There's a jailbreak tweak that would be easy for Apple to implement. When you double tap home to bring up the opened apps, place an "X" in one corner that closes ALL opened apps. Super easy. Lets just hope they actually do it.
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There's a jailbreak tweak that would be easy for Apple to implement. When you double tap home to bring up the opened apps, place an "X" in one corner that closes ALL opened apps. Super easy. Lets just hope they actually do it.
Depends on the app. Leave Infinity Blade or a GPS app open in the background, and you WILL notice a significant deterioration in battery life.
I find it more of a novelty and I have used it so I know what I am talking about.
Really?
I much prefer it to double tapping the home button, it's faster too.
BTW, have you tried the latest version? It got some nice updates, you can swipe up to get rid of an application now, swipe up and hold for the switcher.
Yes I got the latest update
But the problem that I experience is when I am playing temple run it assumes that I want to go to the next open app and it still isn't as accurate, now if apple found a way to make it super accurate that would be awesome,so basically to reiterate its an awesome tweak but it isn't accurate enough.Some great ideas in this thread so far.. I'd love to see a few things myself!
Gestures/multitasking:
I know much has been said about this topic, but I think a big way that we can see some improvements to the system in a friendly way for both power users and basic users is to have a capacitive home button that can work just the same for all the simple uses of the home button (click, double click for now) but can also detect gestures (ex. Swipe up over capacitive home button for app tray, swipe right or left to change apps, swipe down for dismiss or close). I think that would be SO COOL. And I'm sure they could combine that with some new capabilities for multitasking that would be amazing. I know it's more a hardware than software thing, but it's potential can really be unlocked with new software capabilities. And that could be used in lots of apps too...
iMessage:
I'd like to see Apple reinvent how "caller ID" works -- for example, right now you must choose phone number or apple ID on the iPhone. If you want to receive iMessages on both iPhone and iPad, you must use your apple ID. Why, if Apple knows my phone number and my apple ID, and I associate them together on my phone, can I only receive iMessages on my iPad & my iPhone if I use only my Apple ID? It'd be great if I could link the two, so iMessages to my phone number get to my iPad as well. Also, if I reply to a message on my iPad, it shouldn't still be unread on my iPhone. This will be especially annoying (or fantastic if they fix it) when Mountain Lion comes out.
Lock screen:
I agree with what most have been saying -- it's generally wasted space. Something like Intelliscreen X would be amazing! (For those unfamiliar it's a jailbreak tweak that allows you to pull down the notification center over the lock screen -- and it's much more functional. Widgets, action items, browsing full email, twitter, and Facebook feeds all without unlocking the screen. Obviously for hothouse with security concerns, it would be easy to disable).
Just some ideas that came to me while I was reading through this great thread.
Gestures/multitasking:
I know much has been said about this topic, but I think a big way that we can see some improvements to the system in a friendly way for both power users and basic users is to have a capacitive home button that can work just the same for all the simple uses of the home button (click, double click for now) but can also detect gestures (ex. Swipe up over capacitive home button for app tray, swipe right or left to change apps, swipe down for dismiss or close). I think that would be SO COOL. And I'm sure they could combine that with some new capabilities for multitasking that would be amazing. I know it's more a hardware than software thing, but it's potential can really be unlocked with new software capabilities. And that could be used in lots of apps too...
iMessage:
I'd like to see Apple reinvent how "caller ID" works -- for example, right now you must choose phone number or apple ID on the iPhone. If you want to receive iMessages on both iPhone and iPad, you must use your apple ID. Why, if Apple knows my phone number and my apple ID, and I associate them together on my phone, can I only receive iMessages on my iPad & my iPhone if I use only my Apple ID? It'd be great if I could link the two, so iMessages to my phone number get to my iPad as well. Also, if I reply to a message on my iPad, it shouldn't still be unread on my iPhone. This will be especially annoying (or fantastic if they fix it) when Mountain Lion comes out.
Lock screen:
I agree with what most have been saying -- it's generally wasted space. Something like Intelliscreen X would be amazing! (For those unfamiliar it's a jailbreak tweak that allows you to pull down the notification center over the lock screen -- and it's much more functional. Widgets, action items, browsing full email, twitter, and Facebook feeds all without unlocking the screen. Obviously for hothouse with security concerns, it would be easy to disable).
Just some ideas that came to me while I was reading through this great thread.
