I hate people who swipe all their apps away before they lock their screen. The OS literally does this for you automatically... why the hell is everyone doing this manually all the time?
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iOS 17 Speculation Thread
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Yeah and why can't we long press on the album art to pull up a like/dislike button?
I do it, but just from time to time. Maybe once every week or so (maybe even less). I also close an app if I’m having some kind of trouble with it, but it’s not very often.
I hope they sort out the clunky wallpaper chooser. The original way was much simpler.
Does anything think there is a chance in hell we will get split screen? Other than a periscope zoom lens and usb c on the 15 pro max, split screen is about the only thing that will get me excited over iOS 17. It is just insane that with the hardware we have (which will be taken to a new level with the A17), iOS is still essentially a single tasking OS. iOS, meet MSDOS. 
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Another step in the right direction. ↗️
We need Landscape Mode (Home Screen) back on iPhones. Simplicity!
We need Landscape Mode (Home Screen) back on iPhones. Simplicity!
I don’t know if I’d use it much, but that actually looks really cool! 👍🏻
One of the reasons I got my 7+ way back in the day was because of the landscape home screen. I used it regularly with my Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard, it looks a lot nicer in landscape.
Many years later, I still use that same keyboard with my 14 Pro. But now it’s just weird when I switch from a landscape application like Pages to the Home Screen.
I agree, I was saying that even though I don’t normally use my phone in landscape, I think it would be cool if they supported that better. Sorry if it came across that I was saying something negative about it. 👍🏻
Didn’t come across as negative at all. I think it would be a nice quality of life feature, but I’m sure someone at Apple ran the numbers and probably realized not many people were using it anyway.
I’d love to see it come back, but I can’t imagine it being a heavily requested feature.
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A very handy feature! 🟢🟡🔴
iPhone Contacts app but it shows if your contacts are online!
iPhone Contacts app but it shows if your contacts are online!
Settings --> Phone --> Blocked Contacts
Please hopefully add a Search Option at the top
--FB9309722 (Filed July 11, 2021)
Please hopefully add a Search Option at the top
--FB9309722 (Filed July 11, 2021)
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iOS 17 Feature Request:
The ability to save your favorite emojis for much easier access. 💭
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The ability to save your favorite emojis for much easier access. 💭
Concept: 50+ ways Apple could refine the iPhone experience with iOS 15 - 9to5Mac
iOS 14 was a major release for the platform, adding things like widgets, the App Library, updates to Messages, a...
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Also, this would be ideal. The Red and Black combination tho… 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Since iOS17 will mostly be refinements, I'd like to see a few things...
1. Ability to assign focus modes to calendar events.
2. Un-complicate the focus wallpaper setup.
3. Home app and Homekit rebuild because the new architecture sucks ass
4. Ability to choose app notification sounds at the system level.
5. Ability to "pin" live activities.
6. Interactive widgets
7. Re-do on the weather app
8. Ability to change/remove flashlight and camera button shortcuts on lock screen
This is more on the iCloud side but...
9. Blocked contacts synchronizes throughout phone, text AND email apps. The fact that blocking a junk email address DOESNT sync with iCloud is supremely dumb.
1. Ability to assign focus modes to calendar events.
2. Un-complicate the focus wallpaper setup.
3. Home app and Homekit rebuild because the new architecture sucks ass
4. Ability to choose app notification sounds at the system level.
5. Ability to "pin" live activities.
6. Interactive widgets
7. Re-do on the weather app
8. Ability to change/remove flashlight and camera button shortcuts on lock screen
This is more on the iCloud side but...
9. Blocked contacts synchronizes throughout phone, text AND email apps. The fact that blocking a junk email address DOESNT sync with iCloud is supremely dumb.
Since none of the sources discuss software that much, particularly OS's this statement that none of the OS's will see new features and just refinements is very questionable. Ever seen Apple come out and market any of the OSs and say we made it just better than last years.
Hence why I said MOSTLY. I'm not ruling out new features all together but I'm not expecting a giant plethora of new features either.Since none of the sources discuss software that much, particularly OS's this statement that none of the OS's will see new features and just refinements is very questionable. Ever seen Apple come out and market any of the OSs and say we made it just better than last years.
I would just love the icons to match macOS so hopefully that comes
After ten years I want something new, the Mac icons are the same old ones with a little shadow. Hard pass!!!!!🪖
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We need something like this. Apple needs to consider implementing mac OS icons to iOS. The icons need to be changed now!
I wish that Apple built in apps would do a better job of handling light & dark themes. I use Google Maps on my iPhone & would love to try out Apple Maps because it looks pretty good but it falls at the first hurdle. Despite running my iPhone in dark mode and liking how pretty much all my apps look in dark mode I just cannot come to terms with using a map in dark mode. For some reason I just can't connect with what is on screen when it doesn't look like a paper map so I always want my mapping app to run in light mode hence my sticking with Google Maps.
In my view app best practice when for app that can support both light and dark modes should be to offer a mode setting with 3 options - "Light", "Dark" and "Follow system default" and all of Apple's built-in apps should follow that best practice. That way I could set Apple Maps to "Light" so that it gets the chance to convince me that I might want to use it as my default app instead of Google Maps.
In my view app best practice when for app that can support both light and dark modes should be to offer a mode setting with 3 options - "Light", "Dark" and "Follow system default" and all of Apple's built-in apps should follow that best practice. That way I could set Apple Maps to "Light" so that it gets the chance to convince me that I might want to use it as my default app instead of Google Maps.
If you want Apple Maps to be light mode, and everything else to be dark mode, you can use Apple Shortcuts and automations to accomplish that (the shortcut is named set appearance to toggle). Not the cleanest solution but I hope it helps