Gurman: iOS 16 to Feature 'Significant' Improvements to Notifications, New Health-Tracking Features, But No Major Redesign

[sunny5]

This already exists, it’s called Mac catalyst.
Now getting developers to use it is a different story

And yet, only few developers are using it and that's the problem. Beside, most mobile developers aren't interested in macOS due to low market share and profit. Mac Catalyst? Doesn't really matter as long as Mac is unpopular platform.

Also, Mac catalyst only works with iPad apps, not iOS apps.

 

[JoeDezibel]

The one thing I would appreciate most is, people like this Gurman to shut the f**k up and stop spoil everything. Why do we need to know everything now? Why not keeping all secret and getting that christmas feeling at the keynote?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Health tracking features? Like trying to force people to upgrade to fitness+? For the longest time, when I asked Siri to start a workout with my airpods on, it used to launch that workout on my apple watch. Very logical. Nowadays, it tells me to unlock my iPhone and when I do, it launches fitness+.

Apple has officially been taken over by bean counters. I can’t wait until Apple stock drops 30% and Tim Cook is forced out.

Uh… Tim is smart for focusing on services, seeing as that’s what’s going to make Apple big money in the future.
The services are what keep that stock price increasing.
If, for the sake of argument, Tim Cook were to be kicked out of the company, he would be replaced by someone else at the top of Apple management.
Most likely Jeff Williams, Greg Joswiak, Deirdre O’Brien or John Ternus.
And that person would probably be making the same, very service focused decisions.
Because services will be growing faster than hardware.
Steve Jobs certainly knew what was coming, The last keynote he participated in introduced AirDrop, iMessage, iCloud, and iTunes match, four Services trying to get you to either give Apple more money by paying for that service, or continue buying their products by trapping you in the ecosystem.
He also reportedly was working on an Apple TV streaming Service before his death. He knew what would continue making Apple money, and he knew it wasn’t going to be iPhones and iPods flying off the shelves once everyone had one and didn’t need to upgrade every year.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

It’s just gonna give them a chance to throw a lot of devices under the bus.

Goodbye iPhone 6S, 7, 8, X, SE.

You’re joking right?
Pretty much since Apple dumped 32 bit iOS, they’ve always left older iOS devices running quite smooth.
The 5S was good on iOS 12, and The iPhone 6S, SE and iPad Air 2 still run iOS 15 just fine.
Even if Apple were to dump the 6S and SE for iOS 16, they would still get at least another two years of security updates and app Support so they’re doing just fine.
The 7 and 8 aren’t going anywhere, certainly the X isn’t going anywhere.
Apple still sells an iPod Touch with an underclocked A10, The 2019 iPad still had the A10 and wasn’t even discontinued two years ago, so those aren’t going anywhere.
Apple still sells the iPhone 8 on their refurbished store and internationally, so it’s certainly not going anywhere.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

The one thing I would appreciate most is, people like this Gurman to shut the f**k up and stop spoil everything. Why do we need to know everything now? Why not keeping all secret and getting that christmas feeling at the keynote?

check the URL in your web browser.
check the name of the website you’re on.
MacRumors.com
If you don’t want to be spoiled, maybe just don’t visit a website where that’s literally the selling point

 

[macfacts]

I am with you. Me: "Hey Siri, what's the weather like today?" . . . . Siri: "Where?"

Apple wants to respect your privacy, how would Siri know your location?

 

[44267547]

The 5S was good on iOS 12

No, it wasn’t.

And if you did any type of back-end research (Which you likely didn’t), you’d find out that actually if anything, the 5s struggled on iOS 12, especially with Safari/multitasking.

 

[giebe]

How about more consistent UI? Reminder, Health or Fitness have a completely different look than other Apple apps. There is also plenty of room for a better calendar and mail app. Look at cron or spark. Also Apple Maps for more countries would be nice. Password management similar to 1Password.

Just to name a few.

 

[macduke]

iOS 6 looked dated because of the various flourishes of gloss and texture that it used. iOS 7 looks dated today because of the extremes they went to with typography and icon thinness as well as extreme flatness.

iOS for the last 7 years or so is well balanced and there are iterative updates to it every year to improve it. Sometimes the ideas are bad and are removed or hidden before launch, like some of the Safari weirdness. Modern iOS puts the content first.

