Sorry to hear your father passed, mine also passed this year. I think it’s nice you kept his phone as a memory.

I really like the Journal. However would prefer it to be across devices: MacBook - iPad etc. Until then I'll stick with the 'Day One' app. I mainly journal on iPad, it's very handy that it goes to my other devices automatically. iPhone only is not so useful in my case.

I was so stoked about this, but after trying it, it falls short for me. I wish I could export entries, and I wish I could search within the journal. They also 100% need the Journal app to cloud-sync across one’s apple ecosystem. I hope they update these ASAP! Until they do, the plain ol’ Notes app has it beat. 😢

Man, 8:25 I felt this. My father passed away just over a year ago as well. Condolences to you, friend.

Hi! Glad to see someone talking about the Journal app from the YT community. I am writing a story on Medium myself about the Journal app and comparing it to other journaling apps. I feel it lacks a lot of basic features but since Apple centers their design around simplicity, those getting started in journaling will love this app.

I am loving the journal app. Before this, I used the default notes app and had created a journal folder there. The app is not distracting in anyway, its simple and elegant as journal apps should be. Love it.

Your videos are very helpful and you explain things well. I'm sorry about your dad! I lost my mom about a year ago and it's tough when a parent leaves us.

I’ve been using the beta since it was available, and now I journal every day. Yes, there could be improvements, but so far they’re on the right track.

I love journal so far but agree some of recommendations would make it even better. I'm not a big fan of posting everything I do on social media so love this app as I get to post to journal and then can look back and it's just for me. Love your videos. Keep posting

Thanks for the video. The Journal App looks promising, looking forward to try it. It definitely needs all the mentioned improvements. Search function, more flexible selections and cross device function. Additionally I hope that in IOS 18 they finally roll out their own generative AI applications. Instead of just a search function, I would hope they consider a language model (not large, I guess) for the Journal App. So that I could also ask for summaries, ask questions, and get some analysis. That could be quite interesting over time.

I’ve had difficulty keeping up with a journaling routine in the past. Like a lot of people, I would buy physical notebooks only for writer’s block to happen. I love the new journal app. The prompts help get my ideas flowing

I just got my new 15 plus yesterday and updated software today. The journal app showed up. I will most certainly use this app. Thank you so much for this video. Awesome job.

First of all my condoleances. I love this app and use it almost every day. I think your suggestions are perfect and I hope they will keep developing this app to make it more complete. I think it would be great if we can keep more journals in the future so I can keep one about my children and one more personal or about fitness goals.

Hope that they take your recommendations and develop them. Thank you for making this video; it has been very helpful to understand this app and imagine what I can do with it in the long run. I salute you from South America. Cheers.

This needs to come out on Mac and iPadOS

Sticking with Day One. While I’ve mostly journaled on my iPhone, I also do journaling for my university experience on my iPad or MacBook.

Thank you for your video! Very helpful and I’m so with you on your suggestions for future updates. I’m SUPER bummed that it’s not on iPad yet. I’d like to be able to hand write my entries.

Sweet I really like your recommendations - I hope they incorporate them.

Great Suggestions for Improvements

I’ve been keeping a journal for a couple months now but I have to write it in cursive so my nosy wife can’t read it (English is not her first language) so the journal app I think is great but I will only be using once they make it possible to have a different passcode for that specific app

