Please update Apple Mail. It hasn’t seen a significant update in years and people depend on it every single day. Eudora!
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macOS 10.14 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next Version of macOS
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It appears that Mac OS development at Apple has been invaded by two different factions: One faction that is trying to reduce Mac OS to the level of iOS, and another faction made up of Linuxheads who think that everyone should do everything in Terminal. And it is the Mac users who are caught in the middle and suffer.
If the proposed list is real and it’s what the majority of MR readers look forward, then the blame for the current problems with Mac products is not at Apple nor Tim Cook: it would be an iOS-ized user base (that is, supposing the list is real).
Merging MacOS and iOS is a bad idea. Don't dumb down the Mac, make the basics better instead.
And maybe make a great dark mode.
And maybe make a great dark mode.
How about Apple actually asking their customers for their wishlist (and complaint list) before putting the engineers to work?
Make Mail and Calendar work reliably in a team. Including Exchange functionality.
[doublepost=1527139799][/doublepost]Make Photos work reliably for family sharing, and for NAS. And: Make photo sharing usable by adding sort alphabetically.
[doublepost=1527139799][/doublepost]Make Photos work reliably for family sharing, and for NAS. And: Make photo sharing usable by adding sort alphabetically.
1. It would be great to be able to install MacOS in VirtualBox without having to to patch the hell out of it
2. Make WiFi automagically bring up the "captive" page on ALL networks - currently it is quite a mess to log into open networks that require log-ons (Hotel portals, xfinity ...). Traveling Apple users would really appreciate this
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2. Make WiFi automagically bring up the "captive" page on ALL networks - currently it is quite a mess to log into open networks that require log-ons (Hotel portals, xfinity ...). Traveling Apple users would really appreciate this
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Interesting list. I have repeated some of your list below and added a - to respond or ask questions about each item. If I did not list it again here, I either agree with the idea or have no opinion.
Apps
* Contacts.app removed and functionality merged into new Phone.app
- I very rarely call people, but do send email to lots of people and need physical addresses. Separate Contacts app makes sense for me.
R: I'm calling for a new Phone.app for macOS, just like whats on the iPhone, which has not only a 'Contacts' tab, but also a 'Keypad' for dialing.
* Weather.app added
- why a separate app instead of a widet in the Today area (that sidebar thingy that slides out from the right side of screen)?
R: Why not?
* Clock.app added
- Clock is in the menubar and in the Today area
R: But I'm referring to a Clock.app like on iOS, which has the ability to set timers and alarms.
* Photo Booth.app removed and functionality merged into new Camera.app
* Health.app added
- what is this app supposed to do since the computer has no health-related sensors?
R: So you have the ability (if you want) to look at your data on a Mac
* Dictionary.app removed
- I use Dictionary a lot. It is especially useful when you add translation dictionaries like CEDICT that will pronounce the chinese words for you.
* Chess.app removed
- Why?
R: Do you really need the answer for that? No one uses that, and if people want to, they can use a third part app on the App Store
* Stickies.app removed
- Why? lots of people still use this
R: No one uses these
* TextEdit.app removed
- A text editor is a must have on a computer. What replacement do you propose?
R: We have a Notes.app already...and if the Notes.app doesn't have a feature that TextEdit.app does, well add it.
* Image Capture.app removed and functionality merged into Photos.app
- Image Capture is for more than just photos. It also provides an interface for local and networked scanners.
* Finder.app renamed Files.app
- As long as this is a wishlist, I want all the functionality of Path Finder by Cocoatech in your new Files.app
R: Of course, just a name change
* Preview.app removed and functionality merged into Photos.app, and Files.app
- I want the preview app to remain and to regain the functionality it used to have that allowed us to open many PDF files in the same Preview window so we could print them all without actually having to combine them.
R: Why couldn't Finder.app (Files.app) open it inline, (with all the same functionality) and not have a separate app like the Preview.app? Thats all I'm saying.
* QuickTime Player.app removed and functionality merged into new TV.app, Music.app and include a native video player in the new Files.app
- What about the functionality of recording your screen, iphone, and audio using Quicktime? Where should those go?
