Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) begins in lower than every week, and we anticipate to see a preview of the subsequent main model of the iPhone’s software program, probably referred to as iOS 18.
Final month, AI overshadowed all the pieces else at Google’s I/O developer convention — together with Android 15. However now it is Apple’s flip to preview each AI and non-AI updates coming to the iPhone. And now we have a bunch of concepts for options and fixes that Apple ought to embody in its subsequent main replace to the iPhone.
For seven months, most of us have lived with iOS 17. There have been excessive factors just like the introduction of StandBy Mode, Examine-In and iMessage stickers. There have additionally been low factors just like the overheating software program bug that hit iPhones working iOS 17, which has since been resolved. For months we have Journaled, NameDropped and casually sworn in Messages with out the concern of being Autocorrected.
What’s subsequent for the iPhone? What’s going to my iPhone be like this fall? Now that the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is out will it change issues?
I do not know.
Certain there are rumors about iOS 18 and the way it’ll be a large deal, perhaps even a larger deal than the iPhone 16. Like different phone-makers, Apple will probably flex its hype muscle tissue and attempt to impress us with some AI magic.
Neglect all that. As an alternative of getting to guess what Apple will do subsequent to our iPhones, I assumed I might assemble a few of CNET’s finest iOS-ers and iPhone customers to inform Apple what we would like in iOS 18.
— Patrick Holland
Extra multitasking for the iPhone Professional Max
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The iPhone Professional Max’s display has ample room for a Slide Over panel.
The Dynamic Island is a good begin, however I want Apple would discover extra methods to reap the benefits of the Professional Max’s giant display particularly. As I’ve written up to now, I might like to see a model of Apple’s Slide Over characteristic optimized for its larger-size iPhone.
Slide Over enables you to view a second app in a floating panel alongside the facet of the display. This feels extra helpful on a smartphone-size display in contrast with a break up view. If Slide Over had been obtainable on the iPhone Professional Max, you’d be capable of dedicate many of the display to a single app, whereas checking one other. I may see this being helpful for searching via my electronic mail inbox whereas conserving an eye fixed out for brand spanking new Slack messages, for instance.
— Lisa Eadicicco
Let the Motion button assist a number of shortcuts
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From top-to-bottom: Motion button, quantity up button and quantity down button.
One of many new options on the iPhone 15 Professional and 15 Professional Max is the Motion button, which changed the silent/ring slider button discovered on each prior iPhone mannequin because it debuted in 2007. In its present setup, I can set the Motion button to set off one shortcut at a time. By default, it does precisely the identical factor because the mute slider did earlier than it: it will probably toggle between turning on the ringer and placing your iPhone into silent mode. There are a few different choices for it, like opening the Digicam app and taking a photograph. You’ll be able to even have it run a selected shortcut/automation within the Shortcuts app. Maybe my favourite use is somebody who makes use of their location to vary what the Motion button does like flip it into an order now set off for a Starbucks latte.
The Motion button works with a single lengthy press, it doesn’t matter what you select for the button to do. At present, you both want to vary what the Motion button does to get extra use out of it or make some elaborate automations within the Shortcuts app.
I really feel there’s much more the Motion button may do if Apple would let it assist a number of enter clicks. I may nonetheless have it as a toggle for ringer/silent mode with a single lengthy press, however do one thing else (like activate/off the flashlight) with a double-long press. I feel this is able to add a lot performance to the button and because of this, open it as much as much more individuals taking extra benefit of it.
— Patrick Holland
Extra StandBy Mode capabilities, please
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iOS 17 turned my iPhone right into a mini-smart residence show.
StandBy Mode was one in all my favourite new options Apple launched with iOS 17. I exploit the characteristic on my work desk each day, and it is good having quick access to the climate, time and podcasts. However I would like Apple to develop this characteristic extra.
For starters, I might like Messages and Mail to reap the benefits of StandBy Mode. Proper now, in case your iPhone will get a textual content whereas it is in StandBy Mode, you get a notification, and when you faucet the notification in time, you see a preview of the message. In any other case, you need to take away your iPhone from StandBy Mode to learn the total message and reply.
It will be nice if Apple developed a StandBy Mode widget for Messages that allows you to see full messages and reply to them with out exiting StandBy Mode. It will even be good if there was a Mail widget for StandBy Mode that allows you to learn emails (like newsletters) and exhibits you new messages. That approach you’ll be able to control your inbox and know if it is advisable to reply to an electronic mail instantly or in case your newest electronic mail is simply spam.
— Zach McAuliffe
Make Siri extra succesful
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Siri acquired a slight makeover on iOS 17, together with two new options that can undoubtedly change the way you work together with the private voice assistant.
