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Missing Apple Features and Products

Missing Apple Features and Products

High-impact or noticeably missing features and products for 2023 (Part 1/2):

Custom Apple Watch faces
Reminders in the Calendar app
Custom search engine in Safari
Albums in Photos Shared Library
Clipboard history
Passwords is an app
Clear and separate volume controls for audio, ringer, and Siri voice
iCloud Private Relay system-wide (VPN)
Landscape mode but only for video
Xcode for iPad šŸ„¹

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23 comments

  • Medications widget on phone

    Enhanced Notes app comparible to OneNote

    A fucking calculator app on iPad

    A ā€˜do not switchā€™ mode for AirPods temporarily so my work phone doesnā€™t disconnect my Mac headphones

    • @Venicon The iPad calculator is an obvious one that I missed. Iā€™ll add that to my list for next time.

      And you arenā€™t the only one whoā€™s mentioned Health app improvements. The medication feature needs to be more visible and easier to log than just the timed notification that it sends.

      Edit: Some of my replies are not showing up on Lemmy. Maybe I need to tag @appleenthusiast

      • For the most part I think having something like the Health app to store all your health data is brilliant, it just needs a wee bit more refinement. Would also like to see some of the options added as widgets!

  • @appleenthusiast Note for Mastodon readers: I cross posted this to Lemmy. Letā€™s see how it works!

    • Viewing and posting from Memmy on iOS, for what itā€™s worth!

      Good list. Would like to see the separate volumes, especially when it comes to CarPlay. I have notifications silenced generally so nbd for me, but my ears explode when my dad gets a text in his car. If he turns down the alert volume then the call volume goes too, so he just leaves it at ā€œtinnitus inducingā€ at all times.

      Clipboard history would also be pretty great.

      • @anolemmi Itā€™s supposed to be automatic as to which volume level is adjusted. For example, if you adjust the volume while Siri is speaking, it adjusts the Siri volume (only). But I find it tricky to quickly grab the phone and adjust it before Siri stops talking.

        Itā€™s understandable that users are confused that invisible volume levels are being adjusted; and either the one they wanted was not adjusted or others were adjusted unintentionally.

        Edit: tag @appleenthusiast

  • Apple Watch: ability to choose separate faces for always-on-display power states. Set one face for the low power setting (for example, an aesthetic/stylish face), and a different face for the active state (for example, a more info dense face for practicality).

    • @acosmichippo More customization in that area would be great.

      The closest you can get to that today is to set Watch faces based on the Focus mode you are using. But that isnā€™t going to be linked to the low-power setting.

  • These are what I can think of that I'd like to see, in no particular order:

    • Battery widget that displays battery status for all Find My devices instead of just those connected over Bluetooth
    • Apple Music playback state sync between devices
    • NFS network share support on iOS (SMB is a major pain in the ass)
    • Advanced audio routing: output to multiple devices at once on iOS/macOS; play from multiple devices at once on AirPods or chaining devices, e.g. iPhone -> Mac -> AirPods (I already do this with my Linux PC instead of the Mac)
    • Sleep mode on Apple Watch to show normal watch face while still having the screen locked
    • Subtask support for CalDAV reminders
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