iOS 11 expectations !

[Menel]

If it's really an early alpha build it's possible, but I read on Bloomberg that iOS 11 will have a refreshed UI. We'll see.

I would like to see a dark mode, iPad specific features to take advantage of the larger screen, and also a major push into AI / siri enhancements. I expect a new secure enclave built into the chip of the phone to store/use this information. This way nothing has to travel to Apple servers and it is (more) secure.

If they are switching to OLED displays like all the rumors suggest, like they did on the AppleWatch.

They are going to need a massive UI overhaul that is more black based to be battery efficient, IE the AppleWatch UI.

If this doesn't happen with the iOS11 betas... be very skeptical about an all new phone being released this year.

 

[Azygos85]

If they are switching to OLED displays like all the rumors suggest, like they did on the AppleWatch.

They are going to need a massive UI overhaul that is more black based to be battery efficient, IE the AppleWatch UI.

If this doesn't happen with the iOS11 betas... be very skeptical about an all new phone being released this year.

It's possible two versions of iOS11 will exist; obviously a version will be needed to support older phones too.

 

[jrodsep]

I don't expect a full redesign of iOS maybe a iOS 12 or 13 but my wishlist is the following:
Notifications - Please Apple copy Android and the way their notifications work, give me persistent notifications, the option to bundle them by app and please re-design the "bubbles" they look hideous. If you did only improvements to the notifications I would call iOS 11 a huge upgrade by itself. Right now notifications suck big time on iOS.
Refreshed Clock App - Please give us more options when setting up alarms, like the simple ability to set up snooze times and also include a clock widget where we can see upcoming alarms (up next widget is not the answer) and the ability to start and stop timers from it.
Revamp the App Store with better search results
Camera settings inside the camera app
Customize Control Center - Data Toggle and Hotspot Toggle are better toggles than night shift being a humongous toggle.

 

[ThunderMasterMind]

It's possible two versions of iOS11 will exist; obviously a version will be needed to support older phones too.

Honestly, do you really think Apple would do that? That isn't really a good idea, because that means that they have to keep up and update the 2 identical OSes, which is just ridiculous. Is it possible that it will happen? Yes, will it, no.

 

[ges]

I don't think they'll overhaul the UI specifically to darken it because not that much is under Apple's control. If you're reading a website or using an app it's down to them how much light or dark there is, so the value is limited.

 

[5268282]

what kind of features do you want in iOS 11 when it gets announced next year at wwdc ?

I would really like the old style of contact birthday notifications built into the Notification Center, a widget perhaps. It is annoying to only be alerted at the time designated (for me 9am) and then have notification disappear.

A widget with their birthday and perhaps their picture would be nice.

 

[Lion007s]

Can we also get swipe for the keyboard built in, that would be great!

 

[bluewomble88]

2 things I want...

Numerals on the top line of the keyboard permanently
Control centre customisation - is this really so hard?!!

 

[boston04and07]

Some things I'd like to see in no particular order...

- Missing iOS apps brought to the iPad - i.e. Health, Activity, Wallet, Voice Memos, Stocks, Weather, and Phone.
For Health and Activity, as @mark-vdw mentioned, some kind of device-to-device local syncing would be excellent since I know they don't want Health data in the cloud. For me, I'd just want the ability to review and store the data on my iPad for extra safekeeping. No reason why that ability shouldn't be there if the user opts in. It already works great between the Watch and the iPhone...let's bring that everywhere.

For the Phone app, I'd love nothing more than to have a separate app on the iPad like we already have on the iPhone with access to voicemails. Now that voicemails have albeit a small iCloud tie-in with Siri I'd love for them to take it a step further and make voicemails available across devices. Having all my calls on my iPads is great, but since I screen a lot of spam calls, I can't really use it as I'd like and still always need my phone nearby to listen to voicemails, thus rendering this feature a lot less useful than it could be for me. Taking it a step further, being able to transfer phone calls between devices via Handoff would be fantastic too.

- Some kind of universal Now Playing option or Handoff for media. Now that all my headphones are wireless, I often find myself starting to listen to music on one device and then end up using another one of my devices before long. It'd be nice if I could seamlessly control what I'm listening to from whatever device I'm on.

