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macOS 10.13 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next Version of macOS
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You really need to calm down. I really like that feature. You're not the only soul around here.
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Why do you want mere weeks to write a list like this which admittedly good ideas?
You know full well that anything that's going into the next release is locked down by now, and there's no chance it's gonna happen if it's not already on the schedule.
If you want to make an impact, now is the time to write the "macOS 10.14 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next year's Version of macOS".
You know full well that anything that's going into the next release is locked down by now, and there's no chance it's gonna happen if it's not already on the schedule.
If you want to make an impact, now is the time to write the "macOS 10.14 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next year's Version of macOS".
Better performance on SMB Windows networks. I see all the PC users at my work flying through our file server and my MacBook Pro takes forever.
Updated design. I love macOS and admittedly a lot of this is change for the sake of change, but I happen to believe that one of the reasons a design can never be forever is that fashion and current design trends are a legitimate lens through which to view anything. I'd love for to help me feel the same way as when I saw OS X or iOS for the first time again. I want my interfaces to look a little more futuristic... maybe a little more like movie UIs (while maintaining as much usability as possible). Remember how cool some of the stuff from Her looked?
Better usability. Almost in the opposite direction, but I do miss some of the design decisions that made OS X more usable before. Like coloured icons in the Finder sidebar. Managing full screen apps better would be part of that.
New paradigms. In my search for new computing interfaces, id love to see what other ideas outside of documents and folders Apple's folks have toyed with. I kinda love the idea that folders go away and we replace them with tags. I love the example of going on a golfing trip to Hawaii with my friend Bob. Does that go in my golfing folder, my trip folder, or my Bob folder? I may not have those but the example is fantastically illustrative of the restrictive nature of folders.
Siri & Spotlight amalgamation. Absolutely agree with this. I should be able to type to Siri if I don't want to talk and I shouldn't have to figure out which part of my OS can handle my request. macOS should be able to figure it out. "Turn my lights on", "who won the Ottawa/Pittsburgh game?", "find my Photoshop files from yesterday", "when did the Indus Valley civilization begin to decline?", and "call my wife" are all request I should be able to type into a single field or speak and the computer should be able to parse it and act.
Kill Dashboard.
Improve Mail. Image attachments have never worked well no several other apps are doing awesome stuff around snoozing emails so they reappear at a more convenient time, timed send, better design. I actually pay a subscription fee for my mail client because it's so vital to my day to day.
Updated design. I love macOS and admittedly a lot of this is change for the sake of change, but I happen to believe that one of the reasons a design can never be forever is that fashion and current design trends are a legitimate lens through which to view anything. I'd love for to help me feel the same way as when I saw OS X or iOS for the first time again. I want my interfaces to look a little more futuristic... maybe a little more like movie UIs (while maintaining as much usability as possible). Remember how cool some of the stuff from Her looked?
Better usability. Almost in the opposite direction, but I do miss some of the design decisions that made OS X more usable before. Like coloured icons in the Finder sidebar. Managing full screen apps better would be part of that.
New paradigms. In my search for new computing interfaces, id love to see what other ideas outside of documents and folders Apple's folks have toyed with. I kinda love the idea that folders go away and we replace them with tags. I love the example of going on a golfing trip to Hawaii with my friend Bob. Does that go in my golfing folder, my trip folder, or my Bob folder? I may not have those but the example is fantastically illustrative of the restrictive nature of folders.
Siri & Spotlight amalgamation. Absolutely agree with this. I should be able to type to Siri if I don't want to talk and I shouldn't have to figure out which part of my OS can handle my request. macOS should be able to figure it out. "Turn my lights on", "who won the Ottawa/Pittsburgh game?", "find my Photoshop files from yesterday", "when did the Indus Valley civilization begin to decline?", and "call my wife" are all request I should be able to type into a single field or speak and the computer should be able to parse it and act.
Kill Dashboard.
Improve Mail. Image attachments have never worked well no several other apps are doing awesome stuff around snoozing emails so they reappear at a more convenient time, timed send, better design. I actually pay a subscription fee for my mail client because it's so vital to my day to day.
THIS, 100%. Window snapping is by far one if the most brilliant ideas ever added to Windows. I have used it extensively since it was first released in Windows 7. About once a week I need to manually copy data from a PDF to a spreadsheet on my MacBook, and I have to manually resize the windows on my screen to fit side by side.
Yes, it is possible to get a similar result to Windows by utilizing full screen mode on Mac, but.... It's rather inconvenient.
I want to pass along a quick tip that took me a bit of time to figure out. You know how the green button used to behave? It would "maximize" the window sort of like Windows (it wouldn't fill the screen like Windows, but it would still enlarge the window vertically as far as possible). Now it obviously is used as a full screen toggle. You can actually still get the old "maximize" functionality that the green button used to provide double clicking the unused gray space at the top of the window.
Maybe you already knew this. If not, hope it helps.
I would have to second to you on that. I find the Windows file browser far superior to Mac's. I use Windows every day at work while managing files, then I come home and use my MacBook to manage my photography and see folders sitting on top of folders, folders wayyyyyyy outside the current viewable area, etc., and think "You think that Apple would have brought the finder up to date by now."
Yep. I'm big on that one. Drives me nuts when I hit the wrong keys and it fires up. PS. Pittsburgh won.
I'd like the next operating system to become operable BEFORE the next Operating System makes it obsolete..
Seems to me that Apple works a year on making the current system great. Then the day it becomes useable they drop a new system which is utterly flawed for the next 12 months whereafter it becomes useable and then they drop a new one - and so it goes... Almost stupid.
Fight like a monster to get it right... Only to NEVER come to enjoy it !
Where is the logic in that.
