I've been reading the iOS 11 wishlist thread, and thought this might be a fun game. I combined many people's wishlists, including my own, and came to below list of 99 features that have been mentioned in these forums. So, I'd like to propose a little contest with the following rules:
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System-Wide
01. Ability to change default apps for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, ...
02. Widgets on lock screen, like Complications on watchOS.
03. Multi-tasking multiple instances of same app
04. Drag and drop between apps in split view on iPad
05. Multiple user accounts on iPad
06. Secure individual apps or documents with password or Touch ID
07. Some type of Finder or easier way of letting apps access each others files
Control Center
08. Customisable control center
09. Force Touch in control center to select WiFi network, Bluetooth device, ...
User Interface
10. Dark mode
11. Merge long press & 3D touch into single gesture
12. Improve keyboard on larger phones, e.g. number bar
13. Re-think the UI paradigm for that little black "copy-paste" bar
14. Make the UI design language consistent again (re: Music, News)
15. Advanced clipboard features like a clipboard history or favourites
16. An "edit" sheet separate from the "share" sheet
17. "Home" and "Sleep" buttons merged into single type of interaction
18. Blocking warning boxes (“10% battery remaining”) replaced by regular notifications
Home Screen
19. Smarter icon rearrangement (e.g. move multiple icons at once, or auto-sort most used to 1st screen)
20. Live icons like Apple's clock or calendar apps
21. Home screen widgets.
22. Ability to add other things than apps to the home screen, e.g. contact persons
23. Completely redesigned home screen on iPad
Settings
24. Setting profiles (“Home”, “Work”, …). Could be geo-fenced.
25. Ability to lower brightness below current minimum
26. Ability to control device media syncing directly from iOS or iCloud instead of through iTunes
27. Further improved Family Sharing.
28. Re-organized settings menu (some key settings hidden way too deep)
29. Allow access to settings both from within the app and from within the Settings screen.
30. Ability to send audio to a specific device.
31. Wi-Fi network priorities, like in macOS.
Continuity
32. Handoff of ongoing media: transfer an in-progress phone call, transfer a playing movie, ...
33. Native support for screen sharing, e.g. AirPlay from iPhone to iPad, or using an iPad as secondary display for a Mac like Duet Display
34. Ability to share screen or push audio to a contact on same wifi or via Bluetooth, e.g. screen sharing in a meeting, or listening to same music while running
35. Use iPhone / iPad as drawing pad for macOS
36. A “push” form of continuity (send a user activity to the target device from the source device, rather than the current “pull” form where you start from the target device)
37. Allow iPad to access files shared from macOS
38. A framework for social collaboration, Handoff-style (NSUserActivity) - for example having multiple people on same wifi edit same document or play a collaborative game.
New Apps for iPad
39. Weather
40. Calculator (too much to ask for a Graphing Calculator like Mac OS of old?)
41. Phone
42. Voice Memos
43. Apple Health. Specifically, a dashboard. I get the privacy concerns (and legal issues) in syncing health data through iCloud, perhaps syncing it locally over Bluetooth is an option? In any case, after amassing a few years worth of Health data, the phone is not the right platform to analyse all that data on.
44. Apple Support app built in - this app can be really handy. Either bundle it, or integrate it into the Apple ID section of settings.
Siri
45. On-device Siri
46. Textual input for Siri
47. Fully merge Siri with Spotlight - why these 2 give different results for the same query? Because I typed one and spoke the other?
48. Extend SiriKit to additional categories of interaction
Messages
49. Archive messages to iCloud
50. Faster search
51. Streamline interface, improve discoverability
52. Streamline Messenger Apps . Separate stickers and apps. Make stickers easier to access.
53. Allow Messages apps to be x-platform on iOS + macOS
54. API to read/write to iMessage history (inc. SMS)
Facetime
55. Group calls
56. Screen sharing
57. Facetime voicemail
58. Sync favourites across devices
59. Unify Phone + FaceTime into a single app.
Photos & Camera
60. Sync faces across devices!
61. Easily export Live Photos as animated GIFs
62. Better user interface for mass face tagging
63. “Ignore this face of random background person forever"
64. Native RAW support
65. OCR in photo analysis machine learning step
66. Streamline user interface choices, e.g. why on earth is "not this person" under the "share" sheet? Why are the markup options hidden behind the "more" button? Seriously, has anyone from Human Interface or Usability groups looked at these apps recently?
