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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2023?

Real windows in iPadOS, where you can configure the system to let you size and move app windows by dragging edges, corners, or title bar with your finger.

And maybe a lighter, slimmer Magic Keyboard.

Those updates would pretty much remove my MacBook Air from my shoulder bag.
 
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On Friday, we shared a What to Expect Guide that highlights everything we're expecting to see from Apple in 2023, based on current product rumors and historical release data.

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We're counting on the release of the mixed reality headset that Apple has been working on for years now, along with the Apple silicon Mac Pro and a number of other refreshed Macs. There's an iPhone 15 with a USB-C port in the works, and we could get new HomePod and AirPods Max refreshes.

We know what we think we're going to be seeing from Apple in 2023, but we want to hear opinions and wishlists from the MacRumors community. What do you want to see Apple release this year?

Are there new iPhone features you're hoping for, or something new in iOS 17 or macOS 14? What are you wanting to see from Apple's AR/VR headset?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and take a look at our What to Expect guide to see an overview of the current rumors. We'll learn a lot more about Apple's 2023 product plans in the coming months, and we'll have in-depth coverage of the rumors here at MacRumors.com.

If you want to discuss Apple's upcoming products and rumors, our MacRumors forums are an excellent resource, plus they're a great place to get help on current Apple products and software options.

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I'd love if Apple rethought/simplified their naming scheme for their laptops and tablets. I've never understood why they need three types (iPad, iPad Pro, and an iPad Air)... the names don't really provide meaningful categories related to size or features, as a set. They *mostly* fixed it with their iPhones, and now they're complicating again for next year. Sigh.

But in all seriousness, I'd really love a revamped MacBook 12". I still use mine from 2016 and despite being on the slow side these days (and that awful keyboard), I love the form factor and lightness. Add a 2nd USB-C port, upgrade it to an M2 chip, redo the keyboard and I'd buy a new one in a heartbeat! I use a 13" M1 MacBook Air for work, and it's fine - but I'd still prefer the slightly smaller & lighter 12" form factor for personal use.
 
fatTribble said:
I agree. The average iPhone user has a computer. But please tell me what specific uses there are for the goggles. I want to be excited by them but I can’t think of what I’d do with them. If your imagination can come up with things I’d appreciate your listing those uses.
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Alright! So, I imagine sitting at my desk using the Mac. I put the headset on, and instantly the screen size is not limited anymore. I don't need the mouse to point and click at things, because my eyes will replace the pointer and my hands all sort of commands. Gestures are essentials to manage files, move things around the AR screen, surf the web. There could be, in fact, an infinite array of possible combinations to make the computer do stuff. The limit is the devs' imagination. Just to give an idea, the system could respond to my thumb-up or thumb down gesture whenever i would normally click "ok" or "cancel": super fast; or I could be make a fist, and a menu with all possibility over a file opens up, from which I'll be able to choose.
Again, the limit is the devs' creativity.
As a result of these new input methods, I see two immediate results: it'll be much faster to do all sort of things, from simple office work to video/foto/3D editing, and our posture won't be dictated by a chair, cuz we could move our virtual display so that our necks are in a comfortable position, both sitting down and standing up.
A few years down the line perhaps computers will look like today's Mac Mini, but sold with a keyboard and a headset, and no physical screen at all.

Now, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
 
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1. 16GB as a base RAM on all Macs

2. iPadOS "Rosetta 3" - ability to run actual Pro apps aka macOS apps (when keyboard and mouse is present for example)
 
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Le0M said:
Alright! So, I imagine sitting at my desk using the Mac. I put the headset on, and instantly the screen size is not limited anymore. I don't need the mouse to point and click at things, because my eyes will replace the pointer and my hands all sort of commands. Gestures are essentials to manage files, move things around the AR screen, surf the web. There could be, in fact, an infinite array of possible combinations to make the computer do stuff. The limit is the devs' imagination. Just to give an idea, the system could respond to my thumb-up or thumb down gesture whenever i would normally click "ok" or "cancel": super fast; or I could be make a fist, and a menu with all possibility over a file opens up, from which I'll be able to choose.
Again, the limit is the devs' creativity.
As a result of these new input methods, I see two immediate results: it'll be much faster to do all sort of things, from simple office work to video/foto/3D editing, and our posture won't be dictated by a chair, cuz we could move our virtual display so that our necks are in a comfortable position, both sitting down and standing up.
A few years down the line perhaps computers will look like today's Mac Mini, but sold with a keyboard and a headset, and no physical screen at all.

