We know from Apple’s June 11th WWDC presentation that iOS 6 will offer features that include: an all-new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography, turn-by-turn navigation and an amazing new Flyover view; new Siri features, including support for more languages, easy access to sports scores, restaurant recommendations and movie listings; Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps like Photos, Safari and Maps; Shared Photo Streams via iCloud; and Passbook, the simplest way to get all your passes in one place.
What, specifically, would you like to see in iOS 6? Better autocorrection? Finer-grained repeating options in calendar?
Please let us know below.
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Have the option to show the countdown timer and stopwatch in the lock screen. To have the ability to turn off the auto dim.
I want cut,copy, and paste in ALL Apple products. I want to copy callender events and paste them to different days on iPad just like I can on my Mac.
Ability to select and copy arbitrary text fragments from any app that shows web pages. Now it forces to whole table rows, paragraphs or none at all…
Bluetooth transfer, and audio playback.
Right now, I have an iPhone 4S and an Audi A4 with AMI, and Bluetooth hands free. My audio wouldn’t play through Bluetooth, and sometimes my calls cannot be answered through the Bluetooth (problem specific to 4S as no issues with 4). Siri lags with the Bluetooth interface. It has never worked fine with bluetooth in my car.
Advanced features like Multi tasking while using visual voicemail. Save vvm etc. is this not possible?
1) A Music App that can handle a large music library with iTunes Match. The current app is unusable on the iPad and the iPhone if you have a very large music library. Also the music app doesn’t handle the sort order correctly.
2) On the iPhone: Landscape layouts for all built in apps, including the home screens, lock screens, settings, etc. Let’s say you are using the iPhone in your car for GPS and you have it mounted. Rather than pivoting a mount back and forth, it would be better if those screens were also landscape.
3) Multi-user login or GUEST MODE for the iPad. I’d like to share my iPad with family members when I visit them. But I don’t want them in my email, in my Safari Favorites, etc. None of their business. With a guest mode, I could tell the iPad to start with a known state on all the apps or restrict access to specific ones.
4) More camera options. Why doesn’t the iPad 3 have HDR? They should also add panorama and perhaps PhotoBooth options.
5) Easier access to things like wi-fi and bluetooth settings. How about the option to have an App for various commonly changed settings. You could keep them all in a folder in your dock and always be a click away from them instead of finding the settings app and trying to remember where each option is. Alternatively, they could let us tap and hold on the icon in the status bar.
6) An option to retain Google Maps as the default until such time as the Apple Maps are actually better, not far worse that Google. It’s unfair since the Apple maps haven’t been released and likely aren’t done. I’m assuming they won’t place the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the African Continent. But it’s clear that the feature set for Apple’s maps is smaller. Their one cool feature, the 3D, only works so far, in very few places, according to reports. They will roll out more before they release, but it’s a pretty weak “advantage” that doesn’t make up for all the weaknesses. Taking transit maps out for example is really bad. Relying on third party apps makes it very difficult to navigate because then you have to relate their map to the map of the city in your head. Difficult if you are visiting a city. From the articles I’ve seen, the new maps look like they are sparse on data.
Some Apple apologists out there will say “well Google can now sell their maps as a third party app!” Except in iOS mapping is an API, a service used within other apps. So a substandard default mapping option is really bad for any apps that call that API.
7) Siri control within apps, including third party. For example, being able to say “Go to Pandora and play Jazz.” Or “Show me my son’s Facebook wall.” More awesome, but much less likely is to have Siri listen for a keyword to activate itself, rather than having to hold in a button. So you could say “Siri?” She would say “Yes?” And then you could then just say your order, like Pause the music or movie.
Related to this is the ability to have Siri turn on and off Airplane mode, Wifi, BlueTooth, etc.
8) Make Siri a lot smarter. She should know more about local events and the status of airline flights. Some of this might require creating an API for certain data types that third party apps could use. So I could say, “Find me a flight to Denver.” Siri would pass it off to a third party app that then would have Siri say say
“What day would you like to leave?”
“July 15.”
“Is this a one-way flight, a round trip, or a multi-stop trip?”
“Round Trip.”
“When would you like to return?”
“July 28.”
“Do you prefer any particular airlines?”
“JetBlue and Delta”
“What time on the 15th would you like to leave.”
“I’d like to be in Denver by 5 pm.”
“And what time on the 28th would you like to return?”
“I don’t care… Afternoon.”
