Apple

RCS texting.

Ability to flag an email in a specific colour without having to open it.

Native calendar invites via iMessage.

^(Took me about 7 years to figure out that I was sending all my invites into the ether because my Apple ID was not an) ^(iCloud.com) ^(address.)

The option to turn off screen wake when receiving notifications without turning on Focus mode.

A fucking laser!!

I want to be able to dock my phone on my desk, connected to a KB/monitor/mouse, and get a full blown MacOS desktop running on it.

Different default ringtone for callers not in your contacts.

Block or silence calls based on wildcards or number ranges (like an entire area code.)

Block/silence calls with no caller ID.

"Silence unknown callers" is too blunt of a solutions. OOMA has all of these options and it's handy.

I wish there was some more gestures to activate certain things, for instance on the 1+ Open there’s a three finger swipe down on the screen to capture a screenshot and then hold three fingers on the screen to take a partial screenshot.

I’ve jailbroken my iPhone 11, iPhone 5s and a couple other iPhones back in the day and I think it’s been a lost opportunity to not have a theme store. So many great iconI wish there was some more gestures to activate certain things, for instance on the 1+ Open there’s a three finger swipe down on the screen to capture a screenshot and then hold three fingers on the screen to take a partial screenshot.

I’ve jailbroken my iPhone 11, iPhone 5s and a couple other iPhones back in the day and I think it’s been a lost opportunity to not have a theme store. So many great icon packs have been released on Cydia/Zebrs over the years, I would pay for some dope icon packs if apple would let us customize our icons.

Italics for iMessage

Why can’t you pause the damn audio recordings and finish listening to them later???

Adding another...Voicemail playback

^(Technically not lacking because I'm told its doable, but why have I never been able to master the art of listening to a voicemail? I press play and hold the phone to my ear and it pauses the message playback stops. I try to use speaker and sometimes maybe it will honor my request. This is probably a large part of why I stopped listening to voicemails over the last decade..)

I would love to see optimized battery charging being synced with the alarm clock you have set. That feature barely works good. I plug my phone everyday at midnight and it charges my phone to 80% at around 2-3 AM and goes up to 100% at like 5 AM, and it sits like that til 9:30 am like wtf

Headphone jack

A T9 keypad in the Phone Dialer, where punching numbers would start bringing the results from saved contacts.

Ability to add additional memory/storage via SD or other card.

The way you rearrange apps is still insanely annoying and unintuitive. I’m sure they can figure out a better method.

Non-gridlocked Home Screen

WHY can’t I freaking sort albums in photos???? I just want to sort A-Z. And having an option for most recent would prob make sense too. But instead it’s some random assortment I have to slowly search through. I can’t believe there’s still no option to fix this.

hopefully coming soon but sideloading apps

Sending files over Bluetooth to non-Apple devices

Privacy.

Add words to the dictionary.

Call screening. The only thing I really miss from my pixel. :(

Notifications are so bad on an iPhone

When you receive a text message and you have CarPlay on, it’s super loud. I have not found a way to lower the volume on that.

Also someone I knew that used to have android said you have the ability to schedule text messages to be sent in the future. I don’t think we have that on the iPhone.

Finger print

To pause while video-recording

Camera as good as the latest Samsung phones

A back button

Apps that can *really* stay in the background while doing some processing. Very often I had to wait for the iPhone finish doing something before going do something else, either in other apps or within the app.

Controlling volume on individual things.

AM/FM RADIO! it should be fucking mandatory

Android user here, on the fence about making the switch from my Samsung to an iPhone.

Y'all are telling me that I can't use Google Assistant on the iPhone and that there is no way to differentiate ringtones from alarms or other notifications on the new iPhone?😳

Not a very heavy user, but now that it has a USB-C port, I am out of improvement ideas

Back Gesture !!!

Side loading apps

Customization, ui changes, clipboard , better power saver, selecting multiple numbers to be deleted at once

Chat heads for Messenger

Split screen

Floating calculator

Better keyboard - have numbers and some punctuation marks in the main thing

Consistency in the buttons for accepting/declining calls

Ability to stitch multiple screenshots into just 1 photo

Ability to block a number without saving it as a contact first/getting a call from it first

KILL THE NOTCH FFS

(Also Siri, volume settings and notification management is garbage. Phone app has TWO numeric keyboards still lol.

Different skins. We should be able to completely change the way our iPhone screen looks. So, if I want it to look like a system of gears and levers and when I twist a gear, settings open and pull a lever apps open…. Something like that. Make 50 skins.

Sideloading 😭 the moment they can do that without much trouble or expiring it’s OVER for android for me! And maybe the iPad Pro can actually do a lot more “pro” things

The ability to customize the Home Screen with widgets and shortcuts where you want them instead of this stupid outdated sliding grid.