Now, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
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I think the use case is a lot more likely to be “you and all your friends can watch movies and play games together on a giant theater size screen right in your living room. And you don’t even have to be in the same building.”
 
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Le0M said:
Alright! So, I imagine sitting at my desk using the Mac. I put the headset on, and instantly the screen size is not limited anymore. I don't need the mouse to point and click at things, because my eyes will replace the pointer and my hands all sort of commands. Gestures are essentials to manage files, move things around the AR screen, surf the web. There could be, in fact, an infinite array of possible combinations to make the computer do stuff. The limit is the devs' imagination. Just to give an idea, the system could respond to my thumb-up or thumb down gesture whenever i would normally click "ok" or "cancel": super fast; or I could be make a fist, and a menu with all possibility over a file opens up, from which I'll be able to choose.
Again, the limit is the devs' creativity.
As a result of these new input methods, I see two immediate results: it'll be much faster to do all sort of things, from simple office work to video/foto/3D editing, and our posture won't be dictated by a chair, cuz we could move our virtual display so that our necks are in a comfortable position, both sitting down and standing up.
A few years down the line perhaps computers will look like today's Mac Mini, but sold with a keyboard and a headset, and no physical screen at all.

Now, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
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Gestures are cool and all but while they demo well I feel like they are prone to failure at inopportune time. Also just like VR games the interactions developed with gestures tend to be confined to that space.

What I'd like to see is something like an "ambient computing" model where the glasses/goggles turn everyday objects into virtualized "touch sensitive" things through lidar and computer vision mapping the world as a 3D space. Not being tied to a chair or a single desk but instead a virtualized workspace that conforms to the environment.
Imagine using your entire desk as space for apps to sit and be interacted with. Oh wait I need to move to a different desk, well now the entire workspace is resized and on the new surface. No more desk? Fine now this wall is my work surface.

Maybe I've been watching too many 90's Star Trek holodeck episodes...
 
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shookie said:
The Apple weather app to become a suitable, or even an adequate, replacement for Dark Sky
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Whatever Dark Sky was doing 10 years ago felt like magic. The radar map was basically real time and had accurate predictions meaning I could watch for a raincloud to move away and walk outside in the dry, not any more. Even a couple years before Apple bought them Dark Sky felt like it was either 15 minutes behind or 5 miles off registration. Couldn't figure out which.

Don't know if it's just me but the transparency blending in Apple's precipitation map makes rain look much lighter than it should be and it's just not pleasant to read.
 
koelsh said:
Gestures are cool and all but while they demo well I feel like they are prone to failure at inopportune time. Also just like VR games the interactions developed with gestures tend to be confined to that space.

What I'd like to see is something like an "ambient computing" model where the glasses/goggles turn everyday objects into virtualized "touch sensitive" things through lidar and computer vision mapping the world as a 3D space. Not being tied to a chair or a single desk but instead a virtualized workspace that conforms to the environment.
Imagine using your entire desk as space for apps to sit and be interacted with. Oh wait I need to move to a different desk, well now the entire workspace is resized and on the new surface. No more desk? Fine now this wall is my work surface.

Maybe I've been watching too many 90's Star Trek holodeck episodes...
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Well that's the direction we're going anyway, I don't think it's a far fetched idea.
As far as gestures are concerned, I'm pretty sure they'll work out a way not to activate or do things unwillingly. I mean, it's just a matter of designing it that way.
 
