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iOS 19 Wishlist

sniffies said:
  1. First and foremost, iCloud Mail badge notification syncing between iOS and macOS
  2. Turn off Smart Addresses in Mail app
  3. In Calendar app's month view, remove blank space between months and make it continuous, similar to Calendar on macOS
  4. Option to use custom password to lock Passwords app, similar to Notes app's password options
  5. Standalone Dictionary app
  6. Pasteboard
  7. Favicons in Safari bookmarks; macOS Safari has had them since 2003
  8. Show which number/email I receive a FaceTime call on
  9. Show which number/email I receive an iMessage on
  10. Switch from FaceTime Video to Audio during call, not just from Audio to Video
  11. Create Memoji by simply scanning your face with a Camera
  12. Prevent WiFi Calling from randomly switching to cellular during call
  13. Give us back the ability to control volume for music airplaying from another person’s iPhone to HomePod
  14. Clear all NEW notifications at once, even when no old notifications are present
  15. Searchable and importable/exportable Block List
  16. Dedicated Control Center icon for every app
  17. Dark Mode icons for Web Apps
  18. Ability to close all Safari tabs without confirmation warning
  19. Ability to have weather wallpaper on lock screen and dynamic wallpaper on home screen
  20. Apple Account transactions in Wallet app
  21. Ability to copy transaction amounts in Wallet app
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  • I would like the ability to control your phone from afar using visionOS like gestures using the camera.
  • The ability to translate the transcripts of voice memos.
  • An app that allows you to remotely lock or unlock our devices. It will also show the livestream from the device you unlock
 
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I’d love for them to add gps speed to the maps app, at least in CarPlay. Literally every other mapping app does it now, and it’s a good reference point for the in-car speed reading, which is often a bit out at higher speeds
 
My wish list practically never changes from year to year:

1. Please let Siri search my photos like she did once before.
2. Please let Siri add a line to a previously established note
3. Please get more apps to support split screen. I don’t need to use stage manager on my 11 inch screen but two apps are absolutely perfect.
4. Please let the settings app support split screen.
5. Please allow an extra word to the Siri command so that we can designate which device we want to answer. Siri phone, Siri iPad, Siri HomePod, Siri Mac.. or come up with some other successful way to designate whatdevicev we want.
 
More control over CallKit. I hate WhatsApp calls, never answer them. Even if I disable notifications for WhatsApp, they still come through.
 
More efficient system that gives me more battery life, and I don't mind all the rest.

And less frequent system updates would be nice, it makes no sense having to pay attention (and clear storage space) to get new memojis or any other similar trash.
 
From my point of view, I think it would be very useful to have the option to add notes to each app directly from its icon on the home screen. I mean, just like when you tap and hold an icon and options like “Edit Home Screen” or “Remove App” appear, there could also be an option like “Add Note.”

In my opinion, this would be helpful because we often have apps that we’re not entirely sure what they’re for, or which settings worked better than a similar app.

Ideally, each note would be stored only within the icon itself and not in the Notes app.
 
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I don't need any new features (apart from a smart trustworthy personal Siri). I'd mostly just like Apple to spend time sorting out all their considerable technical debt for their own apps across platforms.

Things like:

- having iMessage apps on all devices, not just iOS
- Vision Pro remembering how I like to set up my MacBook screen without making me set it up every time
- Handoff working consistently between all devices
- Vision Pro app for a local Apple TV (not just phone)
- All iWork apps on all devices
- iCloud files on all devices
- All Apple's apps working on Vision Pro and Apple TV
- etc etc

Steve Jobs idea of "it just works" is fading in the rear view as so much of the Apple's own ecosystem just doesn't work.
 
1. Improved Data Detectors. An easy AI win. I want to be able to select roughly-formatted text in any app and have it smartly propose a calendar entry or reminder.
2. Dismissed notification marks-as-read option. Lock Screen lets me reply to messages, why doesn’t it let me mark-as-read (with the swipe)?
3. Per-account default notification settings in Calendar. Sometimes I need to block personal time in home and work calendars, but I don’t want identical reminders from both—especially if Outlook is also feeding work notifications.
4. iMessages and FaceTime to iCloud account is untethered from a calling plan. Maybe this is possible, but it’s incredibly counter-intuitive when you’re on WiFi/data roaming.
5. Kids Health records access.
6. Country-code detection. If your address book is full of US-populated contacts entered in the US without a manual +1 and you travel abroad, they will all break (at least on a new sim).
7. Auto-translate system-wide or at least notifications. I have apps that are 80% in English, but generate 100% of their notifications in a language I don’t understand and which I can’t readily copy-paste-translate.
 
