iOS 16 Wishlist - Features & Changes We Hope to See

The Need for Change in iOS 16: A Call to Action from an Apple Enthusiast

As I sit here with my iPhone, I often find myself frustrated with the way certain features are implemented. In this article, I'd like to share some of these frustrations and propose potential changes that could improve our overall user experience.

One issue that has been bugging me for a while now is the way iOS 15's drag-and-drop feature works. While it's a significant step forward in terms of multitasking, there's still one major gap: split-screen multitasking. I know many of you have mentioned this to me before, and I'm eager to see if Apple will address this issue in iOS 16. With the introduction of the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which boasts a massive 6.7-inch display, it seems like the time is ripe for Apple to enable split-screen multitasking. Just imagine being able to open two different applications side by side, interacting with both simultaneously – it's a feature that would greatly enhance our productivity and overall user experience.

Another issue that I think needs addressing is the way battery health is displayed in Settings. The current maximum capacity percentage (100%) can be confusing for many users. If someone sees this number drop to 98%, they might panic, thinking that their phone is no longer under warranty or that there's something fundamentally wrong with it. This can lead to anxiety and even prompt them to try to return their device to Apple. I propose that Apple simply show either "good" or "needs replacement" instead of the percentage value. This would eliminate unnecessary worry and make it easier for users to understand the state of their battery.

Furthermore, I'd like to see a few more features that we've been requesting for quite some time now. One of these is the use of the front-facing camera to detect the user's face when switching between landscape and portrait orientations. This would eliminate the frustration of having to manually switch modes, especially in situations where it's not feasible to do so. For instance, if you're trying to read on your phone or watch a video, you don't want to have to worry about keeping your head facing the correct orientation.

In terms of accessibility and user experience, I think Apple should make more use of external monitors with newer devices. With the introduction of Thunderbolt on the new iPad Pro, this seems like a feature that could be easily implemented. Imagine being able to plug in an external monitor and have a full-screen display without any black bars – it would greatly enhance our ability to work or watch content on larger screens.

Finally, I'd love to see more professional-grade applications on iOS devices, particularly for creative professionals. While Final Cut Pro for Mac is excellent, I think a version specifically designed for the iPad Pro would be fantastic. A dedicated pro application with features tailored to the device's capabilities would not only enhance our user experience but also make better use of the powerful hardware.

As I wrap up this article, I'd like to invite you all to share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below. What do you want to see in iOS 16? Are there any features or improvements that you think are long overdue? Your input is invaluable, and I'll make sure to take it into consideration as Apple works on their next major update.

