The MacRumors Show: iOS 17 Wishlist – What Do We Want to See?

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss some of the top features and changes we would like to see in iOS 17.

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Apple is expected to unveil iOS 17 at WWDC in June this year, offering a range of enhancements and new features, such as a next-generation CarPlay experience, changes to Siri, support for sideloading and alternate app stores, support for Apple's mixed-reality headset, and more. We talk through some of the areas where we feel Apple could bring meaningful changes and improvements to the iPhone, with particular attention to generative AI, Spotlight, Siri, Shortcuts, notifications, Apple Music, the Health app, Apple Fitness+, and Control Center.

We also discuss some of the latest news, including the rumored "in-air" typing experience on Apple's mixed-reality headset, the two second-generation headset models that seem to be in the pipeline, and the gradual transition to under-display technologies on the iPhone.

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[sniffies]

I want Mail app to sync iCloud read status and notification badges.

Been asking for this for years.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

My iOS 17 wishlist: stability and performance.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

@Hartley regarding the headset's “Half-baked feature when it launches". LOL, I'm dead. 💀 He's not wrong tho.

 

[Kylo83]

New ui including new icon and fresh Home Screen, and interactive widgets would be nice, I doubt we are getting anything tho just bug fixes, gonna be a boring year for software updates

 

[adammusic]

PLEASE GOD PUT THE FLASH ON/OFF/AUTO TOGGLE BACK ON THE TOP LEFT OF CAMERA APP. INSTEAD OF BURYING IT IN THE TRAY. I USE IT ALL THE TIME. PAIN.

It used to be there. Now the flash icon on top left only toggles flash auto/off.

I need the ON option back up there

 

[kobberrød]

I don't know about iOS, but my iPadOS 17 wishlist is to bring back 15.

 

[vegetassj4]

My wish? Less than a plethora of bugs? How about just a plentitude?

 

[guzhogi]

I wouldn't mind if they took a year off between major versions, and rewrite the whole OS (frameworks, apps, everything, or at least as much as possible) in Swift, SwiftUI, and Metal. It's their new, great programming language, so put your money where your mouth is. I realize rewriting a whole OS in a new language is labor intensive, but that's why I suggest taking a year off between major releases to do it. Sure, bug fixes in between, but take the time to actually make it great.

 

[adammusic]

Also fix widgets on left homescreen page. Its old widgets & new widgets mixed. Make apps adopt new widgets or let us arrange the new widgets so we can put them down bottom, they stay up top now, above all old widget styles

 

[adammusic]

Make face id animation always in island.
Fix moving icons on homescreen already. Every time i move icons, full pages get ruined.

 

[adammusic]

Give us 2x2 or 1x1 widgets. I could have 4 or on 1st page instead of 2

 

[PsykX]

Stability. That's it. I bought my first Mac in 2006 specifically for that so I wanna get it back.

 

[Ctrlos]

90% of interactions moved to the bottom third of the screen, universal Android back gesture, place icons anywhere, control centre moved to multitasking screen and notifications also.

 

[Kylo83]

Plz apple remove the dam home bar after all these years, just let us hide it if we want, we can still use same guesters

 

[Yebubbleman]

Stability and under the hood improvements/advancements. No external change. Make it a Snow Leopard release.

 

[xxray]

Improve battery life to iOS 15 levels or better, fix bugs, and universal notifications pleaseee.

 

[Jett0516]

Safari need a fullscreen button please 🙏

 

[Bobcat32]

Picture Backgrounds in imessage. And maybe maybe actual live wallpapers for the home screen. Always loved the falling digital matrix rain one on Android.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Safari need a fullscreen button please 🙏

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Apple also needs to consider bringing back "Landscape Mode" on iPhone. Not sure why they decided to get rid of it. I miss this OS layout.

 

[topdrawer]

spellchecker that works.

 

[ouruniverse06131986]

PLEASE GOD PUT THE FLASH ON/OFF/AUTO TOGGLE BACK ON THE TOP LEFT OF CAMERA APP. INSTEAD OF BURYING IT IN THE TRAY. I USE IT ALL THE TIME. PAIN.

It used to be there. Now the flash icon on top left only toggles flash auto/off.

I need the ON option back up there

I mean. It literally on the lock screen

 

[Seeds]

I’d like to see Shortcuts take a page from the old Automator. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Automator have a feature where you could record what you were doing and basically create a shortcut of the things that were done in the recording. That would make shortcuts awesome!

 

[forrie]

Put Location Settings ON|OFF in the Control Center, FFS. It's one of the most used options I can imagine -- been requesting this for years.

 

[floral]

Apple also needs to consider bringing back "Landscape Mode" on iPhone. Not sure why they decided to get rid of it. I miss this OS layout.

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iPhone users (especially those with Plus/Pro Max) should get landscape due to how giant the phones are nowadays. Some could argue this defeats the point of the iPad, but with the iPhone being Apple's best selling product by far, it would only benefit their market.