R: Why couldn't Finder.app (Files.app) open it inline, (with all the same functionality) and not have a separate app like the Quicktime Player.app? Thats all I'm saying.
* Grab.app removed and functionality merged into keyboard shortcut.
- I almost always use the keyboard shortcut, but Grab has the ability to get the screenshot after a specified amount of time. That is very useful in cases where tooltips will not stay visible very long.
R: That can all be implemented into a keyboard shortcut, as an example "press Option S" and a panel comes up, and asks if you want to screenshot the whole screen or just a window.
* VoiceOver Utility.app removed
- What will replace it's functionality. Some people rely on VoiceOver.
R: I may have been misinformed, and thought it was the same stuff thats in Settings - Accessibility. My apologies
* Keychain Access.app removed and functionality merged into new ‘Password Manager’ in Settings.app
- Will your Password Manager also manage SSH keys, PKI keys, certificates, etc?
R: Of course!
* Grapher.app removed
- Why? This is a great app for math students.
R: No one uses this, and why not let third party apps handle a niche market like this?
* Audio MIDI Setup.app removed
- Why?
R: It appears to me, it is just an app for you to change you audio input/output. Why can't that be done in Settings.app?
* Support.app added
- What is Support.app supposed to do?
R: Apple Support, chat, etc
* Launchpad.app removed
- Why? Launchpad is very convenient
R: I wrote that wrong, keep how it shows your apps, just rename it to have a more iOS-esque name, idk
* Digital Color Meter.app removed
- How will you determine the color value of an image or text. E.G. you need to create corporate templates based on the logo colors.
R: One little feature doesn't require a separate app...they can find somewhere to put it.
* ColorSync Utility.app removed
- How do we get monitors, cameras, scanners, and printers all color synced without it?
R: That functionality should be built into Settings.app
Features
* Control Center added
- What it is supposed to do? Replace the menu items that allow you turn things on/off?
R: No, media control, quick toggles, just like on iOS.
* Widget Center added
- The today area on the right is already pretty much a widget center. What is different?
R: Yes, it is, I suppose
* Merge ‘Trash’ into a new section in the new Files.app, and in that section show all ’Recently Deleted’ files from apps that have that feature built in, ex. Notes or Photos, and remove Trash.app from dock
- What happens to files handled by apps without the "Recently Deleted" functionality built-in?
R: I mean you know how the Notes.app, Photos.app, have a "Recently deleted" section in each of those apps? I thought it would be nice if it also showed it in a universal way. So in one location (the Trash.app) you can see your "recently deleted" from all apps that have that functionality
* Universal apps between macOS and iOS
- I agree that it would be nice to be able to run some iOS apps on my Mac, but the Mac should be able to run apps that are more complex than those for the iPad or iPhone.
UI/UX
* Mail.app redesigned to be more like Messages.app
- Strongly disagree. Mail.app is almost perfect in my opinion.
R: Perhaps, but the Mail.app is so inconstant with the iOS variants, they need to at least need to match the feature of the macOS version to the iOS version. ex. Junk main options don't exist on the iOS Mail.app
* Apps in the dock don’t also show up in Launchpad
- You wanted to get rid of Launchpad anyway.
R: No I don't (as stated above in another response).
* Red, Yellow, Green buttons:
Red: Fully Quits application
Yellow: Minimizes application
Green: Fullscreen application - (keep ability to old-school maximize by pressing Option key)
* To access minimized apps you use a gesture to open a “Multitasking’ view that shows all apps running in the background
- We already have this now, but it shows all the apps running, not just the ones in the background.
I was thinking the same thing... Is this really what people want? To run iOS and Watch apps on their computer?
I find this whole idea abysmal...
I would like to see Apple return to an elegant UI, one where functionality is readily discoverable. I would like to see the many (often ridiculous) bugs finally removed after generations of complains but nothing done to fix them. I would like to see better integration with automation tools. I would like to see security measures better thought out. I would like for Apple to stop trying to cram crap down our throats its vision (demands) on how a user will use the OS; instead, getting back to the concept of PERSONAL computing that is powerful but flexible. Blah. Blah. Blah. I stopped updating the OS years ago. Free doesn't even interest me. Lateral changes or, worse, downgrades, don't work for me.