If you enjoyed this article and agree with some of the points I made, please consider giving it a thumbs-up and subscribing to my channel for more iOS-related content. I'm always happy to engage with fellow Apple enthusiasts and share our passion for innovation and user experience. Thanks again for watching, and I'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is brandon and ios 16 will be here before we know it and as we do every year i wanted to discuss what features and changes i would like to see added or changed in 2022 so ios 15 was fine and added you know some cool new features and changes especially these smaller enhancements but this next version needs to really wow us and i think it actually might happen so let's go ahead and discuss my ios 16 wish list so the first thing is a home screen redesign and i know this is on every single person's wish list every single year but i needed to say it first and get it out of the way so there are multiple different facets to this i don't just mean the icons and the widgets i don't mean that i mean the home screen everything we see here including the status bar so i think up top we should have a battery percentage like we had back in the old days there's plenty of room up there especially on the max phones even if apple wanted to make it you know exclusive for the max phones the bigger phones we should have the option to put the battery percentage up in the status bar and then i also think that we should be able to make these status bar icons toggleable if that's a word we should be able to toggle on and off the icons like we can in the control center so maybe if we didn't want for example we didn't want our focus mode showing up right there in the left we should be able to turn that off if we don't want it to be on and then you see these little dots right here because i don't use this phone you know as a main phone i don't have cell service on it i would like to be able to hide those dots right there i should be able to do that so i think the apple can make a lot of tweaks to the status bar make it more customizable and more like we had it back in the old days or of course with jailbreak tweaks you could do a lot of those things i mentioned right there now of course we do also want to see more interactive widgets so for example the tesla widget you're able to you know unlock the car and do multiple different things straight from the widget but most of the built-in ones you're not able to do anything it just shows you the information and that's it but i would like to see more interactive widgets of course that's expected we expected that with ios 15 but maybe we will see that with ios 16 and then also i would like to be able to move apps wherever we want so of course this could make for a pretty messy home screen but some people like to show things and their wallpaper like if i had a wallpaper with like a car down here and i didn't want it to be covered up with icons i should be able to move my icons so that you can see that car right there and move the icons around to wherever i want them to be not just locked in a grid right here so that's one thing that also used to be a jailbreak tweak and i think the apple should bring that to you know native ios now i would also like to see a redesigned lock screen so the lock screen has stayed the same for quite a while now there have been minor tweaks to it but we really haven't had a change in a few years to the lock screen here so i would like to see of course number one and always on display this is possible with the iphone 13 pros variable refresh rate so we can you know have a one hertz always on display it's possible and i would like to see apple implement that because it will not drain battery since we can go all the way down to one hertz so i would like to see an always-on display with ios 16. also i would like to see the toggles down here be changed from the flashlight and camera to something else i think the camera one is probably the most useless thing on the lock screen i mean you can press that to get the camera app or you just slide over to get to the camera application why should there be two different ways to get to the camera it's never made sense to me so we should be able to toggle these out and you know have whatever application we want there so maybe if i tap this and it takes me to instagram and if i tap this one it takes me to safari something like that we should be able to change what those toggles on the lock screen do and then i do also think that we should have more ui elements like we have with the ios 15.2 notification summary so it just looks so much more full and so much more modern i think we need more ui elements like that and at the notification center i also think that we could benefit from some changes to the control center so first off let me just say that i like the control center the way it is yes i think it's a little bit clogged up you know there's a lot going on here especially when you add your home kit devices right here but i think we could do with an option to remove certain sections so like for example if i didn't want maybe this section right here all three of these if i didn't want them at all i should be able to go ahead and configure that just like i can for the control center toggle so if i go into my settings here and then go to control center maybe i should have something right here that says show home controls i could hide that why can't i hide these elements right here you should be able to hide any of these elements in the control center i think that would be cool to see in ios 16. i also think that we need the option to be able to permanently turn off wi-fi not just until tomorrow and same with bluetooth of course we should have the option to permanently turn those off not until just the next day i would also love to see new ringtones and notification sounds so this is not something like wallpapers where we get a new ringtone or text tone every single year although i wish we did i think that a lot of people you know myself included i keep my phone on silent so i don't really care about this but i've seen so many of you guys want new ringtones and text tones and every once in a while it might be nice to have your ringer on and hear whatever your ringtone is so i think we should get new ringtones and text tones with ios 16. i'm on board with that now speaking of sounds when we go into the music application if you're in a playlist and you're playing songs you know you have it on shuffle you're going through all your songs in there you should be able to remove a song from the playlist from the now playing screen right here so when i tap on these three dots and i'm playing music from a playlist there should be an option here that says remove from a playlist but there's not you have to see it on this section right here so i'm in a playlist right now you have to go here and then remove from playlist but you know there's a lot of songs i have a ton of songs in this playlist what do i have you know 592 songs i would like to be able to just go through them all and then once i get to one that i don't like anymore or i'm tired of i can go ahead and remove it from the playlist straight from the now playing screen and then speaking of music we should also be able to set spotify pandora or any other music service as the default music player now i'm aware that you can do this via siri but it's still very very wonky we should have something inside of settings that allows us to change the default application for music and really i think that we should be able