67. Allow albums from the "Albums" tab to also be shared under the "Shared" tab rather than requiring 2 completely seperate albums for private collection vs. sharing
68. Tweak the Memories feature to be more targeted at automatic album creation, less at video creation
69. Manual Camera Controls - Build in a "Manual" mode in the stock camera.
70. Probably not easy to build, but some type of intelligence around age of children would be nice. My library keeps suggesting that my 2-year old is my 5-year old because they looked similar at age 2, but taking timestamps into account somehow could make this relatively trivial. Less relevant for adults of course, but I don’t think I’m an exception in saying that almost 50% of my photo library are pics of my kids.
Health
71. Sync from iPhone to iPad. I know they wouldn't want to sync over iCloud due to privacy concerns, but I would imagine some type of local sync from iPhone to iPad should be possible, just like how the Watch syncs to iPhone
72. Better charts and dashboards.
73. Allow entry of non-quantitive info, like listing when I had a cold or got a vaccine, ...
74. Sleep tracking
75. Multiple health profiles - specifically, allow me to enter info for my kids as well. Fevers, childhood diseases, growth, how much milk the baby drank, ...
Contacts
76. Manage contact groups on iOS
77. System-wide VIP contacts (for Mail, priority Do Not Disturb, …)
78. Default contact method for a person (FaceTime, Phone, WhatsApp, …)
Mail
79. Rules for which mails trigger a notification and which not
Safari
80. Download Manager
Videos / TV
81. Multiple profiles. Netflix executes this almost perfectly.
Music
82. Make it more usable for people who only use their local downloaded library, no Apple Music
83. Split the iTunes Store app out into the seperate apps for Music, iBooks, Videos, Podcasts, ...
84. Some type of light subscription to Apple Music, for those of us who don't listen to Music enough to pony up the full price but still would enjoy the benefit of not having to curate our own library. For example a 2.99$ subscription with only access to a limited library, 6 month delay on recent releases, and only a limited amount of hours per month.
85. Integrate Lyrics into all Apple Music songs. And Album booklets too if not already done.
Maps
86. Offline Maps
87. Dynamic re-routing in case of traffic
88. Street view
89. Bicycle directions. For bonus points, take popular biking tracks into account.
90. Indoor maps
Calendar & Reminders
91. Improved Do Not Disturb scheduling (pick specific days/times, or turn on for x amount of hours, or linked to Calendar events)
92. Just start paying some active attention to these apps rather than keeping them so basic. I don’t understand what the philosophy is behind having the same bare-bones Calendar app and Reminders app since pretty much iOS 1 (leaving a nice market for Todoist and Fantastical), but aggressively upgrading Notes every single release.
Wallet
93. Be able to scan a few of my cards directly into Wallet (i.e. Health Insurance, Drivers' Licence, etc.) to shave off a few millimeters from my physical Wallet
94. Apple Pay support across all of the European Union (seriously, we’ve had a Single Market for years, why is Apple Pay out in France + Spain but not the rest?)
Podcasts
95. Support for subscription podcasts
96. Better access to older episodes
97. Better annotation (e.g. automatic transcription, ability to display certain links at certain timestamps within the episode, …)
98. Some features for better monetisation (e.g. ads, in-podcast purchase links to apps, payed access to older episodes, …)
Remote
99. Improved Remote app with Handoff, i.e. watch a movie on your TV, hand it off to phone, hand back over to your Mac on PiP, …
- Predict how many of the below 99 features will be present in iOS 11.