IMO, modern iPad OS should put content creation first, like the Mac does. And if not, split off a version of iPadOS for the Pro devices, or make it a toggle in the system settings. My iPad Pro has an M1 and 16GB RAM. There’s no reason why it can’t do full multitasking with background tasks, syncing, etc. And there’s no reason why it shouldn’t behave more like macOS when using a keyboard and mouse.

Honestly the iPhone and Mac are dialed in IMO. The iPad needs the most work to realize its true potential. If they’re going to put this beefy hardware in there they need to commit to the software matching.

 

[macfacts]

Don’t expect too much and you won’t be disappointed
Mark Gurman has a good source
But as soon I see that word ‘significant’ I know it’s not so
Time will tell

Don't blame the messenger.

 

[SmugMaverick]

Gurman LMFAO

He’s Literally just taking obvious guesses, he’s so much worse than tubby clown prosser.

iOS needs MAJOR improvements

New notifications, interactive widgets, new icons, new control centre and multi windows.

 

[cics]

I hope no redesign means finally a stable release free of bugs… HomeKit is a mess. Siri is a mess. Hoping they are focusing on fixing those things. Having to jump through hoops or figure out what command Siri likes this week is getting really old.

May I ask why HomeKit is a mess? I'm buying a new house in 6 months (my dream house) and I was in the process of figuring out which automation to have (lights, TV and airplay speakers, garage door, sprinkler and outdoor camera for sure...)

 

[Robert.Walter]

I just put a new battery in my iPhones 6S so I hope they will still be supported.

Also, for FK’s sake, call it iOS 22 (and do the same for all OS’s and product names. It’s become impossible to keep track of things.)

 

[PossibleTurco]

The 5S was good on iOS 12,

Most of what you said is true, except one. And that's when you say 5S works fine on iOS 12. As someone who has used the iPhone 5S for 7 years, I do not agree with what you say. As of iOS 10, a bulkiness began to collapse on top of the 5S. With iOS 11, my device has become completely unusable. When iOS 12 came out, Apple promised to speed up older devices. Yes, it accelerated, but there was not much acceleration compared to iOS 11. In 2020, the last year I used the 5S, it has become a slow, bulky, freezing, and overheating device. Even resetting the device couldn't take the bulkiness off it. It has held up well for its age, but as of 2017, the 5S has turned into a living corpse.

Of course, the reason why this device is so bad is its hardware deficiencies. Wherever you look, there is a hardware difference of 4 years between the iPhone 6S and 5S (also iPhone 6). The iPhone 6S has enjoyed and continues to take advantage of the A9 chipset and NVMe storage for many years. I can't imagine how long the 13 Pro will be supported while the iPhone 6S has been supported for so long.

 

[brofkand]

Indeed. I actually think the current iteration is pretty intuitive.

My main complaint is how to launch multiple instances of an app.

 

[Virinprew]

I want a fast animation mode. It’s a shame now that we have such a powerful CPU but we get stuck with the slow animation of the iOS , something like zoom in, zoom out, back animation, open link in new tab animation. These days I find myself waiting for the animation to finish so I can tap the next thing or having to tap it twice because the first one isn’t registered. And the tap and hold to move cursor could be faster.

P.S. The fade animation doesn’t do it for me. It’s still slow. I remember back in the Nokia days. It was instant, no waiting needed. I want something like that.

 

[jbpiv3]

May I ask why HomeKit is a mess? I'm buying a new house in 6 months (my dream house) and I was in the process of figuring out which automation to have (lights, TV and airplay speakers, garage door, sprinkler and outdoor camera for sure...)

things don’t just “work.”

Make sure you have a “good” router. Make sure you set your router up to play nicely. (I have an Eero. And I have recently had to
Go in and assign all my smart items a permanent IP address, it seems to help, but not something the average user would know or be willing to do.)

Don’t let your Home Hub automatically update (the last two updates wreaked havoc on my automations from them just simply disappearing to others just not working). It’s been getting to the point my wife keeps asking me why we can’t get rid of the smart products because they’re not working and annoying her. It’s honestly gotten to the point she has me considering switching away from apple (and that kills me to say) but I rely on these things to work for her when I’m not home. Otherwise the house is dark and the security cameras don’t work.

