We’re nearly 2 months away from WWDC 2018. It’s very exciting to think about the new features we would be getting with iOS 12 & I just wanted to outline the features I think should be a point of improvement with the new beta.
1. Siri
Siri is dumb, literally dumb. She has a great natural voice that no other assistant can compete with, Google assistant sounds robotic and Alexa has a great voice but it still isn’t as good as the one Siri has. Practically, every other assistant is smarter, Google Assistant is amazingly great when it comes to questions. Siri just seems so dumb & sometimes, she doesn’t really get what you are trying to say. Also, since 2011, her replies have been always the same, nothing has deeply changed with the typical answers you may ask everyday. Even the jokes are literally the same.. Google assistant for example can come up with a different reply each time you ask the same question, which provides an answer in a different way, she’s really funny btw. I’m not a big fan of Alexa myself just because I’m not really that much connected to Amazon & it’s products but I think it’s becoming real competition against Siri. Apple should try focusing on the fundamentals with iOS 12. The interface is fine but I think the main focus should be on how to make Siri smarter. All what we’ve seen with previous iOS updates are a bunch of updates to Siri’s interface & some added functions like the asking Siri about football scores, etc.
2. Compatibility ^^Poll^^
iOS 11 is a disaster, especially on older devices, people were deeply in love with how iOS 10 was really smooth and iOS 11 seems to have changed this idea. I myself don’t really hate iOS 11. I don’t own one of the oldest iPhones, so my experience wasn’t really that bad, but I’ve seen some older iPhones and tried them & it was really shocking to see how much bad it was especially on the iPhone 5s and 6. Considering that 5 years of support for the 5s means that iOS 11 is its last update is not really satisfying, especially with the bad performance. iPhone 5 with iOS 10 was really good & Apple should really do much more for the older devices with iOS 12. I expect iOS 12 to support:
• iPhone 5s and later
• iPad mini 2 and later
• iPad 5th Generation and later
• iPad Air 1 & 2
• iPad Pro (1st & 2nd Gen)
• iPod Touch 6
The 5s is an old device. I fully agree but it’s just that Apple should be fully committed to making sure that it’s not any kind of planned obsolescence. The device should work normally, it can be slower by time and that’s normal, but isn’t it really weird that a device could get this much slow between iOS 10 & 11?
We’re not really asking Apple to implement new features to the older devices, we ask for performance updates so that the device is just normally usable. Generally, we also need iOS 12 to be a more efficient update, so that it can run well on most of the devices without being such a headache like iOS 11 with updates to fix iMessage characters, iOS should be generally more efficient than to lag when an unknown character is detected.
3. Photos app
I believe a redesign to the photos app is really needed, it has become outdated. Also, improvements to the “memories” and “people” features should be there. Memories is so dumb that it can actually add screenshots you receive to the special albums that are supposed to outline real memories whether it’s a video clip or just the album itself.
People album should be improved for better detection of faces, so that the identification of people in your camera roll could be done in a correct way. Also, it needs to start recognizing pets and classify them into a similar album.
4. Files app
This is just some useless crap, when I got iOS 11; this was just something I was aiming would be majorly life changing especially cuz I use cloud software and I wanted to link them all into one app. It unexpectedly formed a poor link between the cloud storages and the app which made it really easier to use the separate apps themselves than to use the files app. With iOS 12 we need some real improvements to the files app in which better connections should be made to the cloud services so that it would be proper and consistent.
5. Settings
iPhones and iPad now get lots of many new features that require toggles which are arranged in specific tabs in the Settings app. It’s great but it can be redesigned for easier use with iOS 12, to make all controls available on a single page instead than scrolling and searching to change specific settings.
6. iBooks
I believe Apple has some plans to improve or redesign iBooks. iBooks hasn’t really gained any noticeable new feature since it’s debut. iOS 12 can introduce the new App Store like interface to iBooks which is really needed to keep all the stores updated and in line with each other.
7. iTunes Store
Interface needs a major new update like how App Store got a redesign with iOS 11. It would be really exciting to have an update to the iTunes Store with iOS 12 specially because it rarely gets any major updates.
