Everything I Want Apple to Add to iOS 17 for WWDC – CNET

On June 5, Apple will maintain its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote presentation, through which CEO Tim Cook and gang are anticipated to announce the following main model of iPhone software program, iOS 17. Though rumors level to the software program replace being overshadowed by new Mac {hardware} and an extended-rumored and yet-to-be-introduced AR/VR headset, the following model of iOS ought to nonetheless boast vital enhancements.

It may embody a function that permits you to view extra objects in your lock display, in accordance to a Bloomberg report. The lock display would reportedly present calendar appointments, climate and notifications, related to Android gadgets circa 2019 and good shows just like the Amazon Echo Show. This would comply with on the heels of iOS 16, which introduced a serious overhaul of the iPhone’s lock display that made it extra customizable.

With iOS 17, iPhone homeowners may additionally achieve the power to sideload apps, in accordance to a special Bloomberg report. Sideloading means you’ll be able to obtain an app in your iPhone with out utilizing Apple’s App Store. The potential inclusion is probably going meant to guarantee compliance with new European laws due to kick in subsequent 12 months.

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While I discover these rumors enjoyable to ponder, they will also be a distraction from the various different issues I assume Apple wants to add or enhance in iOS. The additions I need vary from vital adjustments, like including help for the Apple Pencil for Pro Max and Plus fashions, to smaller, high quality-of-life enhancements, like including a quantity button to the iPhone’s digital Apple TV distant. We have to wait till WWDC to see what truly unfolds, however this is my iOS 17 want listing.

Bring ‘Visual Look Up’ to the Camera app

Visual Look Up launched with iOS 15 in 2021 and might acknowledge objects in your photographs corresponding to crops, meals, landmarks and pets. In iOS 16, Visual Look Up expanded to allow you to elevate an object out of a photograph or PDF by tapping and holding, basically making a sticker you’ll be able to share with others.

But there is a catch. Visual Look Up works solely after you’re taking a photograph. I hope iOS 17 enables you to do the identical factor straight from the digital camera viewfinder. For instance, if the digital camera have been open and pointed at flowers, I may faucet the Visual Look Up icon to see what sort of flowers they have been with out taking a photograph of them. You can do this with Live Text, and Google Lens does one thing related on Android telephones. I notice this is not a radical change, however it might streamline issues a bit.

Add a quantity button to the iPhone’s Apple TV distant

If you personal an Apple TV, you’ve got little question misplaced the tiny minimalist aluminum distant management in some unspecified time in the future. Fortunately, you need to use a digital distant in your iPhone to do almost every little thing the bodily Siri distant does, besides change the amount. Apple, please add a quantity button to the iPhone’s Apple TV distant.

Technically, whenever you use the Apple TV distant in your iPhone, you’ll be able to press the bodily quantity buttons to management the TV quantity. But this does not work on each TV’s audio receiver, corresponding to mine. I’d guess there are a lot of individuals who, like me, simply need the digital distant on the iPhone’s display to mimic the bodily distant’s button structure; most significantly together with the button for quantity.

Bring health monitoring to the iPhone

If you are an Apple Watch consumer, you perceive the comfort of recording a exercise. But for those who aren’t sporting your watch or do not personal one, there is not a method to document fundamental workout routines like strolling, working or biking and not using a third-occasion app. I’d like to see Apple develop the Fitness app so you’ll be able to document exercises even and not using a Fitness Plus membership.

Add a professional digital camera app

It’s time for Apple to revisit the iPhone’s Camera app. For years, it was the gold normal of simplicity, providing a “see what you get” preview for photographs, movies and results with minimal, easy-to-navigate controls and modes. But as Apple has added extra performance, particularly for ProRaw photographs and ProRes video recording on iPhone Pro fashions, the Camera app has began to really feel cramped. It tries to stay a one-dimension-suits-all app on the expense of upper-finish options like guide digital camera controls.

I’d like Apple to make a separate professional digital camera app, alongside the traces 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. Similarly, the professional digital camera app may very well be a spot for inventive sorts to entry digital camera controls, settings and options past these within the fundamental digital camera app. Sony has been fairly profitable with this form of method in its Xperia 1 and 5 sequence telephones, and Samsung has a separate Expert Raw app to complement its major one. Now it is Apple’s flip.

Let me customise the Dynamic Island

The Dynamic Island works effectively. It’s like having a shortcut on the high of your display it doesn’t matter what you are doing in your iPhone. Glancing at my Uber trip standing from my lock display or within the Dynamic Island simply is sensible. But I need extra from the Dynamic Island, particularly if iPhone 15 rumors are proper and non-Pro iPhone fashions get it too. I’d like to see Apple let individuals customise their very own Dynamic Island in a curated method.

