Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15 has been out for three months or so to the public
but for those of us that are developers or public beta testers it's been out for over six months and
so every year around this time of the year i go over the changes we'd like to see in the upcoming
version of ios which in this case would be ios 16 if apple continues with its naming conventions
now the other day i asked what you wanted to see in a youtube community post you'll see here i said
what are some features you would like to see come to ios 16 or future versions of ios i posted this
over a day ago at this point and based off your comments and things i wanted to see as well i've
compiled a list of things we can hope for and maybe expect in the upcoming version of ios 16.
now the first thing is the supported devices the other day i mentioned this in a separate video
where apple is said to to drop support for iphone 6s 6s plus and iphone se first generation
just like they did with the 6s plus or the 6 plus here apple is expected to drop support for those
devices however the information last year that said the same thing was incorrect and so this year
we may see them continue to support those devices but it really depends on what they do with the os
in general whether they do a complete redesign or something else and that's going to depend on what
you need based off the cpu and maybe ram available and things like that now the first thing many of
you wanted to see like i mentioned already is a redesign personally i've never been a fan of
the flat icons and i would like to see a redesign with some new icons maybe similar to that of what
we had with mac os big sur and now with monterey i would like to see some consistency across all
those devices from the iphone to the ipad and mac as well so that's something a lot of people
want to see and maybe a redesign of things like settings and other things as well where settings
could be alphabetical instead of just sort of being random or grouped into different things
it would definitely be a nice change to see some of this redone to be a little bit more
easily accessible to just easily finding things as they add more and more to ios also many people
want the ability to move apps around the screen as well with the redesigns so not just maybe put
them here and have everything go top to bottom left to right but also have the ability to have
gaps in them or leave spaces all throughout that's something many people have wanted for years and i
think something that apple should probably fix at this point yes they like it clean and organized
but we should be able to arrange it the way we want with a redesign to that and maybe some icons
and more something i hear from people all the time is they want the ability to add the percentage
next to the battery on face id phones and so i've drawn up a concept of what that could look like
so as you can see here i've got the percentage in the upper right and i've moved things around
showing that there's definitely room and maybe this isn't the best arrangement but there's
definitely room to add the percentage on devices with a notch and so maybe not with a wider notch
but you could add it with the newer phones or maybe just rearrange things get rid of the icon
indicating location being used or have you have the option to select what you'd like to see
whether that be the time or cellular or wi-fi location percentage and battery so all of
those things could be added or updated in future versions of ios 16 we definitely have the room for
it and i know a lot of people would love to see that the next thing people would love to see is
interactive widgets and you'll see i've drawn up some here and currently with widgets if we just
go into the widget tap on the widget for music it brings us to the album we were currently playing
and that's not really helping many of us do much more than see what's actually playing and so a
widget that you could interact with would be much better or to provide more information so again in
the concept i've drawn up here we would have the ability to maybe pause or play or go to the next
track or previous track and even adjust something like volume or see the timeline of what's being
played i don't know that volume is necessary since we have the volume buttons right here
but something along those lines with more interactivity on the widgets i think would be
welcomed by a lot of people the same is true for weather you'll see here we have sunset it fits in
nicely it integrates it looks good and they could provide more information than just the temperature
and high and low and maybe sunny so something along those lines with some more customization
makes a lot of sense for widgets since widgets don't do a whole lot other than bring us into
other applications that already exist so i think a lot of people would love to see that something
i hear all the time as well is people want to see split view brought to iphone this makes a lot of
sense we already have it on the ipad why not bring it to the iphone where it could look something
like this we definitely have room on these larger phones to do that we've seen this on additional
phones such as android phones and we could slide up and down change the applications watch
youtube while browsing the web or maybe message someone in text messages telegram or other apps
while watching a video i think that would be a much welcomed feature that apple could bring
to ios 16 in the future it's basically in the code of ipad os they just have to make everything fit
and someone did mention maybe bring in slide over as well where you could have better multitasking
and easily switch between apps so i know a lot of people would really appreciate that if we had that
ability of split view in this design something else i would like to see redesigned as well as
many of you would like to see redesigned is the control center when apple switched to this control
center it feels very out of place for apple in my opinion but it is very functional and while it
works i think it's very unorganized and i would like a better way to be able to organize this
or maybe just make it look a little bit different when apple introduced control center originally
and this is an ios 9 device if we slide up here you'll see one of the old versions of the control
center and this is actually a version i much prefer over the new version just because it seems
a little bit better laid out to me and you'll see that we have similar functionality while i
do like the full screen layout of control center i think a revamp to this or something that could be
a little bit different might be welcome so here's a design from angelo libero that i've talked about
before where maybe it could be more functional a little bit more broken up just to organize
it better or have maybe completely different functionality and a different look altogether
either way a lot of people want to see a control center redesign similar to this or something else
and also within control center a lot of people want the ability to go back just like we could in
this version of ios ios 9 and turn on or turn off wi-fi and bluetooth directly from control center
not just disable it for 24 hours or disconnect it from certain things but completely disable it
or turn it on and off from this menu whether that would mean a 3d press or haptic press
or just the ability to turn it on and off like that i think many people would welcome that and
definitely would want something like that back so i would love to have that ability back hopefully
