iOS 19 Wishlist

[Hitmanbbq59]

1. Take advantage of the iPhone 16 pro/PM larger displays. More rows of icons, please.
2. A number row. Cmon.
3. True “push” notifications for Gmail in the stock mail app.

 

[Ipadonly1]

I got a couple from my iOS 18 wishlist this year, but they were a little hard to find and not quite what I expected:

• Hide apps. It’s there, but as a security feature and not a customization thing. It's also poorly implemented as I can't hide most of the Apple apps like Health, Fitness, Feedback, etc. The real issue is hiding apps breaks them. Hiding AdGuard disabled the extension in Safari. Makes sense as a security feature, but I just want a cleaner App Library where I don’t have to see apps I never/rarely launch, but still need. I need my Shokz app and my TP Link Tether app, but actually open them twice a year or so, so let me bury them until I specifically look for them.
• Hide widget names. Using the large home icons, the widget names and icon names disappear. I was okay with icon names, don’t like the larger icons, but will take it.

Still waiting for in iOS 19:

• An actual icon picker
• Toggle for App Library to be the alpha sort by default instead of an additional gesture
• Make the App Library alpha sort look more like the watchOS list view
• Ability to rename/remove app category names in App Library and move apps between categories
• Ability to rename (nickname) apps
• Split screen apps
• Get rid of the jelly wiggle when editing the home screen
• Toggle to turn off or speed up FaceID animations
• Turn off the annoying waveform animation in dynamic island
• Dynamic island press action defaulted to the long-press action like it always should have been
• Bring ye olde Dark Sky UI to that ugly Weather app

Hard agree

 

[Ipadonly1]

- Prevent apps from creating photo albums. Obviously I want to be able to send photos via WhatsApp, but I don’t like how WhatsApp automatically creates its own album.
-don’t know if it’s possible, but allow/block notifications from other communication apps based on who is sending me a message. For instance I want to receive messages from someone I text via WhatsApp during my sleep focus. I don’t want to allow all WhatsApp notifications through during that time.

 

[Populus]

I honestly don’t know what I’d ask for iOS 19, as iOS 18 left the system almost prefect for me.

iPadOS on the other hand…

 

[Populus]

I got a couple from my iOS 18 wishlist this year, but they were a little hard to find and not quite what I expected:

• Hide apps. It’s there, but as a security feature and not a customization thing. It's also poorly implemented as I can't hide most of the Apple apps like Health, Fitness, Feedback, etc. The real issue is hiding apps breaks them. Hiding AdGuard disabled the extension in Safari. Makes sense as a security feature, but I just want a cleaner App Library where I don’t have to see apps I never/rarely launch, but still need. I need my Shokz app and my TP Link Tether app, but actually open them twice a year or so, so let me bury them until I specifically look for them.

Maybe that point could be addressed by letting us to, finally, be able to customize the App Library, both the list and the categories.

 

[xxFoxtail]

Let me delete photos and videos from a messages thread without deleting the whole thread. I’d gain so much iCloud storage back just by doing that.

 

[CTHarrryH]

If I understand what you want to do - you can just delete and item from a message thread - press and hold on the photo and select more from the list of things you can do and select delete - to get rid right way select edit from messages and look at deleted messages and delete them

 

[xxFoxtail]

If I understand what you want to do - you can just delete and item from a message thread - press and hold on the photo and select more from the list of things you can do and select delete - to get rid right way select edit from messages and look at deleted messages and delete them

Yeah I just discovered that afterwards. Trying to delete all of them at once crashed the messages app on my Mac. Even though I had multiple selected on the Mac, it was only deleting one at a time.

And doing it on the iPhone locked the app up, so I had to do a few hundred at a time, still locking the app up though force closing and reopening shows the photos/videos were actually deleted.

Luckily I have an external keyboard for my iPhone, holding shift to select a lot at once has saved me from tapping the screen a few thousand times.

Edit: Do this by tapping on the person’s name up top, scroll down to photos and tap see all. Then you can select one photo at a time, or with a keyboard, hold shift to select multiple.

Then tap on “Download images from the cloud”, it’ll download 20-30 and rinse and repeat deleting more.

No easy way to delete all of them at once without deleting the whole message thread.

 

[mrgreeneyes]

iOS 19

• Dynamic wallpapers like in Mac OS
• Changes to the Stocks App. I would love for it to include new tabs that show global currencies, a currency convertor and a way to view my portfolio.
• Allow old iPhone wallpapers to be downloaded like on the Mac. It would be even better if they were updated to be dynamic.
• A more detailed transaction history in the Wallet App, similar to Apple Card.
• Icon redesign for Maps, Contacts, Reminders, Stocks and Weather so that they blend better with the other Dark Mode icons. Also, the dark mode icon for the Weather App should be showing a moon, not a sun.
• Better understanding of active subscriptions using Apple intelligence.
• App Library overall or removal
• Automated Memoji for contact images based on photos

CarPlay

• Custom wallpaper
• Dark mode icons
• Less obtrusive call screen that takes away from maps
• Widgets
• Apple Maps favourites that we can manually input and quickly access (4-5 options)

i would love it if the app library could be hidden.

also a better way to manage apps, perhaps a menu inside the settings to manage what apps are on what pages.

 

[Barbs]

Ability to batch delete apps.

 

[Mistletoe66]

My wish list is just to have minimal bug and battery drain for Pete’s sake

 

[JSDK]

• Systemwide Private Relay (Or even better, add option to choose country, like real VPN)
• Battery status on all Apple Account associated devices in the Battery Widget. It works with AirPods 4 ANC, and AirPods Pro 2. It should also be possible to see your battery status on your MacBook, in the iPhone battery widget, and vice versa.
• Option to remove labels from App Icons without making them large.
• Option to remap the camera button (iPhone 16 series) to other, non-camera apps.
• More settings for App Library. Option to move apps in other categories and let's choose whether we want to show or hide "Recent Apps" and "Suggestions". Speaking of App Library - how about ditching Launchpad in MacOS and making it App Library?
• Drop dark app icons in the settings app when the icons in the rest of the system are not in dark mode. I've been using Dark Mode since iOS 13, but I want to not see the dark app icons in the Settings app when I haven't selected dark icons in the rest of the system.
• This is more of a hardware thing. But add reverse charging, so I can put my AirPods, or Apple Watch on the back of my iPhone, to give them some power, just like you have been able to on Samsung for many years. It's a super smart feature.

 

[xJustxMegx]

• Dynamic wallpapers like in Mac OS

Oh I would love to see this in iOS 19, more effects for the dynamic island would be cool too. I want to customize it, without paying.

 

[HouseLannister]

• More settings for App Library. Option to move apps in other categories and let's choose whether we want to show or hide "Recent Apps" and "Suggestions".

You can hide Suggestions. Under the Siri settings, toggle off Show in App Library.

 

[Martinpa]

• More settings for App Library. Option to move apps in other categories and let's choose whether we want to show or hide "Recent Apps" and "Suggestions". Speaking of App Library - how about ditching Launchpad in MacOS and making it App Library?

This. I’m in the process of setting my new phone from scratch, and I’d love to declutter and limit the amount of home screens I have, but the App Library being how it is right now makes it unusable for me. Kinda frustrating, cause it could be such an elegant option if it wasn’t so rigid.