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How much better can the iPhone get? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/apple@hardware.watch
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Besides camera quality and battery life

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (40 children)

iPhone is a nice piece of hardware, but the OS has lots of room for improvement.

  1. Better robocall blocking
  2. Call screening similar to visual voicemail
  3. Better voice assistant
  4. Wait for me on hold feature that listens for a person
  5. Visual phone trees so you don’t have to listen to phone tree systems on customer service calls.
  6. RCS for better cross platform communication
  7. A better notification system with built in interaction systems.
  8. Better app icon movement experience and the ability to put app icons anywhere.
  9. Default map app choice similar to browser and email
  10. Universal back gesture that works everywhere consistently
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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    3 and 8 are actually mind blowing to me. Like I’ll give Siri some benefit of doubt but how are you a multi trillion dollar company and still miles behind everyone else. This isn’t just iPhone but also the HomePod. The functionality is impressive… if it were 2011.

    As for moving the apps. It is an unholy nightmare, especially with widgets now.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    What I also love to see is that you can mark a missed phone call as unseen. Sometimes i’m coming out of a meeting and missed several calls but i have to call someone back and because of that the notification disappears and i forget to call the missed calls back…

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Apple needs to adopt all the pixel calling features. I miss them so much.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    The calling features, particularly call screening, is what has kept me on Pixels for so long but I've reached a point where I can no longer ignore the rest of the failures/problems with Pixels/Android. Pretty well hae made up my mind to switch to iPhone because Pixels have turned to crap since Google switched to Tensor.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    10 would be impossible, it’s still up to developers to implement what the gesture does / where it takes you.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Which is dumb because it should be an OS level gesture. Android has a swipe from the edge of any screen and it recognizes it as back. I would love to have an iPhone but the 14 Pro I had earlier this year just baffled me on how to go back a page sometimes and the dynamic island needs to open a quick response on messaging apps. And I just hate faceid. Other than that, better battery life is important. I currently have a zfold 4 and it's absurdly expensive but other than it's mediocre 7 hour screen on time, it's just so much easier to use.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    On Android it’s still up to the developers to implement where the back gesture takes you, just like it already is on iOS.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're kind of right but I mean where the back button is more so then what it does. I've used iOS apps where the back button is top left of the screen, I've used them where bottom left is, very rarely I've seen it in the top right. Android, it's baked into the OS. If I try to go back, I just do the back gesture and I go back. Doesn't have to be on a specific part of the screen.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    It’s not “baked into the OS”, though. It still has to be implemented by the developer of the app. Apple could enforce stricter approval rules, but there is nothing they can change at the OS level that would make it just work.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    5 would be extremely nice but IMO those options purposely bury the ‘talk to human’ to the underworld, which a lot of people calling customer care are looking for. If it were visual, I feel most people will just use that (I know I would). Happy to be proven wrong here.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Better phone and calculator apps, coming from android the these built in apps not being as good was really unexpected from Apple

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What’s the difference with the calculator app?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    I miss how my Samsung would show all the values I’m adding or subtracting and also show the answer before I hit “=“, whereas in the iPhone calculator as soon as you enter the next number you can’t see the previous ones. Really helps when you’re adding a long list of numbers and don’t have to keep a mental note on where you are in the list at all times

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t 1 depend on the carrier to actually mark the call as robo? And since they often use random number generators now, it’s even harder to do. I get calls from Iran and it’s Chinese saying I have a package at the embassy.

    5 would need the caller to provide the tree or a database maintained and updated by the carrier no?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    You could build 5 by analyzing calls on-device and sharing that information with apple. It might be difficult to make sure personal information does not get included in the shared data though.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    1. Sideloading MacOS style

    2. The ability to change app icons without shortcuts

    13.the ability to change the Notification dot from red to another colour

    14.Split View

    15.more free background activity (be able to download a movie from telegram or Netflix while the app is in background )

    1. Close all app button
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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Coming from android after a decade, I was shocked 15 wasn’t a thing.

    Also

    17: T9 dialing 18: under-screen Touch ID

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago
    1. 120hz display and USB 3.0 on base models
    2. App sideloading support
    3. Call recording
    4. Ability to hide and lock apps using FaceID
    5. Better typing experience
    6. Better mobile data/wifi usage tracking (showing per day stats)
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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Text message management still sucks, especially junk text messages. If you have a DOT number the phone you have tied to that number which is required by law gets spammed with texts and calls so bad that the phone is unusable, it just sits on a desk.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    1. Better UI scaling that allows for more information density so you don't feel like you're using one of those TV remotes made for old people

    2. More options for selecting default apps

    3. Faster charging

    4. Side loading apps

    5. Allow me to put my icons wherever I want.

    6. More homescreen customization options

    7. A more usable and feature rich file manager

    8. Split screen multi-tasking

    9. Better camera zoom

    10. More detailed options in camera app

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    1.) It already silences calls from spammers 2.) what are you asking for 3.) I agree, Siri is lacking in many places 4.) what 5.) what is a phone tree 6.) maybe, but I’d hope RCS enabled devices work with Apple on a universal end to end encryption (that’s not owned by google) 7.) how would you improve the current system 8.) I could take it or leave it, I put everything on one screen for the most part anyways 9.) you can already set a default maps app, and have been able to for a while now (iOS 15?) 10.) back like going back a page? Swipe right from the left edge of the screen

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