{"id":11162,"date":"2015-05-07T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:12:42","slug":"ios-9-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/ios-9-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 9 Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/ios-9-wishes\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/ios-9-wishes\/\"><p>Seven years into the App Store, I struggle to find a reasonable motivation for not allowing users to set different default apps on iOS. I believe Apple should accept that they can&rsquo;t make the perfect email client or web browser for all kinds of users, and, just like custom keyboards, they should let users choose their favorite app for a specific set of core tasks. If personalization of a user&rsquo;s iOS device has truly become a priority at Apple, then it should be extended to activities that users frequently perform on an iPhone or iPad.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Currently, you can&rsquo;t pin specific iCloud Drive folders to other apps and browse their contents without going through the full iCloud Drive UI. Let&rsquo;s say I&rsquo;m a designer and I keep all my assets in Documents and I want to do my work in Pixelmator. I can&rsquo;t create a Documents folder bookmark in Pixelmator for quick access to my files &#8211; I need to tap the iCloud Drive button, browse all app folders, find the Documents one, and load a file. This process, each time, for any file I want.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Currently, if you need to attach a file to a new message, all you can do is bring up the copy &amp; paste menu in the body text and pick a photo or video from your library. That&rsquo;s convenient and straightforward, but it&rsquo;s fundamentally useless if you need to send any other document. Sure, you can send files using the Mail extension from third-party apps, but that only works for new messages and it doesn&rsquo;t let you attach multiple files to the same message. Mail itself needs a file picker.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Like Siri, I believe Spotlight should turn into a universal utility capable of deep interactions with all apps on a user&rsquo;s device. I want to see Spotlight grow from a simple launcher and search app to a global search tool that can look into any app that offers content I&rsquo;m looking for.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>On the iPhone 6 Plus, the landscape keyboard comes with special buttons to manage text selection and cursor placement, copy &amp; paste, and even formatting. I&rsquo;d argue that these shortcuts would make more sense on an iPad, which is where most iOS users tend to write long documents and emails that involve text editing. The iPad&rsquo;s original keyboard was envisioned as a laptop-like, full-size keyboard, but it&rsquo;s time for some customization, inspired by the 6 Plus.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci:Seven years into the App Store, I struggle to find a reasonable motivation for not allowing users to set different default apps on iOS. I believe Apple should accept that they can&rsquo;t make the perfect email client or web browser for all kinds of users, and, just like custom keyboards, they should let users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[913,31,1137,997,423,597,1042],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-iphone-6-plus","tag-keyboard","tag-mobilemail","tag-spotlight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11163,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}