I know iOS 17 was recently released, but what would you like to see in iOS 18?
I would like them to update mail, everyone knows that Apple works best with their own products, apps, etc, and obviously Mail is better integrated with the Apple ecosystem, but the app sucks.
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in iPadOS i’d love to see the calculator app 🥲
Zero new features. Bug fixes and performance improvements only.
iOS 17 and even still in iOS 17.1.1 has some of the worst bugs I’ve seen in a long time on an iOS release. For reference I’ve had an iPhone since iPhone 4. I’ve never had to restart my iPhone (I’m on a 14 pro max) this much because of bugs and glitches.
The text to speech on the keyboard button randomly stops working, in safari the search bar and back and forward buttons randomly overlap onto the screen. The most infuriating one is for some reason I can’t figure out. I have one iMessage group chat that acts like I was removed when I wasn’t. I can’t Tapback or type. Then it randomly “unfreezes.” I have no idea why it’s just this one group chat. I feel like I’m on an unpolished beta version of iOS.
Something useful, 17 brought only Bugs and nothing useful okay maybe Health for iPadOS thats one useful thing.
Honestly for what I use my phone for… I’m good right now. I don’t need anything else nor do I feel like anything is missing. I take some photos, read some stuff online, text and have phone calls.
One bug I keep running into though is that iMessage keeps sharing my status as being in “Do Not Disturb” mode after I end sleep mode in the morning. I can toggle it on/off but people send me screenshots showing they see me as still being in DnD mode. All I can to is turn off my status sharing, which feels like the wrong way to fix this. This happened to me in iOS 16 and I had hope 17 would fix it… nope.
So far my favorite iOS 17 feature is that I can select an album for it to choose a randomized lock screen wallpaper from.
I would make sure that another device of yours doesn’t have DND enabled. This was happening to my sister, and it turned out that it was because her MBA was constantly in DND while her phone was only partially on DND. They didn’t sync because the share across devices feature was off.
To their credit though, apples good at making you feel like you NEED a brand new feature they introduced which you’ve never ever used before in your life haha
So we don’t know it yet, but they’re working on something we’ll soon want to have
Will somebody please fix the stupid focus mode BS, specifically give me the option to turn it off permanently?
My phone slips into “personal focus” mode sometimes and I get zero notifications for a few hours, then realize that like 20 people were trying to contact me!
increase in speed and battery life
Not iOS 18 in particular but I’d like Apple Music and Podcasts to have a Spotify Connect like functionality.
Also better search functionality on AM in general. I find it easier to use Google to look for playlists and then that link opens a playlist in AM.
While searching for the same keyword in AM wouldn’t ever get the same result.
Would love, and is possible, but probably still not happening: Improving iCloud sync for Podcasts.
Would love, is possible, and will probably not happen for another 20 years: UI re-design. Skeumorphic was a thing for 6 iOS versions. “Flat” has been a thing for 11. I’m tired of it. If they won’t allow full theming, they should do it themselves. Even as just options.
Skeuomorphism existed for decades before it was fased out with ios 7, flat ui is still relatively new compared to that and we’re unlikely to see an other dramatic change in design anytime soon.
But for now I’d be happy of flat design got a but more physicality like shadows and depth and effects…so not very flat…and if ios 18 gets the same language design as visionOS than that would be a big step in the right direction.
Much of the history of GUIs can be split into two parts:
- Skeuomorphism (1980s–2010s)
- Flat design (2010s–present)
The quick shift from skeuomorphism to flat design happened in the midst of other cultural changes: the prevalence of “digital natives,” specialized subnotebooks (e.g. personal organizers) being replaced by more general computers (e.g. smartphones), society becoming more digital, along with the increasing abstraction of technology over the decades. These factors generally benefit flat design, which is why I don’t see it being replaced in the near future.
I’d love to see a full macOS install on my iPhone when I plug it into a TB monitor. This way I don’t need to carry anything with me.
Good idea. Could also develop an official Apple VNC app for remote desktop sharing.
Keyboard Updates- yes I know that was part of 17 but it was 3 steps forward, 2 steps backwards. Need to fix the learned words, speed, and other issues.
Swiping words still leads to so many wrong results, it’s just comical
I want them to fix the weather app so that it works as well as Dark Sky did.
I want the volume controls to be designed so that I can crank the volume on my alarms up or down without changing any other volumes. I feel like this is a losing battle and I should probably just buy an actual alarm clock.
So really just fix the weather app.
- Call Recording
- Scrolling Screenshot
- Background Downloads for third-party apps
I just want a better Ai on it. That’s all.
This one is for the non-English speakers. I’d love to finally have support for writing compound words in the many Germanic languages that require them (e.g. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, and Dutch). The current spell check marks most compound words as incorrect because it only checks if the word exists in a pre-made list of words, which doesn’t work at all for compound word languages.
Bug fixes. I’d really like Siri to be able to hear me the first time I ask her to turn the lights on.