to set default applications for anything including messages phone facetime everything we should be able to have the option to set that now as i was looking at my notification center i came across something else i think should be changed with ios 16 and that is the option to disable shortcuts notifications so every single time my shortcut runs in the morning i get this notification telling me that my automation ran but i don't need that i mean it's a shortcut it runs every day i don't need to get that notification every day but as you guys know you cannot disable shortcuts notifications now there is a workaround there is a way to do it but it's not native it's not meant to be done so apple needs to give us the option to be able to disable shortcuts notifications now another thing i would like to see added in ios 15 is offline maps and offline navigation now this is something it would take a lot of data it would put a lot of data you know on device but i think this is necessary we should at least have the option to do this so with ios 15 apple made siri able to be accessed offline we should be able to at least access and see the map when we are in airplane mode or offline i think that would be beneficial in multiple different scenarios now messages is another application i think we could see a lot of improvements to with ios 16. and the first thing something that i find myself frustrated with all the time is search so messages searching within messages is a mess you cannot use quotation marks it's very hard to search for specific things that you want to in my experience and i wish we could search individual threads so like you could see this thread right here i should be able to search for something in this thread specifically and not have to search through every single message on my phone so maybe if you tap right here maybe there's something in here to search or maybe just simply swipe down like this or tap right here you should be able to have a little search bar where you can search within that thread specifically i would find that very useful i also wish that we could lock individual threads and messages like for example if i swipe over it'd be cool if we had a little toggle there to lock one thread and one thread only with a passcode or face id i think that would be really cool and we should also be able to do that with applications so this is another one that has been long awaited a lot of people have talked about wanting this for ios for many years now this exists in the jailbreak world but it would be cool if apple brought over the ability to lock applications with a passcode or face id i think it would also be cool if you had to put in your passcode or face id to shut down the phone because of course if somebody steals your phone they're probably gonna turn off and they can't turn it off if they don't have your face id or passcode now one really cool thing that android just got that i hope apple brings to ios 16 is auto rotate using the front camera instead of the accelerometer so the iphone uses the accelerometer to change the orientation right here so for instance if i turn it off and just turn the phone this way you can see it changes to landscape mode but if you use the front camera and detect your face it will not turn to that mode unless your head is facing that way so let me give you an example if you go into bed at night you know for example i lay on my side in bed on my phone and if i turn my phone this way when i have you know the orientation off if i turn my phone this way but my head is facing this way it turns the screen and it's really annoying so i always have to have the lock on so when i lay down my phone doesn't change the orientation but if we used the front camera instead of the accelerometer that orientation would not change because it would detect that my face is you know this is the best orientation for the way my face is facing so that's something i hope hope that made sense by the way i was kind of confusing the way i worded it there but it's hard to explain without actually showing you but i hope apple brings that to ios 16 using the front-facing camera instead of the accelerometer to change the orientation now something else that absolutely needs changed in ios 16 is inside of our settings battery battery health the maximum capacity right here so this is something that's 100 that you see right there if somebody doesn't see that they're going to panic and i don't mean you specifically but i've had so many people message me over the years saying that their maximum capacity dropped to 98 even though they just had their phone for three months and they freak out and try to return it to apple because they think it's effective so this just causes anxiety it causes confusion you know you can put as many sentences here as you want but people are not going to read that they're going to look at that percentage right there and if it's not what they expect they're going to freak out and they're going to think something is wrong with their phone or the way they use it so i think this should be changed to just show either it's good the battery is good or the battery needs replaced there should just be those two things right there not a percentage another feature that you guys always mentioned to me that you wish was on ios is split screen multitasking so we got drag and drop in ius 15 we can drag and drop throughout ios which is a big step forward but we don't have split screen multitasking even on the big 6.7 inch iphone 13 pro max we don't have the ability to split screen multitask you know we cannot have you know we cannot turn our phone into landscape right here and have two different applications one on each side but we should be able to i mean this is a 6.7 inch display we're able to drag and drop we have the power i don't see why we should not be able to multitask and have two different applications open at the same time interacting with both at the same time so hopefully ios 16 solves that and we get it even if it's only just for the bigger phones that's fine and then for ipad os 16 there are a few things that i just wanted to briefly mention but i think that we should have multi-user support like you can on a macbook i also think that we should have native external monitor support with no black bars so we have a thunderbolt port now on the new ipad pro we should be able to have native external monitor support i don't really know why apple skipped out on that part and then also i think that we should see pro applications like a final cut pro for ipad not just a ported over mac os version i don't think it's going to be just a port from that version but a specific version made for the ipad pro i think that we should have pro applications on such a you know high powered expensive machine it really makes no sense not to take full advantage of that and hopefully we see something similar to that maybe not final cut but maybe something else a pro application with ios 16. now i'm sure that there are many more much needed changes that i'm forgetting to mention in this video but leave a comment down below with what you want to see in ios and ipad os 16. so you guys always have really good suggestions and i always look to your guys's comments as well to spawn ideas for myself and what i think apple should include in their next version so let me know down there in those comments below and if you guys enjoyed this video and if you agree with any of the points that i made throughout this video i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up and of course