Features you'd like in the next iPhone

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Serious question: how the fuck are any of you seeing pixels on the current models? I have a 6 and cannot determine any. Is the 6+ that much of a difference?
 
OLED screen. I want true blacks and the ability to have a "glanceable" lock screen that shows the time and certain notifications without lighting up the entire screen.

OIS in all models along with an Apple designed "pro" camera app that lets you adjust shutter speed, ISO, white balance, etc.
 
Most of the changes I'd want on the iPhone are changes to iOS.

For iPhone changes:
  • Wireless charging. Wireless charging is great and I don't really know why Apple has resisted it. I'm sure when they introduce it they'll act like they invented it. My only guess why they've resisted is for design reasons, so that they don't hamstring themselves with device design down the line and then get criticized for losing wireless charging (e.g., the Nexus 6 can be charged wirelessly, but the Nexus 6P cannot due to the all-aluminum enclosure).
  • USB C. Not that I need/want this, but I think having a standard charging interface would be great, rather than introducing new plugs and standards. At my house, we have the old iPhone 4 cable, multiple iPhone 5+ cables, multiple Micro-USB cables, and now a USB C cable.

But for iOS, I really think the OS needs an overhaul. Knowing that they won't overhaul it, I'd really just like apple to borrow a lot from Android.
  • Messages being available on devices other than OS X / iOS. Hangouts is available on any device at any time.
  • Just copy Google Photos and replace iPhoto with it.
  • Sharing to any application, instead of the apps that APple thinks you should use. If I'm in safari and want to share a link via Email, I should be able to his Share and choose Gmail/Inbox and construct my email. Apple forces you to use the default email app. It also does this for any default apps. It's annoying.
  • App launching from other apps, not just the Apple defaults or Safari. It's annoying to click a link from something and you expect the app to launch and instead it launches Safari and brings you to the website for that app. This is something Android has had figured out for several years.
  • Ability to set your own default apps. Oh, someone sent me an email with directions in it, and I want to open those directions in Google Maps, not Apple Maps. Well, you really can't without copying and pasting. Again, this is something Android has figured out.
  • I really prefer the app drawer approach, but that would be too radical of a change and it's not necessarily an improvement, I just prefer it more.
  • Bugs: Better storage management. THe iOS junk storage is an issue especially for anybody with a 16GB iphone, which I think is still probably the most popular SKU. After 12 months of use of the phone, storage management is a problem. More transparent iPhoto and iCloud Photo management. It's difficult to tell which photo is on the device and which is in iCloud backed up.
  • Stop being stingy about cloud storage. 5GB of cloud storage is not enough for anybody to do anything. If you give people 20 GB, or say, unlimited cloud storage for backups and photos and then 5GB for other things, then you're going to keep customers. Getting more people into your ecosystem makes it harder for those people to leave. When you only get 5GB of storage for free, 1/3 of the storage of the device, then people get frustrated with it, they don't use it, and they leave the service for something else. IF you give them 20 GB, then suddenly, people don't leave because they have a lot of stuff backed up on that service and it's hard to leave.
  • Unified, auto-syncing contact storage. C'mon, get with the program.
  • Better access to my stuff outside of the terrible desktop iCloud application for Mac and Windows. This won't happen because it's really Apple infrastructure and I'm thinking of service-driven companies like Google.

I guess a theme here is "Stop making 3rd party apps feel like second class citizens." There's a reason people like using Gmail or Inbox, stop treating those apps like they're not a user's preferred mail applications. There's a reason someone may want to use WhatsApp or Hangouts over the default messaging, and they may want to share a link to WhatsApp... stop pretending that "oh, no, you don't REALLY want to do that... you want to use Messages." It's just like, treat the user of their phone like they know what they want to do rather than that you know what they really want to do.
 
The Albatross said:
  • Sharing to any application, instead of the apps that APple thinks you should use. If I'm in safari and want to share a link via Email, I should be able to his Share and choose Gmail/Inbox and construct my email. Apple forces you to use the default email app. It also does this for any default apps. It's annoying.