- Faces sync in Photos. This is probably the number one thing I'd like to see...

- Make Audiobooks act like other iTunes media - have them all viewable directly in the Audiobooks section of the iBooks app, but store ones I'm not currently listening to in the cloud. It's great that we can re download them from the store now, but they just need this one extra step to make them really act like how everything else purchased from iTunes now functions.

- More local news and sports stations in Apple Music

- On the Home screen, being able to customize app folders with custom icons would be huge for me, even as just an Accessibility feature. My eyesight is horrible and having all these folders with tiny icons inside them that all look the same to me is not helpful.

- Being able to type to Siri/having Siri and Spotlight merged

- Being able to scan in my own cards to the Wallet app for safekeeping. It'd be nice to have scanned copies of my health insurance cards and things like that for when I need the information on them in a pinch

- Share sheets in Mail - it'd be great being able to add a Mail message to Reminders without having to use Siri to do so. (This capability is already there in iOS - you can already say "Remind me about this" to Siri when looking at an email, and a reminder is generated in the Reminders app with a handy link to the email. I just need to be able to do this without invoking Siri).

- A Trash feature in Messages like what we have in Mail or Photos. I like keeping all my messages and am always afraid of accidentally swiping over a conversation and deleting the whole thing. It is way too easy to do that. A Trash folder, where you can either go and delete threads/messages immediately forever or have 30 days to recover accidentally deleted things would be awesome.

- This is a long shot that will probably never happen, but being able to have videos that have been manually transferred to the TV app "live" in the cloud (i.e stored in iCloud until you redownload it, as all other iTunes media does) would be amazing. I have a ton of homemade videos that I'd like to keep with all my other videos and this would make it much neater.

- Ability to use iCloud storage for HomeKit security camera recording

 

[CTHarrryH]

Although this is all very interesting - I hope you all realize that IOS 11 has been set for a while and is probably in alpha type testing. I would think only minor changes will occur before IOS 11 is released later this year

 

[boston04and07]

Although this is all very interesting - I hope you all realize that IOS 11 has been set for a while and is probably in alpha type testing. I would think only minor changes will occur before IOS 11 is released later this year

Oh yes. All the stuff I listed is stuff I've been requesting since before iOS 10 even came out

 

[AppleFan91]

For me:

• Private folders
• New wallpapers - fight me.
• Customize Control Center
• Volume controls don't take up the screen when viewing media.
• Swiping in keyboard
• Numeric row on top of keyboard
• 3D Touch settings for low power mode (or customize in control center)
• Group notifications by app
• Phone call notifications revamp - when I'm playing a game and someone calls, why does it take up the whole screen. Just have a standard notification.
• New notification sounds
• Fix Reminders - I use it daily and it's so buggy. I love typing in a reminder and then trying to edit the time and it deletes the entire reminder. I'd use something else but reminders works with Siri and iCloud.
• Unlimited photo storage in iCloud (or bump up iCloud storage)

 

[Shirasaki]

New wallpapers - fight me.

I never care "new wallpapers" because I just pick up one I like and call it a day. Also, it is fairly easy to find beautiful scene online for free as wallpaper.

Unlimited photo storage in iCloud (or bump up iCloud storage)

Then you should pay premium for "unlimited storage". Bump up might be possible.

 

[SunnySharma__]

1. Native touch id lock for apps
2. Change safari multiple tabs switcher consistent with the main app switcher. Currently one stacks vertically and one horizontally.
3. Show photos in photos app full screen please. No more curtailed photos.
4. Improve control centre layout. It has a lot of wasted space.
5. Customisable control centre options specially for location and mobile data.
6. New UI for stock apps specially phone, dialer, weather etc.
7. Apps cache cleaning option.
8. Dynamic icons and widgets.

 

[macduke]

Honestly, do you really think Apple would do that? That isn't really a good idea, because that means that they have to keep up and update the 2 identical OSes, which is just ridiculous. Is it possible that it will happen? Yes, will it, no.

