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Five Useful Features Coming to iPhone on iOS 16
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If devs did t take advantage of the iOS beta to add new features to their app, they're not going to add those new features when iOS goes final.
I think it's worse than that. Will it tell me specifically if I'm messaging with someone running iOS15 or just give me a generic "Older iOS users won't be able to see the edit" without me knowing if the person I'm messaging is going to see edits or not?
If I send the wrong info, then edit it, thinking the other person will see it (not knowing they won't see edits because they're on 15) - I'm worse off than if I just followed up with another message. Is there another color (green = SMS, blue = iMessage, newColor = iMessage 16 or higher)? I don't generally keep mental track of what iOS version my friends are running.
Also, even with edits, I think the edit window should be 15 minutes OR until there's been a reply - whichever comes first. Unless the other user is going to get some notification that a previous message has been edited (one that may now be off-screen requiring a scroll back) they'd be better off just getting an "oops. meant 121 main street." followup because then it's in the "current" conversation.
You can edit messages on slack, but there's nothing to call your attention to it when it's scrolled past (there is an "edited" indicator on the message itself, but nothing in the "live" part of the conversation that calls your attention to the fact that one of the previous messages has been edited) so it's easy to miss an edit.
Live Activities not being mirrored as live interactive widgets, say for Apple Musics, a generic media player controller for the Home Screen, or something in between, tells me that for Apple, it's less technical and more philosophical that this is the third year with widgets that are essentially banners. What I can't figure out is why?
I currently have my home screens separated by stuff. First is mostly used stuff and social media, second is audio/video/reading, third is health/fitness, and fourth is news widgets. This puts the App Library way far away from the main Home Screen, but I digress. All of my home screens use a mix of widgets, apps, and folders to organize and provide information. If the widgets could be interactive, like a media player, like an in-line calendar widget, like a live notes widget, it would be really helpful.
Of course I'm also confused by why Apple doesn't provide simple things like sorting options for folders, swipe up for App Library, and the ability to change the hot buttons on the Lock Screen. 🤷🏻♂️
I currently have my home screens separated by stuff. First is mostly used stuff and social media, second is audio/video/reading, third is health/fitness, and fourth is news widgets. This puts the App Library way far away from the main Home Screen, but I digress. All of my home screens use a mix of widgets, apps, and folders to organize and provide information. If the widgets could be interactive, like a media player, like an in-line calendar widget, like a live notes widget, it would be really helpful.
Of course I'm also confused by why Apple doesn't provide simple things like sorting options for folders, swipe up for App Library, and the ability to change the hot buttons on the Lock Screen. 🤷🏻♂️
Live activities and ability to edit and unsend iMessages are two great additions.
Another useless iOS update by Apple.
My wishlist:
1. redesign the notification center. It's ridiculous. At the very least add "Clear All" button immediately, even if there's only one notification.
2. after Face-ID recognizes you, go directly into the phone home screen. You shouldn't have to swipe up after the phone recognizes you. Or at least make it possible to turn this off and on.
3. make it possible to dismiss Calendar and any notification from any app if you're in another app. You shouldn't have to swipe the notification up and then go back to the lock screen or be forced to tap it to get into the app sending it in order to simply dismiss a notification if you're in another app when it comes in.
4. when you're running a count down timer in the clock app you can see on the Lock Screen how much time is left, by all means make it possible to go directly to the the timer when you tap the time left on the Lock Screen. This is so much easier than to navigate to the clock app and cancel the timer there. Or how about this? When you tap the time left on the timer on the home scree give us the option to cancel it right there.
5. give us an LED visual for notifications in addition to sound and vibration. Allow us to change the colors of the LED light based on what the notification app is.
The fine folks who like things the way they are can just leave this off and everything will be as is.
6. give us an always-on screen for the clock. On the always-on screen we should also be able to choose if we want to see if we have any notifications (the amount and the app) or if we to just want to see the clock.
Once again, the people who don't like it should be able to turn it off. No more Apple forcing us to do stuff.
7. add haptic feedback to the keyboard and make it possible to customize different intensities to your heart's content.
It's beyond crazy that you have no feedback whatsoever if you're typing and the phone is on mute. Those who are concerned with battery or simply don't like this should be able to leave it off.
8. make it possible to adjust volume for independent apps and settings and not this general thing they're doing. Separate volume control for keyboard volume, music volume, ring volume, system volume, You Tube, notifications, emails.
I, for example, would like the keyboard clicks to be much louder than they are, in relations with the rest of the volume in the phone, but without it affecting the volume on the entire phone or the ring and notifications volume. It's silly of Apple to force it to be like this.
