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Software bugs to be fixed. That’s the main thing I want to see. For IOS, macOS, and Watch OS.
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With WWDC Five Months Away, What Do You Want to See in iOS 16?
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Ability to place app icons and widgets anywhere on the home screens. Can still keep the grid, but let me place it where I want.
+1 for Family Shared iCloud Photos Library: my wife & I have to use Google Photos to have a shared, full-res library. We just want every photo each of us take to automatically be available to the other, dead simple.
Wants
1. Major design change. This doesn't mean remove functionality. I just want something different to look at.
2. Always on design. I had this 10+ years ago, what is taking so long. Apple Watch has it, so just copy the code.
3. Messages. I want to be able to delete messages from the thread for everyone in it. More Quick Replies. Basically, I want Telegram as Messages. Apple just buy them.
1. Major design change. This doesn't mean remove functionality. I just want something different to look at.
2. Always on design. I had this 10+ years ago, what is taking so long. Apple Watch has it, so just copy the code.
3. Messages. I want to be able to delete messages from the thread for everyone in it. More Quick Replies. Basically, I want Telegram as Messages. Apple just buy them.
A small but unbelievable that it's not there in 2022: parity with Mac OS Contacts when it comes to group organization. Drives me nuts that I have to go to my Mac to drag contacts into groups.
Other than this and my Family Shared iCloud Photos Library (above), focus on stability and removal of "jank"
Other than this and my Family Shared iCloud Photos Library (above), focus on stability and removal of "jank"
Lossless in car play could be great.
I would like some design updates and mostly some UI fixes that have been a long time coming.
Deleting a contact should be a slide left to delete not the long winded process it currently is.
Bluetooth and wifi in the pull down menu so work logically, long press to access the full menu and the option for turning them off to actually turn them off.
I would love to see an interface update as it’s been this way too long but fix the silly stuff first.
Deleting a contact should be a slide left to delete not the long winded process it currently is.
Bluetooth and wifi in the pull down menu so work logically, long press to access the full menu and the option for turning them off to actually turn them off.
I would love to see an interface update as it’s been this way too long but fix the silly stuff first.
I am pretty sure that an always on display would be a hardware feature, not something they will add with a software update. I want interactive widgets, icons that don't snap to the grid so that I can have blank spaces if I want. I also want the option for FaceID to unlock the phone and go directly to the homes screen instead of still having to slide to unlock.
I would like to see iMessages work more seamless with non-apple devices. At least from what we see in iMessages. When in a group chat for ex if someone "likes" a message you see a long message about how they liked it. They should be able to display this message like normal for iOS users to see. Honestly i don't care if the non-apple users have to see the long messages lol, but they can fix it for their own users right?
Side by side apps (real multitasking)
All new UI
Live widget
Place icons as you like
Allways on display
All new UI
Live widget
Place icons as you like
Allways on display
One unified search that works the same on all home screens instead of the bizarre inconsistent app search thing they’ve got in the App Library.
Less gimmicks and more stability/reliability of what already exists.
For example - more reliable behaviour of the data plan auto switching. It seems to be incapable of detecting the situation where you’ve got a really weak signal on the currently selected sim which is not passing data, but a stronger signal on the second sim which can pass data. In that situation it just hangs on to the weak connection and you have to switch manually, which isn’t very smart. Useful feature, rubbish implementation.
Less gimmicks and more stability/reliability of what already exists.
For example - more reliable behaviour of the data plan auto switching. It seems to be incapable of detecting the situation where you’ve got a really weak signal on the currently selected sim which is not passing data, but a stronger signal on the second sim which can pass data. In that situation it just hangs on to the weak connection and you have to switch manually, which isn’t very smart. Useful feature, rubbish implementation.
Multi-user accounts on a device. I deal with confidential information for work (HIPAA) but it would be great to have a guest account or child account.
Improve the most used apps: Apple Mail and Safari.
I would like to be able to completely "close and hibernate" apps that I don't use on a regular basis so they can not be opened accidentally or left open in the background for an extended period of time. Like the curbside pick-up apps that I use once or twice a month.
One could tell they were out of ideas when SharePlay ended up as the top listed feature last year. A solid 0/10.
Blurring in FaceTime was weird - not only was it launched more than a year after ut should have released, but they also claimed it required Apple Silicon. While the competition had this for a long time already, without that limitation. The saving grace there is that hardly anyone uses FaceTime for meetings.
Actual things they could do:
Blurring in FaceTime was weird - not only was it launched more than a year after ut should have released, but they also claimed it required Apple Silicon. While the competition had this for a long time already, without that limitation. The saving grace there is that hardly anyone uses FaceTime for meetings.
Actual things they could do:
- Decouple app releases from OS releases. No need to let e.g. Apple Music and FaceTime stagnate for a year, rather than keeping up with the competition.
- Loosen some of the app store regulations before they are forced to. As an Apple user, I'm very annoyed I can't have an app for AppleTV for streaming Xbox' gaming service, to give one obvious example.
- Non-destructive, stored edit steps for Photos, like they had in Aperture and you have in Lightroom.
- Bartender-like functionality for MacOS. The OS clearly wasn't prepared for the notch on the new MBP, I get plenty of status icons behind it.
- Autocorrect torn down and turned into something useful.
- Better "swype" keyboard. I swear Swype on my HTC Evo 4G worked better.
- Better iMessage search
- Enforcement of PiP video rules (hover even if you leave the app)
- True multitasking
- Pipe dream but somehow fix "real notifications" vs "unwanted notification", specifically for apps where you have to have notifications on for them to function (uber/lyft) and then they send you random, unwanted notifications.
- Better "swype" keyboard. I swear Swype on my HTC Evo 4G worked better.
- Better iMessage search
- Enforcement of PiP video rules (hover even if you leave the app)
- True multitasking
- Pipe dream but somehow fix "real notifications" vs "unwanted notification", specifically for apps where you have to have notifications on for them to function (uber/lyft) and then they send you random, unwanted notifications.
Really hoping to see the Home / HomeKit get some major love. While everything works reliably for me (except from an IKEA bridge that needs a bounce now and then), in terms of its feature offerings, it needs a bit of a buff.
Home app needs better light colour pickers, especially in the white spectrum one. Their interfaces are dreadful in comparison to the like of Hue, Lifx and Nanoleaf. Also let me save more than six colours, pleeeeeease!
Would also like to see system automation triggers, like when an iMessage is received, blink a bulb blue. Android has had IFTTT support for a while, and it's an area that I think iOS / HomeKit is really, really missing out on.
Bit of a long shot on this one, but support for Apple TV to have two HomePods (as it has now), plus two or more HomePod minis that can act as satellite speakers for proper surround sound. I'd buy at least two minis immediately if that feature became available.
Home app needs better light colour pickers, especially in the white spectrum one. Their interfaces are dreadful in comparison to the like of Hue, Lifx and Nanoleaf. Also let me save more than six colours, pleeeeeease!
Would also like to see system automation triggers, like when an iMessage is received, blink a bulb blue. Android has had IFTTT support for a while, and it's an area that I think iOS / HomeKit is really, really missing out on.
Bit of a long shot on this one, but support for Apple TV to have two HomePods (as it has now), plus two or more HomePod minis that can act as satellite speakers for proper surround sound. I'd buy at least two minis immediately if that feature became available.
Yes, dynamic wallpapers and regularly updated wallpapers would be ace.
