Trackpad being built into the smart keyboard allowing say, photos to be better manipulated in photo editors or making it faster to select text in word processors. It makes perfect sense and touch on OSX also makes perfect sense.
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The iOS 10 Wishlist Thread (merged)
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It's useful in the sense that people often use the phone one handed and it's easier to reach controls on the bottom vs the top.
Yeah, I don't understand why Spotlight still can't do everything Siri can.
If I ask Siri what movies are playing, it gives me a list of movie posters, if you tap on one it gives you all the details of the movie, nearby showtimes, trailers and Rotten Tomatoes rating and reviews you can read. All of that is within Siri, no launching other apps or Safari.
If you type "movies" into Search, the top result is "Now playing in theaters" and it gives you a list of movie posters. But if you tap on one one of them, instead of giving you the same details Siri does it launches the Fandango website in Safari. You can't even get it to launch the Fandango app instead if it's installed, it's always the website.
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- OS-independant stock apps updates. I would love to see my Music, Maps, Weather or whatever stock app updating through the App Store, on a more regular basis. That would allow apps-dedicated teams improve their baby more quickly, to make them more stable, and having the OS-dedicated team not being forced to release a X.x update to fix a ****ing Music bug or whatever.
My iOS 10 Wishlist:
1. A moderate design refresh - Tweaked UI should take more design cues from OS X Yosemite/El Capitan: refreshed icons, buttons, less white, a bit of depth and shadowing, etc.
2. Full system dark mode: this mode would be on by default on black/space gray iOS devices but could easily be toggled with any iOS device.
3. Redesigned music app: Apple really should go back to the basics with this app as it's gotten way too bloated and some of the UI choices made in the app need to be rethought. The stock music app should basically be the simple iPod music player that we all know and love. The iPad version of the app could use some better UI for its larger displays. The Apple Music service however, should be broken up a bit. For instance: the radio features of Beats 1 and iTunes Radio could easily be it's own Pandora-esque app. They should just drop the Connect feature, nobody really uses it (artists and fans) and it didn't work before with Ping so why would it work a second time around? Insanity 101 right there. Finally, the actual music streaming should be integrated into the iTunes Store which I'll explain more in a bit. Finding and streaming music should be as simple and easy to do as buying a song or album. Basically, you would have your recommendations (For You) and curation stuff in the iTunes Store which is where you would be asked the music (the bubble interface but redesigned) that you're into and from there, the iTunes Store would be tailored to your music tastes but obviously it would still include the top charts and spotlight searching. So essentially that would be the 'New' section as it's currently displayed. To stream a song or album, you would (if you're an Apple Music subscriber) have the + option button right next to Buy button to either: Save to Music to stream only or save and locally store it as well but you could always eventually save it locally from within the Music app if you only wanted to stream first (which is good if you're unsure about the music beforehand) It was removed in iOS 7 and I don't understand why but there was an option on the upper lefthand side of the music app as well as the iTunes Store in which you could quickly jump back and forth between for quicker access so that should definitely return.
4. Social media widget in the Notification Center. Debuted in iOS 6, removed in iOS 7 (hasn't returned since) but it's still on the Mac so if OS X has it, why not iOS? Also some good Notification Center widgets that OS X has but not iOS are: iTunes Mini-player, Weather, World Clock and Calculator. Apple, please bring these widgets into the Notification Center on iOS. It would definitely be really good for the iPad.
5. Better iPad UI optimization: The UI for the iPad was much better designed and laid out prior to the iOS 7 redesign in which it essentially scaled up the iPhone UI and didn't decide to fully take advantage of the larger screen canvas. While I admit Apple has made strides in this department (bigger folders, Safari tab view, etc.), stuff like the app switcher, Spotlight Search, Siri show that Apple did not really put much thought into adapting the new iOS design language to the larger iPad displays and the next design refresh (which I hope iOS 10 is), it should be designed with both the iPhone and iPad in mind.
6. Individual stock app updates through the App Store. I hate waiting for full system updates to get refreshed default apps. The preloaded apps should be individually updated the same exact way they are on OS X and preloaded apps that were previously downloadable but are now baked in (iBooks, Podcasts, Find My Friends, etc.) are among the stock apps that could be removable. So basically, core stock apps like Phone, Messages, FaceTime, etc. cannot be removed but the secondary 1st party apps are. But all stock apps can be individually updated via the App Store.
1. A moderate design refresh - Tweaked UI should take more design cues from OS X Yosemite/El Capitan: refreshed icons, buttons, less white, a bit of depth and shadowing, etc.
2. Full system dark mode: this mode would be on by default on black/space gray iOS devices but could easily be toggled with any iOS device.
3. Redesigned music app: Apple really should go back to the basics with this app as it's gotten way too bloated and some of the UI choices made in the app need to be rethought. The stock music app should basically be the simple iPod music player that we all know and love. The iPad version of the app could use some better UI for its larger displays. The Apple Music service however, should be broken up a bit. For instance: the radio features of Beats 1 and iTunes Radio could easily be it's own Pandora-esque app. They should just drop the Connect feature, nobody really uses it (artists and fans) and it didn't work before with Ping so why would it work a second time around? Insanity 101 right there. Finally, the actual music streaming should be integrated into the iTunes Store which I'll explain more in a bit. Finding and streaming music should be as simple and easy to do as buying a song or album. Basically, you would have your recommendations (For You) and curation stuff in the iTunes Store which is where you would be asked the music (the bubble interface but redesigned) that you're into and from there, the iTunes Store would be tailored to your music tastes but obviously it would still include the top charts and spotlight searching. So essentially that would be the 'New' section as it's currently displayed. To stream a song or album, you would (if you're an Apple Music subscriber) have the + option button right next to Buy button to either: Save to Music to stream only or save and locally store it as well but you could always eventually save it locally from within the Music app if you only wanted to stream first (which is good if you're unsure about the music beforehand) It was removed in iOS 7 and I don't understand why but there was an option on the upper lefthand side of the music app as well as the iTunes Store in which you could quickly jump back and forth between for quicker access so that should definitely return.
