Beyond iPhone 13: Long-Term iPhone Rumors

[DanTSX]

That hole punch is far too large.....

 

[JoeShades]

Should I buy the 2039 iPhone or wait for the 2040 iPhone? - People in 2039, probably.

Hold off until 2041, that will be the game changer

 

[jonnysods]

Like what M Gurmann usually does lol

Honestly 80% of us regulars on MR could have written this one!

 

[sdf]

I think the notch will get smaller, but the hole punch design seems unrealistic for what Apple needs to fit in there.

 

[incoherent_1]

iPhone 15? Only suckers will buy that one — I’m waiting for the iPhone 16 /s

 

[TheFluffyDuck]

iPhone hasn't really changed that much since iPhone6. Let's be honest. Camera gets marginally better, ever since the iPhone 5 its matched any point and shoot dedicated digital camera. iPhone updates are chasing minuscule changes now. Design wise they have got rid of the chin and the bezels change every 4 years from square to rounded and back again. Cool, it had finger print sensors, then face ID, and rumour has it back to finger print. Cool, we can look forward to an amazing chip inside, which thankfully grants a long life of updates, until Apple rolls out some planned obsolescence.

Other than some tweaks the OS is EXACTLY THE SAME!! It doesn't really matter anyway, as the OS is now just a launch pad for your favourite services. Just look at your screen time on your phone if you don't believe me.

Apple is now driven by trends on excell, it is moving where the ball is, not where its going to be. In other words it will continue to be safe. Same design, same OS, same, same, same.

 

[Denzo]

With tech companies now being some of the biggest in the world, the money that goes into development and ensuring their competitive future means we will never be near the limits as production and life cycle will never keep up with the innovation. Sort of numbs the whole thing a little, doesn’t it?

 

[DeepIn2U]

We spend far too much time discussing hardware. The real advance with the iPhone will be the software.

iOS needs to adapt to the range of devices Apple now offers.

There's so much wasted space on the larger iPhones, especially the Max. Apple needs to optimise iOS to take advantage of individual screen sizes of devices. The fact the Max has the same menus, icons etc as the rest of the line-up, only more spaced out, is absurd.

File management is still horrendous as the Files app is next to useless. Podcasts, Music and most other native apps needs a thorough re-write. Most of all is Mail. How Mail has been mostly ignored for the last 10 years is beyond me. It's far too basic and lacks features modern mail apps have had for over half a decade!

I could write 10,000 words and still not cover everything I'd like to see. Apple needs to go for it and be a lot more bolder with change. No one's going to complain if they try new things. Except MacRumors users, obviously.

Mail - I still use it, just due to iOS’ integration with calendar the phone app and contacts.

issues with Mail, and mostly it’s online components:

1. Rules: Complete garbage!
Each rule is simplistic: you can only assign From/TO/Subject, and only 1 email address at a time.
rules break far too quickly and often forcing someone to logon to a computer to change it - and no iPadOS’ Safari is still detected as a mobile browser by iCloud and points you to launch the app directly (iCloud on your Apple device).
why can’t rules be managed in Settings ON our iOS or iPadOS units!? It can on macOS BUT those rules are local causing major issues with what tule does what - found out the hard way!

moving emails - Siri helps with a suggestion BUT if you have 2 emails from the same smtp address (even if for 2 different accounts) it doesn’t figure that out.
example. You have two bank accounts with the same bank. Interac sends a notification email for sending and receiving etransfers. Each email is from the same smtp BUT the header is changed to a unique reflection of your bank account (from is spoofed to reflect the same of the account receiving or accepting the etransfer. I cannot have personal etransfer emails goto 1 folder and the other goto a business accounts sub folder. Arrrg.

folders! It’s 2021 and the rubber banding is annoying. Why can I not collapse the email folders?!

It still cannot properly understand “my place” refers to an address in a devious email by the sender OR that the sender is saved as a contact with their address. When you’re giving a time reference to contact someone back it still screws up the Calendar suggestion: proper time, travel time, whom you’re meeting and the correct subject line of the meeting.

 

[qoop]

Who said he’s angry. And he didn’t know that it was a joke.

Matt's sense of humour is pretty good in my books anyway.