iOS 16 Wishes
What do you want to see in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 this year? What major new features do they need? What should be removed or changed? What would improve your quality of life?
There are lots of good replies.
I’ll probably think of more, but here’s a quick list off the top of my head:
- Sideloading.
- Make iMessage more reliable. I still send messages that say they were delivered but weren’t; I receive messages but don’t always get notified of them even though notifications are enabled; I read a message on one device, but it stays unread on the others.
- FaceID should work with masks, or there should be an easy way to temporarily disable it when I know that I’ll need to frequently unlock my iPhone for a while.
- Make share sheets much faster.
- Make creating a reminder work with offline Siri.
- Make basic Siri features like playing/pausing audio or adjusting the volume much faster.
- Revert to the old keyboard auto-correct that didn’t replace correctly spelled words with typos and gibberish.
- Allow rotating the display to landscape when playing full-screen video even if rotation lock is on.
- Redesign the Music app to work more like the old iPad app and not penalize those who don’t subscribe to Apple Music.
- Allow per-app and per-domain network connection blocking (Little Snitch), instead of just reporting after the fact what the app did (App Privacy Report).
- Mail should let me see the addresses of the sender and recipients.
- Multiple timers.
- Better searching and browsing of old Messages conversations.
- Let me see all the passwords that are stored, e.g. for Wi-Fi networks.
- Better support for Contacts groups.
- Redesign the Weather app (again).
Previously:
- iOS 15 Autocorrect
- Apple Music Feedback Made It to Cook
- iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2
- Redesigning iOS Alarm and Timer Notifications
- The Disappointment of On-Device Siri
- iOS 15 Weather App
- iOS 14.5: Unlock an iPhone While Wearing a Mask
- Grocery Shopping With Guided Access
- Multiple iOS Timers
Update (2022-01-03): Stephen:
Let us select text in an iMessage without copying the entire message please
Adding widgets to the home screen (and moving them) without having all your icons “explode”…that’s it!
- Landscape mode for Home Screen
- Notes field for Passwords section in Settings
- Passwords also to add support for network/FTP logins/etc.
- Install apps to iPhone/iPad from other Apple kit you own
- OFF SWITCH FOR HOME INDICATOR
Buck:
My wish is for no new iOS this year at all. Just fix problems and polish please.
Update (2022-01-25): Rene Ritchie:
What quality of life improvements would you love to see in iOS 16?
Not major new features, not bug fixes, just little things[…]
Update (2022-01-31): See also: Ryan Jones.