8. Contacts
Either introduce some new special features to this app alone or just cancel it out especially cuz we already have a contacts tab in the Phone app.
9. Weather
Major redesign needed. Buggiest app on the older devices though it’s literally the same since iOS 7. Needs to outline more weather data and have more proper functionality.
10. Stocks
Should be optionally installed from the App Store and not preloaded. Not to save storage for sure, just to save the clutter especially that most people aren’t really interested in stocks.
11. FaceTime app
Should be merged with the phone app as well, the app is useless when you can just make a FaceTime call from the Phone App.
12. Calculator
You can really mess up a calculation on this app very easily, it’s just very irritating especially that most people don’t even know there is a gesture used to function a the backspace/clear.
13. iCloud
Apple should implement better storage services through iCloud. If they cancelled a 16GB & 32GB iPhone then 5GBs aren’t really enough to store your personal data and pics, Google on the other side offers unlimited cloud storage if you’re storing pics through Google Photos and Google drive provides triple the storage iCloud offers for free.
14. Control Center
Older devices without 3D Touch could have special gestures to activate the widgets without the irritating long press that people don’t usually prefer. Also, I hope iOS 12 brings back the option to disable Bluetooth and WiFi from the Control center, the battery is already draining.. there shouldn’t be anything that stops me from fully disabling them easily without having to actually go to settings and manually disable them.
15. Notification Center
Certain notifications from the same app could be arranged in the same widget just to cancel out the extra clutter, which improves the overall consistency and makes the notifications more clear. Widgets tab should run more smoothly like how it did with iOS 10 as it’s really buggy to scroll and use the widgets with iOS 11. Also, the widgets typically take sometime to load which doesn’t make sense and is really irritating.
16. 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and later.
Should be properly updated during the beta stage, I’m not supposed to wait for months after the main update is released to receive a minor update that can make the 3D Touch toggles usable again and easier to activate. This issue happened with both iOS 10 and 11, Apple should really fix any issue with 3D Touch before the gold master version of the beta is released.
Please share your thoughts about iOS 12 below, I would love to know what you think about and expect from the upcoming update!
Sorry for the long list, there are just so many things that need some improvements.
Thanks for reading
1. Siri
Siri is dumb, literally dumb. She has a great natural voice that no other assistant can compete with, Google assistant sounds robotic and Alexa has a great voice but it still isn’t as good as the one Siri has. Practically, every other assistant is smarter, Google Assistant is amazingly great when it comes to questions. Siri just seems so dumb & sometimes, she doesn’t really get what you are trying to say. Also, since 2011, her replies have been always the same, nothing has deeply changed with the typical answers you may ask everyday. Even the jokes are literally the same.. Google assistant for example can come up with a different reply each time you ask the same question, which provides an answer in a different way, she’s really funny btw. I’m not a big fan of Alexa myself just because I’m not really that much connected to Amazon & it’s products but I think it’s becoming real competition against Siri. Apple should try focusing on the fundamentals with iOS 12. The interface is fine but I think the main focus should be on how to make Siri smarter. All what we’ve seen with previous iOS updates are a bunch of updates to Siri’s interface & some added functions like the asking Siri about football scores, etc.
2. Compatibility ^^Poll^^
iOS 11 is a disaster, especially on older devices, people were deeply in love with how iOS 10 was really smooth and iOS 11 seems to have changed this idea. I myself don’t really hate iOS 11. I don’t own one of the oldest iPhones, so my experience wasn’t really that bad, but I’ve seen some older iPhones and tried them & it was really shocking to see how much bad it was especially on the iPhone 5s and 6. Considering that 5 years of support for the 5s means that iOS 11 is its last update is not really satisfying, especially with the bad performance. iPhone 5 with iOS 10 was really good & Apple should really do much more for the older devices with iOS 12. I expect iOS 12 to support:
• iPhone 5s and later
• iPad mini 2 and later
• iPad 5th Generation and later
• iPad Air 1 & 2
• iPad Pro (1st & 2nd Gen)
• iPod Touch 6
The 5s is an old device. I fully agree but it’s just that Apple should be fully committed to making sure that it’s not any kind of planned obsolescence. The device should work normally, it can be slower by time and that’s normal, but isn’t it really weird that a device could get this much slow between iOS 10 & 11?