“Here are some options for tickets. I’ve sorted it by price.”
Or….
I could say, “When is American Idol on?”
Siri would know I mean TV shows and would launch TV Guide and tell me. And ask if I want to record that. Yes. The app would then tell my TiVo to record it.
All the interactions would be determined by the App programmer. But specific types of data that people might want would be anticipated and an API provided. People want to find things to do, places to go, movies to see, concerts to attend, tv shows to watch, airplanes and busses to catch, and food to order.
Siri for my iPhone 4.
Better keyboard with better autocomplete (even the autocomplete on android is better at the moment!)
Profiles (night mode etc) for sound, vibrate, brightness etc. should be able to switch profile at a particular time, in a certain place (eg work) or maybe even if you had a special mat where if the phone is placed on it, it switches profiles (eg on your bedside table)
I’m a member of the “Apple Customer Pulse” program. I’m pasting these exceptional suggestions (in entirety) in the next round of surveys. Well done MDN readers!
Select All for Mail messages to mark read.
I want to always be able to organize and choose witch apps will be installed on my iPad. Not only after attaching it to a computer.
“which apps…” (typo)
A shared notes / reminders feature, like shared calendars. Me and my girlfriend currently set a recurring event every Saturday in our shared calendar, then we can write things (our shopping list) in the notes section of the calendar entry
iPhoto for iOS needs to “push” changes/edits of photos, back to iPhoto on the Desktop. At the present time, it must be sync’d through iTunes and the process is a bit clumsy. It should work just like iCal, Address Book etc.
Dvorak keyboard in the software. Available if keyboard attached, but not to type on-screen.
So many other language layouts available in software. Why can’t we have the only other ANSI-certified English layout?
Debug – cf TextEdit.
Speedup – cf iPhoto, Preview.
‘Save as’ – return.
Items in folder – number-counter return.
Pic dimensions – in folders, worthless in Lion.
Summation – Back to functionality, stuff the bells and whistles.
Wasn’t there a tech demo/jailbreak for holding shift and swiping to highlight and move the cursor in text? I think it was called ‘SwipeSelection’. I’d recommend anyone to check out a YouTube video of it – I was even tempted to jailbreak my iPad just for it, but until Apple adopt it there’ll always be clashes with the iOS.
Apple should extend their maps new features to iphone 4 also.
And also apple should make their weather app more informative.
Clippy!
… Sorry, I’ll grab my coat.
The ability to turn off all Facebook integration in one place.
I find it unbelievable carrying 64 GB of memory in my pocket and not being able to use it as a pen drive.
OK, there are ways to do it.
But they require extra work (wi-fi, iTunes, etc.) and they are not fully functional.
There should be an area where you could take files from and put files in from all apps (in the way pictures are dealt with) even by a computer via a simple USB port.
I cannot believe Apple is not able to figure out how to do this securely.
• The ability to transfer a greater variety of files between iOS devices. IE: Text files, iWork files and so on.
• The ability to import a greater variety of files via the iPad connection kit. IE: Text files, iWork files and so on.
• Give Siri the ability to function with more than 1 language at a time. IE: English & Japanese.
• The ability to duplicate Calendar events. (I can do this on the desktop equivalent.)
I’m sure there are more, but these are some that came to mind.
I want a way to alert me of a phone call without kicking me out of my current app. Really frustrating when you are typing a text or email and suddenly the screen changes. Then, if you are an over zealous typer- you could accept a call you may not want to. just give me a banner at the top letting me know someone is calling. I can click the banner if I want to take it.
The best feature is of course the usual nonproductive use, see mac’s are like silly blonde girls they look nice but lack complexity, u get one after a while u get bored until your brain turn into some kind of apple tart, before u know it your a Zoombi trying desperatly to get others to use Mac. Then u go crazy when some say PC, Microsoft, Hp any device thats not apple.
English, and the ability to use it correctly, is not your strong point, is it, Jexhu.
Dimwit.
Ability to view Photos on iTunes.
My wish would be an easy intuitive way to tag 5 or 6 pictures to email. I usually cut and paste them. Back and forth between Mail and Photos. There has to be an easier way.
There already is.
At least as of iOS 5, go into Photos, tap the “forward” arrow icon at top right, select as many pics as you want, then tap Share -> Email (or Copy, then manually paste into Mail).
Number one:
When IPhone is stolen, a way to take a picture on ur phone remotely and better tools to recapture you iPhone or laptop….or desktop