In 2016, with iOS 10, Apple rolled out the iMessage app retailer for stickers and video games. I do not assume we’d like a Dynamic Island app retailer, however one thing like the power to pin a Memoji sticker as a Dynamic Island icon could be nice. Admittedly, as inventive-minded as I am, I do not have a superb instance of precisely what I need. I simply assume the Dynamic Island is one other method individuals may make their iPhone really feel extra private. Customization was a giant theme with Android this 12 months at Google I/O, with the introduction of AI and cinematic wallpapers. Of course, Apple may view the Dynamic Island prefer it does Apple Watch faces and need to management the way it’s modified, as an alternative of letting individuals go hog wild.

Add Apple Card performance to different bank cards

If you may have an Apple Card, you get to expertise among the finest cellular monetary experiences on any cellphone immediately. Apple’s signature bank card lives nearly within the Wallet app. At first look, it seems like another Apple Pay card. But whenever you faucet its digital avatar, you see the cardboard’s steadiness, rewards, upcoming fee data, and transactions. I’d like Apple to open that performance to non-Apple bank cards.

If your Bank of America bank card is in Apple Pay and you’ve got the Bank of America app in your cellphone, would not it’s nice to entry related performance within the Wallet app? Expanding entry could be handy for iPhone homeowners and will bolster Apple Pay and the iPhone’s Wallet as critical monetary instruments.

Make widgets interactive

Widgets on the lock display and residential display can do two issues: present info (just like the climate) and launch the corresponding app when tapped (e.g., the climate app). Widgets have not modified a lot since Apple launched them with iOS 14. It’s time for a refresh.

What for those who may use the podcast widget like a mini-podcast participant, or order your favourite burrito bowl straight from Chipotle’s widget? Adding extra performance to widgets may make it simpler to multitask on the iPhone.

Add Apple Pencil help

I’ve been writing iPhone and iOS want lists for years, and one addition that is made my roundup each time is including Apple Pencil help to the iPhone, particularly for Pro Max and Plus fashions. The 6.7-inch display is not that a lot smaller than the 8.3-inch display on the iPad Mini. But one helps Apple Pencil performance and the opposite does not.

Also, if iOS 17 did embody Pencil help, Apple may make a smaller model of its stylus and name it the Apple Pencil Mini. Maybe it may connect to the again of the iPhone Pro Max or Plus utilizing MagSafe?

Bring the iPad’s cut up-display view to iPhone Pro Max fashions

The iPhone Pro Max has been a part of Apple’s lineup since 2019. The 11 Pro Max has a 6.5-inch display, whereas the 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro Max and 14 Pro Max all have a 6.7-inch show. Last 12 months, Apple launched the iPhone 14 Plus, which additionally has a 6.7-inch display. Those giant screens really feel wasted when it comes to software program. Some iOS apps like Mail and Messages can benefit from the additional house in panorama orientation to present a column of message previews subsequent to the at present opened message. But in any other case, there is not a lot else in iOS that is optimized for massive iPhone screens.

I’d like Apple to deliver some iPadOS options to iOS 17 simply for Pro Max and Plus fashions, particularly its cut up display multitasking view. It could be fantastic to have Safari open on one facet of the cellphone and launch Messages on the opposite.

Revisit ease of use vs. safety

Earlier this 12 months, The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen ran a sequence of tales about how a thief who steals your iPhone and is aware of its passcode can lock you out of crucial components of your digital life. This crime is not widespread, however Stern and Nguyen confirmed that it is extra frequent than you would possibly assume.

At the core of the problem is the steadiness between safety and ease of entry. The identical instruments Apple put in place to assist individuals who get locked out of their gadgets and accounts are being utilized by savvy criminals to lock individuals out of their cellphone and accounts whereas gaining entry to their cash and providers. There’s been a bunch of protection on the subject in current months, and it feels like these instruments assist way more individuals than the criminals who benefit from them.

I do not assume there’s a simple method for Apple to “fix” the problem, however I hope with iOS 17, the corporate takes a second to rethink the influence these instruments can have on individuals and even supply different safety features to foil the thieves behind these crimes, like Apple did with AirTags.

At the top of the day, I’m excited for WWDC this 12 months. And whereas I do hope there is a fancy, cool AR/VR headset, my coronary heart is holding out for iOS 17 and all its new options.