First of all thank you Stephen for your video, like always very enjoyable and thanks for sharing all your thoughts about it. Also sorry to hear about your dad, I think it’s great that you are looking to recreate this mo,ents and memories that you shared with him. I really think that is a great use of technology to help us with our humanity. :) Now my complaints, I started using day one about 2 months ago, so don’t really have much of a “baggage” if I were to move to the native apple journal app. I was really looking forward to the integration of the app being able to know and suggest things according to what I listen, take pictures, physical activities and others. I was ready to open up the doors to my private life to apple. Which to be fair they already know me as much as I know me. Anyway Day one sort of does it all, with pictures and prompts as suggestions and it even has the option that you choose a date and it shows me what pictures I took back then and where. So day one also has little prompts to get you to think about something and write about it, which I get through their widget. I find it it’s a really great way to get into journaling, without even thinking about it. So I’m somewhat disappointed with what seems to be lack of features and specially integration of all the information my phone knows about me, to help me journal and reflect about my day, etc., that it doesn’t integrate your other apple devices and no suggestions about what you did in a specific day in the past. I was really looking forward to it, since apple seems to know how to come late to the party with a feature but in a way you never thought about. So if a third app can use and access all that information why can’t apple do the same? I’d be happier to let just one company, Apple, have access to my private information than two companies… So from all I can see Day One is still the best journaling app for iPhone. Hopefully they begin by adding a search function and the past date journal entries. Keep up with the videos and already looking forward to your next one.

I would also love that you can make a difference between a Journal Privately and one for Business. Especially when traveling for business this might be useful.

Hopefully the future will give me the ability to make up my own suggestion list and move photos around the site. If you're writing on multiple topics, it would be nice to have the photo within the section it references. Still, I am glad Apple has a journal app.

I currently have a journal I use mostly for my adventures and for scouting out history and for trail hiking also.

This video has really encouraged me to go ahead and start journaling but we do need it on other devices. A Mac version would be awesome.

I am yet to discover the Journal app, installing 17.2 right now. It seems pretty cool, but as you said some things are missing. I'm sure over time features will get added and improved. Too sad it's not available on other Apple OS's (yet?).

Great video and suggestions for improvement. I’d love to see the same app on the IPad

Wow. That last part about how your dad passed away... I would LOVE to have those features on his phone. It's been almost two years and I still haven't had the heart to mess with his devices or anything because i would love to be able to archive some memories and content in a way that doesn't mean it ends up as just another folder somewhere on my computer. I would also love if you could import info from other note taking or journaling apps. For some basic entries from apps I've used previously so it's all together.

Thanks,loved the lucid way you’ve explained the journal app

Shoutout to the Cortex brand Theme System journal! Really nice journal, one of my favorites!

Excellent video explaining the features and benefits of Journal App. Thanks a lot.

Sorry to hear about your dad! I hope you are able to find special memories on his phone even if they can’t integrate into the Journal app quite yet. Thank you for this video. Do you know if there is a way to add an entry from my call history if I don’t see the conversation appear in the “suggested” section?

Nice video bro, thanks! I got all the information that I needed :)

Agree with you. Also it should also let you choose the songs instead of only being able to use the ones it recommends you. Great review

Without the search function, I find it to be totally worthless. At this stage of its development, i am far better off using the Notes app which may take a bit more effort to use, but is fully searchable. Why does Apple not do their research when creating apps so that when they are presented for use they have had a rounded real world test. Ty for a great review.

I’m excited for this app. I’ve been journaling for this year on the Notes app, its worked well so far but I’d like something more interactive like the journal app. Your suggestions are definitely NEEDED! Hope developers add them to the next update!! I don’t know if you can like search gifs or pics on the internet and add them directly, that would be great! Also would be great if it could pull from the Notes app cause sometimes I write other thoughts separately from my journal, It’d be great if it also linked to them. And if you could render and download periods of time into something like a book, that’d be great too. I just hope the app doesn’t make me feel like I’m dependent on it and that without it I’ll loose all my journaling, so an export option would be necessary too, just for safety, if they keep the app great I wouldn’t leave it but I’d like to feel safe about my memories not fading cause of some technicality. Definitely excited for this app!!

I’ve used many different journaling set ups before I started out by writing my journal in notability on iPad. Then I moved onto Notion. Then I moved to Goodnotes on iPad. I also done it on procreate once. And I’m finally I’m using Day one it would be great if I could import all the entries from Day One to Apple journal app until that happens I think I’m going to stick with Day one.

Sorry about your dad. Thanks for this useful review. I recently started caring for my grandson while his parents work. I use the app to jot down things about his day. I would love to be able to share the entries with my daughter in law. I’m enjoying this app.