Yes I got the latest update
Oh, I don't know about Temple Run, since I don't play it but for general use, I absolute LOVE it! And it's super responsive in my experience.
And you can disable it in certain applications, like Temple Run.
I even made a review for it, here(shameless plug haha, plus I really want to show you that it does work great).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1UyGU4vF6M
If you don't want to watch the whole thing, you can go to 1:50 and view how switching between apps works.
i didnt create this, but i really like this idea.
mission control could work really well
http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-should-bring-mission-control-to-ipad-in-ios-5/2011/02/24/
Nice review!!!! When the iOS 5.1 untethered comes out I'll give it another shot.
You can already do this on the screen, so why would you need a second area to do that?
Amen to all of this...
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Make the app dock able to slide left and right and non stop like the multitasking bar.
This would allow us to add more apps to the dock rather than just the 4 or 5 aps or docks
More levels of folder organization
At least three as a minimum
The Photos app and other programs will*only wil show one level of albums with no sub albums available. For instance when my Album on my PC in MY Documents folder named "Places" is*synced to my iPad... I open the album in the Photos app and it shows thousands of pictures all tiled in succession. While on the PC side, it is organized such as Places>Coast or Central Oregon or Salem or Hawaii or ????. The next level of folders is very helpful in helping organize the many folders we have to help sort our our pictures. Additionally a 3rd level helps even more to help define organization. e.g. Places>Hawaii> Kuai or Maui or Oahu or ????. The same can be said for My childrens albums as another example...* Austin>Soccer>Freshman year or Sophomore year or Game 1 or game 2 or game 3 etc.
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Ideally it would be nice to have no limit on the*number of sub folders you can define. But if there is a limit that has to be had... 3 would be it. This folder structure of allowing subfolders*is allowed on the Mac OS X system. So why not on the*iOS as well?
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In the Photo libraries.. you can have a Album level and also just the bare photos. I would suggest you to have another level above Albums called Collections. The hierarchy would allow us to have a collection of albums inside a collection. This would also mimic sites like Flickr which have the same structure. This also allows you to match the 1st two levels of hierarchy in the MY*DOCUMENTS folders*on a PC. Making a third level would be even better yet, but at this point in time 2 levels would work. This allows us to have more organization on our iOS devices in helping us locate our files. It is not asking too much I do not*think. If you put your self in*us photographers shoes with thousands and thousands of images, you would want more orginization tools as well, I believe. You can see putting thousands and thousand of photos in one level is very difficult to review
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Yes...
There is an accounts panel... let us add Yahoo, Gtalk, Box, Twitter, Facebook, DropBox, MSN, etc...
once those credentials are added... system features can be sent to any of those accounts via the share function
At least three as a minimum
The Photos app and other programs will*only wil show one level of albums with no sub albums available. For instance when my Album on my PC in MY Documents folder named "Places" is*synced to my iPad... I open the album in the Photos app and it shows thousands of pictures all tiled in succession. While on the PC side, it is organized such as Places>Coast or Central Oregon or Salem or Hawaii or ????. The next level of folders is very helpful in helping organize the many folders we have to help sort our our pictures. Additionally a 3rd level helps even more to help define organization. e.g. Places>Hawaii> Kuai or Maui or Oahu or ????. The same can be said for My childrens albums as another example...* Austin>Soccer>Freshman year or Sophomore year or Game 1 or game 2 or game 3 etc.
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Ideally it would be nice to have no limit on the*number of sub folders you can define. But if there is a limit that has to be had... 3 would be it. This folder structure of allowing subfolders*is allowed on the Mac OS X system. So why not on the*iOS as well?
*
In the Photo libraries.. you can have a Album level and also just the bare photos. I would suggest you to have another level above Albums called Collections. The hierarchy would allow us to have a collection of albums inside a collection. This would also mimic sites like Flickr which have the same structure. This also allows you to match the 1st two levels of hierarchy in the MY*DOCUMENTS folders*on a PC. Making a third level would be even better yet, but at this point in time 2 levels would work. This allows us to have more organization on our iOS devices in helping us locate our files. It is not asking too much I do not*think. If you put your self in*us photographers shoes with thousands and thousands of images, you would want more orginization tools as well, I believe. You can see putting thousands and thousand of photos in one level is very difficult to review
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Yes...