9. add suggestions from the address book as you start a phone number.
Common now Apple, this has been available for the last 15 years on Android.
10. make it possible to customize the texting app in every conceivable way. Font size, bubble size shape color etc.
11. make it possible to schedule a text message to be sent at a certain time/date. This is a basic feature. Compose your message now and schedule it to be sent when the time is right. I used to use this feature all the time when I had to text people who are in different time zones when they have to get the text at a certain time in their time zone but it's way too late for me to stay up to send the text.
12. use an OS-wide clipboard and make cut and/or copy not expire until you, the user, cleans it.
You should be able to copy text now and paste it tomorrow if you want to.
And 12b make it possible to copy multiple copy entries ready to paste any one of them by long pressing, at least the last 10 cut/copies should be possible.
13. in Mail give us the option to NOT go to the next email when you are deleting an email but to go back to the inbox. Those who want to keep things the way they are should be able to turn this feature off.
14. make it possible to move the icons on the desktop anywhere you want to.
15. make it possible (mandatory to app makers) to swipe from left to right in EVERY app to navigate back. Hitting a tiny arrow at the top on some apps to go back is nuts.
16. and my goodness Apple... when using snooze allow us to cancel it before it comes on if we want to.
My wishlist:
1. redesign the notification center. It's ridiculous. At the very least add "Clear All" button immediately, even if there's only one notification.
2. after Face-ID recognizes you, go directly into the phone home screen. You shouldn't have to swipe up after the phone recognizes you. Or at least make it possible to turn this off and on.
3. make it possible to dismiss Calendar and any notification from any app if you're in another app. You shouldn't have to swipe the notification up and then go back to the lock screen or be forced to tap it to get into the app sending it in order to simply dismiss a notification if you're in another app when it comes in.
4. when you're running a count down timer in the clock app you can see on the Lock Screen how much time is left, by all means make it possible to go directly to the the timer when you tap the time left on the Lock Screen. This is so much easier than to navigate to the clock app and cancel the timer there. Or how about this? When you tap the time left on the timer on the home scree give us the option to cancel it right there.
5. give us an LED visual for notifications in addition to sound and vibration. Allow us to change the colors of the LED light based on what the notification app is.
The fine folks who like things the way they are can just leave this off and everything will be as is.
6. give us an always-on screen for the clock. On the always-on screen we should also be able to choose if we want to see if we have any notifications (the amount and the app) or if we to just want to see the clock.
Once again, the people who don't like it should be able to turn it off. No more Apple forcing us to do stuff.
7. add haptic feedback to the keyboard and make it possible to customize different intensities to your heart's content.
It's beyond crazy that you have no feedback whatsoever if you're typing and the phone is on mute. Those who are concerned with battery or simply don't like this should be able to leave it off.
8. make it possible to adjust volume for independent apps and settings and not this general thing they're doing. Separate volume control for keyboard volume, music volume, ring volume, system volume, You Tube, notifications, emails.
I, for example, would like the keyboard clicks to be much louder than they are, in relations with the rest of the volume in the phone, but without it affecting the volume on the entire phone or the ring and notifications volume. It's silly of Apple to force it to be like this.
9. add suggestions from the address book as you start a phone number.
Common now Apple, this has been available for the last 15 years on Android.
10. make it possible to customize the texting app in every conceivable way. Font size, bubble size shape color etc.
11. make it possible to schedule a text message to be sent at a certain time/date. This is a basic feature. Compose your message now and schedule it to be sent when the time is right. I used to use this feature all the time when I had to text people who are in different time zones when they have to get the text at a certain time in their time zone but it's way too late for me to stay up to send the text.
12. use an OS-wide clipboard and make cut and/or copy not expire until you, the user, cleans it.
You should be able to copy text now and paste it tomorrow if you want to.
And 12b make it possible to copy multiple copy entries ready to paste any one of them by long pressing, at least the last 10 cut/copies should be possible.
13. in Mail give us the option to NOT go to the next email when you are deleting an email but to go back to the inbox. Those who want to keep things the way they are should be able to turn this feature off.
14. make it possible to move the icons on the desktop anywhere you want to.
15. make it possible (mandatory to app makers) to swipe from left to right in EVERY app to navigate back. Hitting a tiny arrow at the top on some apps to go back is nuts.
16. and my goodness Apple... when using snooze allow us to cancel it before it comes on if we want to.
His mattress is 7.65 millimeters thick.
It's funny, either I misunderstood it in the keynote or no one else thinks it's important...we can finally do multi-stop routing in Maps? This has been available for 20 years on my Mac via not only Google Maps but Mapquest before them. Goodness gracious it's about time!