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 is still squashing
significant bugs.
There are reports 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’ and ‘performance’.
More than any new feature, making sure that the
first release of iOS 14 is fast, fluid, and trouble-free for
the hundreds of millions of devices upon which it will
run should be priority number one.
And don’t promise features at WWDC only to
have them come weeks or months after release (and
in a shoddy state, at that). It’s probably too much
to expect all the major iOS features to release at
once, but be honest about the staggered release. Let
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