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iOS 8 is good, but there is no reason iOS 9 can not be even better. |
Apple company has only just taken the actual wrapper off iOS eight, it's so new
actually that you can't even have it yet, but with the facts of what will and
more significantly what won't be included, all of us can't help but desire iOS
9.
Nothing's however known about it at all, however we're sure Apple has
already been beavering away on the following iteration and we've got the wish
list of our own.
Apple company Maps improvements
Apple is actually
regularly improving its once-disastrous mapping effort and with every update it
becomes ever more helpful, but it's still less than a match for Google-maps.
1 major improvement which was really rumoured for iOS eight but didn't arrive
had been public transport directions, which may add bus, train as well as subway
routes, making it easier to obtain around.
Why it was the no show isn't
crystal clear but we're hoping from the feature that will be picked up with
regard to iOS 9 if not prior to.
More ambitiously, we've additionally heard
rumours that Apple company is working on an increased reality view that utilizes
your camera to highlight destinations on your screen. We in no way expected that
to make it in to iOS 8, but fingertips crossed for iOS nine.
Humanize
Siri
Siri is actually tremendously popular and with valid reason. Apple's
virtual assistant makes it faster and easier than ever to find out info and does
a solid job of creating iOS devices hands free.
It can getting even better with iOS 8, thanks to a handful of news, such as
Shazam integration and also the ability to activate it simply through saying
'Hey Siri'.
However there's still room with regard to improvement and Apple
might do worse than having a page out of Microsoft's guide. Cortana, Microsoft's
Siri competitor, has an impressive amount of inflection in its voice making it
audio less like a dastardly robotic and more, well, human.
A possibility a
feature which makes it any more helpful as such, but it certainly can make it
more pleasant and natural to talk with and we'd love to notice Apple take a
similar strategy with Siri.
Home display screen widgets
We've been
crying out with regard to widgets for years and with iOS 8 Apple is sort of
providing us them... sort of.
These people live in the Notification Center
and include basic functionality or even give users at-a-glance info. For example
one of the widgets demonstrated by Apple displayed reside scores from sports
occasions.
But what we'd still like to see is home display screen widgets.
It's understandable which Apple wants to keep the interface looking clean as
well as neat and that's presumably a primary reason why widgets have taken such
a long time to arrive in any form as well as why even now they're saved in the
Notifications Centre.
However empowering users to personalize their home screens can only become a
good thing and if Apple does not want to go as all out by using it as Android
has it might always look to Windows Phone with regard to inspiration and simply
make the icons 'live'.
This doesn't need to be completely different to what's
generally there now, but folders which tell you more information about becomes
the apps held inside would be amazing.
Ability to arrears to third party
apps
Even though Apple still arguably has got the largest and most
diverse choice of apps of any cellular OS it largely maintains them at
arms-length as well as keeps the core smart phone operations fairly locked
straight down.
There aren't any 3rd party SMS apps for example although there
are alternatives to the 'Mail' app there's nothing built into iOS to let you
make one of them the actual default email app.
Therefore we'd love it if iOS
9 let us switch to 3rd party default apps and we would love it even more if
Apple company opened up more APIs in order to developers, enabling them to
create alternatives for other Apple company apps.
Not that Apple company
doesn't do a great job typically, but choice is rarely a poor thing and as it's
right now allowing keyboard extensions this may not be the pipe dream it once
seemed.
The ability to conceal apps that can't be un-installed
Apple
clearly doesn't would like people deleting the share apps that come with iOS,
however we'd wager we're not by yourself in saying that we avoid using all of
them and having them clogging up home screens.
Actually tucked away in a
folder which will never be opened isn't very ideal, so having a method to hide
them would be excellent.
Android has its application drawer and we don't
anticipate as major an inclusion as that, but perhaps just a 'hide' option
towards them in the settings display screen. Then you can always go back in as
well as unhide them if so when you decide that you do want to use all of
them.
This is a feature that would turn out to be even more important if
Apple allow us to change the default apps because suggested above.
Less
dependence on iTunes
Liking iOS doesn't necessarily mean liking i-tunes
and it definitely doesn't imply liking being forced to use this whenever you
connect your iDevice to a computer.
From the rather divisive piece of software and times when simply being able to
attach your iDevice as a generate, wade through its folders as well as cut and
paste points would seem an easier way to go regarding managing it, so it will be
great if Apple allow us to do just that with iOS nine.
It doesn't have to
ditch i-tunes, just give us the option to make use of something else.
Embrace
jailbreaking instead of trying to prevent it
Apple company has always
done the best to prevent jailbreaking however determined users always discover a
way. There are numerous advantages to having the jailbroken device and we are
going to not talking about the dubious ones.
It's a way to obtain new apps
and functions that Apple won't permit because they don't fit into the walled
garden.
Often they are things that other operating systems currently provide
or which Apple company will later add. For instance folders were possible upon
jailbroken devices long before these were added to iOS.
Of course whenever
Apple does add these types of features they're normally much more polished and
stable, however adventurous users should have the choice to get new
functionality earlier.
We're not saying Apple company should build in the
capability to access these things, just that this shouldn't block it, similar to
Google makes no try to stop users from rooting their devices.
We avoid see
Apple ever carrying out a 180 on this but we would love it if the Cupertino
organization did make things more locker in iOS 9.
Apple company branded
Spotify alternative
Loading music is really taking off as well as we'd
love it if Apple company offered its own streaming support, much like Google did
along with Play Music All Accessibility.
Not that the existing solutions
aren't great, but one that can easily be tied into your i-tunes account and
include access to your own existing iTunes library would likely be welcome. Plus
in case Apple did make a loading music service you know it might be slick and
attractive.
to already has iTunes and today it's purchased Beats and it has access to Beats
Music, so it is not unrealistic to think which Apple might build the actual
service into iOS nine, either as Beats Songs or under new Apple company
branding.
TextEdit and Examine
TextEdit and Preview tend to be two
apps which were stated for inclusion in iOS 8 but never made an appearance. If
you recognise those brands that's probably because they may both Mac
applications also it looked like we were going to obtain iOS versions of them.
These types of wouldn't have been hugely fascinating inclusions, as according to
the whispers doing the rounds at the time they might simply let you view
TextEdit and Preview files saved in iCloud, rather than actually allowing you to
manipulate them in any way, however it would still have been a good feature to
have so we are going to hoping they'll make their way in order to iOS 9.