Apple

Your mom’s assssss

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I want them to fix the weather app so that it works as well as Dark Sky did.

I want the volume controls to be designed so that I can crank the volume on my alarms up or down without changing any other volumes. I feel like this is a losing battle and I should probably just buy an actual alarm clock.

So really just fix the weather app.

I just want a better Ai on it. That’s all.

1. Call Recording
2. Scrolling Screenshot
3. Background Downloads for third-party apps

This one is for the non-English speakers. I'd love to finally have support for writing compound words in the many Germanic languages that require them (e.g. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, and Dutch). The current spell check marks most compound words as incorrect because it only checks if the word exists in a pre-made list of words, which doesn't work at all for compound word languages.

Keyboard Updates- yes I know that was part of 17 but it was 3 steps forward, 2 steps backwards. Need to fix the learned words, speed, and other issues.

Bug fixes. I’d really like Siri to be able to hear me the first time I ask her to turn the lights on.

Make apps request access to play audio like they request access to use location data, notifications, and the camera.

Real folders/albums for photos. I can’t stand it that everything is still in the main album even if I put it into a separate album.

Bluetooth file share with Android.

Decide with what service some of my apps sync e.g. Obsidian.

Writing/reading iMessages from Windows/Linux on my phone.

Changing ring tone volume separated from my alarm volume.

Changing ring tone volume without having the tone played.

Siri, which actually has a brain and finally understands what I want. So funny if you ask her to play a song with an English title if your phone is set to a different language.

Adding complexions to Watch faces - why can’t I do that today?

Choose whatever app I want to have as widget on my lock screen and as widgets on the spring board.

Deleting words from autocorrect (suggestion). Don’t know why mega is always first letter uppercase, and lol caps.

Not declining my phones speed.

More battery life.

Split windows on all devices.

Less bugs. With Steve, we never had such a mess.

Changing special characters on the keyboard, so „ can be " by default.

A new design/color scheme. At least make the icons match MacOS, iOS has looked the same since iOS 7

Split screen for iPhone even if only for plus/pro max models.

Sideloading… worldwide.

More access to the NFC chip (let apps simulate an arbitrary tag, at the NFC protocol level)

I would like dual screen multi tasking on pro max. I’m not sure that I would use it, but I’d like it for the rare cases I did. I might also like picture and picture to offer custom sizing. Mail could use some love. I also would like better control of the messaging apps within messaging. I hate all the stuff I never use. I just want to remove it

Figure out a deal with Truecaller, and give us a decent call screener. I’m tired of dealing with spam n fraud calls.

Either use the data from Truecaller, or build something from scratch where we can all contribute. Privacy first tho.

A few things, mainly with security:

• A "master switch" so I can ensure the camera, microphone, GPS, and other things are turned off, where no app can access them, period.

• Some anti-mugging features like a duress code, ability to PIN protect access to account and family info on the phone (the screen time thing sort of works, but not really), where one can enter in a fake PIN, let the attacker adjust whatever settings they want, but all their changes are automatically reverted in 1-2 hours.

It would be nice if an attacker didn't just need your device PIN and your device to seize your account and family stuff.

• Ability to geofence, so a phone will prompt for a PIN and not just FaceID/TouchID if taken out of the usual commute corridors. This way, if the phone is stolen, it is harder for a would-be thief to decode it.

• A self erase feature, where if the phone doesn't get an Internet connection in "x" amount of time, it will erase itself.

• Partial backups. I'd love to be able to save off games and other stuff off the device and later on, load them, load the app and play it. Backups are all or nothing... it would be nice to have something like Titanium Backup where individual apps can be backed up or even archived off with their data.

Literally nothing. I want zero new features.

I want an entire year of dev time going to optimization and bug fixes.

Hotspot activation in control center

bug fixes and the ability to change the microphone input independently of the headphones you’re using.

I would love ai suggestions for shortcuts. If the phones sees us doing things inefficiently or using certain apps at certain times it would be cool to be suggested shortcuts from AI.

The only thing I thing is missing from iOS that would make it the perfect mobile OS would be ability to have icons on the bottom of the home screen. I'm a minimalist with only 4 icons on the home screen, it's ridiculous that they have to be at the top of the nearly 7 inch screen.

close multiple apps at the same time lol

At least five other text options for a global system font, if not the opportunity to use any font.

Scheduled iMessages.

Bring back all the useful things they ripped out, and fix the stupid things they changed.

Some quick examples:

• My iPhone doesn't give me notifications if it's locked and I am wearing my Apple Watch. So, I miss tons of notifications because I don't feel the blip from the watch. SO ANNOYING. Just let my phone notify me. Why did you nurf this, Apple?!? WHY!??! So, stupid.
• The lock screen no longer says when the current do-not-disturb duration ends. Why did you take this away!??! Less information is not a good thing!
• Message notifications at the bottom of the lock screen doesn't work. My hand covers the bottom of the phone when I go to check it, so I have to do some weird yoga hand moves to see if there's anything there. Let me decide where I want the notifications to appear!

Even shorter battery life! Get it down to 45 minutes, please!

A change in the design language of 1st party apps to eliminate pop-ups (which will hopefully encourage 3rd party apps to follow).

I'm ridiculously tired of opening apps, and they need to do a little animation to tell me about some new feature, or to ask for a rating, etc. Popups are a horrid user experience and Apple needs to lead the way towards getting rid of them.

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