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Stage manager for iPad mini (A17) for full screen extended display.

It has 8GB RAM and up until recently could be enabled by editing a plist on jailbreaked devices. No reason for Apple to withhold this...
 
My latest wishlist item is a real dock. Give me as many icons as I want, magnification, autohide, and let me position it on any side of the screen (would love to put it on the left and use my phone mostly one-handed). That frees up enough screen space to add two more rows of icons on the home screen and I think they can tighten up the grid and add an extra column of icons too.
 
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  1. Delete entire words using shift + backspace
  2. Option to hide dot on a keyboard in Safari search bar
  3. Option to hide caller name when iPhone is locked
 
I want to see the watch app on iPad, Work profile just like on android, let me see my battery cycle count and battery health on a iPhone 14 and iPhone 13 and i know this not going to happen bring back the older styling from iOS 6
 
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iOS 18 is still an unergonomic mess. Apple and Google have both still not rebuilt their OSes for the default large-screen devices we have. Too many crucial interactions are outside the thumb 'hot zone', notably notifications and the control centre.

I want them to bring them both into the multitasking screen and use otherwise wasted space to copy the bottom-up notifications on the lockscreen. Control centre would sit to the right of the top-most app when swiping up. Summoning it on the lockscreen would replace the camera-swipe.

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I agree there is wasted space that can be used
 
This isn’t necessarily an iOS problem but since everything I can think of has been said already…personal EQ settings. One reason I don’t have AirPods (probably will change when the Pros 3 come out) is the boring EQ settings. Sure they have basic ‘increase bass’ and ‘jazz’ but they also have ‘late night’ and ‘flat’ which I don’t understand. It doesn’t have to be a confusing 10+ slider equalizer, just give me a simple 3 slider equalizer (bass, mid, treble) like what Bose has. Easy to use but with infinite more customization. Also let me save settings like Bose. Apple has transparent and quiet or whatever but I would love (if they add an equalizer) some way to add them as presets as well. For example:Turn on ANC and increase the bass to 10 while decreasing the mid and treble to -10. Wonderful.
 
My first and only wish for a new ios, concerns the App "Apple Maps".
- I would like to wish, that I can save own created routes.

Why?
When I make vacation in the Unitded States, I rent a car and I will drive own created routes, with the best sights along the way. Not the shortest; not the fasted - only my own route.
This would be perfeced for me
 
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As a chronic patient, I would suggest a Health App Medication Log Export option. A customizable list of parameters for Export would be a great help.
 
Think my suggestions are pretty small, but:
- on iPadOs, let me create spaces. Let me open these using a keyboard shortcut.
- for that matter, global customisable keyboard shortcuts, that can also run shortcuts
- more complex rules in Mail (can only have one rule triggered per email coming in at the moment). Let me chain rules together or add multiple criteria for one rule.
- let me hide TV and film purchases in the TV app, because…you know…Apple 12 Days of Christmas was a thing and I was 11. Can do this on a Mac.
- better triggering of Notification Centre and control centre using the Magic Trackpad. I personally find this so hit and miss.
- more complexity in the Files app. Tell me what background processes are happening, not just that something is. If I have enabled ‘keep downloaded’, honour that decision.
- put App Library in Spotlight Search. I don’t use it and the categories are awful.
- close apps in app switcher once they stop using active memory and would need to be launched from scratch anyway
- let me assign unique email signatures to each email account
- give me some tools to clean up my Apple Music library myself. Replays should only include tracks and in particular specific versions of tracks I’ve saved. Let me get rid of duplicates, merge albums, filter for complete albums only
- tell me my iPad battery health
- let me filter mailboxes by Focus, not just accounts
- Finder not Files
- download transcript of a text conversation (would like conversations with friends and relatives who have passed away to be stored)
- maybe more customisable spotlight search
-let me download the actual files of the music I purchase from the iTunes Store. Apparently Macs are the only device capable of doing this challenging task.

