Retina Display. 4 sizes. But it will probably be 2 eventually. Regardless, I'm thoroughly against resolution independence for iOS. Resolution independence would mean basically just using the equivalent of 'Fullforce' on every single iOS app. Nothing would ever take advantage of the different screen sizes for optimized designs. Can you imagine Flipboard, simply scaled down to fit the iPhone, in its original iPad form? Yeah, developers could be lazy, but the customers would suffer. And that ain't Apple's thang.
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iOS 6: My hopes
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Retina Display. 4 sizes. But it will probably be 2 eventually. Regardless, I'm thoroughly against resolution independence for iOS. Resolution independence would mean basically just using the equivalent of 'Fullforce' on every single iOS app. Nothing would ever take advantage of the different screen sizes for optimized designs. Can you imagine Flipboard, simply scaled down to fit the iPhone, in its original iPad form? Yeah, developers could be lazy, but the customers would suffer. And that ain't Apple's thang.
I don't know if it's been noted yet but they may be waiting until they take the lower resolution devices off the market before really updating the UI. When the new iPhone goes on sale the 3GS will likely be discontinued. When the next iPad goes on sale hopefully the iPad 2 will be gone too. That means iOS7 will be the earliest that we'll see any great changes on that front.
First off, excellent thread! I enjoyed reading through this. Responses are in bold.
1.) Maps Overhaul
Yes. I agree. I mean it's great for basic GPS and finding directions, but you need more than just that, especially in 2012. I cannot think of any major overhauls to it recently (thinking iOS5 and iOS4). Overdue!
2.) UI refresh
Ehhh. But the UI still works. I mean why reinvent the wheel? What could they do to a system wide refresh but still maintain the iOS look and feel we're used to? I am glad that iOS is not like Android and the various UIs that HTC, Samsung, and Motorola need they feel to push on. With each update, the look and feel remains consistent and clean (unlike Sense, Touchwiz, and motoblur). I think it's fine, but some change is never (to an extent) bad!
3.) More sharing integration
This would be ok if the iPhone wasn't released globally. There are parts of the world there Twitter is blocked (China...but please don't start a political war here LOL). Facebook is also blocked in some parts of the world (again, China...). Unless these were like plugins that you could select for integration and allow third party developers to integrate, it wouldn't make much sense. Perhaps in some parts of the world, Facebook and Twitter are not as popular. Allowing third party developers to develop something for a local social media site and work in iOS could help circumvent this problem.
But also, what would I need to integrate specifically? Aside from doing a status update/new tweet, I wouldn't really see any purpose in it. I mean I guess I could put photos onto Facebook and Twitter at the same time, but I can also upload through the Facebook app. A lot of other apps already have "post/send to Facebook/Twitter/etc" so...
5.) Notification Center enhancements
Yes. Great start, just needs to be worked on and improved. This is something I feel should be included and not require a jailbreak to have this happen. Android users have toggles for brightness, wifi, bluetooth, and location services in their notification center. It's useful and I could see myself using this.
6.) Notifications in Status bar
Now this I disagree with. I like having the battery percentage displayed. I also lock the orientation (they really need to get rid of the locked orientation icon), so I have that icon. But what if I receive an email, a Facebook notification, a new tweet on Twitter, an update on tumblr, etc etc. My notification bar on top would get cluttered and look messy - definitely something non-Apple. When I worked at Best Buy Mobile, I would see some customers' Android phones...their notification bar would be FULL of crap.
Email notifications, Facebook, tethering, Twitter, App killers, anti virus, whatever. It looked like a Windows XP notification area.
That's sort of what I'm getting at. I hated having that clutter in XP/7 so I hid almost everything except the essentials. If this were an iPad, perfect! No problem. But it's not :/
12.) Better app switching
I personally have tried a few of these apps. Then I realized I'm on a 3.5" screen. Again, on the iPad, this would look orgasmic, no doubt. But when I'm on a 3.5" screen...ehhh. I'm not a big fan of it. The screenshots look great because of the high resolution the iPhone has, but when you look at it and stuff, I dunno.
13.) Ability to delete and re-download stock iOS apps.
Yes (also bring calculator, clock, w/e to the iPad!). I really don't need the stocks app. I could see this being useful. That is all. LOL.
