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What's on your macOS 10.16 wishlist? (besides bug/stability improvements)
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Can’t say so. But then again, 10.7 is 9 years in the past.
What I can say is that I prefer the look of the 10.15 Calendar over the faux leather.
Not that I can tell. But I do know that, besides the lack of faux cow hide and stitching, it is more robust with features.
With WWDC around the corner, here's a few I'll add:
- Significant announcement for iCloud storage sizes and introduction of macOS Time Machine backups to iCloud. I would think 10TB would be ideal.
- Overhaul of Keychain Access and transformation into iCloud Keychain. Easily identify redundant/bad passwords and possibly auto-convert logins to 'Sign in with Apple'.
- Overhaul Photos AI features, particularly the Faces function (feels so outdated, not enough smart identification or finding unmatched faces). Also, group similar photos into stacks (much like the Burst function on iPhone). Last, better editing of RAW photos (Photoshop does so much better) and make it easier to identify these and compress them to HEVC.
You ask "What's on your macOS 10.16 wishlist? (besides bug/stability improvements)", possibly implying that bug/stability improvements might not be so important to wish for. Yet for anyone with any experience with Catalina, I'm sure that far above all else our (my, surely) most fervent wish is that 10.16 is at last a robust and trouble-free OS, where "it just works" - a promise Apple has long ago forgotten. I'm fed up with being an unpaid beta tester for Apple for v. after v. I wouldn't care if they called it Alice; in fact, I'd be happiest if they simply called it 10.16.
-----I'd still be interested in seeing:
- The official ability to use iCloud services between multiple accounts on the same machine, ideally with local caching to avoid unneeded network access.
- Easy-to-use native cross-machine user account syncing.
- The ability to open multiple user accounts side by side instead of needing to run a full-screened Screen Sharing session over a local SSH proxy. (I know this sounds odd, but I don't give my separate, everyday user account administrator privileges.)
- Full WebExtensions support in Safari.
- More granular 'Do Not Disturb' settings. (For example, I'd like to be able to prevent notifications from making any noise when I'm listening to audio and automatically toggle 'Do Not Disturb' on and off when entering and exiting full-screen video playback.)
- APFS support for Time Machine backup drives.
- The return of those Dashboard widgets which never got Notification Center equivalents as Today view widgets.
- Native Vulcan support, as opposed to forcing developers to rely on MoltenVK.
Music and Books Apps that are not complete trash.
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Another thing I wish is that the MacOS and the apps running on it don’t get dumbed-down in the service of a kind of merging with iOS.
And while we’re at it, something I’ve been wishing for for a long time (though it probably has little to do with the OS): integration of the iWork suite (at least on Macs), and adding back the database and drawing apps - altogether, I wish for a modern and capable version of AppleWorks, which Apple did so well so long ago.
And while we’re at it, something I’ve been wishing for for a long time (though it probably has little to do with the OS): integration of the iWork suite (at least on Macs), and adding back the database and drawing apps - altogether, I wish for a modern and capable version of AppleWorks, which Apple did so well so long ago.
Isn't that called... Finder?
Integration with what?
FileMaker exists.
Not quite. You can get somewhat close, but it still isn't the same. In ~2012 there was an app that I really liked and which was quite promising (doo), but they gave up a year or so later because they were too ambitious for their time with what they wanted to do (at least that's what they said).
No, well it wouldn't be, would it? Documents aren't music.
Can you expand what iTunes/Music.app brings to a music collection that the Finder doesn't have for regular files?
Catalina was the new windows vista.
It had meltdowns across many platforms. And still does, many threads on that.
I for one deleted it, have high Serra and Mojave running, and working %100.
take a year off and get it right!
That is my wish.
It had meltdowns across many platforms. And still does, many threads on that.
I for one deleted it, have high Serra and Mojave running, and working %100.
take a year off and get it right!
That is my wish.
.13 was just as bad as .15 was for me. it took getting to .4 before both were useable for me. Im hoping for a iOS 12/Mojave type year, as those were some solid software offerings. iOS 13/Catalina was a dumpster fire.