- Add the top-3 features in which you're most confident that they will appear.
- After WWDC, I'll update this post to congratulate whoever had the closest number.
- In case of a tie, whoever has most of his top-3 most confident features right wins
- In case of a tie there as well, whoever posted first
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System-Wide
01. Ability to change default apps for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, ...
02. Widgets on lock screen, like Complications on watchOS.
03. Multi-tasking multiple instances of same app
04. Drag and drop between apps in split view on iPad
05. Multiple user accounts on iPad
06. Secure individual apps or documents with password or Touch ID
07. Some type of Finder or easier way of letting apps access each others files
Control Center
08. Customisable control center
09. Force Touch in control center to select WiFi network, Bluetooth device, ...
User Interface
10. Dark mode
11. Merge long press & 3D touch into single gesture
12. Improve keyboard on larger phones, e.g. number bar
13. Re-think the UI paradigm for that little black "copy-paste" bar
14. Make the UI design language consistent again (re: Music, News)
15. Advanced clipboard features like a clipboard history or favourites
16. An "edit" sheet separate from the "share" sheet
17. "Home" and "Sleep" buttons merged into single type of interaction
18. Blocking warning boxes (“10% battery remaining”) replaced by regular notifications
Home Screen
19. Smarter icon rearrangement (e.g. move multiple icons at once, or auto-sort most used to 1st screen)
20. Live icons like Apple's clock or calendar apps
21. Home screen widgets.
22. Ability to add other things than apps to the home screen, e.g. contact persons
23. Completely redesigned home screen on iPad
Settings
24. Setting profiles (“Home”, “Work”, …). Could be geo-fenced.
25. Ability to lower brightness below current minimum
26. Ability to control device media syncing directly from iOS or iCloud instead of through iTunes
27. Further improved Family Sharing.
28. Re-organized settings menu (some key settings hidden way too deep)
29. Allow access to settings both from within the app and from within the Settings screen.
30. Ability to send audio to a specific device.
31. Wi-Fi network priorities, like in macOS.
Continuity
32. Handoff of ongoing media: transfer an in-progress phone call, transfer a playing movie, ...
33. Native support for screen sharing, e.g. AirPlay from iPhone to iPad, or using an iPad as secondary display for a Mac like Duet Display
34. Ability to share screen or push audio to a contact on same wifi or via Bluetooth, e.g. screen sharing in a meeting, or listening to same music while running
35. Use iPhone / iPad as drawing pad for macOS
36. A “push” form of continuity (send a user activity to the target device from the source device, rather than the current “pull” form where you start from the target device)
37. Allow iPad to access files shared from macOS
38. A framework for social collaboration, Handoff-style (NSUserActivity) - for example having multiple people on same wifi edit same document or play a collaborative game.
New Apps for iPad
39. Weather
40. Calculator (too much to ask for a Graphing Calculator like Mac OS of old?)
41. Phone
42. Voice Memos
43. Apple Health. Specifically, a dashboard. I get the privacy concerns (and legal issues) in syncing health data through iCloud, perhaps syncing it locally over Bluetooth is an option? In any case, after amassing a few years worth of Health data, the phone is not the right platform to analyse all that data on.
44. Apple Support app built in - this app can be really handy. Either bundle it, or integrate it into the Apple ID section of settings.
Siri
45. On-device Siri
46. Textual input for Siri
47. Fully merge Siri with Spotlight - why these 2 give different results for the same query? Because I typed one and spoke the other?