As a working mother, I virtually at all times have a protracted to-do listing, and a better Siri would actually assist make my life simpler. Proper now, I flip to Siri for assist with primary duties comparable to setting an alarm, making a reminder or checking the climate. With rumors of giant language mannequin integration in Siri, I discover myself envisioning a future by which an iPhone can get extra complicated duties executed. Issues like reminding me to purchase blueberries once I’m close to a grocery store or finding close by eating places in Hong Kong which are each kid-friendly and dog-friendly.
Fortunate for me, this does not appear to be far-fetched. Giant language fashions shouldn’t solely enable Siri to grasp extra complicated and nuanced questions but additionally allow it to reply these questions extra precisely.
— Sareena Dayaram
Detect language in Messages and translate, por favor
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This pop-up will seem on the high of your telephone, previewing each what you mentioned and the interpretation.
Bilingual households could share my subject of Siri needing to do a greater job of mechanically detecting which language is being spoken. Proper now the iPhone will spit out gibberish, turning Spanish dictation into English, or English into Spanish, when you overlook to modify your keyboard.
If a voicemail message is left in Spanish, the system cannot acknowledge that it isn’t English and tries to provide an English preview that appears like nonsense. Perhaps these rumored AI smarts may also help Siri know what language is being spoken.
My Español no es bueno, so it could be useful if my iPhone supplied an English translation of textual content or voice messages despatched to me in Spanish. The Duolingo chicken could be mad at me for not needing to observe my Spanish classes anymore, however Duo is at all times mad at me anyway.
— Bridget Carey
Examine-in for group chats
Apple explains Examine In’s options.
Considered one of my favourite iOS 17 options is Examine In, which helps you to share with a buddy or member of the family that you just’re heading to a selected location (like perhaps coming residence from a late dinner). Your buddy or member of the family will get a ping letting them know you are on the transfer and when try to be residence. They get notified when you make it to your vacation spot or when you make an surprising cease alongside the way in which. If one thing occurs to you and you do not get residence, your buddy receives a message that additionally consists of information like your final location and battery stage in your iPhone.
I might like iOS 18 to let me ship a Examine-In to a gaggle of individuals, not only a single individual. Proper now, having the ability to begin a Examine In with only one individual is nice, however there are numerous occasions I wish to share a Examine In with extra members of the family or a gaggle of pals all on the identical time.
— Patrick Holland
Schedule texts in Messages
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You’ll be able to’t schedule a Message to be despatched.
With the ability to schedule texts in Messages could be an enormous plus. Texting family and friends in several time zones is at all times a recreation of math as a result of I do not wish to textual content them when they’re nonetheless sleeping. Yeah, I is perhaps texting them at 8 a.m. ET, however they’re nonetheless asleep because it’s 5 a.m. PT for them. I additionally used to work the third shift, and there have been occasions once I’d wish to textual content a buddy and ask them a query or simply to speak, however who desires to be awoken to a textual content message at 5 a.m.? Only a few individuals, as I got here to seek out out.
Scheduling texts to ship in Messages would assist alleviate these points. Different messaging apps already allow you to schedule messages to ship later, together with Android, so it is time for Apple to stand up to hurry with others. Some individuals may say that there is a Shortcut you’ll be able to allow in your iPhone to ship messages at a later time, however I might argue that if you need to use a workaround to get one thing to work, it isn’t really working. Apple ought to take a cue from Android and let individuals schedule messages to ship at a later time. Individuals who stay in several time zones than their family and friends or work bizarre shifts will thanks.
— Zach McAuliffe
Add a professional digital camera app
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The iPhone wants a professional digital camera app.
It is time for Apple to revisit the iPhone’s Digicam app. For years, it was the gold commonplace of simplicity, providing a “see what you get” preview for pictures, movies and results with minimal, easy-to-navigate controls and modes. As Apple has added extra performance, particularly for ProRaw pictures, ProRes video recording and spatial movies, the Digicam app has began to really feel cramped. It tries to stay a one-size-fits-all app on the expense of higher-end options like guide digital camera controls.
I might like Apple to make a separate professional digital camera app, alongside the strains of the way it created a standalone app for classical music. Apple Music Classical tackles the particular problem of categorizing, looking for, and discovering classical music, one thing the default Apple Music app is not geared towards. Equally, the professional digital camera app may very well be a spot for artistic varieties to entry digital camera controls, settings and options past these within the primary digital camera app. Sony has been fairly profitable with this kind of method in its Xperia 1 and 5 sequence telephones, and Samsung has a separate Skilled Uncooked app to enrich its major one.
Now it is Apple’s flip.
— Patrick Holland
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