Ability to quickly mute any application (but not the entire system) like you can for tabs in Safari
FileMaker is in no way consumer-oriented, but then I suppose no database is (Access for instance is even more unfriendly). Filemaker Inc did have a Filemaker Lite program (forget what it was called), but they canned it.
FileMaker is in no way consumer-oriented, but then I suppose no database is (Access for instance is even more unfriendly). Filemaker Inc did have a Filemaker Lite program (forget what it was called), but they canned it.
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Integration = all the iWork apps seamlessly integrated with each other. For those of you too young to know anything about AppleWorks or its improved version, BeagleWorks (and with Apple computers, even before Macs replaced them), you could easily integrate/combine text docs with spreadsheets, databases and paint and presentations. This was the first integrated suite, predating Microsoft Office. Apple simply stopped caring and dropped the ball.
FileMaker, originally essentially an Apple product, no longer integrated with anything. Still, it was once affordable for most users, but then became restrictively priced. It’s more powerful than it was, and certainly much more powerful than what was in AppleWorks, but it’s overkill for most of us.
FileMaker, originally essentially an Apple product, no longer integrated with anything. Still, it was once affordable for most users, but then became restrictively priced. It’s more powerful than it was, and certainly much more powerful than what was in AppleWorks, but it’s overkill for most of us.
Well, for starters everything that comes with a library type approach. Like loads of options to filter for metadata, without having to constantly change how the Finder (which has to navigate the whole filesystem, not only documents) displays content. Also, only show things that are added to the "library", not all files. And, it wouldn't be so constrained to the ~/folder/subfolder/file.ext approach a file browser inherently follows.
I kno, I could flood my sidebar with canned searches, use extensive tagging and leverage all the different view options in Finder - but as I said, I might get close, but it's not the same.
....... Integration means the apps integrated with each other. Oh great, thanks for really clarifying that point
You should probably clarify that you mean AppleWorks for the Apple II, not AppleWorks that came after Claris Works and before iWork, for Mac.
However the thing they all have in common, is that it was a single application. Apart from "integrated means integrated" (did you by chance write political catch phrases for a former UK Prime Minister?) I still have zero clue how this is seen as a benefit - these days it typically gets labeled (correctly) as "bloat" because you need to load a program that does 5 things, even though you're only doing one.
Maybe what he wants is, say, create a spreadsheet in Numbers, add it to a Pages document and have it update automatically if the original is modified. I don't think that's possible right now.
I also would like to reference an entirely different spreadsheet from inside a Numbers document and have it update the values as they change in the linked file.
I also would like to reference an entirely different spreadsheet from inside a Numbers document and have it update the values as they change in the linked file.
I don’t want to see any new “features” at all. Apple is long overdue to just spend a year ironing out the mess they created with Mojave and Catalina.
That sounds like OLE from MS Office. I don't believe any Apple "office" software has ever done that.
Oh man.... a Wishlist ?? I may have some doozys and rants on a couple, sorry for the novel.
- Let's fix the full screen thing that it is.
I don't want to do one action, mouseover, wait for dropdown, movemouse, choose panel right, screen does a thing, have to choose left panel, hey now the panels are half and half, oh wait, now my menubar and taskbar for some reason can't be on the screen at the same time, yet those bars could be there if I 50/50 split manually. Add a check that full screen doesn't mean completely and utterly full screen.
- Personally don't have a care about matching numbers with any other OS on any platform.
- iMessage as many to same functions as iOS variant.
- let me have 2 - 3 docks, even just 2. They can be on the same plain at the bottom, sides, or I could have one on the left, one on the right, one left, one bottom. My purpose would be I could completely seperate my workflow from personal to business to a different dock and have those have the ability to hide when not in use.
I like a fairly tidy dock but then I daily use A Lot of apps. I don't use the LauchPad, I'm oldschool, I think it was Lion or something it was introduced I was like nope, not using this.
But dual to triple docks.
- A more simple ON/OFF switch for this spelling dictatorship that lives in my machines. A Menubar that could disable across all apps so I don't have to turn off check spelling with typing, check grammar with spelling, autocorrect, auto substitute. For me, when you are working across many devices and you say a word or phrase a certain way and you have to stop something from stopping you from saying what you want, is a little bit frustrating.
- I would like a more moddable Notification system.
Consistant email, text, whatever notifications all peaking their faces out from the upper right corner.
