Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iOS 16 Speculation Thread

I’d like to see reachable quick settings like on Samsungs one UI, and older versions of iOS. I’d also like to see split screen apps, even if it’s not on by default. Different size widgets, and a refresh of the settings app starting with the apps not being listed from top to bottom.
 
  • Like
Reactions: TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ and NBKindaGirl
I really hope they add more features to Apple Notes! I really badly want dividers, and color palettes for text and for tablets. And it would be awesome to draw on top of a note similar to OneNote.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JesusSaves and Mr. Awesome
MacNerd01 said:
Might wanna update the initial post- I’m assuming that the first beta will be released on June 6, 2022, the day of the keynote.
Click to expand...

The first post tracks reality, not speculation from the responses to the thread. Please check the first post of the iOS 15 thread for reference (although, I’m assuming no one has updated while I’ve been out of pocket the past 10 days…)
 
  • Like
Reactions: TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
I’d like all the missing stock iOS apps that aren’t on the iPad to finally make their way over there (and to the Mac as well!) I’m talking Health and the full Fitness apps with workout history, the Phone app for wifi calling (hopefully with voicemails synced over via the cloud), Weather, Wallet, and Calculator. It’s such low hanging fruit - the apps already exist, I just wanna use them on my larger screened devices. Health and Fitness already sync and store their data in iCloud as it is. For wifi calling, I work from home and already make the vast majority of my daily calls on my iMac or iPad via continuity calling. Having a real app (not FaceTime) with a dialer, call log, and voicemail access would be sooooo nice.

Other than that, I’d like it if the Clock app’s alarms and timers went off on all my devices (if we choose for them to do so) and can be dismissed from anywhere, as I’ve set an alarm far too many times on one device only to move over to another device in the meantime and missed it.

I’d love it if all of the stations I get from streaming services like Fubo could be viewed and watched directly in the TV app to make browsing simpler.

I’d also like to see all devices signed into my iCloud account show in the Battery widget (as well as the sun-devices connected to them, such as the Apple Pencil and watch).
 
  • Like
Reactions: JesusSaves, kerk09, Diesel79 and 1 other person
GtrDude said:
iOS 16 will probably be yet another useless update where they do something minor and make a big deal about it, a whole new is number, but these are the things I would like to see:

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 banner from any app if you're in another app. You shouldn't have to go back to the lock screen or be forced to tap it to get into the app sending it in order to dismiss it.

4. when you're running a count down timer in the clock app you can see on the Locked 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 Locked screen.

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 things 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 turn 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.
I, for example, would like the keyboard clicks to be much louder than they are 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.
Click to expand...

Sounds like you need to move over to Android.
 
Eksoccer99 said:
Sounds like you need to move over to Android
Click to expand...
Yeah what a nice contribution fo yours.
That guy just posts his opinion on how the next ios could be better, your comment has nothing to say other than something we already know that we can do as a last resort. He doesn't mention he doesn't like ios at all, just that he doesn't like it enough as it is, and therefore, as a (frustrated?) customer, describes how it can become better
 
  • Like
Reactions: atiffarooq and Fordski
Kierkegaarden said:
What does “boring” mean to you? Do you believe a good OS UI should not be “boring”? What would have to change?

Give us an example of a UI that you feel is not “boring” so we have some context.
Click to expand...
It's a rectangular grid of icons. There are only so many ways to display that.
 
Kierkegaarden said:
Small changes to the icons yearly? People engage with the content, not the UI — a good UI should disappear. Name one website, magazine, or platform of respectable size that does what you’re describing.
Click to expand...
Plenty of websites do that and it drives me crazy. Go to a site one day and the UI is completely different, takes a while to figure it out. leaving the icons the same trains your visual memory and you spend less time looking for that app and more interacting with the app.
 
A default Focus layout. I have 3 Focus settings. 2 are time dependent, A DnD running at night that silences notifications. A M-F 0830-1700 that shows a homescreen of work related apps, and only those. And a location based one that silences notifications and shows only a home screen of audio tools when I'm at my place of worship running AV.

My issue is that when none of those 3 are active, I see all pages. I don't want to see work of AV apps when outside their settings. There should be a setting to create a focus and tell it to be active when no other one is.

