macOS 10.14 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next Version of macOS

[MacBH928]

instead of iPad-ification of MacOS, they should Macintosh the iPad.

I also wish for a supercharged finder that does not mess my icons and arrangement everytime, folder size appears without extra calculations, and the Spotlight search bar can really benefit from some tricks LaunchBar and Alfred got up their sleeves.

 

[Jyby]

Science Rules!

 

[sterlingindigo]

Thanks for the obtrusive, long-standing volume fix. Now if someone at Apple would please take a moment to schedule something in the calendar app and then fix that interface fluster cluck, that would be swell.

 

[macintoshmac]

I hope the unification between iOS and macOS does not happen. Many of the macOS apps are already lacking features compared to some of their Windows counter parts. Who would want further dumbed down mobile apps on their full-fledged computers?

A certain Ive?

 

[Miguel Cunha]

instead of iPad-ification of MacOS, they should Macintosh the iPad.

You nailed it.
Need not to say more!

 

[JeanDeFer]

I would like support for multiple languages mixed in a single situation. Example 1 Siri: I have configured my devices in English, and speak English to Siri, but I have may have German, French or Spanish sounding names of people to call. Or if I ask Siri to go to a French sounding location in Brussels. Siri cannot make sense of them unless I change language. It basically stops me of using Siri.
Example 2: spelling in iOS: Spelling of SMS, or mail on iOS has the same problem. It cannot figure out how to spell French words in an English mail or vice versa. It cannot even make out which language it should use for spelling.

 

[MechaSpanky]

I still don't understand your arguments. Since you mentioned Preview:
- Open System Preferences > General > Ask to keep changes when closing document

Thanks, I didn't know that there was a preference to disable it. That is all I wanted

 

[briloronmacrumo]

Unified macOS and iOS design ...

iOS apps running on Macs is easy to imagine but Mac Apps running on iOS sounds difficult without a major app redesign and for some apps a major iOS device horsepower increase. I don't think Apple can deliver all of this as quickly as some would hope. It's a really big project.

 

[Jyby]

Science Rules!

 

[chrispl0]

I need to deny the desktop access to iCloud upload. I work with large files and with the Documents folder and Desktop linked to upload to iCloud constantly it causes me problems. All day long while I'm working and saving parts to the desktop, these files are being uploaded, most of the time they are being altered then deleted etc. The waste of bandwidth is crazy. Would like the option to ungroup them.

 

[jahala]

Return the screen sharing function. Back in iChat I was able to ask anyone who was in iChat if I can jump on to help them with an issue. Now I can only use the Screen Share App that only allows me to connect to someone that has a iCloud account and that only works one out of ten times (If I am lucky).

Overall they should put back a large amount of the functions that they removed in the last 5ish systems.

Screen sharing is still in Messages. It is hidden under the Details link at upper right of the conversation window.

 

[Miguel Cunha]

OK guys!
Let's say it again, before they forget.
All together...

1... 2... 3...
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!

Again!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!

Keep going!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
STABILTY, PERFORMANCE, COMPATIBILITY!
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[HBX]

- Dark mode (bring back the dark notification center)

- Bring back the old Disk Utility (yes I know you can use diskutil in terminal)

- Tabbed folders on Finder would be nice

- Keep working on stability and security. (take longer time to release builds out from beta stages, do code audits, use centralized or distributed fuzzers but keep checking for those code bugs you keep leaving inside of system binaries ..Like for example using uninitialized pointers in your security framework.)

- Give us more options to use Android phones as a 2fa for securing our Macs. (Google Authenticator)

- Split screen transitioning needs some more work.

- Status bar icon grouping would be helpful.

- Consider using DNS Chains - (https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain)

- Implement a binary whitelisting/blacklisting system with an upfront UI into System Prefrences (https://github.com/google/santa)

- Take a more broader interest in the maintainers at HomeBrew (Max Howell).

 

[nitramluap]

Holding "Option" and dragging the border, or holding "Option" and double clicking - sets the width of all columns to the same size. It does not automatically adjust the column width to the the length of the longest file name.

Try it yourself and you will see what I am talking about.

No, for the currently viewed hierarchy it sizes it based on each folders longest file name within. If you select a different folder then yes, they're all at maximum width, but if you double click again they resize appropriately.

This has always been the case - it's never been a system wide resize, only the currently viewed folders, etc.

 

[rlhamil]

AFAIK, the only thing on macOS that can play to stereo paired HomePods is iTunes. For non-synchronized audio output (i.e. not games or video players, which might have to be coded to use the buffering techniques suitable to accomplish synchronization), it'd be great to be able to have paired HomePods (updated to 11.4 of course) as a system-level output device, as individual HomePods can be now. Perhaps also to be able to use them in an aggregate device. And at the very least, to have QuickTime Player updated to be able to play to paired HomePods, so one could get great sound for a movie on a laptop (or on a Mac Mini hooked to a big-screen TV).

 

[Minghold]

Apple file system for the fusion drives, that’s really the only feature I wanted for my iMac from high Sierra

That turned out to be a terrible disaster, since SSD wear-leveling dictates I/O stategems (that APFS emphasizes) that are exactly contradictory to HDD efficiency and longevity, and vice-versa. HDDs want long. contiguous reads and writes, not random skitter over the platter, which is absolutely murder on the read/write arm mechanism of the drive. (Fusion drives worked well under HFS so long as the SSD portion was smaller than the user's GB worth of stuff, so the SSD became more or less reserved for startup caches and launch-reads.)

 

[mscuthbert]

That turned out to be a terrible disaster, since SSD wear-leveling dictates I/O stategems (that APFS emphasizes) that are exactly contradictory to HDD efficiency and longevity, and vice-versa. HDDs want long. contiguous reads and writes, not random skitter over the platter, which is absolutely murder on the read/write arm mechanism of the drive. (Fusion drives worked well under HFS so long as the SSD portion was smaller than the user's GB worth of stuff, so the SSD became more or less reserved for startup caches and launch-reads.)

Thanks for taking the time to give a 6-year later post-mortem. Devs and researchers can learn just as much from mistakes as from successes.

 

[Minghold]

Thanks for taking the time to give a 6-year later post-mortem.

Another satisfied customer!

Devs and researchers can learn just as much from mistakes as from successes.

Putting APFS on rotational drive systems wasn't a "mistake". They knew exactly what they were doing, and did it anyway.

Always invert Hanlon's Razor when it comes to the behavior of corporations.