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All Devices iOS 13 Speculation Thread [Merged]

ganja24 said:
- doesn’t have dark mode
- volume hud is same
- no major redesign
- doesn’t support iPhone 6/6s
- higher iPhone 11 prices

What if iOS 13 is minor update like just saying iOS12xr with some more emojis.

Will you still upgrade / stick to Apple iPhone? Switch to Android?
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This has to be the oddest list of potential iOS hang-ups I've ever seen.
  • What if Apple’s 2019 iOS didn’t support a device from 2014? Are there any smartphone manufacturers whose flagship OS runs/supports 5-year-old devices? (Genuine question.)
  • And how is the iOS going to increase iPhone prices?
  • Is the volume HUD a big deal to you?
 
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gwhizkids said:
Keeps you from inadvertantly having your phone open to the last thing you were looking at simply by it seeing your face. There may be cases where one might not want that to happen.
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I understand that, but it's about choice, there should be an option to have it unlocked to the homescreen if you want that kind of behavior.... Give us the choice, we paid enough for it... so is it not to much asked ?
 
I went from Samsung S9+ to XS Max some time I ago, have always used Samsung but had an iPhone 6S for 1 year.
I really miss the Dark Mode!
And a little more tweaking of the home screen would be nice :)
iOS needs dark mode and they need some better picture sorting options in the Photos app!
Semi transparent notification and themes would take it to another level!
 
lylu said:
I went from Samsung S9+ to XS Max some time I ago, have always used Samsung but had an iPhone 6S for 1 year.
I really miss the Dark Mode!
And a little more tweaking of the home screen would be nice :)
iOS needs dark mode and they need some better picture sorting options in the Photos app!
Semi transparent notification and themes would take it to another level!
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I think notifications need to be more condensed. As it is now, everything is too separated and big. You should also be able to remove them with a simple swipe.
 
I think switching away from iOS would be for me, a bit drastic if it doesn't have a feature i like...

Consolidate "Personal Hot Spot" as well.. Its in two places... Settings, and under Mobile. (or Cellular, which region you selected.. Still trying to get used to that)

When you have search,, (in three places) its becomes less of a reason to have more options of the same item, as if you don't wanna drill down, just search ...

The problem is ,, Apple's got search for Notification Center (swipe right from Home screen), They have it when you swipe down anywhere, and hey have in in search

Why can't just 1 place have it all? Use the most convenient, so a swipe down home screen and you can search *anything* settings included. and it you should also be able to swipe down from the settings to bring up search.... Its there anyway, so you as well hide/show it.

You should not be limited depending on which search box you pull up. that way iOS will be less messy.
 
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jeffe said:
I think notifications need to be more condensed. As it is now, everything is too separated and big. You should also be able to remove them with a simple swipe.
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You can swipe them away...just swipe from right to left over the notification and it goes away.
 
jeffe said:
I think notifications need to be more condensed. As it is now, everything is too separated and big. You should also be able to remove them with a simple swipe.
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Yeah, I agree, did think of that since people never send me anything
 
liftedpsd2010 said:
I’m kind of stuck with apple. All my friends have it and it’s just so much easier to be able to send high quality videos to them. Me and my friend send videos to each other back and forth every day.
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This! Most of the people I communicate with use iPhone, and if I need to send a long(er) video to ones that don't, it's the biggest pain in the neck. iMessage is killer here.
 
easy, I’d stick with iPhone. To me OSs don’t need to be new every year, a few years of refinements is fine by me. Dark mode I just don’t care at all (what all the obsession is I don’t know), the volume UI sucks but I wouldn’t switch to a whole new platform just for half a second of my life being taken up by it, I like the design of iOS as it is, I don’t have the 6s so wouldn’t affect me, and iPhone 11 prices wouldn’t be affected by iOS
 
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skillwill said:
easy, I’d stick with iPhone. To me OSs don’t need to be new every year, a few years of refinements is fine by me. Dark mode I just don’t care at all (what all the obsession is I don’t know), the volume UI sucks but I wouldn’t switch to a whole new platform just for half a second of my life being taken up by it, I like the design of iOS as it is, I don’t have the 6s so wouldn’t affect me, and iPhone 11 prices wouldn’t be affected by iOS
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The obsession about dark mode is from an health perspective, the bright wight screens with a lot of bluelight damages the eyes retina for ones, and also choices are nice.
Im using Google Drive for everything anyways, if I wanna send someone a large video, I just send them the link on sms and they can watch in full HD or 4K or wahetever.

I also like ios and the iphones design wise, but they could be so much better giving more options to the user.
 
lylu said:
Yeah, I agree, did think of that since people never send me anything
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Yeah but you have to swipe way too far. It takes a lot of effort to do it consistently, at least for me on the xs max. I’d like to see the swiping behavior default to dismissing the notification unless the user holds and pauses it for the options.

This makes far more sense as most people aren’t utilizing the other menu options other than clear on most days, I’d imagine.
 
