90 MACWORLD MARCH 2020
FEATURE iOS 14 WISH LISTL
ast year, after the debut of iOS 12,
I put together a list of features I
hoped to see in iOS 13 (go.
macworld.com/13ws). And Apple
listened!
Okay, it’s not likely that anybody at
Apple read my article and altered a single
plan based on it, but the company did give
several of the things I’ve been asking for.
There’s still a lot left on the table,
though. So many more features and
significant changes that seem easy to
identify (if not easy to develop) that would
make iPhones more useful.
I want about a million things for iOS 14
(multiple timers, for example) but many are
small tweaks not worth getting worked up
about. Here’s a list of the ten biggest and
most far-reaching features I hope to see in
iOS 14.
Note: Now that iOS and iPadOS have
technically split, this list doesn’t include
iPad-specific features—that’s another list!
Also, there are features I’d love to see that
require new iPhone hardware, which aren’t
included here. These are features I’d like
to see for all iPhone models that could run
iOS 14.- PRIORITIZE RELIABILITY
After a surprisingly trouble-free iOS 12
release, iOS 13 has been full of problems.
The release schedule was staggered and
disjointed, and Apple’s still squashing
significant bugs.
There are reports (go.macworld.com/
dvpr) that Apple has once again altered its
development process to improve reliability,
and it can’t come soon enough. The
buzzwords for iOS 14 should be “stability”