14.) Widgets
Uhhh. I wouldn't mind widgets like on the lockscreen (but laid out nicely like lockinfo and that other jailbreak lockscreen). But the reason why I don't like Android is because of all of those damn widgets. They vary in size, vary in usability and just add clutter. Having some things displayed in the lockscreen would be nice (I use lockinfo), but having it be too similar to Android would destroy the "clean" look I feel iOS embodies.
15.) Youtube
Yes. This would be useful...I haven't seen many changes in the app. It would be well appreciated and liked by this guy here!
16.) Fix Spellcheck
Yes. I dunno what happened in iOS5...but yes.
17.) Music app overhaul
How would you change it? It had a pretty nice refresh circa iOS4 I think? I dunno. But I have no problems with it. Kind of goes along the UI refresh. It works well...I don't think there are any major complaints. You can make and edit playlists on the iPhone now...you can also delete I think? I dunno. But it seems pretty good already, no major changes needed imo.
Small fixes
-When typing (notably in Messages) a large amount of text, the text box expands to the point where the message window is cut down to a tiny sliver that makes it a pain to read the text you were responding to. Text in the text box should become scrollable after a certain point so that the view window doesn't become too obstructed.
This.
These devices are getting more an powerful and more and more common if we are in the post PC era it is crazy to think there is only going to ever be only 2 supported resolutions from Apple.
I do not disagree with your points however the businesses/devs will only put up with this for as long as Apple holds a large market share. If this slips the users will suffer because we will start seeing businesses/devs start dropping support for certain iOS based devices because it isn't worth the cost/effort to support it.
I'd like to be able to compose a new text, tweet or email from the notification centre. Also see the date.
Next, is my favourite apps or docks apps come up when bring up multitask bar. Swipe right and see the previous apps.
A home screen in between search screen and first app screen.
Next, is my favourite apps or docks apps come up when bring up multitask bar. Swipe right and see the previous apps.
A home screen in between search screen and first app screen.
We'll see.
Not true. Just, flat-out not true, and I'll tell you why: even at its absolute lowest adoption rates, the Mac had a community of great developers working on apps for it. Yeah, if the market share slips really low on iOS devices, we're not going to see the huge numbers of devs working on new apps that we see today, but what's more important than having the most apps is having the best apps. And I don't see Apple ever being hard up in that department.
Now that I think about it... If the next iPhone 5 does come with a bigger screen, say 4', then this probably means that a new UI will come, but maybe exclusive to the new iPhone... Apple will say its because the new UI needs a bigger screen, and that old iPhones are better keeping the icons UI. Would make sense.
They either need to get rid of the number thing altogether or just call it the 5, I know it will be the 6th device, but they can't go from 4s to 6.
I think they are going to just get rid of the numbering. I don't think they want to be talking about the "iPhone 15" someday. I think they'd rather it just be like any of their other products (i.e. we're not talking about the iMac 23 or what have you).
@bisnicks: Great job on the thread! All of the things on my wishlist and more! Have you submitted this as feedback to Apple? I think we should all try to bring attention to Apple to this wishlist.
I also completely agree a little UI refresh would not be bad, as you have said, it doesn't need to change the main elements but perhaps change colors, shading etc. Add some new animations etc! I (almost) always enjoyed the Mac OS updates due to the new little refreshes in the UI, it's nice to see the evolution.
I would add the following though:
- App switching: I feel though that they need to implement some better app switching, the double click and go through that long list of apps to find the right one, well, that's not a fast way to switch. I wish they would implement more multi-finger gestures, such as a two/three finger swipe up to reveal all running apps (2/3 or half screen), or two/three finger swipes sideways to switch btw apps (like iPad). I know the screen is small, but this is doable and a far better app switching method.
- Multilanguage support: I wish they would make it easier to switch between languages for Siri. I'm bilingual and have friends who speak different languages, I would like to be able to dictate a message in English and then switch to French without having to change the whole language of siri. If I select the French keyboard, why can't I then use the voice-to-text feature in French?