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- Complete redesign
- Mouse support
- Probably Apple’s ugliest native app is Calendar. Apps like Outlook and Google Calendar look so much nicer
- Force all apps that use video to have picture in picture
- Dark mode
- Proper multi monitor support (with support for touchscreen external displays)
- Support for external drives in Files app
- Xcode for iPad (also giving more power to app developers so we can get apps like Android Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom etc for iPad) - give me this, mouse support and proper multi monitor support and my Mac would legit just collect dust in the corner.
- Apple Music handoff
- Apple Music crossfade support
- Apple Music ability to edit music tags like in iTunes
- Apple Music ability to import local music like in iTunes
- Customisable home screen
- Battery percentage on phones with the notch
- Multi user support
- Always on display for OLED devices
- Safari on iPad runs like desktop Safari
- Change default apps for browser, mail, contacts, calendar, maps etc.
- Change settings in the app in native Apple apps rather than having to go back the main settings app.
- Split screen support on plus size phones as well as picture in picture.
- Add the option for horizontal split screen, as well as side by side, maybe have the option to split screen 3 or 4 apps on iPad 12.9 (a grid of 4) and all iPads when connected to an external monitor. Possibly even the option for floating windows with the option to resize, which makes more sense on the larger iPad and when connected to an external monitor.
- Incoming phone calls do not need to take over the full screen when the phone is unlocked. It is especially annoying on the iPad when I am working. Same with the occasional time the OS pops up a dialog asking you to enter your Apple ID password.
- Allow to change location of the dock on the iPad - left, right, bottom, with auto-hiding
- Cmd+Q keyboard shortcut to close an app
- Option to replace iCloud backup with another cloud provider like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

I don’t care too much about updates to the phone, I mainly want updates to the iPad to make it a genuine desktop replacement for 98% of people. Also, continue to improve Shortcuts and promote it more. Shortcuts is really great and makes Android users jealous.

Also, not really related to iOS 13. Services. Hardware sales are slowing in growth, so services are really the future. What I would love to see is better cross platform support. Such as iMessage on Windows, Android etc. ICloud Photo Library, iCloud Drive, Apple Notes, Apple Music in the browser, better iWork.
 
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These are for once reasonable suggestions and improvements.
You can ignore most of the other non-sense people are posting.

TimFL1 said:
Reposting my usual wishlist, cause the bulletpoints don't seem to be implemented yet:

- Service Workers / Push Notifications for Safari (I think this could happen soon)
- Allow us to specify background app refresh data on an per-app basis (afaik china has this? Allows you to specify whether an app is turned off, can use mobile or wifi data etc)
- Give us a way to lock various parts of the OS via biometric authentication: photo albums (hidden/deleted?), app launch approval, app folders and so on
- Animoji API so devs can release their own mascots as animoji (think Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse)
- Allow us to create smart playlists in the music app, this is currently only possible via iTunes
- Use the Workflow team/Shortcuts app to create iOS Profiles: toggle on/off parts of the system or automate stuff based on GPS location etc (e.g. silence non-work mails while at work).
- Voicemail for FaceTime
- Roll out services like Apple News (widget works here already) or Apple Pay in more countries. It only needs one outlet or bank to adopt it and the rest will follow suit.
- Apple Music handoff between iOS and macOS/Windows (iTunes)
- Allow us to re-order contact details (I sometimes get a new phone number but have to keep the old one, cut/paste galore instead of allowing me to move a new number up a few slots)
- Add multi-user support to the iPad (I want to use it as a household device)
- Multi-lingual query support (so I can ask Siri to play me non-german songs) -> they at least support that for music playback
- Really anything that allows Siri to be smarter, could even allow opt-in for less privacy-style feature sets if it means we get a smarter Siri
- Chained Siri Queries ("Play song XYZ on the homepod and set an alarm for 3pm")
- Dark mode API, allow devs to opt into it with the addition of an API that allows them to specify a dark theme for their apps (think auto-toggling on the dark theme in twitter via said API). Should, of course, bring dark themes for the stock apps.
- Automatically fade out the home bar on the X or at least give the option to hide it.
- Allow us to specify what info (and how) we see in the status bar. Pre-X devices have no issue there but the X(S/R) has less space to show status icons. Apple should offer an interface similar to the control center one where we can specify what info we want to see (some may want to have the GPS icon permanently hidden, some want battery percentage instead of an icon, some may not want to see the wifi or cellular icon but get a quick glance on whether AirPods are connected or an alarm is set).
- Add more live and dynamic wallpapers or release APIs so devs can create them and offer them via a wallpaper store (or their apps).
- Add the mobile data usage indicator on the X(S/R), it was in the leaked FWs but never made it to the official release (a sliding dot above the top right status bar). I'd like to know when background stuff uses my data (example: I somehow had the movie IT download without my approval, cost me 3GB+ of data).
- Venture away from fullscreen alerts. There is no reason a call should lock me out of using my phone, turn it into an overlay we can swipe away to mute.
- CallKit for video calls. Apps like WhatsApp resort to continuous push notifications to simulate a video call. There's no reason Apple can't just offer the FaceTime video call UI via CallKit to give devs a way of making video calls fancier.
- Allow X(S/R) users to change the 2 haptic buttons on the lock screen. Why is there swipe left to open the camera AND a camera button... ?
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If i'm close by with my apple watch and Siri recognizes my voice, please automatically unlock my phone to complete whatever action I am asking. I'm assuming this is possible since you can use your watch to unlock a macbook.
 
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I just want to say, if apple doesn't step it up in iOS 13, I'm not necessarily gonna switch away to android, but I am definitely going to be stretching out the amount of time in-between iPhone purchases. I can't be paying $1000+ every 2 years or even 3 years only to have the exact same operating system. I would easily and gladly stretch it out minimum 5 years. I'm reaching that point where i'm seeing past apple's gimmicks and marketing every year, and at the end of the day its just a shiny new phone with the same apps....
 
MyMacintosh said:
I just want to say, if apple doesn't step it up in iOS 13, I'm not necessarily gonna switch away to android, but I am definitely going to be stretching out the amount of time in-between iPhone purchases. I can't be paying $1000+ every 2 years or even 3 years only to have the exact same operating system. I would easily and gladly stretch it out minimum 5 years. I'm reaching that point where i'm seeing past apple's gimmicks and marketing every year, and at the end of the day its just a shiny new phone with the same apps....
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But software updates shouldn't influence your decision to upgrade your phone, iOS updates usually support 5 or so generations anyway.
 
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