Thank you Stephen for an excellent review! The Journal App is one of the most useful apps Apple has produced for me in years! I use it very similarly to how you use it! Great video!

Great suggestions for improvements. I hope Apple listens.

Those suggestions would definitely make Journals better.

Thank you for posting this and so sorry to hear about your father's passing.

I've used Day One for about a year and have viewed the location tagging as a way to mark the location I was at while composing the entry. I'm migrating my entries over to Apple Journal now and trying to decide if I should use the location feature to tag places relevant to what I was actually writing about.

So sorry to hear about your father. I lost my father in September 2022. I hope you’re hanging in there and know you are surrounded by people willing to help

I wish we could upload Journal to Pages or elsewhere to make a book of it. Put a request in for that. Great presentation. I’ve been using it for a few months and Learned some good tips.

A lot of people have similar concerns, like not having a "search" feature for instance. But this is for Mindfulness. All your concerns are not in line with the purpose of journaling. Understanding mindfulness more clearly may clear up some confusion for you. After all mindfulness is only interested in right now, not ruminating over the past. What you are looking to do is more of a diary. That would best be done in Pages. Perhaps using the Page Lay Out mode for pictures, video, links etc. would be best. Journaling wants you to think about what was going on, your thoughts, emotions, maybe a lesson learned. This expands your awareness of the present to keep you in the present and not the past.

Do you install the beta updates to use the feedback app and make these recommendations? I made the recommendation about search functionality but not the others. Those are great ideas.

Thanks great video

thank you.

Thank you I’m not great with tech and this was easy to understand.

Love your "wishlist"...I hope Apple adds them to this app

Option for (Automatic)Time Stamps would be great. Also a search function.

Hello Stephen, Thanks for sharing lots of details as always 🙏 Quick question - When we copy photos to Journal app from our photos app , Will the photos not consume double the space in iphone , i mean storing the same photos in two different apps . Please correct me and do share info on this. Thanks !

Agree with all of your suggestions and highlights with the exception of backdating journal entries. I just don't see that being a very common use case, so I can't imagine a lot of development resources being invested into it. Maybe I am wrong though - if it's a 2 line code change, great! But like I said, I just can't see a lot of people backdating an entry a year or more and still remembering enough for it to be worthwhile. That said, if it's for the purpose of being able to import journal entries from other apps so that you can have everything in a single place (i.e. you already *wrote* the journal entry and are just moving it over), THAT would be super handy.

Need this app on the I pad with Pencil capabilities please

I would love to have the ability to import Day One entries as well as Markdown entries so that I can compile my journals together, the other thing it needs is prompts. I tend to journal with a prompt and would like to be able to build prompts/templates within the app.

Makes no sense that before this app I kept a journal of sorts on Notes and had a lock with a different passcode on the note but can't keep my journal app with a different passcode. Great review, BTW.

Can you share more info regarding the Discoverable By Others tab?

A way to share entries would be good too.

Well if that isn’t a reason for Apple to add the functionality you mentioned, I don’t know what is !! I hope they do that for you specifically and of course others in your position. Thanks for the great Video.

As part of my foreign language training, I use the journal app as a foreign language diary. It works well for this.

This is such a great app … thanks for the vid

The only thing I miss from this app would be to set certain tags/categories to entries, in a few months if I want to find an entry from the past which isn't one or two months ago good luck with that... I don't really care about suggestions so I just need to add entries and find previous entries easily to be happy with it.

It’d be nice also to have specific groupings for journal entries. Like for example, I may want to document each week of my pregnancy and have a grouping for all those entries.

I don’t understand the ‘connected’ part. It’s a conversation? But the other person can’t see it? What’s the point of that?

Something I would really like to see is formatting. I do a lot of audio messages and then number them and write about them. But I would love to make some things bold to differentiate thoughts and sub-thoughts.

I’m support excited about this app too, but can you do voice journaling? Or it’s all typing? Also, your Father would be proud of the wonderful work your doing.

