Apps with good Auto Layout support might already be amenable to working with, say, half an iPad screen rather than the whole thing. Just as some iPhone 6 Plus apps in landscape mode look like slightly shrunk-down iPad apps, iPad apps running side-by-side could look like slightly blown-up versions of their phone counterparts.
Apple could stand to give the iPad some love this year. It might help a bit with the tablet lineup’s sliding sales (still objectively great, but sliding nonetheless).
Customizable Control Center
As welcome a feature as the Control Center is, it would be still more useful if users could do something to tailor it to their needs. The very top and very bottom sections, especially, could stand to be more flexible.
Windows Phone (er, I guess, Windows Mobile again) actually handles this pretty well. The notification center gives you a handful of quick settings across the top, but you can pick and choose from among many different settings depending on what’s most important to you. Make an Extension to allow third-parties to tie into this, and it becomes even more useful.
Clear All button for notifications
The Apple Watch can do it, why not the iPhone?
Hide unwanted apps, and set new defaults
They all look a little different, but everybody has one: that folder of Apple stuff you don’t want but can’t hide or uninstall.
Credit: Andrew Cunningham
They all look a little different, but everybody has one: that folder of Apple stuff you don’t want but can’t hide or uninstall. Credit: Andrew Cunningham
Everyone has that folder of built-in iOS apps that they don’t use, right? It’s where Stocks and Tips and Compass all go to hang out together. It seems like every update adds a few more, and not everyone is going to use every app.
The option to totally hide these apps rather than shunting them off into some hidden folder would be a nice middle ground between using them and deleting them entirely.
On that note, it would likewise be nice to be able to replace Apple’s default iOS apps with equivalent apps from a third-party. Maybe you like Google’s Inbox or Microsoft’s Outlook apps better than the iOS Mail app, or prefer Google’s maps app to Apple’s. OS X-like, custom defaults would help phones and tablets to adapt to each user’s specific needs rather than using Apple’s one-size-fits-all apps.
We aren’t really hopeful that this one will happen, but hey, it’s a wishlist, not a list of predictions. If you’ve got anything you’re looking forward to, let us know.