Still have a notification center if you will but allow me to have iMessages come up from say the lower left. Facetime/phone calls, lower right with an option to simply close a facetime or phone call notification other than answering or declining. Just a close and silence this particular call button. Just give options to move notications to different points of the screens.
- Moving backgrounds, even if it's just the screensavers built-in, and give me completel fullscreen with facetime where facetime is essentially my wallpaper and i still have my menubar/taskbar overlayed. Just something different.
- Better Home App across the devices that use it.
If I change my home background to my house on my phone, my Mac can only show blobby soft colors, even if it isn't user taken images, something more than green fog for this room, blue fog for that room, orange fog for outside.
- For some apps. An extra, keep this on top button. I might have a webpage 50% screen, spreadsheet on the other 50%, let me keep the calculator up front. Or the stock app or ticker of watched apps, maybe I'm working and having a steady conversation with my with so let me pull just our conversation and keep it on the screen, but something neat like no backgrounds, just chat bubbles. Activity Rings, health info. Similar to Vista and the floating widgets.
- absorb CarbonCopyCloner to replace Time Machine
- iCloud Desktop. I may not have all aplications but I can log in to iCloud.com from any device/anywhere and I have mydesktop setup. Like a Windows Roaming Profile within a company. They are already saving desktops, documents, automatically then whatever file structure you create.
- absorb Parallels and just have a built-in very good VM solution.
- Let's fix the full screen thing that it is.
I don't want to do one action, mouseover, wait for dropdown, movemouse, choose panel right, screen does a thing, have to choose left panel, hey now the panels are half and half, oh wait, now my menubar and taskbar for some reason can't be on the screen at the same time, yet those bars could be there if I 50/50 split manually. Add a check that full screen doesn't mean completely and utterly full screen.
- Personally don't have a care about matching numbers with any other OS on any platform.
- iMessage as many to same functions as iOS variant.
- let me have 2 - 3 docks, even just 2. They can be on the same plain at the bottom, sides, or I could have one on the left, one on the right, one left, one bottom. My purpose would be I could completely seperate my workflow from personal to business to a different dock and have those have the ability to hide when not in use.
I like a fairly tidy dock but then I daily use A Lot of apps. I don't use the LauchPad, I'm oldschool, I think it was Lion or something it was introduced I was like nope, not using this.
But dual to triple docks.
- A more simple ON/OFF switch for this spelling dictatorship that lives in my machines. A Menubar that could disable across all apps so I don't have to turn off check spelling with typing, check grammar with spelling, autocorrect, auto substitute. For me, when you are working across many devices and you say a word or phrase a certain way and you have to stop something from stopping you from saying what you want, is a little bit frustrating.
- I would like a more moddable Notification system.
Consistant email, text, whatever notifications all peaking their faces out from the upper right corner.
Still have a notification center if you will but allow me to have iMessages come up from say the lower left. Facetime/phone calls, lower right with an option to simply close a facetime or phone call notification other than answering or declining. Just a close and silence this particular call button. Just give options to move notications to different points of the screens.
- Moving backgrounds, even if it's just the screensavers built-in, and give me completel fullscreen with facetime where facetime is essentially my wallpaper and i still have my menubar/taskbar overlayed. Just something different.
- Better Home App across the devices that use it.
If I change my home background to my house on my phone, my Mac can only show blobby soft colors, even if it isn't user taken images, something more than green fog for this room, blue fog for that room, orange fog for outside.
- For some apps. An extra, keep this on top button. I might have a webpage 50% screen, spreadsheet on the other 50%, let me keep the calculator up front. Or the stock app or ticker of watched apps, maybe I'm working and having a steady conversation with my with so let me pull just our conversation and keep it on the screen, but something neat like no backgrounds, just chat bubbles. Activity Rings, health info. Similar to Vista and the floating widgets.
- absorb CarbonCopyCloner to replace Time Machine
- iCloud Desktop. I may not have all aplications but I can log in to iCloud.com from any device/anywhere and I have mydesktop setup. Like a Windows Roaming Profile within a company. They are already saving desktops, documents, automatically then whatever file structure you create.
- absorb Parallels and just have a built-in very good VM solution.