make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of my ios 16 coverage coming pretty soon a lot sooner than we think but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon youwhat's up guys my name is brandon and ios 16 will be here before we know it and as we do every year i wanted to discuss what features and changes i would like to see added or changed in 2022 so ios 15 was fine and added you know some cool new features and changes especially these smaller enhancements but this next version needs to really wow us and i think it actually might happen so let's go ahead and discuss my ios 16 wish list so the first thing is a home screen redesign and i know this is on every single person's wish list every single year but i needed to say it first and get it out of the way so there are multiple different facets to this i don't just mean the icons and the widgets i don't mean that i mean the home screen everything we see here including the status bar so i think up top we should have a battery percentage like we had back in the old days there's plenty of room up there especially on the max phones even if apple wanted to make it you know exclusive for the max phones the bigger phones we should have the option to put the battery percentage up in the status bar and then i also think that we should be able to make these status bar icons toggleable if that's a word we should be able to toggle on and off the icons like we can in the control center so maybe if we didn't want for example we didn't want our focus mode showing up right there in the left we should be able to turn that off if we don't want it to be on and then you see these little dots right here because i don't use this phone you know as a main phone i don't have cell service on it i would like to be able to hide those dots right there i should be able to do that so i think the apple can make a lot of tweaks to the status bar make it more customizable and more like we had it back in the old days or of course with jailbreak tweaks you could do a lot of those things i mentioned right there now of course we do also want to see more interactive widgets so for example the tesla widget you're able to you know unlock the car and do multiple different things straight from the widget but most of the built-in ones you're not able to do anything it just shows you the information and that's it but i would like to see more interactive widgets of course that's expected we expected that with ios 15 but maybe we will see that with ios 16 and then also i would like to be able to move apps wherever we want so of course this could make for a pretty messy home screen but some people like to show things and their wallpaper like if i had a wallpaper with like a car down here and i didn't want it to be covered up with icons i should be able to move my icons so that you can see that car right there and move the icons around to wherever i want them to be not just locked in a grid right here so that's one thing that also used to be a jailbreak tweak and i think the apple should bring that to you know native ios now i would also like to see a redesigned lock screen so the lock screen has stayed the same for quite a while now there have been minor tweaks to it but we really haven't had a change in a few years to the lock screen here so i would like to see of course number one and always on display this is possible with the iphone 13 pros variable refresh rate so we can you know have a one hertz always on display it's possible and i would like to see apple implement that because it will not drain battery since we can go all the way down to one hertz so i would like to see an always-on display with ios 16. also i would like to see the toggles down here be changed from the flashlight and camera to something else i think the camera one is probably the most useless thing on the lock screen i mean you can press that to get the camera app or you just slide over to get to the camera application why should there be two different ways to get to the camera it's never made sense to me so we should be able to toggle these out and you know have whatever application we want there so maybe if i tap this and it takes me to instagram and if i tap this one it takes me to safari something like that we should be able to change what those toggles on the lock screen do and then i do also think that we should have more ui elements like we have with the ios 15.2 notification summary so it just looks so much more full and so much more modern i think we need more ui elements like that and at the notification center i also think that we could benefit from some changes to the control center so first off let me just say that i like the control center the way it is yes i think it's a little bit clogged up you know there's a lot going on here especially when you add your home kit devices right here but i think we could do with an option to remove certain sections so like for example if i didn't want maybe this section right here all three of these if i didn't want them at all i should be able to go ahead and configure that just like i can for the control center toggle so if i go into my settings here and then go to control center maybe i should have something right here that says show home controls i could hide that why can't i hide these elements right here you should be able to hide any of these elements in the control center i think that would be cool to see in ios 16. i also think that we need the option to be able to permanently turn off wi-fi not just until tomorrow and same with bluetooth of course we should have the option to permanently turn those off not until just the next day i would also love to see new ringtones and notification sounds so this is not something like wallpapers where we get a new ringtone or text tone every single year although i wish we did i think that a lot of people you know myself included i keep my phone on silent so i don't really care about this but i've seen so many of you guys want new ringtones and text tones and every once in a while it might be nice to have your ringer on and hear whatever your ringtone is so i think we should get new ringtones and text tones with ios 16. i'm on board with that now speaking of sounds when we go into the music application if you're in a playlist and you're playing songs you know you have it on shuffle you're going through all your songs in there you should be able to remove a song from the playlist from the now playing screen right here so when i tap on these three dots and i'm playing music from a playlist there should be an option here that says remove from a playlist but there's not you have to see it on this section right here so i'm in a playlist right now you have to go here and then remove from playlist but you know there's a lot of songs i have a ton of songs in this playlist what do i have you know 592 songs i would like to be able to just go through them all and then once i get to one that i don't like anymore or i'm tired of i can go ahead and remove it from the playlist straight from the now playing screen and then speaking of music we should also be able to set spotify pandora or any other music service as the default music player now i'm aware that you can do this via siri but it's still very very wonky we should have something inside of settings that allows us to change the default application for music and really i think that we should be able to set default applications for anything including messages phone facetime everything we should be able to have the option to set that now as i was looking at my notification