More First-Party Apple Apps Can Be Rated, Including Phone, Messages, Photos and Safari

[Appleman3546]

Sounds like Apple is internally preparing to compromise with anti-trust calls by making more apps accessible via the app store

 

[B4U]

Is it an iOS 15 exclusive again? ?
Not seeing that on 14.8.1.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Or make Hidden Photos in Photos app Face ID-protectable without having to wait for iOS 15.9 or iOS 16

Curious, under what circumstances do you want to make viewing your own photos on your own phone more difficult? And, if there’s photos that you don’t want to see anymore, you can just delete them, right?

 

[840quadra]

Posted my 1 star review on Messages for Apple not supporting RCS. Hopefully more follow and they include it in the next version of iOS.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Their feedback site is already like a black hole, i doubt any constructive review of their Apps in their AppStore will get any attention.

The reviews on the App Store will be a black hole, too. The biggest difference from feedback is that people will get to see all the other folks that are in the black hole with them.

 

[tpfang56]

That’s good. More people need to let apple know that Messages looks godawful in portrait mode on the ipad mini. Not that I have it anymore, but I want that to be fixed by the time the next mini comes out.

 

[boss.king]

lol rating non-replaceable Apps makes no sense!

Seeing what users love or hate about the essential functions of your device seems like fairly useful info to me. For example, look at how users have taken a dump on the stock podcasts app. Maybe now Apple will be able to make it good.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Good thing they enabled this on the App Store. Maybe one day, there will be an internationally connected network where people can post feedback about Apple’s products. Until then, though, there’s the App Store.

 

[ian87w]

View attachment 1881312I wonder why it gives the option to download even though Safari is already installed? ?

I hope that's a sign of compartmentalisation of iOS, eg. separating Safari as a separate app that can be updated independent from iOS updates.

 

[AndiG]

Just rated messages 1 star. This thing is so overloaded, blown and full of bugs - it would be great if users could remove it and replace it with a simple messenger.

 

[MathersMahmood]

They’ll need a new team to weed through the troll reviews to find the actual genuine ones haha.

 

[falkon-engine]

So when will Apple let us replace the stock apps like phone, and messages? What about replacing the springboard or at the minimum, supporting theming of the spring board with custom iconpacks, fonts, colors? Also what about an option to further customize the control center ?

 

[svish]

Good move by Apple.

 

[_Spinn_]

This is a very good move by Apple.

 

[JGIGS]

Ok everyone. Let's all give the messages app 1 star and give that rating for not being multiplatform and or not having an option on icloud.com at the very least.

 

[IlluminatedSage]

I went to go check if I could give a review to NEWS. seems like they did not include this awful app/integration for users to review.

not surprising, it sucks.

 

[Runequester]

I guess this is a nice touch, but I can't think of a time when I found reviews useful. Looking at the reviews for basically any app and its a mix of obviously paid off goons, people who can't use a phone, people who are screaming about politics and general nonsense.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I guess this is a nice touch, but I can't think of a time when I found reviews useful. Looking at the reviews for basically any app and its a mix of obviously paid off goons, people who can't use a phone, people who are screaming about politics and general nonsense.

Yeah, I find the reviews pretty much anywhere else more useful. There’s only so much you an say in a blurb on the App Store, but you can find pages and pages of comments in forums that provide much better information.