iOS 13, the next major version of Apple’s long running iPhone OS is almost certainly going to be announced at the World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. And Apple are likely going to announce new features and cool things. But if I were in charge of putting together the requirements for iOS 13, here’s what I would include:
- Dark mode: The top of my list is dark mode. Having a dark mode isn’t just about coolness. It’s about battery life and limiting screen burn in on Apple’s OLED screen. Apple’s iPhone X series phones (with the exception of the XR) have OLED screens that would suck a whole lot less power if they had a dark mode as it would turn off pixels that aren’t in use. Which in turn saves battery life. Plus they would be less likely to burn in which means the screens would last longer. To be truly effective, it has to be system wide so that affects any iOS app.
- A better camera app: Let me be frank, the iOS camera app sucks because it is so simplistic. Pretty much any Android phone allows you to customize settings from within the app. But strangely you can’t do that in iOS. That makes no sense. This has to change. And while Apple is at it, how about the ability to save photos in RAW format?
- How about customizing the home screen?: Again, pretty much any Android phone allows yo auto customize the home screen in some fashion. iOS really needs to get with the times as this would allow iPhones to be way more useful.
- Time for a new UI: The current iOS user interface has been around for a while, and frankly it’s showing its age. Apple would be well advised to revamp the user interface to be way more modern. Just like Android phones.
- Real multitasking on iPhone: It’s high time that Apple had iOS do real multitasking on the iPhone as you’ve now that 6.5″ screens that fall well into “phablet” territory. Thus they should really take advantage of that by giving users of those phones iPad split screen style multitasking.
- CarPlay improvements: CarPlay needs some improvements from a user interface perspective just to modernize it as it is a bit clunky at the moment. But it also really needs some simple tweaks such as a battery status indicator and a weather app which Android Auto has had for years. HomeKit support would be a nice to have as well along with Siri Shortcuts actually working properly in CarPlay. Because at the moment, Siri Shortcuts in CarPlay is a non-starter which makes no sense.
That’s it for me. But is there anything that you’d like to see added to iOS 13? Leave a comment and share whatever thoughts that you have.
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My Wish List For iOS 13
iOS 13, the next major version of Apple’s long running iPhone OS is almost certainly going to be announced at the World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. And Apple are likely going to announce new features and cool things. But if I were in charge of putting together the requirements for iOS 13, here’s what I would include:
That’s it for me. But is there anything that you’d like to see added to iOS 13? Leave a comment and share whatever thoughts that you have.
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