Le0M said:
Alright! So, I imagine sitting at my desk using the Mac. I put the headset on, and instantly the screen size is not limited anymore. I don't need the mouse to point and click at things, because my eyes will replace the pointer and my hands all sort of commands. Gestures are essentials to manage files, move things around the AR screen, surf the web. There could be, in fact, an infinite array of possible combinations to make the computer do stuff. The limit is the devs' imagination. Just to give an idea, the system could respond to my thumb-up or thumb down gesture whenever i would normally click "ok" or "cancel": super fast; or I could be make a fist, and a menu with all possibility over a file opens up, from which I'll be able to choose.
Again, the limit is the devs' creativity.
As a result of these new input methods, I see two immediate results: it'll be much faster to do all sort of things, from simple office work to video/foto/3D editing, and our posture won't be dictated by a chair, cuz we could move our virtual display so that our necks are in a comfortable position, both sitting down and standing up.
A few years down the line perhaps computers will look like today's Mac Mini, but sold with a keyboard and a headset, and no physical screen at all.

Now, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
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I am seeing what you’re seeing. It sounds similar to Minority Report or Star Trek : Discovery. To me what you’re describing is an alternative input to what we have today with a touch screen or mouse. It would be different but I’m not sure it would be better. Voice control would have to be integrated because a keyboard would be clunky with goggles. It definitely has a cool factor, but we have gestures on iPads and MacBooks today but we still need keyboards. I’m not trying to disparage your ideas. I appreciate the discussion.

I feel like oftentimes tech succeeds if there is entertainment value. I’d like the goggles (or glasses) to allow things that aren’t possible today. I’d like to see an expanded IMAX format for movies to be used with goggles where you would be completely immersed in the movie and could look around your environment. Image the space scenes in an upcoming Star Wars movie if you could look in different directions rather than just in front of you. I’d like to see virtual museum visits where you were immersed in the building and could read about exhibits all around you. Meh, what do I know? I’m just spitballing like everyone else.
 
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fatTribble said:
I am seeing what you’re seeing. It sounds similar to Minority Report or Star Trek : Discovery. To me what you’re describing is an alternative input to what we have today with a touch screen or mouse. It would be different but I’m not sure it would be better. Voice control would have to be integrated because a keyboard would be clunky with goggles. It definitely has a cool factor, but we have gestures on iPads and MacBooks today but we still need keyboards. I’m not trying to disparage your ideas. I appreciate the discussion.

I feel like oftentimes tech succeeds if there is entertainment value. I’d like the goggles (or glasses) to allow things that aren’t possible today. I’d like to see an expanded IMAX format for movies to be used with goggles where you would be completely immersed in the movie and could look around your environment. Image the space scenes in an upcoming Star Wars movie if you could look in different directions rather than just in front of you. I’d like to see virtual museum visits where you were immersed in the building and could read about exhibits all around you. Meh, what do I know? I’m just spitballing like everyone else.
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Yeah well, I'm of the idea that keyboards will be sticking around for a long while still. There is no way in this world that people would be ok saying out loud everything they want to write. I mean, can you imagine an office with dozens of people talking out loud just for replying to customers' emails?? 😂
 
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Arbuthnott said:
Some people I know have had problems. So far always related to routers that have insufficient capacity for the number of connected devices. The cheapies will “forget” connected devices with as few as 12 connected devices.
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While I appreciate your help, it relies on assumptions which simply aren't true. The router is a commercial Meraki device with loads of spare compute, internal bus/memory bandwidth, memory itself, and is incredibly over specced in every way for a home with just my wife and me (and, further, all our IoT/connected devices are hung off a 2.4GHz only legacy router, only HomePods, Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, Sonos, Google Homes on this network - locks, appliances, cameras, etc, etc all on the legacy 2.4GHz network b/c most of those devices don't even use 5GHz - and the password to that network is not in any AAPL device or iCloud keychain, so it is not a case of "wrong network", which, again, shouldn't break products even if it was the case, as "join the same network as the phone/device controlling me" is a core feature/function of such streaming protocols, and our home is only 3,000 sq ft and coverage is rock solid throughout the house and our yard).

