experience, as a "lock in" "walled garden" "preventing you from leaving"… would you rather they make them worse, leave them stagnant with worse user experience?