I guess a theme here is "Stop making 3rd party apps feel like second class citizens." There's a reason people like using Gmail or Inbox, stop treating those apps like they're not a user's preferred mail applications. There's a reason someone may want to use WhatsApp or Hangouts over the default messaging, and they may want to share a link to WhatsApp... stop pretending that "oh, no, you don't REALLY want to do that... you want to use Messages." It's just like, treat the user of their phone like they know what they want to do rather than that you know what they really want to do.
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You can already share from any app using extensions. I'd like to be able to change default apps as well, but that's to needed to share links and the like on iOS 9. (or iOS 8, for that matter.)
 
I want them to look nice again, like the iphone 4, still the best looking smartphone phone to ever exist.

And not having to use itunes.
 
Besides incremental improvement to the specs like higher res screen, better batt life, better siri, better apple map

I cant think of anything else besides water proofing.

And sd card/removable batt are not happening. Even android manufacturers are copying apple and starting to phrase them out now
 
A little projector for a light-based virtual keyboard. Lay the iPhone down on any surface with enough space and get a full keyboard. That would rock.
 
OLED.

They did it for Apple Watch, time for the phone.

I know this might sound crazy, but I want them to remove the home button and integrate all its functionality into the screen itself. So touch anywhere on the screen for sign in with Touch ID, use 3D touch to go back to the home screen, etc.
 
No physical home button, all on screen navigation.
Dual front facing speakers.
Standard non proprietary USB connection.
Open source OS.
SD card support.
Amazing battery.
 
plainr_ said:
Waterproof and wireless charging.

Also, faster and more reliable touch ID.
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+1 for wireless charging

6s touch id is so fast my friend cant even check the time without his phone unlocking


they will never do SD card support because then they couldnt charge a billion dollars for the higher models
 
Battery life
Waterproofing
Better speaker

Especially the battery life, instead of constantly obsessing over thinness and weight.
 
The Albatross said:
Most of the changes I'd want on the iPhone are changes to iOS.

But for iOS, I really think the OS needs an overhaul. Knowing that they won't overhaul it, I'd really just like apple to borrow a lot from Android.
  • Messages being available on devices other than OS X / iOS. Hangouts is available on any device at any time.
  • Just copy Google Photos and replace iPhoto with it.
  • Sharing to any application, instead of the apps that APple thinks you should use. If I'm in safari and want to share a link via Email, I should be able to his Share and choose Gmail/Inbox and construct my email. Apple forces you to use the default email app. It also does this for any default apps. It's annoying.
  • App launching from other apps, not just the Apple defaults or Safari. It's annoying to click a link from something and you expect the app to launch and instead it launches Safari and brings you to the website for that app. This is something Android has had figured out for several years.

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  • Messages - opening iMessages removes any leverage Apple has built up for SMS/Messaging/etc.

    Sharing - You can share to any application you want as long as they provide the option, same as on Android. If you don't see the app in the list check to make sure it's enabled

    App launching - some apps are account for this thanks to deep linking
 
No more moving parts (so, a 3D Touch-based Home button, power button, volume buttons, and maybe even vibration/silencer switch).

No more headphone jack, just Lightning.

Waterproofing/dustproofing (to take advantage of the much more seamless case that the above changes would enable).

All-day-with-heavy-use battery life on the standard-size model. Stereo speakers (a la the iPad Pro) on the Plus model.

Dual-lens rear camera with no camera bump, with OIS in all models (and the Plus differentiation being more about a superior audio/video consumption experience and further/better use of its larger screen by iOS).

The same antireflective screen coating that the iPads have.

A Siri coprocessor similar to the motion-sensing coprocessor in order to enable real-time and offline transcription (and of a higher quality).

Honestly, the 6S and 6S+ are already pretty damn great, but this is how I see desirable future improvements as far as hardware is concerned. iOS is where more improvement is possible/necessary, not the iPhone hardware.
 
Majine said:
OLED.

They did it for Apple Watch, time for the phone.

I know this might sound crazy, but I want them to remove the home button and integrate all its functionality into the screen itself. So touch anywhere on the screen for sign in with Touch ID, use 3D touch to go back to the home screen, etc.
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Oh yes, that's a good one that I forgot. Since the screen is basically click-able now there's no reason for the home button.
 
Split screen and PIP support on the Plus model even in portrait mode. It's not too much to ask. Apps will evolve to work on small enough areas like that. At the very least PIP.