That’s it really, can’t think of anything more.
 
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iOS and iPad OS need to be junked by Apple. All forward development should be done with Mac OS with a skin mode for the iPhone and iPad. If you plug your iPhone or iPad into a dock then it should become a fully fledged Mac OS environment. People want to be productive with their tools but iPad is held back by the current neutered experience.
 
sniffies said:
  1. First and foremost, iCloud Mail badge notification syncing between iOS and macOS
  2. Turn off Smart Addresses in Mail app
  3. In Calendar app's month view, remove blank space between months and make it continuous, similar to Calendar on macOS
  4. Option to use custom password to lock Passwords app, similar to Notes app's password options
  5. Standalone Dictionary app
  6. Pasteboard
  7. Favicons in Safari bookmarks; macOS Safari has had them since 2003
  8. Show which number/email I receive a FaceTime call on
  9. Show which number/email I receive an iMessage on
  10. Switch from FaceTime Video to Audio during call, not just from Audio to Video
  11. Create Memoji by simply scanning your face with a Camera
  12. Prevent WiFi Calling from randomly switching to cellular during call
  13. Give us back the ability to control volume for music airplaying from another person’s iPhone to HomePod
  14. Clear all NEW notifications at once, even when no old notifications are present
  15. Searchable and importable/exportable Block List
  16. Dedicated Control Center icon for every app
  17. Dark Mode icons for Web Apps
  18. Ability to close all Safari tabs without confirmation warning
  19. Ability to have weather wallpaper on lock screen and dynamic wallpaper on home screen
  20. Apple Account transactions in Wallet app
  21. Ability to copy transaction amounts in Wallet app
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For me,I’d really love to see Apple introduce a better restoration tool for iMessage. A lot of people have experienced the frustration of losing important messages, and it’s honestly the worst. Sometimes, even when a message gets deleted, it doesn’t show up in the “Recently Deleted” folder, and we’re left assuming it must be saved somewhere in an iCloud backup — only to find out it’s not there either. That’s why it would be so helpful if Apple added a dedicated restore or refresh feature directly within the iMessage app, so users could recover lost messages easily without needing to reset their entire phone or go through complicated backup processes. For example, if you realize a specific message or part of the conversation is missing, you could simply tap an option like “Refresh/restore” within the chat. The other person would then get a notification asking if they want to resend the conversation history from their end, making it easier to recover lost messages without needing to rely on backups or reset your device. This would be especially helpful for situations where a message was accidentally deleted or didn’t sync properly. This can also tie to your icloud backup and how much is being restored!
 
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I'd like to see some standardization in Apple apps for things such as select all and deleting items.
I'd also like to see in the health app the ability to set how long to keep items similar to how you can with iMessage - keep forever, 1 year, 6 months, etc.
 
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Le0M said:
Above all, I wish for iOS 19 to be a "bug-free", stable release, much like Snow Leopard was to the Mac.

There are many bugs affecting apps like iMessage and Notes - but also others - that haven't been fixed in ages.
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Where? I have no issues at all.
 
queenxrara said:
For me,I’d really love to see Apple introduce a better restoration tool for iMessage. A lot of people have experienced the frustration of losing important messages, and it’s honestly the worst. Sometimes, even when a message gets deleted, it doesn’t show up in the “Recently Deleted” folder, and we’re left assuming it must be saved somewhere in an iCloud backup — only to find out it’s not there either. That’s why it would be so helpful if Apple added a dedicated restore or refresh feature directly within the iMessage app, so users could recover lost messages easily without needing to reset their entire phone or go through complicated backup processes. For example, if you realize a specific message or part of the conversation is missing, you could simply tap an option like “Refresh/restore” within the chat. The other person would then get a notification asking if they want to resend the conversation history from their end, making it easier to recover lost messages without needing to rely on backups or reset your device. This would be especially helpful for situations where a message was accidentally deleted or didn’t sync properly. This can also tie to your icloud backup and how much is being restored!
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