I know iOS 17 was recently released, but what would you like to see in iOS 18?
I would like them to update mail, everyone knows that Apple works best with their own products, apps, etc, and obviously Mail is better integrated with the Apple ecosystem, but the app sucks.
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in iPadOS i’d love to see the calculator app 🥲
I’m mostly good, but my god can I put an app on my home screen where I want it? Why are we still forced to put apps in the top left corner (aka the furthest place most people have to reach) in 2023?
The underpinnings of a functional, bug-free iOS.
I moved from Android a few years ago to get away from the constant bugs, only to find iOS is getting worse and worse by the year.
Would love, and is possible, but probably still not happening: Improving iCloud sync for Podcasts.
Would love, is possible, and will probably not happen for another 20 years: UI re-design. Skeumorphic was a thing for 6 iOS versions. “Flat” has been a thing for 11. I’m tired of it. If they won’t allow full theming, they should do it themselves. Even as just options.
Skeuomorphism existed for decades before it was fased out with ios 7, flat ui is still relatively new compared to that and we’re unlikely to see an other dramatic change in design anytime soon.
But for now I’d be happy of flat design got a but more physicality like shadows and depth and effects…so not very flat…and if ios 18 gets the same language design as visionOS than that would be a big step in the right direction.
Much of the history of GUIs can be split into two parts:
- Skeuomorphism (1980s–2010s)
- Flat design (2010s–present)
The quick shift from skeuomorphism to flat design happened in the midst of other cultural changes: the prevalence of “digital natives,” specialized subnotebooks (e.g. personal organizers) being replaced by more general computers (e.g. smartphones), society becoming more digital, along with the increasing abstraction of technology over the decades. These factors generally benefit flat design, which is why I don’t see it being replaced in the near future.
Something useful, 17 brought only Bugs and nothing useful okay maybe Health for iPadOS thats one useful thing.
Zero new features. Bug fixes and performance improvements only.
iOS 17 and even still in iOS 17.1.1 has some of the worst bugs I’ve seen in a long time on an iOS release. For reference I’ve had an iPhone since iPhone 4. I’ve never had to restart my iPhone (I’m on a 14 pro max) this much because of bugs and glitches.
The text to speech on the keyboard button randomly stops working, in safari the search bar and back and forward buttons randomly overlap onto the screen. The most infuriating one is for some reason I can’t figure out. I have one iMessage group chat that acts like I was removed when I wasn’t. I can’t Tapback or type. Then it randomly “unfreezes.” I have no idea why it’s just this one group chat. I feel like I’m on an unpolished beta version of iOS.
Not iOS 18 in particular but I’d like Apple Music and Podcasts to have a Spotify Connect like functionality.
Also better search functionality on AM in general. I find it easier to use Google to look for playlists and then that link opens a playlist in AM.
While searching for the same keyword in AM wouldn’t ever get the same result.
I’d love to see a full macOS install on my iPhone when I plug it into a TB monitor. This way I don’t need to carry anything with me.
Good idea. Could also develop an official Apple VNC app for remote desktop sharing.
Honestly for what I use my phone for… I’m good right now. I don’t need anything else nor do I feel like anything is missing. I take some photos, read some stuff online, text and have phone calls.
One bug I keep running into though is that iMessage keeps sharing my status as being in “Do Not Disturb” mode after I end sleep mode in the morning. I can toggle it on/off but people send me screenshots showing they see me as still being in DnD mode. All I can to is turn off my status sharing, which feels like the wrong way to fix this. This happened to me in iOS 16 and I had hope 17 would fix it… nope.
So far my favorite iOS 17 feature is that I can select an album for it to choose a randomized lock screen wallpaper from.
I would make sure that another device of yours doesn’t have DND enabled. This was happening to my sister, and it turned out that it was because her MBA was constantly in DND while her phone was only partially on DND. They didn’t sync because the share across devices feature was off.
To their credit though, apples good at making you feel like you NEED a brand new feature they introduced which you’ve never ever used before in your life haha
So we don’t know it yet, but they’re working on something we’ll soon want to have
increase in speed and battery life
Will somebody please fix the stupid focus mode BS, specifically give me the option to turn it off permanently?
My phone slips into “personal focus” mode sometimes and I get zero notifications for a few hours, then realize that like 20 people were trying to contact me!
Get rid of yelp in Apple Maps , it’s useless . You click on a review to read and it sends you to log into yelp …. That contract should have expired 10 years ago
Just get the Yelp app and never log in. It’s not a requirement to use it.
Ok but replace it with what? A link to Google’s reviews?
Google reviews would be better , you don’t have to log in to see anything , and if I’m wrong and we do have to log in more people have an Gmail than a yelp …. And Apple should replace it with their own . … you could have answered your own question .
weren’t Apple making their own review system to replace Yelp in the app?
Siri is a disaster that seems to actually get worse with each release even for the most simple things.
It’s especially terrible when there are multiple devices in the same room and they all act independently. Why the fuck can’t my phone, watch, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and HomePod all co-exist in the same room and share the same music controls, timers, alarms? If music is playing on HomePod and I ask to turn on the tv in the same room maybe pop up a subtle prompt on the Appletv asking if you want to stop the music and dim the lights? This could all be possible even with apples more strict privacy guidelines. Instead all of these Siri enabled devices just refuse to work together in a coherent way.
Multiple profiles. Bar that, then at least multiple instances of apps, so say I could login to two different accounts of the same app at the same time.
Transcribed voice memos.
External storage photo capture of any format, not just ProRes log.
Allow true flexibility where I place icons on the homescreen
a number row in the keyboard
give us ability to turn off the feature that lets you change lockscreens directly from the lockscreen