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My iOS 6.0 desires
- 1. Maps and Turn by Turn GPS with Siri control. I want to be able to ask Siri about an company and confirm the address and enable Navigation by saying something like "Take me there"
- 2. Unified Text Engine - Every developer has to roll their own text engine. iOS 6.0 needs a more robust set of text handling tools.
- 3. Single authentication - the Accounts API will handle this but in a nutshell I should be able to authenticate services like Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr, Dropbox and more through my Apple ID if I choose.
- 4. More gestures. If my home button breaks.. it shouldn't matter because gestures will allow everything I need.
- 6. Inter-app communication. Sandboxing is nice but giving up the ability to safely send documents amongst different apps is a productivity killer. Open in is nice but we need more flexibility.
- 7. Multiple Camera resolutions for video and pictures please.
- 8. Shopping cart for apps= No brainer
- 9. Scrolling folders - Allow me to scroll apps within a folder by a two finger drag. This will prevent me from having multiple games folders
- 10. AirDrop please
- 11. Notification center update with iCloud and presence- This would put the notifications on the iPad on the side like Mountain Lion. Presence would understand what device you are typing on and wouldn't chime on the other devices. Right now an iMessage chimes on 4 devices. Gets annoying
- 12. OpenCL support - Nuff said
How about allowing video playlists on the iPad? If you ca do it on the iPhone why not iPad? Also it wuld be nice if you didn't have to go through the music app to get to your video playlists on iPod Touch/iPhone.
Another thing I'd love is a better way to organize photos. When photos are moved to a specific folder it would be nice if they were removed from the camera roll. So the the camera roll would just be photos you haven't organized into a folder yet.
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What is the reason they've left off widgets to this point? Battery life? And how do they introduce them without looking like they were really late to the party or just ripping off Android.
Another thing I'd love is a better way to organize photos. When photos are moved to a specific folder it would be nice if they were removed from the camera roll. So the the camera roll would just be photos you haven't organized into a folder yet.
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What is the reason they've left off widgets to this point? Battery life? And how do they introduce them without looking like they were really late to the party or just ripping off Android.
I agree with almost all of your suggestions. On the point of the music app id love to have the ability to be listening to a song and then click and hold on a song by a different artist or album and "add to queue". Basically creating on the fly playlists but doing so as i see songs i want to hear next.
Ios 6
Really great suggestions made here man. I hope some consideration is taken towards the concerns you have posted here. We will see in the end result.
Really great suggestions made here man. I hope some consideration is taken towards the concerns you have posted here. We will see in the end result.
Does anyone know how to get this list in front of the people behind iOS development? Obviously a lot of these probably won't make it to the new iOS considering they've probably been working on it since the release of iOS 5, but some of the smaller fixes could definitely be incorporated. If anyone on here has any Apple connections, that would come in handy as well 
Does anyone know how to get this list in front of the people behind iOS development? Obviously a lot of these probably won't make it to the new iOS considering they've probably been working on it since the release of iOS 5, but some of the smaller fixes could definitely be incorporated. If anyone on here has any Apple connections, that would come in handy as well
just leave feedback man, what apple connections?
Well, I'd hope it wouldn't become that cluttered. Maybe you could give users the option to have it, sort of like when apps ask you about push notifications?
For whatever reason, I still feel like a more Mac OS like UI would have been welcome from the start o ... not that I'd ever expect to see something like that these days. I just remember all the old mockups looking really cool.
That said, I wonder what they'd really do to improve the UI without just changing it? I agree with messages . . . It should scroll at a point. That's always felt like a bug to me. I personally feel like the menu bar is already too cluttered, however ... and I'd like to see things moved to a dash-board like page... or to the notification center... but I see no reason that there isn't a page before spotlight (or after) which holds useful widget-like information that's on a start / stop basis (controlled by the user opening the dashboard page) for gathering information.
... not that I'd ever expect to see something like that these days. I just remember all the old mockups looking really cool.That said, I wonder what they'd really do to improve the UI without just changing it? I agree with messages . . . It should scroll at a point. That's always felt like a bug to me. I personally feel like the menu bar is already too cluttered, however ... and I'd like to see things moved to a dash-board like page... or to the notification center... but I see no reason that there isn't a page before spotlight (or after) which holds useful widget-like information that's on a start / stop basis (controlled by the user opening the dashboard page) for gathering information.