And, when Sonos & Google's products can make it work, Apple's should, too. There are *zero* technical or market reasons from anywhere in the stack that Apple AirPlay should not be *completely* flawless in every situation that its competitors products are, especially when they're almost always more expensive. Anything else is just making flaccid apologies for poor (technical) design and quality. And that's my point: I don't want Apple to put out more cute new products with fewer buttons, switches, and weirdly personified marketing, I just want their existing ones to work as well or better than their competition (like they used to).
 
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Canyda said:
Oh, me neither. But it would be awesome.
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Not sure if you saw this, but the Intel Unison app for PC and iPhone works with iMessage now. (Early app development, but pretty good considering it's the only native way to get iMessage on PC without a workaround)
 
Mini sized SE with full screen and Touch in Power
A large screened MacBook not locked behind mega specs and pricing
 
The ability for Mac OS to connect with hearing aids via Bluetooth like they can with iPhone iOS
 
I would like to see better multitasking for the iPhone and a pericope lens which the last should arrive.
 
mpetrides said:
I completely agree. Apple devices are so dependent on good WiFi that it behooves Apple to provide a reliable mesh router to support the proliferation of devices in people's homes.
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Completely agree, especially when you consider how many problems HomeKit devices have had with various routers.

Even better argument is privacy. How can you be the privacy leader and not offer a router?
 
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iPhone 15 lineup with USB-C, Touch ID in power button (additional to Face ID)

iPad Mini 7 with 120hz pro-retina display, improved brightness, MagSafe charging and Face ID (additional to Touch ID)

iPad Pro lineup (Inc. 13”) with MagSafe charging and Touch ID in power button (additional to Face ID)

Apple Pencil 3

Apple Watch S9 in SPACE GREY!

iMac 27”
 
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bmustaf said:
While I appreciate your help, it relies on assumptions which simply aren't true. The router is a commercial Meraki device with loads of spare compute, internal bus/memory bandwidth, memory itself, and is incredibly over specced in every way for a home with just my wife and me (and, further, all our IoT/connected devices are hung off a 2.4GHz only legacy router, only HomePods, Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, Sonos, Google Homes on this network - locks, appliances, cameras, etc, etc all on the legacy 2.4GHz network b/c most of those devices don't even use 5GHz - and the password to that network is not in any AAPL device or iCloud keychain, so it is not a case of "wrong network", which, again, shouldn't break products even if it was the case, as "join the same network as the phone/device controlling me" is a core feature/function of such streaming protocols, and our home is only 3,000 sq ft and coverage is rock solid throughout the house and our yard).

And, when Sonos & Google's products can make it work, Apple's should, too. There are *zero* technical or market reasons from anywhere in the stack that Apple AirPlay should not be *completely* flawless in every situation that its competitors products are, especially when they're almost always more expensive. Anything else is just making flaccid apologies for poor (technical) design and quality. And that's my point: I don't want Apple to put out more cute new products with fewer buttons, switches, and weirdly personified marketing, I just want their existing ones to work as well or better than their competition (like they used to).
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Nothing you say suggests that your router is not the problem. It is not an issue of bandwidth, it is the number of supported device connections. The router given by our network service provider started intermittently “losing” devices more or less randomly after around 12, and could not be relied on for doorbell cams or remote sensors as they would intermittently connect and disconnect. My current router is showing ovvssionslmpronkems with around 139 connected devices. I expect to relieve the load with various thread links instead of via wifi

Try a higher spec router on a “loan” basis at the least, rather than dismissing this and making it all a mystery.
 
iPad that can read and write text messages
Macbook with sim card
Phones with dual physical sim card, with dual channel support (ie both cards working simultaneously, direct calls to either card and use data on either card)
 
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