I really see no need to an entire UI refresh update. I could care less about the (new) color schemes, sounds, ways to navigate etc.
What's killing me are all the missing features....basic features...now 5+ years later still missing. *Some* of the missing features are (and I submitted them to Apple eons ago as surely did other people):
-inability to keep photos/videos from being deleted. There should be a switch in Settings do disable the delete/trashcan function. This would help when kids grab your phone or a malicious attack.
-can't send emails with over 4MB of attachments. What year is it now? Oh yea, 2013 where Gmail and Yahoo and Hotmail have 25MB limits while most ISPs have 10-20MB limits. Ridiculous, Apple.
-can't get the videos off the iPhone...well, not via iTunes anyway. Terrible! I have to hook it up TO A COMPUTER. Or I can buy an App that will *wirelessly* send them to another iOS device or computer.
-videos recorded at the wonderful hi-def on the iPhone get pushed to cruddy quality when pushed to Youtube or an email attachment. Um....why?!!? It's 2013...a 50MB video file is nothing. And regardless if it's WIFI or cell carrier, it's my data plan...let me worry about my data usage. So all these 1080 vids are essentially stuck on my camera at full quality. Therefore, WHAT'S THE POINT of having 1080 if I can't show it 1080 somewhere else?!
-video clips sent via email are limited to 40 seconds if I remember correctly. Lovely.
-browser still has major caching problems. Why does it do a full refresh of the page when I come back to my phone 2 minutes later?
-when a big web page is taking awhile to load, I want to open a new tab and go somewhere else while the other tab loads. Impossible on the iPhone...as soon as move away from the tab, the loading stops.
-still tied to iTunes...talk about lock-in
-Can only sync wirelessly with iTunes if the phone is plugged into the electrical outlet...um....why?!
-The only way to see just the videos is to go through the Camera app, click on the little left bottom corner icon, then select Videos. Why the heck can't I just go to Photos and see the same VIDEOS tab at the top?! It has been this way for YEARS! So I need to go through all these extra finger clicks to get there.
-No parental controls for websites...Apple, in their let's-censor-everything-in-App-Store can't even provide a simple black-list of 10,000 websites my kids can't visit. Or a password to access Safari.
-No parental controls for youtube...something should be available here. What about a password to access Youtube?
-Only shows last ~10 days worth of calls...WHAAAT?!
-Safari History isn't so great...stuff is always missing from 3-4 days ago. And the type-ahead feature of the URL bar is nice, but again, 3-4 days later the history. It should be more like 30-60 days or have a user setting.
-Email attachments (especially Office and PDF) cannot be saved to my iPhone...I am forced to always go back to the email. That's about as unhandy as can be.
Most of the above problems can easily be in the Settings area of the phone or each built-in app. But no...rather than give us new and more features, Apple wants to just re-paint the house.