There is an accounts panel... let us add Yahoo, Gtalk, Box, Twitter, Facebook, DropBox, MSN, etc...
once those credentials are added... system features can be sent to any of those accounts via the share function
My letter to Tim Cook
Pardon the lenghth of the post. But it is easier to just paste it...
Mr Cook
I realize many media reports are just speculation and may not be what turns out in the long run. But I felt the need to comment to you on the interface with iTunes and the iCloud, and offer some suggestions. The interface has been puzzling to me, and I feel I need to let you know my concerns. With comments about iTunes 11 and iOS 6 coming out with further integration with the iCloud. I wanted to challenge your use of both iTunes and iCloud.
*
KISS is an acronym many use to talk about ease of use.. it is "Keep It Simple Silly". My middle school PE teacher grilled this into us when I was much younger*when playing ball, and it has had an impact on my life. And your Mr Jobs*spoke many times of Apples products being talked about as It just works . due to its intuitiveness and simplicity. As much as I love your products, there are areas which I think can still be simplified to avoid confusion and make life easier. I want my electronic needs to eventually be all from Apple. But for right now I have a PC instead of a Macbook due to price. And I also have an iPhone and iPad. With the PC comes the iTunes software, which in my opinion is just very very sad. It is confusing and much more complicated to use than the iOS devices. Yet it is required for those of us that need to bridge the gap.There*are many many things wrong with it. Many that are fixable.
*
If you can step back from the Apple metaphor of iTunes for a moment... When you think of "tunes", do you really think of movies, videos, tv shows, education, newspaper and magazine articles*or books? I certainly do not. I think of the radio*and my favorite songs*or music. Why should iTunes be any different? The Music app is what iTunes should be in my opinion,*and as outlined below,*iTunes in its current functionality should be called*something like*iStore.
*
Fundamentally, in my opinion the interfaces should be simplified to their basic components. A Store, some component apps which access*all these*products which can be called things such as Videos, Music, iBooks, Newsstand, etc., and still have a settings panel for iCloud access coordination.
*
IF all the platforms followed a redesigned iPhone/iPad metaphor it would great simplify the ease of use in finding things. Renaming some of your current apps would greatly simplify things..
*
- ITunes should be named something like iStore (Tunes means music orientation not*changing your devices settings, or moving files or photos, or app additions or deletions)
- Videos should be Media (Although I can live with Videos I guess). Thus having the movies, tv shows, music videos sub categories currently in place. I really think Trailers should be added to this category as well. Trailers are movies of course. Thus eliminating another app on the desktop.Just control the selection with the sub category button selections.
- iTunes U should be called Education or University or my fave "Classroom" or something similar*(It is a source of learning by courses not a iTunes/music relevant name). This is very very strange and is confusing. After all tunes are tunes... not a classroom setting.
*
With the rename in place, ITunes now becomes iStore*and should have the following modules in it Apps, Music, Media or Videos (movies, tv shows, music videos, trailers, podcasts... sub categories), Podcasts (this needs to go in the media/videos module too), Books (which also now has audio books... books are books whether they are audio or visual), Newsstand, etc... it would be more straight forward and less confusing. You could also have an Audio sub category so you can use Ring tones in it. These modules would function as apps on their own just like the new Music*app does and the individual apps*would have an iStore button on them when clicked that takes you to the iStore. A perfect example of this is the*as mentioned Music app. Clicking on the store button*takes you to*the store... which happens to be iTunes (Which is now renamed iStore). You can then still have the Purchased and download buttons in the iStore app. And have access to the other modules by clicking on their respective buttons. After all the frame work on the iPad and iPhone are similar, just different titles.*The shell of the app is*the same, only the content changes depending on which module you select. Again the best example is the Music app that plays the tunes and such, and goes back to access the store for purchases and searching. This is the perfect example of simplicity and KISS. Please do the same with Videos/Media, Newsstand, books, University/Education*and other medias.
*
Then the only function of the iStore on the PC or any iOS device*becomes finding and purchasing what ever your active module is.... Music, Media/Videos, Books, etc. The individual apps take care of the listening, watching, reading of the purchased items while still giving you access back to the store.
*
Then, as part of the seperate settings module, you can expand the iCloud settings to enhance the documents to be stored on the iCloud. All we end users want is to be able to store our files in the iCloud and not use our PC. This iCloud module should be based on the current iCloud portion in the settings module in the iOS devices. Any iCloud settings should not be part of iTunes (Which is actually a store) thus the rename.*
*
Another strange thing is the Notes settings.*I want my notes stored in the iCloud without having to use a Me.Com address. It should already be based on my Apple ID not a newly created Me.com address to do it. Make it simple, and base everything on our Apple ID. Do not clutter it up by having us use a address which is from a idea that is being antiquainted such as Mobile ME. Please keep it simple and use the AppleID.