4. Social media widget in the Notification Center. Debuted in iOS 6, removed in iOS 7 (hasn't returned since) but it's still on the Mac so if OS X has it, why not iOS? Also some good Notification Center widgets that OS X has but not iOS are: iTunes Mini-player, Weather, World Clock and Calculator. Apple, please bring these widgets into the Notification Center on iOS. It would definitely be really good for the iPad.
5. Better iPad UI optimization: The UI for the iPad was much better designed and laid out prior to the iOS 7 redesign in which it essentially scaled up the iPhone UI and didn't decide to fully take advantage of the larger screen canvas. While I admit Apple has made strides in this department (bigger folders, Safari tab view, etc.), stuff like the app switcher, Spotlight Search, Siri show that Apple did not really put much thought into adapting the new iOS design language to the larger iPad displays and the next design refresh (which I hope iOS 10 is), it should be designed with both the iPhone and iPad in mind.
6. Individual stock app updates through the App Store. I hate waiting for full system updates to get refreshed default apps. The preloaded apps should be individually updated the same exact way they are on OS X and preloaded apps that were previously downloadable but are now baked in (iBooks, Podcasts, Find My Friends, etc.) are among the stock apps that could be removable. So basically, core stock apps like Phone, Messages, FaceTime, etc. cannot be removed but the secondary 1st party apps are. But all stock apps can be individually updated via the App Store.
Speed and Stability!!! The missing iOS 9 feature
A major revamp of the Videos app that brings it in line with the music app. But they are probably already working on this to align with next year's Apple TV subscription service.
But aesthetically, mirror the music app. The organizational UI is primitive. Where's my "recently added" section at the top? Why can't I organize my content via genres, directors, year, release date, etc.? Where the hell is a simple search field at the top? And by God, once and for all please get rid of that horrendously skeumorphic clapper board for the icon and give it the clean and simple iOS 7 design treatment that it should have deserved over two years ago.
But aesthetically, mirror the music app. The organizational UI is primitive. Where's my "recently added" section at the top? Why can't I organize my content via genres, directors, year, release date, etc.? Where the hell is a simple search field at the top? And by God, once and for all please get rid of that horrendously skeumorphic clapper board for the icon and give it the clean and simple iOS 7 design treatment that it should have deserved over two years ago.
letting us delete them isn't the issue so much as reconsider what is baked in. we don't have to delete it if you never force it on us in the first place
But while I'm here, let me hide and change the default apps. If Apple thinks their apps are so great, then they should let them stand or fall on their own merits, rather than try to force me to use them.
When iOS 8.0 came out people were saying pretty much the same thing about having iOS 9 essentially going back to what iOS 7.1.2 was. Funny how iOS 8.4.1 is now the standard.
Because iPhone 6 ran iOS 8.0 better than iOS 9.0 It's just that 8.4.1 was the pinnacle of iPhone 6 speed.I doubt 9 will ever reach that level the way it is now
Same concept. They spend ten months perfecting a release, then totally trash it two months later. I'm tired of waiting ten months for a stable release. They're doing it wrong.
They already spent 4 months on iOS 9.I am appalled how could they get one of the most promised features wrong
I still don't even see what the heck is different about 9 compared to 8, except the stupid swipe right to search screen I can't get rid of. Sure, it probably says a lot of junk in the release notes, but other than colorful Siri (who doesn't even work about a third of the time when I hold the home button now), and that stupid swipe right, as an end user I can't see a wit of difference between the two other that the total stability disaster and extra lag.
I get that, I really do, but in the end all I've ever needed from an OS, and this goes back decades to the time before GUI and I had to write my own damn software to get anything done, is a STABLE underlying platform to run programs from ('apps' for all you younguns). Everything else is ultimately just glitz. Stability needs to be first and foremost, always. Somewhere along the line, the iOS development team lost sight of that.
Maybe their best stability people are working on OS X instead of iOS right now because OS X, which was awful in the stability arena 18 months ago is finally rock solid again.
There is a reason Toyota trounces every other car manufacturer. Yes their cars are boring, boring, boring, but they are stable, stable, stable and always get you there. Apple was toyota for a while. Now they're trying to be more german again. Yes german cars are glitzier and handle better and are quicker but they are unreliable as hell. At a certain point people just want to get there and german cars get relegated to a niche market, and that's how I'm feeling about Apple lately. I just want to get there, please worry about shininess later.
I would go to another handheld OS, except there really isn't any that isn't even less stable than iOS.
At the very least, I wish iOS would let us roll back to previously stable releases when they are having such out of control stability issues like this. C'mon, notifications not working? That is INSANE these days. This is the first mobile phone I've ever had, since the freaking late 1980s, that is having notification issues.