For those who left IOS, what would get you back?

[Russiaone]

Not a damn thing. Everytime they "innovate" they remove an essential feature.

Also, you're pretty much stuck with the way the phone looks for the duration of time you have it.

Can't customize a damn thing.

They'd have to bring back all the **** they took away and allow theming.

Which... ain't gonna happen.

 

[Tig Bitties]

I'm shocked 10 years later on the UI is pretty much virtually the same and still zero customization and still the app icons cannot be moved to wherever you want just unbelievable

 

[Vegastouch]

Apple's hardware has more or less caught up to the competition, finally. Now it's the software. They're not far.

I would say default apps to start, a better keyboard with native gesture capabilities (or properly let us set default keyboards so that they're default always), a better and more organized settings experience, a more consistent security experience, and generally just more freedom and customization to make iOS work for me. Would love to see a rehaul-ed App Store, too. I think the App Store is terribly clunky to use. And probably a few other small things that I can't think of at the moment.

I would say Apple is about one or two years away from seeing me come back. I'm looking forward to the stability fixes coming up this year, too.

It's going to take them years to get those things you list based off of how slow they were to give what you have now. I agree with the things you would want from them but doubt it ever happens if they haven't done it by now. Hec it took a year (iPhone 2) to get copy and paste. I stopped using iOS in 2010 and won't go back as far as the phones are concerend. They are also just to expensive.