In the future, what apps would you like to see overhauled?

[Dormammu]

I've been enjoying the small improvements and changes to iOS in the recent years. I think many of the refinements and updates to the stock iOS apps have been great.

That said, I would like to see the following apps updated and brought up to snuff, either functionally, or visually:

Mail
Find my Friends

What apps do you all wish to see revisited?

 

[mikzn]

I agree with your choice of Mail being number 1

My list would be . . .

1) Mail
2) Contacts - needs to sync with other apps like outlook etc, - sync even between iOS devices is quirky and inconsistent.
3) Music
4) TV - Media Player
5) Siri

edit - change to reflect iOS

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

I've been enjoying the small improvements and changes to iOS in the recent years. I think many of the refinements and updates to the stock iOS apps have been great.

That said, I would like to see the following apps updated and brought up to snuff, either functionally, or visually:

Mail
Find my Friends

What apps do you all wish to see revisited?

Calendar

 

[Dormammu]

Calendar

I kind of feel the same way as well. On one hand, I think it works great. On the other hand it does feel a little bit dated and lacking is features.

 

[Surrix]

Reminders is a joke. It has the feel of an app developed by one guy who's just learning coding for the first time. It's only usuable via Siri.

 

[nutmac]

If I were to get just 1 feature per app:

• Calendar: Better list view (scrolls to different date)
• Mail: Extensions (share sheet)
• Maps: Crowd sourced traffic report (e.g., using Siri, report an accident)
• Messages: No more duplicate contacts (like the macOS version)
• Music: Downloaded Music only mode
• Phone: Banner style notification on incoming calls
• Photos: Shared iCloud Photo Library
• Reminders: Cleaner design (similar to Things 3)
• TV: Better scrubbing UI
• Weather: Hyperlocal severe weather and precipitation notification

 

[GreyOS]

Mail: Extensions (share sheet)

No doubt a more discoverable method for this through a redesign would be welcome but just in case you weren’t aware, you can Print an email from the reply button and in the print preview you can 3D Touch or pinch-to-zoom. From there you can access extensions on the PDF copy of it. (But yes would also be good to have extensions directly on the email without PDF conversion)

 

[Dormammu]

If I were to get just 1 feature per app:

• Calendar: Better list view (scrolls to different date)
• Mail: Extensions (share sheet)
• Maps: Crowd sourced traffic report (e.g., using Siri, report an accident)
• Messages: No more duplicate contacts (like the macOS version)
• Music: Downloaded Music only mode
• Phone: Banner style notification on incoming calls
• Photos: Shared iCloud Photo Library
• Reminders: Cleaner design (similar to Things 3)
• TV: Better scrubbing UI
• Weather: Hyperlocal severe weather and precipitation notification

I like what you're thinking. I would use Apple Maps more often if it had more detailed traffic information ... like Google Maps. I like the traffic data in Google Maps, but love the UI in Apple Maps ... function over form for me.

I'd like a radar option on the weather app.

Your phone suggestion is a very good one ... maybe iOS13?

 

[MozMan68]

I like what you're thinking. I would use Apple Maps more often if it had more detailed traffic information ... like Google Maps. I like the traffic data in Google Maps, but love the UI in Apple Maps ... function over form for me.

I'd like a radar option on the weather app.

Your phone suggestion is a very good one ... maybe iOS13?

More detailed how? Like, show green instead of showing "nothing"? I mean, it's the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

And, "downloaded music" only has been an option in Music for years.

Radar is all I ever look at on other weather maps...need to see where the rain is...how this is not an option yet is beyond me. Literally, just put it below the temps so I can swipe up and see it.

 

[Abazigal]

Calendar - support text input like fantastical.
Podcast - Smart speed
Camera - bring resolution settings in-app
Contacts - let me manage groups on iOS
Mail - find some way to bring back push notifications for gmail
News - bring to more countries
Bring VPN toggle to control centre

Just a few off the top of my head.

 

[Dormammu]

More detailed how? Like, show green instead of showing "nothing"? I mean, it's the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

I've personally found Google Map's traffic information leaps and bound ahead of Apple's. I am in the bay area, and often time Apple Maps is unable to tell that to me before embarking on a trip using Apple Maps -whereas Google Maps will. I am in the bay area ... so when traffic is bad, it's bad. Having the most up to date traffic information is very valuable to me.

Mail - find some way to bring back push notifications for gmail

Wouldn't that be golden?

 

[MBAir2010]

is Flickr an app?
i need to restart the iPad to refresh the app.
along with other apps

 

[Apple_Robert]

Mail would be number 1 on my list, along with many of the apps already mentioned.

In my opinion, Apple should do their best, (and in keeping with security) to make it where looking to third party apps is the last thing an Apple user would want to do.

In several areas Apple has been innovative. In other areas like Mail etc. I have found them to be lacking. It would be nice to be able to not have to go third party.

 

[nutmac]

More detailed how? Like, show green instead of showing "nothing"? I mean, it's the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

And, "downloaded music" only has been an option in Music for years.

