What’s the huge difference on Android? The phone OS seems okay to me. ipadOS is a different story, the large screen has more potential indeed.
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How about a music app that plays FLAC files
Have you used android lately? The amount of automation that can be done on an android device is stunning compared with all of the manual tasks I have to do on the iPhone just to get my phone to be productive for business.
Yes, and add a tape please. And while we are on that subject, how about a weather app for iPad?
No doubt. Luckily, we have other options now that really are quite good.Be prepared to be disappointed folks
I could list hundreds. Automation involving when and where my VPN is connected is just one example.
Just so you know, you can batch convert your FLAC files to ALAC losslessly and iOS supports those. I've been doing that for years.
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You forgot to list the “Weather app for the iPad” 😑
I'm honestly hoping they don't change things too much. Every time iOS makes big changes I have to teach my elderly mother how to use features on her phone again and it's frustrating. Keep the basic interactions the same, please.
Why convert? Why not have an app that plays them natively like android? Why must everything with apple involve an extra step (or 10)?
And I hope it is a weather app that also tells the pollen count. If they want to be health full, that is valuable information for allergy sufferers, even more than if it is going to rain. We can look out the door and see that.
The stock calculator sucks, why bother? Tydlig is the best calculator I have used on my iPhone and iPad for many years now.
I would like to be able to put widgets and apps anyplace on the home screen I want. Not it defaulting to next open space available.
My second job has a bunch of apps to manage clocking in and out, schedules, time off request and IM's while I am on the clock. I don't want that crap on my iPhone.
So I bought a Cheap Android 11 phone (39.00) and did not activate cell service. I use it excluseively at my second job by conecting to the WIFIn at work. It is turned off and sitting in a backpack when I am not working second job.
So have all of the apps at the lower right of the screen. I really like being able to put anything where I want.
My second job has a bunch of apps to manage clocking in and out, schedules, time off request and IM's while I am on the clock. I don't want that crap on my iPhone.
So I bought a Cheap Android 11 phone (39.00) and did not activate cell service. I use it excluseively at my second job by conecting to the WIFIn at work. It is turned off and sitting in a backpack when I am not working second job.
So have all of the apps at the lower right of the screen. I really like being able to put anything where I want.
*buys a $1000 phone*
*needs a $39 second phone to do the job the $1000 phone won’t do*
Apple, do better.
Mark is reaching hard here. The pandemic has really put a damper on getting info from his supply chain sources. Not to mention, Apple is working hard to keep info from leaking out. But with all that's coming, I am sticking to my 2023 upgrade cycle for the iPhone 15 Pro Max. USB C here I come.
Sounds like it's going to be yet another useless update that should just be a 15.6.
Here's my list I would like to see Apple do:
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.
Here's my list I would like to see Apple do:
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.
Well, you can always use the calculator builtin to Spotlight. It can even take equations to some extent, like a simple version of WolframAlpha.