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iOS 17 Rumored to Add New Lock Screen, Apple Music, and App Library Features
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This!! There's so much low hanging fruit for the Lock Screen which for some reason is ignored year after year. Here's some more:
- Allow apps to be placed anywhere are not force left alignment (it makes reordering things so awkward)
- Ability to sort apps and widgets on home screens
- Quick access to the App Library (so you don't have to swipe through all your home screens every.. single.. time.. just to access it)
- Options to remove the (IMO) redundant widget "Today view" page
What would it matter? Whether two people or a million echo the same sentiments, Apple will only ever tell us what’s best for us.
While they're making Apple Music changes, I hope they add that button back on the now playing screen to quickly flip the album art over to show the album tracklist.
I still think that iOS 17.0 should be essentially iOS 16.5 but add the following:
- Add support for multiple app stores inside the App Store app
- Allow sideloading but only under very strict criteria
- Open up the NFC functionality to third-party payment systems under strict security criteria
- Allow a third-party web layout engine (Google's Blink or Mozilla's Gecko), but that engine will be the only web layout engine allowed (no multiple web layout engines)
- Change wireless headphone connectivity so it is controlled by a singular Headphones app; this will allow easy connection by third-party wireless headphones
Never gonna happen, home screen UI is the single most recognizable thing about an iPhone and they want it to stay that way.
please please please allow us to remove the flashlight button on the lock screen.
Then why pose the question "Where are the things we want," if no one is willing to take the time to let Apple know what they want?
The App Library is inherently "hidden" by being to the far right of the home screens. What are you trying to suggest? It definitely doesn't 'get in the way'.
Perfect example. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely would love for 17 to be focused ENTIRELY on refinement of existing features.
But the things they prioritize make zero sense. They miss the obvious stuff people have been begging for for YEARS, and add weird stuff nobody wants. Sure, add extra stuff. But get the basics right first.
What is the point of allowing people to share lock screens when the customization is so very limited? Makes more sense for Watch, but for Lock screen, what, am I sharing the three widgets I'm allowed to use, exactly as they come from the app maker? How hard would that be to duplicate manually?
Hopefully this means much more customization is coming, but considering how laggy the lock screen is now on my 13 Pro, I don't think we need more *customization* until they do a lot more *optimization*. Right now it runs like all the debug flags are still turned on.
If they fix tons of the bugs that exist in iOS 16 then I’m cool with an under the hood focused update.
Hopefully the Apple Music UI simplification is true as it’s a really annoying app to use. Not even just interface-wise, but functionally as well. For example if I go to sort my playlists by recently updated it rarely shows ones I’ve just added songs to and instead shows ones I haven’t touched in months or even years.
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Flashlight slider? Innovation knows no bounds.
Still papering over the cracks instead of actively fixing nearly decade old glaring issues? Great.
I’d really appreciate more native tools to efficiently organize, cull and remove apps. I have way too many but no time to tediously review each for deletion.
Any chance I can get lock screen notifications back on the lock screen instead of being hidden from view for five days? Asking for a friend. Thanks in advance 🤨
Butterfly keyboard removal, the return of MagSafe, HDMI, SD card slot, iPhones gradually getting thicker and thicker every year, the reversal of the Safari tabs interface…
Obviously, Apple has a history of “our way or the highway” but to pretend that they haven’t been listening at all is ridiculous.
Even the always on display for the iPhone 14, the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t turn off the wallpaper… So they added the ability to turn off the wallpaper.
Here’s the problem… The majority of customers do not want a home screen redesign.
They don’t want to have to go through the trouble of re-learning what every single icon on the home screen is and exactly where it’s at, they just don’t.
iOS 7 happened, and at the time there were a lot of complaints that people open their phone one day, and it looked totally and completely different. Customers don’t like those kind of sudden changes, which is why the design does change, but extremely slowly.
Don't really understand this request? Features wise it's still much better than the ios app. At least you can still create smart playlists within it the Mac and windows versions.
May not look especially pretty but I'll take functionality over looks for my music app.
Can you get him to bring smart playlist creation via iOs or at least on the ipad?Hopefully they finally enact some of the Apple Music suggestions from my conversation with Tim Cook’s office.
Apple Music critic catches Tim Cook’s attention with email over app feedback - 9to5Mac
A Reddit user claims to have received a call from Tim Cook's office over feedback they emailed to him last month.9to5mac.com
Music lyrics isn’t that great anyways. It’s always too fast. It always shows the next line before it even gets to it.