Other times, you use a certain command for months… and then Siri updates, and that command no longer works “I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you mean.” Even though the day before we said the same thing and it worked.

Simply put, HomeKit is not Apple-esque in my book. Things don’t “just work.” And you need some level of familiarity with deeper programming to make things work right. The average user should steer clear. I don’t think there is clear direction in the HomeKit and Siri departments which in turn causes the user experience to suffer.

 

[minimo3]

When an automaker makes subtle changes to its existing model each year for 6 years by lengthening the headlights by 2mm and adding a crease to a bumper people say “automakers are so slow moving and legacy, they should be more like tech companies.” When Apple adds drop shadows and changes text to slightly bolder font for 9 years to the same iOS “model” people say “that’s so innovative!”

As for me, I’m just thrilled we’re getting 17 new emojis in iOS 16! /s

 

[DNichter]

Sounds boring. I am hoping they move to the design language that they applied to the Home favorites in Control Center. I have been eyeing that up since they introduced.

 

[sharpimage]

The one thing I would appreciate most is, people like this Gurman to shut the f**k up and stop spoil everything. Why do we need to know everything now? Why not keeping all secret and getting that christmas feeling at the keynote?

Theres an answer for that. Don't use rumours websites! Why would you even use a rumours website if you don't want to know about rumours.

 

[philipyoungg]

I want a synced Notification Center across all my devices! If I get rid of a specific notification on my iPhone, I want the same notification gone from my iPad and Mac. That is all I need

iOS and macOS developer here. Pretty sure this won't happen by how notifications work at the moment.
- Each device have their own identifier.
- Developer record each device (by identifier) on server.
- New notification? Developer send different notification to each identifier (device). Each notification is unique and considered as different entity (despite having the same notification title and description).

Based on that, "synced notification" wouldn't be possible because each notification is unique. There's no way to map notification from one device to another.

 

[RadioHedgeFund]

I don't necessarily think it needs a massive overhaul. Kinda like it the way it is. Prove me wrong.

The entire OS should be useable with one hand without the 'reachability' fudge. Key features like notifications, control centre and the back shortcut are all stuck at the top of the screen waaay out of reach of a thumb. This is a useability FUBAR (and, to be fair not just an Apple-centric problem)

Solutions? Redesign the whole multitasking interface so that:
- Control Centre sits on its own page to the right
- Notifications stack at the bottom of the screen like this
- Control Centre is accessible with a left-swipe on the lock screen. This replaces the camera gesture which is now permanently replaced with the current button.
- Notifications run bottom-up on the lockscreen.

Also integrate the universal 'back' screen edge gesture from Android.

I should note that these are only issues on iOS and not iPad OS.

 

[svish]

Does not look like iOS will be getting much changes. Maybe iPadOS will be getting some new features.

 

[edhudley]

iOS 16, codenamed "Sydney" and set to be previewed at WWDC in June, will feature "significant" improvements to notifications and new health-tracking features but will not a feature major redesign of iOS, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said today.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman writes that he is not expecting a major redesign of iOS but that instead, the next version of iOS will include enhancements to notification and new health-tracking features.
Apple will preview iOS 16, alongside iPadOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16 during WWDC, which will officially be held on June 6 until June 10.

Gurman said today that watchOS 9 may feature "major upgrades to activity and health tracking." No details are known of what macOS 13 will include, including what it will be called. macOS Big Sur featured a major redesign and was followed by a less significant update with macOS Monterey.

Staying on the Mac side of things, however, Gurman did today reiterate that Apple is working on several new Macs, including a new redesigned MacBook Air, a revamped 13-inch MacBook Pro, an updated 24-inch iMac, and a new Mac mini. For a complete rundown of what Apple could announce at WWDC this year, see our detailed roundup.

Article Link: Gurman: iOS 16 to Feature 'Significant' Improvements to Notifications, New Health-Tracking Features, But No Major Redesign

I would be more excited about pro apps like Final Cur running full version on the iPad Pros. A 16GB iPad should do more than just allow more apps in memory.

 

[iksnirks]

don't they promise major notification improvements with every release??