Selectable aspect ratio on the Camera app. This may be hard for the millennial programmers to grasp, but people still print photos. It's frustrating to try to print a photo only to realize that a part of the subject is outside the frame.
 
AsherN said:
A default Focus layout. I have 3 Focus settings. 2 are time dependent, A DnD running at night that silences notifications. A M-F 0830-1700 that shows a homescreen of work related apps, and only those. And a location based one that silences notifications and shows only a home screen of audio tools when I'm at my place of worship running AV.

My issue is that when none of those 3 are active, I see all pages. I don't want to see work of AV apps when outside their settings. There should be a setting to create a focus and tell it to be active when no other one is.

Selectable aspect ratio on the Camera app. This may be hard for the millennial programmers to grasp, but people still print photos. It's frustrating to try to print a photo only to realize that a part of the subject is outside the frame.
Click to expand...

It is possible to make only the home screens you want active in Focus mode. I do it all the time.
 
gwhizkids said:
Some news on this front from Mark Gurman. Sounds like some good stuff coming but not a redesign

www.macrumors.com

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

iOS 16, codenamed "Sydney" and set to be previewed at WWDC in June, will feature "significant" improvements to notifications and new...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com
Click to expand...
Hoping for major improvements with security and bugs being fixed. A re-design would have been cool but I care more about performance and stability now.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Diesel79, svish and bestal
gwhizkids said:
It is possible to make only the home screens you want active in Focus mode. I do it all the time.
Click to expand...
I know. That's not what I'm talking about. Think of this. I have 5 pages, page 1-5. Focus1, M-F 0830-1700 displays only page1 as the home screen, nothing else. Focus2, location dependent, displays page2 as home screen, nothing else. Al all other time, I want to see only pages 3-5. I want to be able to program a Focus that essentially says "if not other Focus is active" show me these pages.
 
AsherN said:
I know. That's not what I'm talking about. Think of this. I have 5 pages, page 1-5. Focus1, M-F 0830-1700 displays only page1 as the home screen, nothing else. Focus2, location dependent, displays page2 as home screen, nothing else. Al all other time, I want to see only pages 3-5. I want to be able to program a Focus that essentially says "if not other Focus is active" show me these pages.
Click to expand...

You can do that.

Set up all the various pages you want to show up for your different focus modes (including non-focus time).

Using the home page editor (enter by long pressing the home page “dots” at the bottom of your main screen). You will then be presented with all of your potential homepages. Select the ones that you want to appear by default. Deselect the pages you created for your individual focus modes.

Then, in the Focus mode editor for each particular focus mode, go to the settings page, select the “Home screen” toggle, and then select the homepage(s) you want to have appear for that focus mode. From then on, when that focus mode is active those pages will appear. Otherwise the default pages that you checked on the homepage editor will appear.

I have a special homepage that I have set up for my sleep focus with things like my ceiling fan shortcut, ceiling light shortcut, Dark Noise shortcut, etc. That page only appears when sleep focus is active. Otherwise my standard set of homepages are present.

Hope that helps.
 
  • Like
Reactions: NBKindaGirl
" data-source="post: 31013094" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch">
TheYayAreaLiving said:
Do you guys agree with this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1513260838899134466

iPad Multi-tasking alone needs a lot of work
Click to expand...

The changes made in iOS 15 were a huge improvement in the usability of multi-window emigrants on iPad. Before that you practically had to say the magical incantations correctly to use them.

But the various layout grids you posted from the guy on Twitter would be a far bigger improvement.

Count me in!
 
  • Like
Reactions: JesusSaves, Diesel79, NBKindaGirl and 1 other person
I’d like to see a live workout screen on iOS. Think kind of like the Fitness+ into but for non Fitness+ workouts.
 
  • Like
Reactions: sorgo †
OK, how about Apple start to integrate simple smartphone features in 2022?
Like for example,
1) Pause and resume video recordings or the ability to switch cameras while recording?
2) the ability to edit a number before calling? Or at least use a third-party caller app?
Oh man, I really don't care about camera or screen quality on my 13 pro max when basic functionality is missing.?‍♂️
 
  • Like
Reactions: JesusSaves
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back