we'll see something like that in the future where they bring that back now something else that many
people thought we'd see with ios 16 including myself based off of what others had said isn't
always on display at least on the 13 pro and 13 pro max phones where it can bring down the actual
refresh rate to a low enough amount that would save a lot of battery we have something similar
in the apple watch with that technology and we've had it on android phones for years
where it sort of goes to sleep and just gives you the time in the weather and other relevant
information that you want on the lock screen while the display is off it uses almost no power
and doesn't cause burn in or anything like that on the display because it shifts the pixels around
but it's a really nice function to have and something a lot of people would welcome on ios
as well so i definitely would like to see something like that or the option for it at
least on newer devices whether it be iphone 13 iphone 14 and beyond or maybe just bring it back
to any oled display since you could do that in low power mode and just light up the pixels you need
and not use all of the ones that are dark so that makes a lot of sense i'm surprised we don't have
it already since apple already does it on iphone but maybe it requires some sort of redesign
now as far as something i personally want to see i've talked about for a long time has to do with
battery health battery health is something that is important but isn't so relevant that you should
be thinking about it every day battery health is simply the measurement of the physical capability
of the battery apple's estimating what percentage of it you have left over time batteries degrade
i've talked about that at length but i don't like the percentage because a lot of people panic when
it drops to 99 or 98 and they think updates are causing this issue something i would like to see
changed is that sort of measurement and i drew this up over a year or so ago and you'll see it
says overall battery health and normal i want something like this where it says normal then
maybe decreased decreased battery health may result in less overall screen on time and overall
cape capacity but the iphone should function as expected and then when it's time to replace please
replace the battery and then it would give you information that you need to get it replaced to
restore the actual performance and overall screen on time i would love to see something like this
just so that it's less on your mind and you know that it's fine everything's fine batteries do that
and until someone invents a better battery that's what we're stuck with so it makes a lot of sense
to me that they would do something like that i know not everybody likes that and would like
the percentage option as well but the percentage is not technically super accurate and that's why
it changes a lot on a lot of people now something else i would love to see is the ability to have an
airpods app a dedicated airpods app that would allow us to update the airpods easily now
currently if you're an airpods user they'll just update on their own when they're plugged in at
some random point however when there's an update available many of us want to see if it will fix
problems we've had with it or maybe some other issues or just maybe get new features overall
and currently there's no way to easily do that whether that be airpods airpods pro airpods max
airpods 3 or magsafe or beats a dedicated app to tell us what's going on in those devices would be
really welcome and it could be an optional app as some people don't really care about what the
update is but i think it makes a lot of sense to have some sort of utility for that just as
apple is getting new a new utility to do the exact same thing for their employees or for technicians
so i think it makes a lot of sense to have a dedicated app now there's a couple additional
changes i wanted to talk about that quite a few people had some great ideas about and one of them
has to do with maybe a notification indicator at the top that would be color coded to maybe the app
so maybe you get an incoming app notification such as whatsapp and maybe have a dot there similar to
that of the microphone or camera when it's in use so a notification comes in for whatsapp it's green
facebook it would be blue or maybe something else maybe we have a new podcast it would match that
color or something from tesla maybe it would be red so along those lines i think that's a
great idea to have an optional indicator in the upper left or upper right letting us know there's
there's notifications even if we're not going into our notifications regularly i miss a lot of them
because of things like that when i'm in do not disturb recording videos and things like that so
maybe an additional notification would be welcome also a couple people wanted to see system font
changes be available here so you can change fonts in different things but not the overall system so
currently it's just set to whatever apple chooses they've decided what's best and many people want
the ability to change it to something different that they prefer so something like that would
be welcome also another idea someone had that i thought was great is if you go into the camera
go to your video maybe you start recording when you're recording you finish recording one thing
pause the video instead of stopping the video and creating another clip and then go back and resume
i like that idea for an optional way to create additional content without having to go back and
edit a bunch of clips together something i thought was a unique idea that would be worth doing
also many people want new wallpaper now i think apple wallpaper is hit or miss at best sometimes
it's great sometimes it's not as you can see on the iphone 6 plus that i have here this is an
original apple wallpaper and it was okay it's not one of my favorites and i typically don't use them
very long so as you know i always share wallpapers in the description just like i will with this one
and of course i think many other creators make better wallpaper most of the time plus people
get sick of it and want to change it however i would like to see them give the option to change
the wallpaper whether that be with an unlock or throughout the day or daily like we can on a mac
so i would love that option built in now on ipad os 15 apple gave us the ability to have widgets
and things anywhere we want on the screen this time around however when you rotate to portrait
mode it just doesn't look right because the icons are spaced oddly maybe you have five rows across
or something along those lines maybe they couldn't do it because of widgets but either way it looks
a little odd when you're in portrait mode so in landscape it's normal in portrait mode it's not
many people want the ability to fix this and arrange it so it looks normal
and of course put your icons wherever you want so those are the top things i would like to
see and you would like to see based off of that youtube question i posted on the community page
and of course there's some other great ideas there as well but those were just the top ideas
that many of you had and things i wanted to see changed as well my top ones would be split view
a redesign control center the battery health change and maybe interactive widgets but what
are your top changes you would like to see i would love to hear from you in the comments
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time