Your iPhone will understand that you are sad about iOS 17, and this will benefit you.

Belonging Apple Event 2023 Many announcements are expected, among which you cannot miss the launch of a new operating system: iOS 17. Along with it there will be many additions, among which there is one that attracts a lot of attention: monitoring user mood.

Apple has made great strides in health monitoring. However, until now the main focus has been on Physical health, not so much mentally. In this regard, it is true that both this and other companies have previously explored the possibility of analyzing sentiment using sensors. This would perhaps give a more objective view. However, in psychology, subjectivity also plays a very important role.

Therefore, with iOS 17Apple will track the mood of its users, who will have to enter data on how they feel on a daily basis. They will be able to distinguish the general mood, Unknown reasonor something more specific that explains what causes this feeling. Thus, over time, the user himself will have a lot of useful information for his self-knowledge, which perhaps he would not have had if he had not devoted this small daily moment to answering the questions of his iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.

Apple: Steps to Know Your Mood

The first thing iOS 17 users will have to do is rate their mood on a scale. from very unpleasant to very pleasant.

Then the second step will be to choose between list of adjectives more specific. For example, if we feel grateful, angry or hopeless. In this case, only the third step remains, in which reasons are being investigated. Do we feel good or bad for economic, work, family reasons…?

Based on all this information, the device will create summary data that will help the user more easily mentally assess their latest mood. This is, logically, cannot replace a psychologist. But perhaps this could be useful to a specialist if necessary.

Awareness of our minds thanks to iOS 17

A very common tool in cognitive behavioral therapy He labeling thoughts and feelings. Patients should name what they feel and how they feel it, as this helps them process it and work on it.

This is exactly what Apple intends to create with a new feature coming in iOS 17. Users will have to spend some time labeling their feelings, as well as the thoughts that trigger them. Therefore, the reports obtained are very similar to those that can be compiled during a consultation with a psychologist.

It has been proven that this is self-knowledge may be beneficial for mental health because we formulate and categorize what happens to us without allowing it to become big and take over us.

This is a good tool to understand if we need help and to get to know ourselves better. We’ll have to see how it performs when it arrives. Maybe in Apple Event We’ll find out a little more. Moreover, as explained in Talk by a team of scientists from Monash and Melbourne Universities, we have to see processing performed on this data. Apple guarantees confidentiality, but these researchers fear there may be gaps. In any case, this is something we cannot know yet. Based on the information available, this could be a useful and new feature. We will learn more over time.