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iOS 11 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Are Hoping to See in the Next Version of iOS
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I think about this so often, but struggle to imagine what would be best. Widgets on the home screen like android? Live icons? Windowing of some sort? I do like the today view quite a bit and wouldn't mind some form of "complications" on the lock screen or maybe first home screen?
As much as I love to see change, I feel like the springboard, as is will rarely or ever change at all. Get some nice enhancements with 3D touch for shortcuts and widgets, but I think they really like the simpleness of going to the home screen and jumping right into an app as needed.
- The ability to lock the screen orientation for the home screen (and the camera app) without locking it for other apps that you launch.
- Disable the down swipe gesture that takes you out of viewing photos and back into the camera. Sometimes I'm quickly scanning through photos to find a particular one and a slightly angled swipe takes me back into the camera app. I have to go back and try to figure out where I left off.
- The ability to specify the priority of WiFi connections. We have a couple of different access points in my office and it latches onto whichever has the strongest signal, even though that AP is overloaded with guest users. I need to use that slow AP when out of range of my preferred AP, but it should switch back when I get in range.
- The ability to remove all "non-local" content features from the Music app.
- The ability to hide the Recently Added section of the Music app and show currently playing music and controls more prominently in its place (instead of the teensy-tiny thumbnail and easily-missed play control buttons buried beneath it).
- An option to completely disable all fade in/out animations; it makes my phone feel slow. Just switch to the new view instantly even if it takes a second to refresh that view after it appears.
- An option to specify notifications that automatically clear. I love Dark Sky and its daily weather notifications, but I don't need it to keep the entire history of weather in the Notifications center. Yes, I know about the Clear All Notifications 3D touch option, but I shouldn't have to do that for information that's obsolete in an hour.
When you have a platform like iOS that is very app-centric, a Home screen UI with rows and rows of apps makes zero sense. It's too ugly and confusing and more important, it's boring. That's why Windows is superior with their live tiles. When you have a company like Microsoft that makes a rich and diverse set of first-party apps from word processing to music editing to film editing apps as well as having a very robust third-party developer community, a hub system of tiles makes a lot more sense than rows and rows of app icons.
Widget support is paramount. Giant clock and weather widget on the Home screen. Also, LIVE WALLPAPER. Something very cool and animated. Anything to make iOS less boring. I think it'd be very fun if icons were floating on the Home screen as if floating on water and the user has to hunt and peck the icons. Now THAT'S fun.
Apple also needs to provide a REAL file system. Too many users are frustrated that they can't access a file system on their phones. Last night my grandmother was using her iPad and said: "Where's the damn Finder?" And I said: "Grandma, iOS doesn't have a Finder, you know that." Frustrating.
I would love to see more productivity-focused features from Apple, especially in the form of first-party apps. Go to the App Store and look at Apple's portfolio. Literally nothing. Useless apps no one wants or needs. Health? Really, Apple? Who the hell needs Health? We need real apps and real features for real people to get real work done.
Oh, and themes! Frankly, Apple should forfeit UI over to the users. That's one reason why MySpace was so hugely popular—users could decorate their own profiles! San Francisco font is ugly and not very fun. And the icons are very ugly.
Widget support is paramount. Giant clock and weather widget on the Home screen. Also, LIVE WALLPAPER. Something very cool and animated. Anything to make iOS less boring. I think it'd be very fun if icons were floating on the Home screen as if floating on water and the user has to hunt and peck the icons. Now THAT'S fun.
Apple also needs to provide a REAL file system. Too many users are frustrated that they can't access a file system on their phones. Last night my grandmother was using her iPad and said: "Where's the damn Finder?" And I said: "Grandma, iOS doesn't have a Finder, you know that." Frustrating.
I would love to see more productivity-focused features from Apple, especially in the form of first-party apps. Go to the App Store and look at Apple's portfolio. Literally nothing. Useless apps no one wants or needs. Health? Really, Apple? Who the hell needs Health? We need real apps and real features for real people to get real work done.
Oh, and themes! Frankly, Apple should forfeit UI over to the users. That's one reason why MySpace was so hugely popular—users could decorate their own profiles! San Francisco font is ugly and not very fun. And the icons are very ugly.
They are referring to an end user accessible file system. Somethingthe customer can access and use without workarounds.
I know they're referring to a File Manager. I mean, nobody has explained why we need a traditional File Manager on our phones, but I do know what they mean.
I could easily come up with a solution where we get all of the benefits of the File Manager without the downsides.
I would really like to see the apple pay API opened up for access control. Who wants to carry keys? The residential solutions out there using bluetooth or wifi are flakey at best.
Yeah right. Those who open up jailbreaks have exploits ready to use before they even release the next software. It's just a matter of them testing it to ensure it didn't get filled before release. Which it almost never does.
Jailbreak devs are getting more cautious though, and saving their exploits for the big number releases.
This is probably an obvious thing that'll probably already be added, but thumbnails when scrubbing through videos in the native video app and camera videos, as is the case with most sites and video players these days.
I've been really disappointed in apple for not taking advantage of this. A long press on any of those icons would be extremely useful. If they're worried about accidental presses, then make the duration 4 or 5 seconds, which you can't really do by accident.
A real user accessible file system is a must for anything pro-ish. I still cannot upload my assignments to University online pages. Corwedmarks, D2L, etc. doesn't work with IOS when it comes to file uploading.
So. Much. This.
I want every AirPlay device to stream to every other AirPlay device in my house. How is this STILL not possible Apple?
Photo App.
The most basic of the basic... I want to have 3 primary views (filters maybe?)...
The most basic of the basic... I want to have 3 primary views (filters maybe?)...
- I want to see everything (yay we have that today)
- I want to see only the photos I've taken (Kinda have that if you set up your albums and use the non-default camera... but still not exactly what I'm looking for)
- I want to see only the photos I've downloaded from the internet. Namely... I've got a ton of cute memes, tutorials, wallpapers, and gifs... for years now. I have no easy way of finding/managing these. They are interspersed among my personal photos. Kinda really annoying.
This is something that I found flat out stupid on iOS. Android's photo's apps had this down perfect from the start. It has different sections/folders, one is called "camera", one "downloads", one called "screenshots", and then you can have additional ones from specific apps, like "zedge". Super useful. When I switched to iOS and eventually had over 100 photos I had to go through the entire "Camera roll" just to get to some screenshot or meme that I got from months ago. Utterly stupid.
Also Split View within the same app, such as reading two emails at the same time, or opening two Word documents side-by-side.
Un-bastardize the music app fromMusic
After getting my 6S, I went from enjoying listening to my music on my classic iPods and iPhone3GS to preferring to listen to the radio in my car and carrying my 3GS around as an "iPod".
Im sick of the camera app switching modes everytime i accidentally touch/swipe the screen when taking a picture. Use a row of buttons for different modes, instead of something unnecessarily fancy which ends up being more of an annoyance & hinderance.
Lol I had to think about this for a sec need some rest. I was like say what. Mouse
