iOS 27 Wishlist

[Tar Sniffer]

Now that iOS 26 is out and iOS 27 development has kicked off, it’s time to do our annual wishlist.

Share your feature ideas, dream tweaks, and wild predictions below

 

[Reverend Benny]

External monitor support for iOS, stage manager style implementation (Samsung DeX-ish/MS Continuum style).
Focus on optimizing performance and stability so that they can offer it to all devices that can run iOS 26.

 

[chmania]

At least some of these features...

But by the time that happens, there will be many more new features in ColorOS 17 and OxygenOS 17.

 

[HouseLannister]

• A functional digital assistant
• Choice of 3rd party AI - Gemini, Claude, Perplexity integrations
• An actual icon picker
• Custom launcher support
• Settings to tune animation speed (iPhones feel so slow compared to Android just because of the animations)
• An actual dock on iOS--more than 4 icons, magnification, auto-hide, short swipe to bring it up while staying within your current app (longer swipe to home screen or swipe and hold for home and find some other gesture for the task switcher)
• Notification history
• Clipboard history
• Encrypted RCS and the ability to edit RCS chats
• Toggle for App Library to be the alpha sort by default instead of an additional gesture
• Make the App Library alpha sort flow like the watchOS list view
• Ability to rename/remove app category names in App Library and move apps between categories
• Ability to rename (nickname) apps
• Split-screen apps on iOS
• Ability to set a color for notification dots that override clear or tinted icons so there is a bit of pop to make them more noticeable
• Get rid of the silly jelly wiggle when editing the home screen
• Turn off the annoying waveform animation in dynamic island
• Dynamic island press action defaulted to the long-press action like it always should have been
• Put the + button for a new calendar event in the bottom right so it matches the UI of the Reminders app (consistency!)
• Ability to edit icons for Safari Favorites
• Copy the Circle to Search gesture on Android (might remove Type to Siri, but it's a much better way to use that bottom area for a gesture - and much better than highlighting in a screenshot)
• Gesture to swipe on an icon to invoke long-press options or open the widget instead of the app
• Big widgets on the home screen - give me that Today View screen there
• Bring back Dark Sky UI to that ugly Weather app
• Stop putting ugly pinstripes on dark widgets and go back to iOS 18 widgets (Reminders and Calendar widgets are awful now)
• Get rid of Liquid Glass (I know I won't get it, but this is my wishlist)