Apple’s WWDC 2011 kicks off next Monday and Steve Jobs and his colleagues are apparently all set to talk software, software, software at the Monday morning keynote address. Judging by the banners Apple Insider has spotted at the venue, the three major software topics will be Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and the much-heralded new iCloud service.
We started off here as an iPhone blog and we’re all still avid iPhoners and iOS device fanatics, so although all three topics are of huge interest for us, iOS 5 probably remains the very closest to our gadget fanboy hearts.
So … we have spent a little time compiling what we consider to be Our Best Damn iOS 5 Wish List Ever. It is also our only iOS 5 wish list, but that’s beside the point. With no new iPhone model to speculate endlessly about and save our pennies for, we’ve had plenty of time to see what our team of writers would really like to see in the next generation of iOS.
And here’s our iOS 5 Wish List, with items listed in order of how much support they received from all our team members. The more support an item had, the higher it is listed:
– Better Notifications (our runaway winner for most demanded)
– Better services toggling (easier ways to turn WiFi, Bluetooth etc on and off more easily)
– Gamecenter game save and data backup and portability between devices
– Screen mirroring via AirPlay
– LockInfo-like live lock and home screen features
– Better syncing / OTA sync
– Better rapid app switching
– More multitasking gestures
– Refresh of home screen UI
– Better memory management
– Alternate tones choices for emails and texts
– Voice integration throughout the OS
– Seamless keyboard integration throughout the OS
– Unified document storage area that all appropriate apps can access
– Integrated cloud app data backups
– A camera that doesn’t take 5 damned minutes to turn on
– Improvement to the native Apps
– When entering an email address in mail, choose the account most associated with
that recipient automatically.
– When using spotlight search, it tells you which folder the app your searching for is located in
– Data syncing across devices
– iPhone to be able to rotate Springboard like the iPad does
– More personalization options
– Improved Map integration
– Better input methods for the iPad that don’t have anything to do with a keyboard
– Tighter and better Spotlight integration so that Spotlight can be used to search specific apps
– Better hardware keyboard support
And there you have it. I have a feeling that despite our Best Damned efforts, we probably left some things out. We’d love to hear your best damned iOS wish list items. Please share them in the comments here or in
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