What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2025?

[NetMage]

Long standing bug fixes: e.g. Safari still shows the wrong snapshot when switching tabs as it has when opening for many iOS versions, TVOs still has a bug when moving between levels in tables where it zooms back to the beginning of the previous level instead of where you were, as it has for at least three versions, iPod emulation still plays higher groupings of music (e.g. all by an artist) in alphabetical some title order (only someone that never listens to music would think that was reasonable) and has for many versions (and completely unlike the iPod), Apple Watch Siri still doesn’t play the send text sound when you run a shortcut that sends text when the message is sent, but rather when the next message is received (unlike the iPhone).

Overall, stop creating new bugs in working code when adding new features or updating built-in apps and or fixing bugs. Stop shooting themselves on the foot and never fixing it.

 

[i-Liam]

New leadership

 

[nader0903]

I just want to know what their plans for Pixelmator Pro and Photomator are.

 

[NetMage]

An adoption of the universal Android back gesture.

I take it you don’t actually use Android. If you had, you’d realize the universal gesture has a much worse problem than Apple’s - it isn’t clear where you will end up when you go back in Android from any given app screen - it might be a previous app screen, it might be a few screens previous, it might be the home screen. It isn’t nearly as predictable or useful as Apple’s back button.

 

[jjudson]

An iPad with iPad OS when in tablet mode, and Mac OS when docked in a Magic Keyboard.

 

[Harry Haller]

2 year MacOS update cycle.

 

[oRBIT2002]

I’d like to see something new.. A compact camera with a large sensor and with Apple software. Would be awesome being able to use some kind of iOS with a larger sensor for higher quality photos than our phones are capable of. iCamera?

 

[Matsamoto]

Price hikes

Jokes aside. A new AW SE since the latest is over two years old now.

 

[tuckerjj]

Price hikes

This is the what you want thread, not the what we’ll get thread 😀

 

[UltimaKilo]

1. Increased refresh rate on Pro iPhones to 144hz

2. Increase RAM on iPhone to 10GB

3. An extra 1-2 hours of battery life for Apple Watch and iPhone

4. Blood pressure monitoring for Apple Watch

5. Significant improvements to AI and Siri

6. Better, more affordable Studio Display capable of 240hz

7. Huge performance and efficiency boost from the M5

8. M5 MacBook Air

 

[macfacts]

As an iPhone user I’m surprised anyone buys Android. Stability is relative and Android isn’t more stable than iOS, just less stable then we wish.

The premium Samsung devices are super stable, they have uptimes measured in months.

 

[mrr]

Better iPhone Pro Max battery life.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

What I want from Apple in 2025 is an iPhone Pro that will recognize an Apple Pencil. Even though a built-in stylus would be cool, the iPhone need not charge or carry the pencil (third party charging cases work fine). Just make the damn phone recognize an Apple Pencil.

Someone will say "But Steve said..." but that someone will be thinking wrong. Steve said no stylus back in the Palm Pilot era before smartphones were heavily involved with capturing high quality digital images, editing them, and moving them around the internet.

 

[MagicTorch]

Updated Apple Vision Pro launching at £2999 (M5, lighter & slimmer, with improvements to display, comfort & fov)

iPad Mini with OLED display

…the above is what I would like to see in 2025. Back to reality, what I expect to see:

Apple Vision Pro 2 launching at £2999 in Oct 2025 (same as AVP1, but with M5 & new/improved head-strap)

iPad Mini with OLED display in late 2026 or Spring 2027

 

[lewchenko]

A reason to upgrade my iPhone 13 Pro.

Not seen one compelling enough yet. AI isn’t going to do it.
Slightly better cameras or camera button isn’t either.

The one thing that would is a lighter iPhone that doesn’t lose the telephoto lens & retains pro motion. Doubt the 17 ‘air’ will achieve that.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

15" M4 Air with nano screen

Nope. The MBA is the low end. Nano is a pricey choice that the buyers of the low end would never be willing to pay for.

 

[Pandyone]

As a android user I'm surprised people keep buying iPhones and iPad if the software isn't stable.

It’s still more stable than Android.
But there is bugs and glitches Apple should focus on fixing in iOS 18, preferably before the whole ”iOS 19” circus starts.

 

[MrRom92]

FLAC support on iPhone

 

[Calle68]

Siri working for the first time.

 

[chetzar]

Actual innovation? Their products have felt extremely iterative over the last few years.

A faster processor, better camera, and an AI button? No new Apple Watch Ultra besides a new color?

Regardless of whether you like folding screens, Samsung is creating more impressive innovations than Apple these days.

And I’m the guy that constantly gets laughed at for being an Apple Fanboy. I’m not a hater, at all.

Iterative is the world we live in these days.

Less risk, smaller steps, Agile methodology, etc..

 

[Allen_Wentz]

That is probibly thne root cause of Apple's recent problems. They put an accountant in charge and just as you would expect Apple makes a ton of money but innovation and leadership is replaced by utra-conservitive incremental changes.

The same thing happened in Hollywood when accountants take over. All they do is remakes and sequals of the hits.

Tim Cook was not "put an accountant in charge," and as a user of Apple products forever I consider the products to have been evolving very well under Cook. There is a reason Apple's growth has been so spectacular, and it is not some silly simplistic "Apple makes a ton of money." It starts and continues only with really good products.

 

[ls1dreams]

- iPhone 17 with at least 20-25% higher single cpu score (would make it roughly 100% faster than a 13 mini and easier to justify upgrading)
- wi-fi 7 in a mac mini
- more affordable storage or ram in macbook pros (prob no chance)
- stronger AI neural engines or memory bandwidth in macs to help with local LLMs. I'd love to be able to run roughly 70b sized LLM models at a reasonable cost and price.

 

[jjudson]

FLAC support on iPhone

Tim Cook: You’re listening to it wrong.

 

[diggy33]

More options for Enterprise management of macOS, particularly the 90-day deferral limit.

 

[Zdigital2015]

For Apple to genuinely figure out a way to separate the CPU and GPUs in order to give GPUs access to unified memory but be user-replaceable for Mac Studio and Mac Pro users. I’m not talking being able to add-in AMD or NVIDIA GPUs, just being able to upgrade an Apple GPU without upgrading the whole box. Wishful thinking, I know.