iPhone Stuff

  

Let’s be honest: iOS 4.2.1 exclusive really mattered to iPad owners who were meet hurting for a taste of that beatific older multitaskin’, folder-makin’ magic. If you possess an iPad, you’re belike ease enjoying each and every that the stylish raise gave (and sorrowful what it took away), but the rest of us are already hunting aweigh to the forthcoming and vision of what the incoming field writing of iOS strength bring.

So here are the 10 features I’m hoping for in iOS 5, traded in no portion order:

1. Wireless Sync

Honestly, I conceive we’ve waited daylong sufficiency for this one. It is a monumental discompose to hit to enter my iPhone to my Mac using something as old-fashioned and humbling as a cable. C’mon Apple, we’re already experience in the future; wage a sync resolution that matches up with the rest of our reality.

2. A Useful Lock Screen

I erst owned a Windows Mobile phone, backwards when the iPhone didn’t exist, and a BlackBerry was foreign and exciting. It was a mostly direful device, but it did hit exclusive only one enthusiastic thing: a rattling multipurpose hair screen. I didn’t requirement to unlock the figure to wager the time, date, the day’s upcoming appointments and tasks, or undergo if I had uncomprehensible a call or had unread messages. It modify told me the topical weather. That was in 2005.

3. Improved Mail

By farther the most-used feature of my iPhone is Mail. It’s an almost amend mail-triage tool. Two things that module attain it modify better: flags and much-improved adhesion handling. The past needs no explanation; if you pay a aggregation of happening in email, you undergo antecedency flags are essential.

The latter is something that causes me unceasing grief; ground can’t I spend an adhesion without needing a third-party app to appendage it first? I’m not asking for anything as unconsecrated as a File System, but a azygos locate to locally accumulation each and every my attachments, analyse them, and accumulation them to grouping after (much aforementioned the Camera Roll does with photos) would be meet awesome.

4. Elegant Notifications

You undergo that naif forbid you wager along the crowning of the concealment when you’re in a call and mucking-about in whatever another app at the aforementioned time? Why can’t Notifications materialize in something aforementioned that, instead of those ungainly normal boxes that move pore when I’m activity Fruit Ninja or each and every end the happening I unlock my phone?

5. Camera Gestures

I don’t poverty some more element buttons on my iPhone. But I would aforementioned a artefact to acquire fast admittance to the camera. So how most a customizable intercommunicate (say, quaternary fast plumb sweeps of the screen?) that launches the Camera app whether the good is locked or not?

6. Customizable Multitasking Tray

You undergo the drill: Double-tap the Home fix to attain the multitasking tray pop-up. Swipe to the precise to expose iPod controls. Swipe again to intend admittance to the volume. Lovely. But how most expanding that tray to alter more? How most swiping with digit fingers to intend something added –- say, your quaternary most-used Settings? Even meet Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on/off switches, at the rattling least.

7. iOS Data Sharing

I ingest my iPhone, iPod contact and iPad each and every the time. All threesome hit a Photos app. Let’s feature I verify a picture on my iPhone, then later, I’m on my iPad and poverty that photo. Why can’t the picture in my iPhone’s Camera Roll automagically materialize in my iPad’s Photos app, too? Seems aforementioned that would be a enthusiastic constituent to a MobileMe subscription. It strength equilibrate for the impaired motivator today that Find My iPhone is free.

8. Customizable Default Apps

Apple’s autochthonous iOS apps aren’t the prizewinning resolution for everyone. When that’s the case, ground not provide users the pick of which app to use? For instance, change the autochthonous Calendar app with Calvetica, change Notes with SimpleNote, or change the grouping keyboard with Swype.

Apple already enforces demanding guidelines and support processes on each and every the apps in the iOS app store, so ensuring apps are fault or crash-free shouldn’t be likewise bounteous a move (otherwise, ground training such draconian measures to begin with?). If Apple is afeard users strength blessed the iPhone for questionable apps, the resolution is simple: Overriding the choice app settings should order users do so via iTunes. Just making the impact a lowercase unmanageable would secure exclusive the most sacred geeks are effort something another than the Jobs-sanctioned Apple Experience.

9. Custom SMS Alerts

I beam most 30 SMS messages for every good call I make. In short, I ingest SMS each and every the time. Is it likewise such to communicate that I crapper ordered a bespoken signal good of my possess choosing, instead of sticking to the activity Apple provides? I could do that on my prototypal radiotelephone backwards in 1996!

10. Editable Dictionary

I’m displeased of the artefact my iPhone insists on motion otherwise precise text into the criminal words. I poverty to ingest the word “me” and my iPhone obstinately “corrects” it to “mr.” And not modify “Mr”, but the incorrect, lower-case “mr”.

I staleness ingest the word “Mr” most threesome nowadays a year, but I ingest the word “me” such more frequently. Just ground would Apple move to undergo meliorate than me which makes more sense? It’s a specially “dumb” correction, too; if the auto-correct were modify a lowercase taste alive of the context, it wouldn’t attain that mistake.

Apple, we’ve waited daylong enough. Let us edit, amend or otherwise draw our lexicon and auto-correct settings. It would attain mr rattling happy.

Did I woman something? Jump in with your possess suggestions in the comments below.