Radar is all I ever look at on other weather maps...need to see where the rain is...how this is not an option yet is beyond me. Literally, just put it below the temps so I can swipe up and see it.

Maps: I was thinking more alongs the line of Waze-like feature where I can report a traffic incident via Siri (Hey Siri, I am passing an accident") and if enough people report the same, Maps will report that information to other drivers.

Music: Downloaded Music is another thing I have to click. If I am not subscribing to Apple Music nor iTunes Match, there's no reason for it to be there. And I don't want to see Connect and Radio tabs either. Since Apple Music is where Apple wants all of it users to be, I doubt this will ever happen.

Weather: If Apple wants to embrace minimal design on their Weather app, they can add an option to Maps app. Click the tiny "current temperature" button and voila, precipitation overlay.

 

[MozMan68]

Agree with the Maps suggestion..since it’s their own data, a little more direct feedback via Siri would be nice.

Downloaded music is nice for those that only want to hear certain music on their phone. I have over 16,000 songs in iTunes, but don’t necessarily want to use up data (or can’t in some instances) and just want to hear what I’ve bothered to download on my phone...like when flying. Yeah, it will skip over the non-downloaded songs, but there can be a delay.

 

[AppleFan91]

If I were to get just 1 feature per app:

• Calendar: Better list view (scrolls to different date)
• Mail: Extensions (share sheet)
• Maps: Crowd sourced traffic report (e.g., using Siri, report an accident)
• Messages: No more duplicate contacts (like the macOS version)
• Music: Downloaded Music only mode
• Phone: Banner style notification on incoming calls
• Photos: Shared iCloud Photo Library
• Reminders: Cleaner design (similar to Things 3)
• TV: Better scrubbing UI
• Weather: Hyperlocal severe weather and precipitation notification

This x1,000. So weird that Apple still thinks I need a full screen takeover when someone calls me. Completely ruins games or videos.

 

[MEJHarrison]

I'd like to see the Photos app updated to allow keyword entry. It's great that we can search keywords, but I need to do the hard work on my Mac.

 

[bopajuice]

Id like to see MacOs and iOS with less bugs and problems.

 

[DuckSoup]

Contacts DESPERATELY needs what my old Motorola phones called Group Profiles. You can assign Contacts to a Group and give the Groups a ringtone and text tone so all contacts in that group have the same ringtone/text tone. Thus you can change them all at once if you wish a different tone.

 

[Dormammu]

Id like to MacOs and iOS with less bugs and problems.

People have always harked on the bugs in iOS. I’m glad I never noticed said bugs, or they didn’t affect me.
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This x1,000. So weird that Apple still thinks I need a full screen takeover when someone calls me. Completely ruins games or videos.

Nothing like playing your favorite MMOPRG and getting kicked from the match because someone called.
I started using DND before playing games. Such a pain because I’d often times forget to turn DND off afterwards.

 

[boston04and07]

Great thread idea. Here are mine...

Weather: add radar view and severe weather push alerts, and finally get it on the iPad
Phone: put it on the iPad for WiFi calling and make voicemail accessible on the iPad as well
TV: full integration with live streaming services like PlayStation Vue and Sling. As in, I’d like to be able to watch all my live stations from these services directly in the TV app.
Health and Activity: iPad support for both, native food entry/calorie tracking in the Health app
Clock: Sync timers and alarms between devices so that if you start one on one device the alerts get pushed through to all devices
Calculator: iPad support
Compass: iPad support

Clearly iPad support for native apps is a biggie for me. I find it so annoying that Apple has some pretty nice stock apps and has still never given iPad users access to them.

 

[notengoojotas]

Reminders is a joke. It has the feel of an app developed by one guy who's just learning coding for the first time. It's only usuable via Siri.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[eoblaed]

In general, I think the stock apps are pretty good. A few things I constantly find myself musing over, though:

• Phone: bring back the large square-ish buttons that you didn't have to aim so carefully for.
• Phone: option for banner notification (as others have suggested)
• Camera: video resolution/speed in app

I use Mail, Calendar, Messages heavily and am generally pretty happy with those. I'm curious about the folks that have listed Mail and/or Calendar as one of their top picks what functionality they feel is missing/misplaced/awkward?

 

[4492865]

• Reminders is so basic. Add the due dates back, in addition to alarms. Sub tasks too. Better search or tagging. Better UI
• Music allow us to create playlist folders and move playlists
• Photos: keyword management
• Calender: general UI overhaul. There must be a better way to display calenders
• Homekit: very confusing UI
• Share sheet for mail

 

[IowaLynn]

System desktop integration so that tapping on app icon is used to create, preview, and other tasks. Now, it just deletes. Quaint.

Move the delete app to Settings where app can be controlled. And call it uninstall, or off load.

Also app storage management and cache as well as hide an app you don't want on desktop. The way storage is now treated in Setting > General seems like an afterthought where to add what was new once.