I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDC. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems.
- Add a Switcheroo-like profile picker to Safari to allow opening a specific profile when a link is clicked from outside of the browser.
- Completely ditch Siri – Keep the name, but tell us that you’ve taken all of the Siri code and
rm -rf‘d it. The number of things Siri does reliably right (adding a reminder, starting and stopping a timer) can be rewritten very quickly. Ditch everything else. And for anything outside those few things it does well, use an LLM. Whatever it uses now is very much broken. - Force dark mode on anything that doesn’t support it (web sites, emails, apps, wildcard: images?)
- Improve Reminders “column view” (kanban) especially on macOS. In particular, dragging and dropping task cards is unreliable.
- Pause GIFs in Messages
- Message threads in Messages group chats. The way replies work right now feels dated and ugly.
- Photos for Mac move referenced library to a different volume. I do not allow Photos to manage my originals, I keep them in place. But I’m running out of space and I’d like to move my entire library without using my hacky hack.
- Improved notifications across all OSes – Maybe this is just a me thing, but notifications are nearly worthless to me across all of the platforms. I generally turn them all off except for very specific apps and contexts. And even then, having a huge pile of notifications is worthless to me. There must be a better way.
- A native way to run Electron/Chromium apps – I think Electron, or whatever it is called today, is here to stay. And so many of the most popular apps use it, macOS should embrace that and make macOS the best platform to run these apps rather than trying to force native apps.
- A complete revamp of iPadOS – I think the iPad deserves to be as capable as a Mac. Give us real windows, give us mouse support that is as good as macOS, make using an iPad feel empowering rather than limiting. (Maybe some of this should only be enabled when a mouse is connected?)
Allow me to click on a day in Calendar and open it in “day view”. Maybe there is a way to do this that I don’t know, but I currently have to select day view and then move the to the date. I should just be able to click it.This is indeed possible. I just had to double click directly on the date number. Yay!- Add a professional meeting planner to iCloud+. I know we have the Invites app, but that isn’t really great for sending a link to customers. Something like Calendly. Allow people to choose a time based on some settings.
- More feature parity across all platforms – Of course, not every single feature can or should be on all platforms. But why isn’t the Wallet app on all platforms? Why is it harder to use Apple Cash in Safari on macOS than it is on iOS? Why does Shortcuts on iOS have an Automations tab but not on macOS?
- Much larger storage options, for sane prices, in iCloud Drive.
- A $1,500 Apple Vision headset – With the primary use being wirelessly or wiredly connected to any Apple device and using it as a mixed reality display option.
- Long shot: Run local LLM models– native support for running LLMs. Right now, several hoops need to be jumped through to run models on the command line or using Open Web UI.
- Bug fixes!