32GB at the LEAST on the low end models. Fuck this "everyone uses the cloud and no one stores stuff on their phone" shit. If that was true you wouldn't even have 64 and 128 models. JUST GIVE US 32GB! JESUS!

Thinner bezel. The Plus is super huge. Just trim the bezel a bit. I know they're limited by their love of symmetry and requirement to make the Touch ID circle a certain size, but they can probably trim a few millimeters from the top and bottom and a bit more from the sides.

Headphone jack back on the top where it belongs. I don't care who argues about this, after getting yet ANOTHER crumb jammed into the jack the other day and having to scrape it out with a paperclip with so much force I was afraid I'd have damage the phone, I just want it back on the top! It makes it impossible for me to see my phone upright when it's sitting in my cup holder in my car since on the smaller screens at least it won't rotate upside down. (Does the Plus let the screen rotate upside down like the iPad at least?)

Don't go any thinner, but hopefully technology is good enough that their current camera itself can be thin as the device so the bump disappears.

Solid black color. No more light or dark grey. Go as dark as possible. Give me that 5 color with the bluish tint.

Another row and column on the Plus home screen. (It's bad enough the iPad Pro has the same grid as the smaller iPads. USE THAT SPACE! At least as an option!)

Customizable Control Center buttons at the top and an extra button on the Plus.

More of an OS thing, but sync my messages via iCloud so if I delete them on my phone, they delete from my Mac. And let me view them on iCloud.com as well. It's not like it doesn't use iCloud for sending the message to my Mac now anyway. (I know this must be true because I find my green messages show up on my Mac when I return home even when my BT and WiFi haven't even been enabled yet. So it must be using my data and iCloud for it.)
 
Servbot24 said:
Oh yes, that's a good one that I forgot. Since the screen is basically click-able now there's no reason for the home button.
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Discoverability. The Home button is always visible as a "get me back to something familiar" button and turning that into a gesture or something otherwise not immediately visible would be a bad idea.

HOWEVER, it does make sense for it to no longer be a mechanical button.
 
I dunno, but I expect this will be a big year for the iPhone. It's the tenth model that they will have released, and we are moving to iOS 10, or X or whatever. Sort of a landmark year for the device.
 
I just want multiple accounts on iOS devices, is that too much to ask for Apple?
 
Wireless charging makes it thicker and better battery life on the level we want does too but the new iPhone is magic so everything is okay.

16GB, just die please.

I wonder if they'll go back to 4/5 design next. My favourite so far.

I want to place the icons were I want and dark theme ffs.
 
  • Better battery life
  • Return to the boxy form
  • Something higher res than 1080p
  • (iOS) Set default apps

People asking for Android (or essentially suggesting Android) need to play in the other playground.
 
UnemployedVillain said:
I don't usually like calling out people on their opinions, but this is wtf inducing and a bad idea. Why??
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Headphone jacks take up a lot of space compared to other stuff in there, and are also easily the #1 source of water-damage vulnerability at this point. Apple should be offering battery-powered Bluetooth-based headphones that come with the phone as a default option with the iPhone 7 (and can charge via Lightning), with a Lightning-cable male to headphone-jack female adapter for people using legacy headphones. I'd much rather have the space headphone jacks take up being used for battery instead.

(The headphone jack is also the top constraint on making the iPhone even thinner, for what it's worth, but I'm happy with the current level of thinness and would even like the phone to be marginally thicker if that's what it takes to eliminate the camera bump and improve battery life).
 
I know this sounds crazy, but a smaller variant to go with the bigger phones. Like, maybe an iPhone 7x variant where it's about as big as the 4S. You'd still have the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7+. As someone who hates gigantic phones, it was a mission to find a small phone this year (ended up going with a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact; love it) and I fell in love with the size of my GF's 4S many years ago.

TL;DR: Small phone similar to 4S in size/form factor.
 
I want a little compartment that houses that explosive blue ink stuff. Then if someone grabs my phone I can yell "Hey Siri, DO IT!" as he runs away and have it explode all over the would be thief.

edit: And they should add a feature so that if your phone is stolen and you can't ink them you can go on icloud and not only wipe the phone but put it into a "stolen" mode where Siri starts shouting for help as loud as possible.
 
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