They do this every year. There are actually dozens of versions because of each iPhone and iPad. When I say they do this every year, the iPhone often has some special new feature that only works on the new iPhone. This necessitates a separate version. They could hold back dark mode until they show off the OLED iPhone, just like they hold back things like portrait mode. And while that's the most recent example, it's not the best since the launch was delayed. But there are all kinds of exclusive examples over the years. The big challenge here is that it would presumably require an API for developers to update their apps and support it on a system level. Some apps currently have a dark mode, but they would need to tie it into the system setting. There will also be UI guidelines for dark interfaces that they want developers to adhere to. So for those reasons, we might see it at WWDC. It's really hard to tell. Apple could just update all their first party apps and then leave third party developers to update, like they've done when they increased display sizes over the years.

 

[MacDevil7334]

iOS has become a fairly mature OS. So, my list of wants is relatively small, mostly glaring omissions at this point.

1. Let us customize control center. Seriously WTF Apple at this point? We have always needed to be able to customize control center. But when iOS 10 split control center into multiple panes, the inability to customize what appeared on each pane became indefensible.
2. Notifications revamp. Lots of wasted space, can't group by app, all been said before.
   • Fix Mail notification previews. This is a specific notifications pet peeve of mine. When you 3D Touch on a notification banner for an email, you get a mess of HTML code. But if you go into the mail app and 3D Touch on the same message in your inbox, the preview properly renders the entire message. Why the difference? iOS 10's "rich" notification feature isn't very useful when it comes to mail now.
   • Allow the text field expand beyond 2.5 lines in the quick reply dialog for Messages. Why does it cut off? It kept expanding as far as needed in iOS 8-9. Sometimes my quick reply becomes a longer reply and this is a big step back in iOS 10.
3. Keep moving iOS closer to a desktop OS on the iPad. Software has always been the main reason why people don't upgrade iPads often or buy them to replace a laptop. Most iPads in use today all do pretty much the same thing, and none of them come close to replacing a real laptop (yes, even the pro models). iOS 9 made some real strides here with split view and picture in picture. But, then iOS 10 added almost nothing for iPad users. Time for Apple to move things along again.

If Apple addressed these three areas, I'd be pretty happy. Everything else people ask for, like the mythical dark mode, would just be icing on the cake.

 

[AsherN]

I want to be able to select the aspect ratio in the camera app. I do print a fair number of my photos. On standard 4X6 paper. I hate to come home from a trip, load up all my pictures into my desktop software of choice and then have to manually crop them all. SOmetimes fining that I have to crop parts that I want to keep. It should not be that hard to let me see only a 3:2 ratio.

 

[DNichter]

Although this is all very interesting - I hope you all realize that IOS 11 has been set for a while and is probably in alpha type testing. I would think only minor changes will occur before IOS 11 is released later this year

Yes, but no one knows what features iOS 11 will have as nothing as been discussed. This is a forum to discuss potential features and what people would like to see in the next OS.

 

[Widyoist]

what kind of features do you want in iOS 11 when it gets announced next year at wwdc ?

1.no springboard animation customization
2.better music player upgrade and better equalizer customization

 

[bigjnyc]

I like a lot of these:

 

[Math889]

just 3 weeks for WWDC event cant wait!!!!!!

 

[DanielDD]

I like a lot of these:

I enjoy his videos but I think many of those suggestions are not very Apple-like

 

[dannyyankou]

I hope the rumored refreshed UI takes the best parts of iOS 6 and iOS 10

 

[Melrose]

1. Give me slide to unlock back.

2. Get rid of the dumb margins on notification bubbles and stuff that wastes all the bigger screen space. We ask for bigger screens, now so much space is wasted with padding and margins it's basically back where it was but with a larger device.

3. Put Music and Photos back to what they were: Usable. No more tiles in Music give me my list view back and let me tap to play all by the artist; and Photos is just...way too irritating.

4. Minor point: Just make the notifications and lock screen centered all the time (like it was) or left all the time or right all the time. Stop changing text justification on every damn swipe. I've seen high school kids have more sense than this.

...aaaaand that's all. I don't have high hopes. I still use iOS9. There are so many stupid design choices in iOS10 it's unreal.

 

[redbeard331]

1. Complications on the home and lockscreen, the home screen is soo boring, hasn't changed in ten years! Why is my watch super customizable but my phone isn't?

2. Fix notifications, already been said by a thousand people. But for the love of God bring back group notifications, and get rid of the useless bubbles!

3. Dark mode.

That's all I need