Apple @lemmy.world Nate Silva @hachyderm.io 1y ago

Missing Apple Features and Products

High-impact or noticeably missing features and products for 2023 (Part 1/2):

- Custom Apple Watch faces
- Reminders in the Calendar app
- Custom search engine in Safari
- Albums in Photos Shared Library
- Clipboard history
- Passwords is an app
- Clear and separate volume controls for audio, ringer, and Siri voice
- iCloud Private Relay system-wide (VPN)
- Landscape mode but only for video
- Xcode for iPad 🥹

@apple_enthusiast

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Medications widget on phone

Enhanced Notes app comparible to OneNote

A fucking calculator app on iPad

A ‘do not switch’ mode for AirPods temporarily so my work phone doesn’t disconnect my Mac headphones
- @Venicon The iPad calculator is an obvious one that I missed. I’ll add that to my list for next time.
  
  And you aren’t the only one who’s mentioned Health app improvements. The medication feature needs to be more visible and easier to log than just the timed notification that it sends.
  
  Edit: Some of my replies are not showing up on Lemmy. Maybe I need to tag @apple_enthusiast
  
  For the most part I think having something like the Health app to store all your health data is brilliant, it just needs a wee bit more refinement. Would also like to see some of the options added as widgets!
I’d really like to see better integration between “Hide my email” and Passwords.
@apple_enthusiast Note for Mastodon readers: I cross posted this to Lemmy. Let’s see how it works!
- Viewing and posting from Memmy on iOS, for what it’s worth!
  
  Good list. Would like to see the separate volumes, especially when it comes to CarPlay. I have notifications silenced generally so nbd for me, but my ears explode when my dad gets a text in his car. If he turns down the alert volume then the call volume goes too, so he just leaves it at “tinnitus inducing” at all times.
  
  Clipboard history would also be pretty great.
  
  @anolemmi It’s supposed to be automatic as to which volume level is adjusted. For example, if you adjust the volume while Siri is speaking, it adjusts the Siri volume (only). But I find it tricky to quickly grab the phone and adjust it before Siri stops talking.
  
  It’s understandable that users are confused that invisible volume levels are being adjusted; and either the one they wanted was not adjusted or others were adjusted unintentionally.
  
  Edit: tag @apple_enthusiast
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Apple Watch: ability to choose separate faces for always-on-display power states. Set one face for the low power setting (for example, an aesthetic/stylish face), and a different face for the active state (for example, a more info dense face for practicality).
- @acosmichippo More customization in that area would be great.
  
  The closest you can get to that today is to set Watch faces based on the Focus mode you are using. But that isn’t going to be linked to the low-power setting.
I’d like to be able to have icons on my home screen for various parts of the health app. Every time I open it, I have to back out of whatever the last thing I used was.
These are what I can think of that I'd like to see, in no particular order:

Battery widget that displays battery status for all Find My devices instead of just those connected over Bluetooth

Apple Music playback state sync between devices

NFS network share support on iOS (SMB is a major pain in the ass)

Advanced audio routing: output to multiple devices at once on iOS/macOS; play from multiple devices at once on AirPods or chaining devices, e.g. iPhone -> Mac -> AirPods (I already do this with my Linux PC instead of the Mac)

Sleep mode on Apple Watch to show normal watch face while still having the screen locked

Subtask support for CalDAV reminders
@apple_enthusiast (Part 2/2) And here are items from last year’s list that were delivered in 2023. 🎉

- Multiple timers
- ✅ iOS 17 - Gruber *finally*
- Apple Music in landscape on iPhone
- Partial: iOS 17 Standby mode
- Tapback with any emoji
- ✅ iOS 17
- Strange implementation: Drag an emoji from the keyboard into a message
- AirTags shared with family members
- ✅ iOS 17/macOS Sonoma

What are your favorite new features? What else is missing?
- No one predicted shared passwords? Those are pretty useful
- Is landscape Apple Music on iOS still incoming? It’s not there for me.
  
  @Scooter411 Only works in Standby mode (when your phone is charging and is upright on its side). I wish it was a more complete implementation. @apple_enthusiast
Text to speech Intercom as action in Home (not just in shortcuts): „Dear all, the front door has been open for more than 10 minutes“)

Share iCloud libraries with write privilege to non Apple users

same for shared folders

when using an external monitor with an iPad, play sound over iPad (not the connected monitor)

bullet points within table cells in notes app.

better Siri
Universal Back Gesture!

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