center i came across something else i think should be changed with ios 16 and that is the option to disable shortcuts notifications so every single time my shortcut runs in the morning i get this notification telling me that my automation ran but i don't need that i mean it's a shortcut it runs every day i don't need to get that notification every day but as you guys know you cannot disable shortcuts notifications now there is a workaround there is a way to do it but it's not native it's not meant to be done so apple needs to give us the option to be able to disable shortcuts notifications now another thing i would like to see added in ios 15 is offline maps and offline navigation now this is something it would take a lot of data it would put a lot of data you know on device but i think this is necessary we should at least have the option to do this so with ios 15 apple made siri able to be accessed offline we should be able to at least access and see the map when we are in airplane mode or offline i think that would be beneficial in multiple different scenarios now messages is another application i think we could see a lot of improvements to with ios 16. and the first thing something that i find myself frustrated with all the time is search so messages searching within messages is a mess you cannot use quotation marks it's very hard to search for specific things that you want to in my experience and i wish we could search individual threads so like you could see this thread right here i should be able to search for something in this thread specifically and not have to search through every single message on my phone so maybe if you tap right here maybe there's something in here to search or maybe just simply swipe down like this or tap right here you should be able to have a little search bar where you can search within that thread specifically i would find that very useful i also wish that we could lock individual threads and messages like for example if i swipe over it'd be cool if we had a little toggle there to lock one thread and one thread only with a passcode or face id i think that would be really cool and we should also be able to do that with applications so this is another one that has been long awaited a lot of people have talked about wanting this for ios for many years now this exists in the jailbreak world but it would be cool if apple brought over the ability to lock applications with a passcode or face id i think it would also be cool if you had to put in your passcode or face id to shut down the phone because of course if somebody steals your phone they're probably gonna turn off and they can't turn it off if they don't have your face id or passcode now one really cool thing that android just got that i hope apple brings to ios 16 is auto rotate using the front camera instead of the accelerometer so the iphone uses the accelerometer to change the orientation right here so for instance if i turn it off and just turn the phone this way you can see it changes to landscape mode but if you use the front camera and detect your face it will not turn to that mode unless your head is facing that way so let me give you an example if you go into bed at night you know for example i lay on my side in bed on my phone and if i turn my phone this way when i have you know the orientation off if i turn my phone this way but my head is facing this way it turns the screen and it's really annoying so i always have to have the lock on so when i lay down my phone doesn't change the orientation but if we used the front camera instead of the accelerometer that orientation would not change because it would detect that my face is you know this is the best orientation for the way my face is facing so that's something i hope hope that made sense by the way i was kind of confusing the way i worded it there but it's hard to explain without actually showing you but i hope apple brings that to ios 16 using the front-facing camera instead of the accelerometer to change the orientation now something else that absolutely needs changed in ios 16 is inside of our settings battery battery health the maximum capacity right here so this is something that's 100 that you see right there if somebody doesn't see that they're going to panic and i don't mean you specifically but i've had so many people message me over the years saying that their maximum capacity dropped to 98 even though they just had their phone for three months and they freak out and try to return it to apple because they think it's effective so this just causes anxiety it causes confusion you know you can put as many sentences here as you want but people are not going to read that they're going to look at that percentage right there and if it's not what they expect they're going to freak out and they're going to think something is wrong with their phone or the way they use it so i think this should be changed to just show either it's good the battery is good or the battery needs replaced there should just be those two things right there not a percentage another feature that you guys always mentioned to me that you wish was on ios is split screen multitasking so we got drag and drop in ius 15 we can drag and drop throughout ios which is a big step forward but we don't have split screen multitasking even on the big 6.7 inch iphone 13 pro max we don't have the ability to split screen multitask you know we cannot have you know we cannot turn our phone into landscape right here and have two different applications one on each side but we should be able to i mean this is a 6.7 inch display we're able to drag and drop we have the power i don't see why we should not be able to multitask and have two different applications open at the same time interacting with both at the same time so hopefully ios 16 solves that and we get it even if it's only just for the bigger phones that's fine and then for ipad os 16 there are a few things that i just wanted to briefly mention but i think that we should have multi-user support like you can on a macbook i also think that we should have native external monitor support with no black bars so we have a thunderbolt port now on the new ipad pro we should be able to have native external monitor support i don't really know why apple skipped out on that part and then also i think that we should see pro applications like a final cut pro for ipad not just a ported over mac os version i don't think it's going to be just a port from that version but a specific version made for the ipad pro i think that we should have pro applications on such a you know high powered expensive machine it really makes no sense not to take full advantage of that and hopefully we see something similar to that maybe not final cut but maybe something else a pro application with ios 16. now i'm sure that there are many more much needed changes that i'm forgetting to mention in this video but leave a comment down below with what you want to see in ios and ipad os 16. so you guys always have really good suggestions and i always look to your guys's comments as well to spawn ideas for myself and what i think apple should include in their next version so let me know down there in those comments below and if you guys enjoyed this video and if you agree with any of the points that i made throughout this video i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up and of course make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of my ios 16 coverage coming pretty soon a lot sooner than we think but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon you\n"