iOS 17 is here, whether you're using it for the first time on a brand new iPhone 15, or updating an earlier model. But the most important feature, the killer app for this iOS release, isn't the new standby mode or interactive widgets. It's the ecosystem. More than that, it's the people that ecosystem. It’s the people you care about, or the people you might soon meet, who also use iOS 17.

Sprinkled throughout iOS 17 are many less-obvious examples of how Apple's walled garden -- or more accurately the people you share it with -- are going to become the most important feature in iOS in the mid-2020s. So as the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro finally arrive, is there more to this software than meets the eye?

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