*
Having a store, which can access the modules, and having apps as modules that access the store simplifies it greatly. It is really just a tweak of what you have. But the naming conventions are much simpler and far less confusing. Tunes are tunes, and stores are stores.
*
If you can do this and bring the same iPad/iPhone software ease of use as outlined above*to the PC it will greatly simplify things and make it easier on the end user. The PC iTunes is just a joke. It takes forever to load and use and it often does not find my iPad or iPhone wirelessly to synchronize it. Even if they are next to my router and PC. And I have a pretty new and powerful PC. I end up giving up on the wireless sync and tether them to sync. It would be far easier to syncronize my docs to the iCloud from any device and not have to rely on my PC. Just like taking a picture shows up on my devices in simplicity, so should my other syncings. The death of the PC was highly exaggerated. IF you can iCloud the docs I will not have to use my PC and then it will be dead. The sycronizing on the docs on my PC belong in the iCloud panel not in iTunes. If I want to syncronize my photos or spreadsheets or word processing docs or whatever. It should be coordinated in the iCloud panel like it is in the iOS devices. Then from the iCloud it syncs to my iPad or iPhone wirelessly. No tether required.
Pardon the lenghth of the post. But it is easier to just paste it...
Mr Cook
I realize many media reports are just speculation and may not be what turns out in the long run. But I felt the need to comment to you on the interface with iTunes and the iCloud, and offer some suggestions. The interface has been puzzling to me, and I feel I need to let you know my concerns. With comments about iTunes 11 and iOS 6 coming out with further integration with the iCloud. I wanted to challenge your use of both iTunes and iCloud.
*
KISS is an acronym many use to talk about ease of use.. it is "Keep It Simple Silly". My middle school PE teacher grilled this into us when I was much younger*when playing ball, and it has had an impact on my life. And your Mr Jobs*spoke many times of Apples products being talked about as It just works . due to its intuitiveness and simplicity. As much as I love your products, there are areas which I think can still be simplified to avoid confusion and make life easier. I want my electronic needs to eventually be all from Apple. But for right now I have a PC instead of a Macbook due to price. And I also have an iPhone and iPad. With the PC comes the iTunes software, which in my opinion is just very very sad. It is confusing and much more complicated to use than the iOS devices. Yet it is required for those of us that need to bridge the gap.There*are many many things wrong with it. Many that are fixable.
*
If you can step back from the Apple metaphor of iTunes for a moment... When you think of "tunes", do you really think of movies, videos, tv shows, education, newspaper and magazine articles*or books? I certainly do not. I think of the radio*and my favorite songs*or music. Why should iTunes be any different? The Music app is what iTunes should be in my opinion,*and as outlined below,*iTunes in its current functionality should be called*something like*iStore.
*
Fundamentally, in my opinion the interfaces should be simplified to their basic components. A Store, some component apps which access*all these*products which can be called things such as Videos, Music, iBooks, Newsstand, etc., and still have a settings panel for iCloud access coordination.
*
IF all the platforms followed a redesigned iPhone/iPad metaphor it would great simplify the ease of use in finding things. Renaming some of your current apps would greatly simplify things..
*
- ITunes should be named something like iStore (Tunes means music orientation not*changing your devices settings, or moving files or photos, or app additions or deletions)
- Videos should be Media (Although I can live with Videos I guess). Thus having the movies, tv shows, music videos sub categories currently in place. I really think Trailers should be added to this category as well. Trailers are movies of course. Thus eliminating another app on the desktop.Just control the selection with the sub category button selections.
- iTunes U should be called Education or University or my fave "Classroom" or something similar*(It is a source of learning by courses not a iTunes/music relevant name). This is very very strange and is confusing. After all tunes are tunes... not a classroom setting.