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.
I suspect that we won’t see a significant update to Mail until the marzipan project is live, when I expect Mail will be based on the iOS iPad version.
So that’s next year then - unless Apple decides to bring first party apps to Marzipan now with a developer preview featuring marzipan apis.
However all signs point to this year being about the declarative interface changes (presumably for iOS only) so that devs can easily support the huge amount of variance in iOS screen sizes.
BTW I think that this will be a good thing for most consumers (macOS mail being based on iOS iPad mail). Power users will be very well served by third party apps such as Airmail etc.
I agree, Photos is an app with such a huge potential but it requires a lot of work. What I'd like to see:
- Fix stability issues:
- white bar at the top when in fullscreen
- jumpy image after zooming or in cropping mode
- image corruption after rapid image switching in edit mode
- mark image as favorite and quickly move to next image sometimes causes favorite operation not to save
- Bring back proper slideshows as most options have been stripped, for example random image order
- Add ability to export albums as folders as well as importing folders to albums. This can be done with Automator but why - just why?
- Add ability to continuously use editing extension, as in switch images from extension. DxO Optics Pro is great but it has lengthy startup and it makes editing lots of images painful.
- Add ability to properly share libraries. The only working solution right now is APFS or HFS+ formatted external drive/partition/disk image with no ownership rights. There should be support for NAS or even same partition with ownership rights. iCloud Photo Library is not a solution to this.
On board with many of these except:
Unified macOS and iOS design
No.
There is already some convergence but the paradigm for touch and desktop (laptop) are still too different IMO, the features of Mac and the under the hood tweaks we can still do that I don't need on mobile demand a different UI and design language as far as I'm concerned.
Unified macOS and iOS design
No.
There is already some convergence but the paradigm for touch and desktop (laptop) are still too different IMO, the features of Mac and the under the hood tweaks we can still do that I don't need on mobile demand a different UI and design language as far as I'm concerned.
Seconded, especially Mail. I use to on a daily basis, but the lack of some features drives me mad (no email to groups without disclosing group members email addresses? only one flag per email? etc.)
I don't want any of the OP stuff. Just give me a stable, non-flashy OS, allow ejection of USB drives without the annoying "eject safely" warning (e.g. disable write caching), improve battery life and stop WindowServer and Kernel memory leaks.
No more iCloud encroachment and screw Siri privacy invasion (I don't care what Tim Cook claims regarding Apple's non legally binding policy-du-jour)
No more iCloud encroachment and screw Siri privacy invasion (I don't care what Tim Cook claims regarding Apple's non legally binding policy-du-jour)
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Yes! I’m really hoping Messages gets an update. It’s annoying not being able to access third party keyboards and screen effects.
This was a confirmed bug in 17B48.
I'm happy to say that it is copying a png to the clipboard now, but I still can't change the file type to jpg..I can change the file type of a regular screencapture (command-shift-4) to jpg...I did that years ago.
So it remains that the copy to clipboard stuck as a png is still a bug.
(btw, I'll just keep using command shift 4 and drag the file from desktop to my word doc...but a copy to clipboard (as JPG) would be easier for my workflow.)
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Not that I need to justify a confirmed bug in build 17B48 to you.
But here it goes: I would like to copy to clipboard and paste into word, I don't need to save the clipped file, I just need it in my word doc (Maps, quotes, charts, etc) but I don't need all the associated files. Why am I asking?:It saves me a tremendous amount of time to copy (to clipboard) and paste into Word.
However, the files saved to the clipboard (images stored in the clipboard ARE FILES by the way) are larger and the word document gets too big.
It has been pointed out, in this thread, that the TIFF bug is fixed, but the default is PNG and there is no known way to change it...yes you can change the save to file file-type. But the save to clipboard stuck as a PNG formatted file is STILL A BUG.
Have a good day.