48. Extend SiriKit to additional categories of interaction
Messages
49. Archive messages to iCloud
50. Faster search
51. Streamline interface, improve discoverability
52. Streamline Messenger Apps . Separate stickers and apps. Make stickers easier to access.
53. Allow Messages apps to be x-platform on iOS + macOS
54. API to read/write to iMessage history (inc. SMS)
Facetime
55. Group calls
56. Screen sharing
57. Facetime voicemail
58. Sync favourites across devices
59. Unify Phone + FaceTime into a single app.
Photos & Camera
60. Sync faces across devices!
61. Easily export Live Photos as animated GIFs
62. Better user interface for mass face tagging
63. “Ignore this face of random background person forever"
64. Native RAW support
65. OCR in photo analysis machine learning step
66. Streamline user interface choices, e.g. why on earth is "not this person" under the "share" sheet? Why are the markup options hidden behind the "more" button? Seriously, has anyone from Human Interface or Usability groups looked at these apps recently?
67. Allow albums from the "Albums" tab to also be shared under the "Shared" tab rather than requiring 2 completely seperate albums for private collection vs. sharing
68. Tweak the Memories feature to be more targeted at automatic album creation, less at video creation
69. Manual Camera Controls - Build in a "Manual" mode in the stock camera.
70. Probably not easy to build, but some type of intelligence around age of children would be nice. My library keeps suggesting that my 2-year old is my 5-year old because they looked similar at age 2, but taking timestamps into account somehow could make this relatively trivial. Less relevant for adults of course, but I don’t think I’m an exception in saying that almost 50% of my photo library are pics of my kids.
Health
71. Sync from iPhone to iPad. I know they wouldn't want to sync over iCloud due to privacy concerns, but I would imagine some type of local sync from iPhone to iPad should be possible, just like how the Watch syncs to iPhone
72. Better charts and dashboards.
73. Allow entry of non-quantitive info, like listing when I had a cold or got a vaccine, ...
74. Sleep tracking
75. Multiple health profiles - specifically, allow me to enter info for my kids as well. Fevers, childhood diseases, growth, how much milk the baby drank, ...
Contacts
76. Manage contact groups on iOS
77. System-wide VIP contacts (for Mail, priority Do Not Disturb, …)
78. Default contact method for a person (FaceTime, Phone, WhatsApp, …)
79. Rules for which mails trigger a notification and which not
Safari
80. Download Manager
Videos / TV
81. Multiple profiles. Netflix executes this almost perfectly.
Music
82. Make it more usable for people who only use their local downloaded library, no Apple Music
83. Split the iTunes Store app out into the seperate apps for Music, iBooks, Videos, Podcasts, ...
84. Some type of light subscription to Apple Music, for those of us who don't listen to Music enough to pony up the full price but still would enjoy the benefit of not having to curate our own library. For example a 2.99$ subscription with only access to a limited library, 6 month delay on recent releases, and only a limited amount of hours per month.
85. Integrate Lyrics into all Apple Music songs. And Album booklets too if not already done.
Maps
86. Offline Maps
87. Dynamic re-routing in case of traffic
88. Street view
89. Bicycle directions. For bonus points, take popular biking tracks into account.
90. Indoor maps
Calendar & Reminders
91. Improved Do Not Disturb scheduling (pick specific days/times, or turn on for x amount of hours, or linked to Calendar events)
92. Just start paying some active attention to these apps rather than keeping them so basic. I don’t understand what the philosophy is behind having the same bare-bones Calendar app and Reminders app since pretty much iOS 1 (leaving a nice market for Todoist and Fantastical), but aggressively upgrading Notes every single release.
Wallet
93. Be able to scan a few of my cards directly into Wallet (i.e. Health Insurance, Drivers' Licence, etc.) to shave off a few millimeters from my physical Wallet
94. Apple Pay support across all of the European Union (seriously, we’ve had a Single Market for years, why is Apple Pay out in France + Spain but not the rest?)
Podcasts
95. Support for subscription podcasts
96. Better access to older episodes
97. Better annotation (e.g. automatic transcription, ability to display certain links at certain timestamps within the episode, …)
98. Some features for better monetisation (e.g. ads, in-podcast purchase links to apps, payed access to older episodes, …)
Remote
99. Improved Remote app with Handoff, i.e. watch a movie on your TV, hand it off to phone, hand back over to your Mac on PiP, …
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