*
With the rename in place, ITunes now becomes iStore*and should have the following modules in it Apps, Music, Media or Videos (movies, tv shows, music videos, trailers, podcasts... sub categories), Podcasts (this needs to go in the media/videos module too), Books (which also now has audio books... books are books whether they are audio or visual), Newsstand, etc... it would be more straight forward and less confusing. You could also have an Audio sub category so you can use Ring tones in it. These modules would function as apps on their own just like the new Music*app does and the individual apps*would have an iStore button on them when clicked that takes you to the iStore. A perfect example of this is the*as mentioned Music app. Clicking on the store button*takes you to*the store... which happens to be iTunes (Which is now renamed iStore). You can then still have the Purchased and download buttons in the iStore app. And have access to the other modules by clicking on their respective buttons. After all the frame work on the iPad and iPhone are similar, just different titles.*The shell of the app is*the same, only the content changes depending on which module you select. Again the best example is the Music app that plays the tunes and such, and goes back to access the store for purchases and searching. This is the perfect example of simplicity and KISS. Please do the same with Videos/Media, Newsstand, books, University/Education*and other medias.
*
Then the only function of the iStore on the PC or any iOS device*becomes finding and purchasing what ever your active module is.... Music, Media/Videos, Books, etc. The individual apps take care of the listening, watching, reading of the purchased items while still giving you access back to the store.
*
Then, as part of the seperate settings module, you can expand the iCloud settings to enhance the documents to be stored on the iCloud. All we end users want is to be able to store our files in the iCloud and not use our PC. This iCloud module should be based on the current iCloud portion in the settings module in the iOS devices. Any iCloud settings should not be part of iTunes (Which is actually a store) thus the rename.*
*
Another strange thing is the Notes settings.*I want my notes stored in the iCloud without having to use a Me.Com address. It should already be based on my Apple ID not a newly created Me.com address to do it. Make it simple, and base everything on our Apple ID. Do not clutter it up by having us use a address which is from a idea that is being antiquainted such as Mobile ME. Please keep it simple and use the AppleID.
*
Having a store, which can access the modules, and having apps as modules that access the store simplifies it greatly. It is really just a tweak of what you have. But the naming conventions are much simpler and far less confusing. Tunes are tunes, and stores are stores.
*
If you can do this and bring the same iPad/iPhone software ease of use as outlined above*to the PC it will greatly simplify things and make it easier on the end user. The PC iTunes is just a joke. It takes forever to load and use and it often does not find my iPad or iPhone wirelessly to synchronize it. Even if they are next to my router and PC. And I have a pretty new and powerful PC. I end up giving up on the wireless sync and tether them to sync. It would be far easier to syncronize my docs to the iCloud from any device and not have to rely on my PC. Just like taking a picture shows up on my devices in simplicity, so should my other syncings. The death of the PC was highly exaggerated. IF you can iCloud the docs I will not have to use my PC and then it will be dead. The sycronizing on the docs on my PC belong in the iCloud panel not in iTunes. If I want to syncronize my photos or spreadsheets or word processing docs or whatever. It should be coordinated in the iCloud panel like it is in the iOS devices. Then from the iCloud it syncs to my iPad or iPhone wirelessly. No tether required.
I have only wanted one thing since i switched over to an iphone back in the day.
The ability to have an audio alert when you miss a telephone call. Who the f cares if i miss a txt mssg but yet there are options for that in the O/S. In a corp environment, I'm always wasting time and battery waking up my phone to make sure I did not miss a call.
and also to the person that suggested a 1 button solution to closing all apps. I get tired of rambo closing them all. Forgetting to turn off a gps app kills the battery.
Hopefully the no audio alert was just a pet pieve of SJ and someday makes it into the O/S without jailbreaking...
The ability to have an audio alert when you miss a telephone call. Who the f cares if i miss a txt mssg but yet there are options for that in the O/S. In a corp environment, I'm always wasting time and battery waking up my phone to make sure I did not miss a call.
and also to the person that suggested a 1 button solution to closing all apps. I get tired of rambo closing them all. Forgetting to turn off a gps app kills the battery.
Hopefully the no audio alert was just a pet pieve of SJ and someday makes it into the O/S without jailbreaking...
An audio alert is not needed, what is needed is an illuminated home button. Instead of having the normal white square, it should change colours according to the alert you have. Example: Miss a call, the home button square glows red. Have a text message, it glows green, email it glows blue, multiple notifications it glows purple.. Or something along those lines. I think that would be a huge improvement and a much needed one. Then you're not always checking your phone for missed calls/messages.
Obviously you can disable it in your settings for the people who dislike change and think the iPhone is perfect the way it is.
This would be my number one hopes (I doubt we'll get this) for the next iPhone.