Good day.
Recently this part of the forum has been flooded with numerous topics about the new iOS 5 features, and comments on how to improve them. I created this topic so that all of those suggestions and ideas could be summarized; eventually, the conclusions could be transmitted to Apple. Who knows if they can come true.
I will update the list as we go on. Note that I might include divergent ideas, as long as they are both reasonable and make sense. It'd be up to Apple anyway to decide which way of doing something is the best.
I will start with some I have already read about:
#1) SMS/MMS and E-mail Quick Reply
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
- Background App would freeze instead of closing; after answering, the app would resume.
#2) Reply to text/mail/twitter/facebook post from the lockscreen
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
#3) Bigger icons in the Lockscreen.
- Slide-to-interact-with-notification is sometimes hard to perform due to the small icons.
#4) Icons in the status bar that would show need to check the notification center
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
- Hypothesis one: if 2 messages and 3 mails, show 2 text icons and 3 mail ions
- Hypothesis two: if 2 messages and 3 mails, show the text icon with a number 2 and the mail icon with a number 0
- Hypothesis three: make the carrier name and the notification icons alternate between them, every 2 seconds, in a downards cube-rotation fashion
- Hypothesis four: show simply a ! or another icon (with a number perhaps?), which indicate the need to check the notification center
#5) Timestap every text.
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
#6) Ability to create groups of people in the adress book.
- For group-texting or e-mailing.
#7) Create a Toggle Widget in the notification center
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings
- Toggles definable in the settings: 3G, Wi Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, Airplane, Brigthness, Sound
#8) Ability to hide native apps.
- Done in Settings.
#9) New icon options for Folders.
- Done in Settings.
#10) Allow 3rd party Apps to update their data while on background (with a clear warning) (ex: USA Today)
- Perhaps already possible due to the new APIs.
#11) Higher number of apps per folder.
#12) Any app (such as Mail) that sends a file to another app using the "Open In" should not have to copy a file X number of times, where X equals the number of times the file has been asked to open.
#13) Option to Snooze on the Calendar/Reminders
#14) Group E-mails
#15) New Way of choosing SMS receivers:
- Many businesspeople have groups they commonly send emails or SMS. The current implementation of having to click the + button and go through the list every time is time-consuming and tedious. Once a user has picked the first person they want to email or SMS, they should be taken back to the email/SMS app. If they then push the + button to add more people, the list of users should have checkboxes next to their names (or a dropdown if they have multiple methods of contact, each with a checkbox). The user should then be able to select however many of these people they want.
#16) Tweak Notifications UI
- Notification boxes are still intrusive and cover some buttons on some apps.
- Swiping down for the notification center is sometimes mistaked by swiping down on the app, and vice-versa (ex: fruit ninja interpreting a swipe down as a notification bar pulldown, isntead of as a slice)
Recently this part of the forum has been flooded with numerous topics about the new iOS 5 features, and comments on how to improve them. I created this topic so that all of those suggestions and ideas could be summarized; eventually, the conclusions could be transmitted to Apple. Who knows if they can come true.
I will update the list as we go on. Note that I might include divergent ideas, as long as they are both reasonable and make sense. It'd be up to Apple anyway to decide which way of doing something is the best.
I will start with some I have already read about:
#1) SMS/MMS and E-mail Quick Reply
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
- Background App would freeze instead of closing; after answering, the app would resume.
#2) Reply to text/mail/twitter/facebook post from the lockscreen
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
#3) Bigger icons in the Lockscreen.
- Slide-to-interact-with-notification is sometimes hard to perform due to the small icons.
#4) Icons in the status bar that would show need to check the notification center
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
- Hypothesis one: if 2 messages and 3 mails, show 2 text icons and 3 mail ions
- Hypothesis two: if 2 messages and 3 mails, show the text icon with a number 2 and the mail icon with a number 0
- Hypothesis three: make the carrier name and the notification icons alternate between them, every 2 seconds, in a downards cube-rotation fashion
- Hypothesis four: show simply a ! or another icon (with a number perhaps?), which indicate the need to check the notification center
#5) Timestap every text.
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings.
#6) Ability to create groups of people in the adress book.
- For group-texting or e-mailing.
#7) Create a Toggle Widget in the notification center
- Enable/Disable available in the Settings
- Toggles definable in the settings: 3G, Wi Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, Airplane, Brigthness, Sound
#8) Ability to hide native apps.
- Done in Settings.
#9) New icon options for Folders.
- Done in Settings.
#10) Allow 3rd party Apps to update their data while on background (with a clear warning) (ex: USA Today)
- Perhaps already possible due to the new APIs.
#11) Higher number of apps per folder.
#12) Any app (such as Mail) that sends a file to another app using the "Open In" should not have to copy a file X number of times, where X equals the number of times the file has been asked to open.
#13) Option to Snooze on the Calendar/Reminders
#14) Group E-mails
#15) New Way of choosing SMS receivers:
- Many businesspeople have groups they commonly send emails or SMS. The current implementation of having to click the + button and go through the list every time is time-consuming and tedious. Once a user has picked the first person they want to email or SMS, they should be taken back to the email/SMS app. If they then push the + button to add more people, the list of users should have checkboxes next to their names (or a dropdown if they have multiple methods of contact, each with a checkbox). The user should then be able to select however many of these people they want.
#16) Tweak Notifications UI
- Notification boxes are still intrusive and cover some buttons on some apps.
- Swiping down for the notification center is sometimes mistaked by swiping down on the app, and vice-versa (ex: fruit ninja interpreting a swipe down as a notification bar pulldown, isntead of as a slice)
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