Looks interesting. Will be interested in how much they will improve it. Years with Apple Music and still not user friendly for subscribers (pay for even poorer performance!) I may not have caught it in the video, so I will ask; does it have the ability to share an entry you create to Facebook?

I’m trying to learn more about this journal app

Like you I’ve been testing the beta version for a few weeks but something bugs me… The moment date does not always work. So I had a few photos I took with my iPhone on two specific dates one being a concert I went to last week. But the moment date fails to know the date I went even though it’s in the photo metadata taken by the phone : Apple iPhone 15 Pro Main Camera - 24 mm f1.78 9 MP • 3024 × 3024 Saturday • 2 Dec 2023 • 22:09. I also tried to show my wife on her iPhone that it will change the date entry to the date of her photo when Moment was selected, again a photo she took 3 weeks ago didn’t work. Strange because it does work on some photos I have, but I can’t narrow down as to why some photos will backdate and others don’t.

🥂 to your dad! Been there recently too. Great idea to use his phone in that way!

Condolences on your loss. I think if we all yse their feedback page to notify them of what we want, they will move faster (it's the only page they read tbh)

Does it have audio transcription to be perfect?

Great content ! I think I will love this app . I didnt see a share option . For example way to share the journal entry to Facebook , Instagram , X , ect . That would be amazing because I think this app could almost add a MySpace content vibe. Advanced blogging basically

All it needs for me to use constantly is the search feature. I’m going to keep making entries in hopes they add it.

Is journal coming to iPad?

One thing is I wish you could do is log your mood in it like you can in the health app!

It would be nice to print.

As you say a search is fundamental to this app, also there should be access to calendar and (even though it's a big ask) google timeline. It's almost as though calendar is a better app

I’m excited about Journaling about my golf. I’m hoping the API is will integrated into a golf app I’m using or added to a new app that would let me journal my golf shots and photos I make on the course. I really wish I had purchased my latest iPhone with a much larger storage.

I was pretty disappointed with journal app when it came out. The thing I noticed right way was the lack of title, and the choices when it comes to organizing. But I do think the suggestions and being able to add photos and podcast episodes is really cool.

This app only works on the iPhone, not the iPad which sucks since most journalers I know use a keyboard and not their fingers. Oh, well. Nice try,Apple. Swing and a miss.

Once there are too many entries. It will be difficult to search for a specific entry so I think they need to Add the search functionality

Really like the Journal app. Needs to be on iPad as well as that’s where I spend most of my time.

Hey Stephen! Can you check how to add to work profiles for in IOS, if not able to add then can we have 2 different users profiles on same iPhone with different data and apps?

Sorry about your dad my condolences to and your family!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏

Does anyone know how to get it to pick up books in the Audible app?

When I first found out and discovered this app on my iPhone. I was thinking and saying to myself. Alright I’m going to start using this app more often now. :D

I went into settings and selected a schedule journal date, it wouldn’t set. Got a pop up, go into notifications in setting to schedule. Tried several time. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

It doesn't even capture a time and a location! It also needs to be able to tag entries and use multiple journals. I switched straight back to Day One.

Can an entry be shared from the journal to another iPhone user? We just had a baby, it would be nice to share some entries with friends or family.

Going to miss hearing you on the apple insider podcast!

I always try to eat at that Mission BBQ when I'm in town!

wayyy behind any other journaling apps, except the fact that it has the new suggestions API Only if you don't have a journal app already, it might be worth using

your glasses are gorgeous 😭😭 link pls

Erroneously have deleted journal application now how to downaload the application

Deg, I choked up when you mentioned your father. Sorry for your loss… -Orlando, FL

Haven't tested it yet, but if you want to take this serious, creating lot of notes over the years, it needs powerful search and organisation, tags of course too. And to not let it become another Apple only trap it need a powerful export function to be able to save your precious data of years.

Can I make separate journal sections for example, could I create one journal for my trip to Italy and then another journal for a separate trip? Or is it all just one big flow of entries?

I wish it was tracking your route similar to GoogleMaps Timeline.