Seems to me that Apple works a year on making the current system great. Then the day it becomes useable they drop a new system which is utterly flawed for the next 12 months whereafter it becomes useable and then they drop a new one - and so it goes... Almost stupid.
Fight like a monster to get it right... Only to NEVER come to enjoy it !
Where is the logic in that.
Could not disagree more...I use News all day, every day and it works exactly as it should. Why do you say its "terrible?"
Good luck with that. 10.12 did a little bit of damage to my 2014 rMBP, I think. At least you can upgrade your storage & RAM!
It seems to me that you need to be running 16GB RAM/mid-tier CPU for a solid 7-9 years future proofing (if you actually *use* an rMBP as intended, heavy professional & web use). Used to get that on all uMBPs as standard back in late 00s.
The UI is pretty ugly and isn't Apple-level intuitive, and the recommendations based on my likes/choices are astoundingly bad. I constantly get articles from sites I constantly dislike. Alongside that, non-native rendering with some publications/adverts (why not just boot up Safari & ad-block for better speeds & bandwith usage) means News is just a bit... bad.
Hell no. I don't need my Spotlight searches a) taking up extra time by being pinged off to some online cloud, or b) being logged (internally or externally). They won't do this - it takes time, effort, and bandwith that just isn't needed. They just need to make Siri better and give it the ability to process Spotlight commands. I'd swap to Alfred full-time.
This. Why do I have to put my images in a folder for Windows-users to see my file as an actual attachment, as opposed to a big thumbnail? If you send a photo to a technophobe, they're looking to double click it, or click 'Save As...', not faff around like they have to now.
I also agree with a timed send function - I'm a night owl and hate sending professional, academic e-mails at 2AM!
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I would like better multi monitor support.
Ex. if I have two text documents open. One on monitor A that has focus and one on monitor B. Then I quickly alt-tab to ex. Twitter which is on monitor B and the alt-tab back to get back to what I was working on - but now the document on monitor B is the one with focus! Drives me freaking nuts!
Also, why can't my Mac be an AirPlay target? I have photos/videos on my phone and I want to show on the bigger screen..
Ex. if I have two text documents open. One on monitor A that has focus and one on monitor B. Then I quickly alt-tab to ex. Twitter which is on monitor B and the alt-tab back to get back to what I was working on - but now the document on monitor B is the one with focus! Drives me freaking nuts!
Also, why can't my Mac be an AirPlay target? I have photos/videos on my phone and I want to show on the bigger screen..
Yep. I'm big on that one. Drives me nuts when I hit the wrong keys and it fires up. PS. Pittsburgh won.
You can totally disable Dashboard in System Preferences > Mission Control.
Hopefully it still can be installed on 2008-2012 Mac Pros. In fact, I wonder if OSX, by then, will still be available - out of the box - on a 5,1 model. One thing's for sure: if this does happen to be just as Sierra is now, it's likely gonna be the last one like that. By the time the new Mac Pro is around, I'm sure Apple will have already dropped all support for cMPs. And, anyway, they would definitely like to win over the tower users anyway, since the cylindrical model didn't do so.
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I found out that you can disable this monitor A / monitor B stuff and just have the second display simply be extra real estate, like how it was in previous versions of OSX: no menu bar, no dock-moving, etc.
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I found out that you can disable this monitor A / monitor B stuff and just have the second display simply be extra real estate, like how it was in previous versions of OSX: no menu bar, no dock-moving, etc.
What is so many people's problem with Mail? It's always been a workhorse for me, what is missing?
.. Admittedly I also use Spamsieve.. But I suspect I would do whatever the do with the spam filtering.
MacOS has cut-paste built in as copy-move. You just choose whether you want "copy" or "move" on "paste", rather than choosing it on "copy" or "cut". I use Windows and MacOS, and I prefer the Mac approach. For me, it leads to fewer mistakes.
Yes. That feature goes way back. I did a double-take when I read that.
+1 TimeMachine is still one of the great distinguishing features of MacOS. Windows has never matched it in ease of use and functionality. Adding iCloud as a TM destination would be great, but they would need to reduce their storage costs. (I currently pay Crashplan $69/year for unlimited cloud backup, and I currently have 8.8TB backed up. Even excluding the media drive would leave nearly 2TB on the boot drive and main data drive that I currently have backed up through TM.)
Agreed on the latter, but the former can easily fixed. Just right click (control-click) in the Finder window, select "Show View Options" and you can adjust the "Arrange By" and "Sort By" settings. There are also keyboard shortcuts for all the different options that I use daily.
I also really hope that this OS is focused on performance enhancements, just like with El Crap and Sierra. I hate upgrading to a new OS, only to find out that it runs slower for no reason (yet does basically the same thing). If it will still be possible to install this on my 4,1-->5,1 Mac Pro, I'll just wait to see if it's okay to use. I'll have to test it out and make sure everything is speedy and isn't chewing RAM/CPU. In that case, I'd probably stick with Sierra into I no longer could.
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Finder just needs to be faster and less clunky. It needs a major overhaul.
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Finder just needs to be faster and less clunky. It needs a major overhaul.
Haha! Seriously?! I never knew this, and I'm pretty sure I've done it before by mistake and thought something had glitched.
Whuuut.
Proper cut + paste (cmd+x, cmd+v) of files in the finder. Holy jesus...WHY is this not fixed yet?!
Unfortunately I have to deal with Macs that others own. I'm often amazed it is still around. Seeing the Cupertino weather gadget...never makes for a good day (although they do have nice weather).
"Hey Siri, what is Dashboard?"
"Everything you need to know about Apple products is at Apple's website."
I'm pretty much convinced at this point that there will never be a macOS 11
They'll pull out of the desktop OS business before they make a macOS 11.
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