Make it biennial at least maybe more , concentrate on stability and useful features not flashy gimmicks people use once and then never again
Like in the good old days
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What would you like to see in the next macOS release?
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Wouldn't that disrupt the capability to make a disk image of one Mac, then boot from and use it on another? That used to be a classic knock against Windows (that it was pointless to try and boot from a different machine's HDD because the OS install would be too intertwined with the specific hardware).
I was thinking about that last night; the OS would still have to be adaptive: design a Library folder called MachineDeployment and put all of the unused features there. If the OS sees it's being permanently booted into a drive where the system allows for more capabilities, then install them at boot. Ask at boot if this is a clone or an external drive.
That would be very satisfying, if there was a hotfix needed for something that broke. We wouldn't have to download 2 GB+ and in stall for 30 or more minutes to update Safari. But Safari is on the sealed boot volume, so they'd have to create a new mechanism for safely swapping out some of the code in Safari to do this without compromising overall security. That might be hard to do, even for Apple.
Using patched Catalina on an older mac, why it's the first thought to my lil sole wishlist. Prefer Safari but forced to use FF for staying up to date on the browser front.
You could just switch to using Safari Technology Preview you know.
Hi. I'm running 10.15.2 on an unsupported mac. Would it even install? I need to reinstall the OS anyways to the latest available version of Catalina.
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Just make it work. These days I'm scared to upgrade a MAC because of the risk that further bugs will result in wasted time trying to find work arounds as you know Apple will never fix it. A return to a leel where it just works would be the most significant advancement that could be made.
And here we go again. New Xcode today and it still has a data loss bug (the "Don't Save" button saves anyway, under certain easy-to-replicate conditions). We're less than two weeks away from my bug report's one-year anniversary and Apple hasn't even commented on it yet, let alone fixed it.
This is a lifesaver! I kind of worry about using third party apps from a dev I've never heard of but the scroll thing was driving me crazy on my MBA. I was trying to learn "Apple's way" on the mouse but no... Just no. Of course I need my trackpad to act normal so I didn't want to change it. Now everything is good!
i'm fine with Monterey as it is, but if it was me responsible for the next update, i'd include: (in alphabetical order)
no true must haves, but would make my life easier sometimes
- bug fix: sometimes some apps not getting closed by CMD + Q (these are still visible in the Activity Monitor and Force Quit app)
- bug fix: trackpad pinch to zoom sometimes not working
- Calendar: filter for individual state's holidays
- Calendar, Year view: show full extent of events longer than one day just like in Month view
- Calendar, Year view: use of the different colors for the events just like in Month view
- Dock: toggle "hide / unhide" of app windows via simple clicks for both ways and not Option + click = hide / click = unhide
- Finder: CMQ + Q to restart + hide Finder window
- Finder: show used / remaining storage capacity graph + numerical values on all volumes
- Installation: dead simple way to create an installation boot disk via simple download from the App Store that prepares everything for you with just one or two clicks involved
- Mail: push notifications
- Mission Control: integration of hidden and minimized windows
- Mission Control: less confusing / seemingly random placements of apps
- Photos: true separated folders so you don't need to have one huge single main folder cluttered you have build your linking folders upon
- Preview: improved handling, more options for default behavior (full screen, different sorting options, etc.)
- window management: ALL apps being actually CLOSED via their respective red buttons. Make this an option in the system settings if necessary.
- Time Machine: option for the creation of true disk images
no true must haves, but would make my life easier sometimes
yes...a return to "it just works" to get rid of that feeling of "I should never update a mac due to all the potential bugs that i get to waste an enormous amount of time on" to find a work around.
My requests are mostly UI based.
I would like to see more balanced colours in the UI.
Less of this
And more of something like this.
Notice how Finder has different colours. There's no need for dark mode in this case.
Including menus and stacks in the dock:
Monterey:
Mountain Lion:
Music App improvements, including improved album view. Currently each album is opened on a new page. This makes album browsing very time-consuming:
It was more convenient before:
Older versions:
Which new features would you like to see in the next macOS?
There are a couple of things I would add that would complete macOS perfectly:
Minimising windows into the app instead of the dock is an ok idea when screen space is limited, but they should show up when you use Mission Control to see all windows. (They used to in OSX Leopard, but got removed for some reason in later releases).
The Finder should integrate into open and save dialog boxes more, for example a list of open Finder windows would help me immensely.
Simply add it below the 'recent places' drop down would work.
I usually work in the Finder first, opening files from it which then opens the app.
Being able to go back to the Finder window I was just in whilst I'm in the app would speed things up.
Dragging a proxy folder icon into an open and save dialog box to jump to that folder is OK, but it's a bit counter-intuitive.