We’re not really asking Apple to implement new features to the older devices, we ask for performance updates so that the device is just normally usable. Generally, we also need iOS 12 to be a more efficient update, so that it can run well on most of the devices without being such a headache like iOS 11 with updates to fix iMessage characters, iOS should be generally more efficient than to lag when an unknown character is detected.
3. Photos app
I believe a redesign to the photos app is really needed, it has become outdated. Also, improvements to the “memories” and “people” features should be there. Memories is so dumb that it can actually add screenshots you receive to the special albums that are supposed to outline real memories whether it’s a video clip or just the album itself.
People album should be improved for better detection of faces, so that the identification of people in your camera roll could be done in a correct way. Also, it needs to start recognizing pets and classify them into a similar album.
4. Files app
This is just some useless crap, when I got iOS 11; this was just something I was aiming would be majorly life changing especially cuz I use cloud software and I wanted to link them all into one app. It unexpectedly formed a poor link between the cloud storages and the app which made it really easier to use the separate apps themselves than to use the files app. With iOS 12 we need some real improvements to the files app in which better connections should be made to the cloud services so that it would be proper and consistent.
5. Settings
iPhones and iPad now get lots of many new features that require toggles which are arranged in specific tabs in the Settings app. It’s great but it can be redesigned for easier use with iOS 12, to make all controls available on a single page instead than scrolling and searching to change specific settings.
6. iBooks
I believe Apple has some plans to improve or redesign iBooks. iBooks hasn’t really gained any noticeable new feature since it’s debut. iOS 12 can introduce the new App Store like interface to iBooks which is really needed to keep all the stores updated and in line with each other.
7. iTunes Store
Interface needs a major new update like how App Store got a redesign with iOS 11. It would be really exciting to have an update to the iTunes Store with iOS 12 specially because it rarely gets any major updates.
8. Contacts
Either introduce some new special features to this app alone or just cancel it out especially cuz we already have a contacts tab in the Phone app.
9. Weather
Major redesign needed. Buggiest app on the older devices though it’s literally the same since iOS 7. Needs to outline more weather data and have more proper functionality.
10. Stocks
Should be optionally installed from the App Store and not preloaded. Not to save storage for sure, just to save the clutter especially that most people aren’t really interested in stocks.
11. FaceTime app
Should be merged with the phone app as well, the app is useless when you can just make a FaceTime call from the Phone App.
12. Calculator
You can really mess up a calculation on this app very easily, it’s just very irritating especially that most people don’t even know there is a gesture used to function a the backspace/clear.
13. iCloud
Apple should implement better storage services through iCloud. If they cancelled a 16GB & 32GB iPhone then 5GBs aren’t really enough to store your personal data and pics, Google on the other side offers unlimited cloud storage if you’re storing pics through Google Photos and Google drive provides triple the storage iCloud offers for free.
14. Control Center
Older devices without 3D Touch could have special gestures to activate the widgets without the irritating long press that people don’t usually prefer. Also, I hope iOS 12 brings back the option to disable Bluetooth and WiFi from the Control center, the battery is already draining.. there shouldn’t be anything that stops me from fully disabling them easily without having to actually go to settings and manually disable them.
15. Notification Center
Certain notifications from the same app could be arranged in the same widget just to cancel out the extra clutter, which improves the overall consistency and makes the notifications more clear. Widgets tab should run more smoothly like how it did with iOS 10 as it’s really buggy to scroll and use the widgets with iOS 11. Also, the widgets typically take sometime to load which doesn’t make sense and is really irritating.
16. 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and later.
Should be properly updated during the beta stage, I’m not supposed to wait for months after the main update is released to receive a minor update that can make the 3D Touch toggles usable again and easier to activate. This issue happened with both iOS 10 and 11, Apple should really fix any issue with 3D Touch before the gold master version of the beta is released.
Please share your thoughts about iOS 12 below, I would love to know what you think about and expect from the upcoming update!
Sorry for the long list, there are just so many things that need some improvements.
Thanks for reading
