Now that Scott Forstall is out at Apple and Jony Ive has increased influence over iOS, I’ve assembled a list of iOS changes I’d like to see. Of course, I don’t know if Forstall had direct influence over any of these features, nor do I know if Ive can/will change them. But a guy can dream.
- The colored status bar. I’ve written about my aversion to this change at length, so I’ll only say that I find it distracting and unnecessary. There’s no need for it and I can’t not notice it.
- All the flippin’ leather. Find My Friends goes overboard with the Corinthian leather. I’d like to see it disappear.
- The Passbook delete animation. Scott seemed wonderfully pleased with this when he demonstrated it and I suspect it was his doing. Yes it’s fun the first time you see it. After that, you just want to delete the card. That is, if you have any…
- Passbook improvements. Passbook is confusing because, when you launch it for the first time, it does nothing. There should be a demo card in there for users to play with.
Would you add anything that I’ve missed?
Search in mail and contacts should ALWAYS be visible.
I dont mind the coloured status bar.
but these are bad, bad, bad;
The faux book that is Contacts.
The leather of Calendar. Reminder is a little more subtle being very dark, I can live with that.
The faux page that is Notes, and that default font!
keep the colours dark is the lesson, i think.
The tool bar in mail & safari being along the top in iPad, but it’s along the bottom on iPhone, whats with that?
I started using the iPhone’s swipe-to-the-right Search screen to do my email searches, and I’ll be darned, it works quite well. Vastly easier than doing a search inside of Mail.app.
… It works even for emails that haven’t been downloaded to your phone. I use iCloud and Gmail email services, so when I want to do a search including all Archives I use CloudMagic. It’s excellent.