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iOS 27 Wishlist

  • A functional digital assistant
  • Choice of 3rd party AI - Gemini, Claude, Perplexity integrations
  • An actual icon picker
  • Custom launcher support
  • Settings to tune animation speed (iPhones feel so slow compared to Android just because of the animations)
  • An actual dock on iOS--more than 4 icons, magnification, auto-hide, short swipe to bring it up while staying within your current app (longer swipe to home screen or swipe and hold for home and find some other gesture for the task switcher)
  • Notification history
  • Clipboard history
  • Encrypted RCS and the ability to edit RCS chats
  • Toggle for App Library to be the alpha sort by default instead of an additional gesture
  • Make the App Library alpha sort flow 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 on iOS
  • Ability to set a color for notification dots that override clear or tinted icons so there is a bit of pop to make them more noticeable
  • Get rid of the silly jelly wiggle when editing the home screen
  • 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
  • Put the + button for a new calendar event in the bottom right so it matches the UI of the Reminders app (consistency!)
  • Ability to edit icons for Safari Favorites
  • Copy the Circle to Search gesture on Android (might remove Type to Siri, but it's a much better way to use that bottom area for a gesture - and much better than highlighting in a screenshot)
  • Gesture to swipe on an icon to invoke long-press options or open the widget instead of the app
  • Big widgets on the home screen - give me that Today View screen there
  • Bring back Dark Sky UI to that ugly Weather app
  • Stop putting ugly pinstripes on dark widgets and go back to iOS 18 widgets (Reminders and Calendar widgets are awful now)
  • Get rid of Liquid Glass (I know I won't get it, but this is my wishlist)
 
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Adopt samsungs one hand operation+ module to make better use of gestures.
And speaking of gestures, force the back gesture on every app in order to offer a coherent experience
 
Fix liquid glass. Get rid of the dynamic color nonsense. Pick better glyphs for what buttons do. Carefully comb through each and every pop-up menu that comes out of a three-dot button and eliminate independently-scrolling text lists by enlarging the popup.

These screens are huge. Stop pretending they're not and use screen space effectively.
 
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Notifications overhaul. Notifications history. Allow dismissing notifications when they pop up as banners while using the phone.

Synchronize unread Mail badges between devices without having to open the app.

Synchronize Safari visited links between devices.

Automatic disabling of Find My (which drains battery) at user-defined locations.

Fix all the bugs with Speak Content on web pages.

Fix text input/selection/editing.

Fix Siri. (Not holding my breath.)

Also, solid nonglass.
 
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I want to use two apps at once. I like to browse one app on take notes at the same time. One app on the top half of the screen and another app on the bottom. It's not hard.
 
What is absolutely needed is demonstrated in this video, which competitors already offer with just version 16. They likely hold such meetings every month, introducing more options that iOS doesn't have and might never have.


The video is in Chinese, with some subtitles available, but you'll grasp the gist of it if you stick with it to the end. It's simply strange that a "cheap labour" country makes such technological strides and is already looking into the future. They claim to engage with users. Does Apple do that—speak to users?

They have solved the issue of inter-ecosystem connections, such as "air-drop" between Android and iPhones, which Apple blocked for so long. They've also implemented phone mirroring that iPhones cannot do in the EU, along with Mac mirroring onto your phone, something that iPhones lack as well.
 
I haven’t updated my 15 PM to iOS 26 yet, and I’m not sure if i ever gonna do it.
Maybe 26.7.1 in next October.

But anyway.
2 things I really like Apple gonna fix, beside the liquid ass look.

1. the swipe from right to left on screen to enter camera mode.
I can’t be the only one to wake the camera accidentally when you put your iPhone in your pocket?
And when you pick up your iPhone after 20-30 minutes it’s glowing hot and the battery have dropped 20% because the camera have tried to focus inside your pocket.
I know you can prevent this by disable ”tap to wake screen”, but idon’t want that.
(I don’t use aod, so i just want to tap the screen to wake it)
At least give me a choice to either have it on or don’t.

2 the stupid tap/touch in the top of the iPhone and the phone scrolls all the way up to the top of the webpage.
This happens to me several times a day.
Imagine you reading comments here on MR and you accidentally trigger the scroll back to the top!
Good luck to try find where you were reading…
It’s stupidity on another level.
Give me a choice to either enable or disable it at least.

So. My rant is over😅
 
If your iPhone requires Face ID to unlock the screen, why does it open in your pocket and run apps on its own? This means anyone could put your phone in their pocket and access your data. If Apple can't prevent that, ...hmmm
 
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In addition to the above - especially the stupid swipe to open the camera on a locked phone ...

- Stop notifications from playing a sound when you're on a call, especially video - I'm already looking at the screen.
- Stop making it so easy to get into "customise" mode when touching the lock screen.
- Make stock apps and the home/lock screen work in landscape mode.
- Allow the Standby Mode to be enabled manually - in other words, without the phone being charged.

There's loads more, but as none of it will happen it's pointless dwelling on this fantasy. There'll just be some extra Siri stuff (which it won't understand when you ask it anyway) and waffle about a new type of camera lens in next year's phones.
 
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chmania said:
If your iPhone requires Face ID to unlock the screen, why does it open in your pocket and run apps on its own? This means anyone could put your phone in their pocket and access your data. If Apple can't prevent that, ...hmmm
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This has never happened to me unless I put it in my pocket already unlocked. Lock it before putting it in your pocket. User error.
 
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Liquid Glass? An Apple innovation, as Tim Cook boasted?
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Did he boast that it was an Apple innovation? I don’t remember that, sounds made up.
Yep, just checked, he never once said that liquid glass was an “apple innovation”.
Literally, the only thing he said was that it was a “beautiful new design” and nothing more. Nice try though…
 
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