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iOS 11 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Are Hoping to See in the Next Version of iOS
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A great list of features that iOS 11 probably won’t have.
What's the point of iCloud Keychain on the phone when it won't fill my login for my Credit Card app, for example, and the only way to pull up a password is to go to a website with a password field, tap "other password", then authenticate with Touch ID, then you can't COPY AND PASTE the password, and they're all super long, so I have to take a screenshot of it, then open it in photos, then double tap the home button a few times switching between photos and the app I'm trying to log into to get the password right.
iCloud Keychain should be securely accessible by ALL apps.
iCloud Keychain should be securely accessible by ALL apps.
Notification Grouping would be my number one. The other stuff I would consider enhancements, but un grouped notifications are such a detriment that I disable notification all together for stuff like my work email. If I leave them on, any notifications from missed calls or messages get pushed down faster then I can see them.
THIS, definitely. One of the things that keeps me on Android is the fact that I can choose default apps for a task. There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to, say, set Chrome as the default browser on iOS (especially since deep down, it's just a re-skinned Safari)!
Or the ability to remote into an iPhone. I need this for family tech support (across the country)!
iOS needs much better design, some customization and somewhat freedom like, to access all files at one place like mini Finder app.....Apple has to think about these things very seriously now. Yes, iphone is superior in speed, performance and optimization....Yes we get it. But now, to attract new customers and also to hold up your loyal fans, ios has to be revamped in whole new level. No matter how hard an iphone user it is, they all are somewhat getting tempted with android's freedom and customization option nowadays. Its been 10 years and ios' look and feel, operations and functionality is pretty much same since beginning. Long run users wants some spice now. It is human nature, we want new things all the time. so, why not a whole lot of changes in ios? I love iphone, but now I am just so bored looking at same ios design for almost 7 years now! Apple, please give us new ios
With APFS clones, at least duplicates wouldn't take up any extra space, assuming iOS 10.3 uses this capability.
Everything mentioned here is pretty basic. And we still don't have it on iOS.
I would just add one pretty small and pretty basic thing also: SPEED DIAL
Dumb phones from late 90's had this option. Every other phone except iPhone has this. Well, only reason I still use iPhone is because of mac integration. But every day I find it hard to justify purchasing an iPhone just for that reason alone.
iOS is pretty lacking behind Android in options, so much so that it isn't even funny anymore.
I would just add one pretty small and pretty basic thing also: SPEED DIAL
Dumb phones from late 90's had this option. Every other phone except iPhone has this. Well, only reason I still use iPhone is because of mac integration. But every day I find it hard to justify purchasing an iPhone just for that reason alone.
iOS is pretty lacking behind Android in options, so much so that it isn't even funny anymore.
Location Manager.
macOS has this built in in limited form, and third-party stuff like ControlPlane can expand on that (see also this thread). But in iOS, it's completely impossible for third parties to do. Which is a shame, because it'd make so much sense on a mobile device. Depending on when you're home, at work, on the go, different network settings, different security settings, different widgets on your lock screen, different push notifications.
macOS has this built in in limited form, and third-party stuff like ControlPlane can expand on that (see also this thread). But in iOS, it's completely impossible for third parties to do. Which is a shame, because it'd make so much sense on a mobile device. Depending on when you're home, at work, on the go, different network settings, different security settings, different widgets on your lock screen, different push notifications.
I have one:
Let the Home App control iTunes and Macs! (turn on my mac and play a song when I enter my home would be bliss)
Let the Home App control iTunes and Macs! (turn on my mac and play a song when I enter my home would be bliss)
Indeed, it wasn't until I got my most recent phone (Android) that I realized how nice it is for phone calls to NOT take up the entire screen while my phone is unlocked. The call notification slides down from the top of the screen just like a text notification. It's really nice. I can even finish reading a webpage or typing a text before hitting "Answer" on the call.
Go Tigers.
No. 5GB storage for each Apple device.
APFS doesn't have file-level deduplication.
Just install an app like launcher, and you can put your speed dial in a widget.
What about the notifications? Besides being ugly (iOS 7 style notifications were much more elegant) they take too much space on the top, I'm always tapping incoming notifications accidentally.
You can go into Settings-> Safari -> Passwords (or similar) and copy it from there?
If they do include animated icons, I hope there's a way to turn off that feature. I'd find that really distracting. Dark mode would be nice.
I think it's time to re-think the idea that apps have to be a series of icons in a grid. With the initial iPhone and the limited number of apps, it made sense. But perhaps there's a better way to do it. After all, they rethought that idea for the Watch.
I think it's time to re-think the idea that apps have to be a series of icons in a grid. With the initial iPhone and the limited number of apps, it made sense. But perhaps there's a better way to do it. After all, they rethought that idea for the Watch.
Okay but they won't. Plus it's literally only £0.99/m for 50GB of storage. I don't understand why people argue with that. It's eye wateringly cheap. I'm almost certain 99.9% of those on this forum can afford that.
See, I very sincerely hope iOS never gets a proper file system. The last thing I want to do on an easy-use, app-centric device is spend hours managing files. I'd much rather have a polished up iCloud Drive experience and universal access to it from all apps. That accomplishes creating a repository for files and seemlessly using them within apps, each automatically filtered to only the kinds of files the app can work with.
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I want full screen Caller ID photos back. I hate that tiny little circle that shows who is calling me. We have these beautiful screens and high-res photos of our contacts but never get any use out of them.
I'd like to see both the Control Center and Notification Center reduced back down to 1 tab each. They became dramatically less useful to me once they turned into left/right swiping nightmares. You can't get a quick glimpse of important data (Notification Center) or quickly access important functions (Control Center) when you have to view and mentally process whether what you want is actually what it's showing and possibly take further actions before you get to what you actually want.
I'd really really really really like to have swipe to unlock back. I hate the re-click process with a passion.
I wish protrait/landscape locking was more intelligent. My phone is always orientation locked because i don't want things rotating weird when I'm lying down etc. But then I have to manually toggle it off everytime I watch a video. Why can't videos, in all apps, automatically just understand that full screen means landscape? So annoying.
I'd like multiple audio channels. So many websites run terrible ads with audio these days that I can't also use my device to play background music while browsing (because the ad takes over my single audio stream, turning off my music).
I'd like hand off to actually work. I'd like air play to work better. I'd like the iPad keyboard not to lock up and refuse to acknowledge when I click the .?123 button trying to toggle to the numbers layout.
There is multi user support through school.apple.com. I would think if Apple gaves us edu techs access to multi users that it maybe coming to everyone as well.
Agreed. I think it speaks volumes about where your competition is at when the biggest thing Google announced for Android at I/O was icon badges.
