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Four biggest and most groundbreaking innovations for iOS 12

Redesigned Home experience, integrating Proactive, widgets and featuring smarter icons.

Overhauled UI with Dark Mode, providing the most immersive experience on OLED screens.

Feature bumps to main apps - e.g. Smart Playlists, Playlist Sorting and Crossfade in Music, bulk-delete or archive in Mail

Notification Grouping and Snoozing - defer notifications until later

Do Not Disturb improvements - better, smarter scheduling and hides notification bubbles from icons for true ‘me time’. When turned off, “notifications you missed” screen catches you up

Incoming Call Screen Redesign - swipe to minimise when not answering, rather than having to wait for caller to stop

All New Contacts App - with social API, allowing for example viewing of Instagram stories or Facebook data, API for tighter integration with Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp etc. Set your own information (like birthday, email, etc) which is shared with people you have the number of who also have your number.

Split Screen on iPhone X / Plus with Drag and Drop - 50/50 views top and bottom
 
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-BigMac- said:
Thats exactly why it is green. Blue looks better, as your comment states. Why would Apple promote it being OK when youre not in their ecosystem?

This is a terrific marketing tactic. Everyone hates the green bubbles
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He’s talking about the icon for the app :)
 
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Nothing big or groundbreaking - just bring back the on\off toggle option for WiFi and BT from Control Canter, and full dark mode.
 
A more fleshed out Files app, like the option to access a Webdav (or other) share directly instead of only via an other app.

True dark mode.
 
Chorx said:
He’s talking about the icon for the app :)
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Ohhh haha my bad

I have a feeling changing it to blue would still entice people to complain. “I liked the green”, “this is just confusing with the other apps”, “apple isnt what it used to be”, “theyre changing everything steve set up”...

Haha i cant see EVERYONE being satisfied on these forums
 
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1. Siri 3rd party support, let me use Siri to play songs on Spotify, etc

2. Home screen needs redesign, having 400 icons and trying to manage, find, use etc is less than ideal.

3. Notifications revamp, make it more useful and aesthetically easier on the eyes, take cues from Android, and integrate control-center/notifications with home automation.

4. (Impossible dream innovation wishlist) Revamped animations and reduced input-blocking to make the phone super snazzy and fast. Let the hardware scream and not be hindered by artificial slow/distrating animations nor input-blocking.
 
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• Font Book
• Better Edit menu (perhaps a Mac OS-like contextual menu)
• iMessage search (and you know what I mean by search)
 
Knowlege Bomb said:
I think the only way Apple would ever be able to clear up this misconception (that apps in the app switcher are actually using resources) would be to get rid of the app switcher altogether. Why people continue to liken iOS to Android in this respect will forever confuse me. I see it so frequently with iPhone users where they go into their app switcher immediately after closing an app to swipe it away. What they don't understand is that by doing that, it's actually costing them battery life because iOS has to start from scratch and reload everything when they go to use that app again.

There's hundreds of articles out there explaining this if anybody thinks I'm full of it.
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What about background refresh?

I was actually just wanting to keep my switcher free of apps I haven't used in a long time. I like it tidy.
 
Type4O said:
What about background refresh?

I was actually just wanting to keep my switcher free of apps I haven't used in a long time. I like it tidy.
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From what I understand apps that have background refresh enabled do so whether or not they're in the app switcher.
 
I think they need to make a complete redesign. I just bought my mom a mid range Samsung smartphone with the latest version of Android and Samsung theme and I helped her set it up and wow, was really impressed by how fresh/modern the UI/UX felt. Then the notifications started pouring and wow again, the way they appear and get organized looks like the way they should be on every device. Don't get me wrong, I've been an iPhone user since 2007 and I've loved every iPhone I've owned but iOS is really feeling old and dated in the UI/UX department this days.
 
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Michael Goff said:
I'd like a release with zero new features and all bugfixes and performance improvements.
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I remember when iOS 9 was supposed to be that type of a release. In the early days it was full of different people complaining about all kinds of things and didn't really get better and more stable until some updates down the road.
 
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I remember when iOS 9 was supposed to be that type of a release. In the early days it was full of different people complaining about all kinds of things and didn't really get better and more stable until some updates down the road.
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ios 9 was slower than iOS 8 on pretty much every device. Not sure how Apple managed that.

Back to the topic, I’d just like my iPad 10.5 to render animations without jitter.

I’d also be happy with them fixing the files app to be useful (make it able to actually download all of your iCloud Drive to the device, some sort of feature to work with wireless external hard drives).

Better multitasking interface (doing it through the dock is clumsy)

Long press wifi icon to TURN WIFI OFF.
 
I’d like Apple to release polished software again instead of an incomplete buggy mess.

I’d like Apple to actually have their own QA/QC for software instead of expecting developers and public beta testers to act as free labour filing report after report just to try and get the OS back to a competent state. That is hostile and abusive behaviour. I’m willing to help with polishing and reporting obscure bugs but not with basic broken functionality. I’m struggling without work currently yet I’ve given Apple a huge amount in in-kind QA/QC. That isn’t right so it has to stop.

We’re wasting time reporting bugs and broken functionality that have nothing to do with new features in the OS. Take the loss of 3D Touch app switcher and Notifications/Lock Screen via reachability; both since restored but why were they even cut in the first place? There are hundreds of other examples, you only have to read this forum as evidence of that.
 
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simonmet said:
I’d like Apple to release polished software again instead of an incomplete buggy mess.

I’d like Apple to actually have their own QA/QC for software instead of expecting developers and public beta testers to act as free labour filing report after report just to try and get the OS back to a competent state. That is hostile and abusive behaviour. I’m willing to help with polishing and reporting obscure bugs but not with basic broken functionality. I’m struggling without work currently yet I’ve given Apple a huge amount in in-kind QA/QC. That isn’t right so it has to stop.

We’re wasting time reporting bugs and broken functionality that have nothing to do with new features in the OS. Take the loss of 3D Touch app switcher and Notifications/Lock Screen via reachability; both since restored but why were they even cut in the first place? There are hundreds of other examples, you only have to read this forum as evidence of that.
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Although some of the histrionics on here are a bit much, it's clear Apple are struggling to turn out a fully baked iOS .0 release every year. Bugs are to be expected, features coming in later point releases are fine (though it would certainly inspire more confidence if they were planned that way, rather than cut in a crunch and re-added later) but, for me at least, the quality is a bit lower than I'd expect from Apple. Yes, it gets fixed but still.

They definitely need to either scale back their ambition or improve their development practices. As likable, knowledgeable and talented as Craig Federigi is, the buck stops with him.
 
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