Siri, faster animations (compared to android it is damn slow , mostly to hide the 60 hz on regular phones.)

Separate audio controls for phone and external devices ….

Split screen. My old xiaomi did it.

Catchall: make the just work things just work.

Solid state batteries ( better longevity, better handle on extreme low or high temperatures, 2.5x the energy per square, so the battery can be smaller with larger autonomy then the current ones ).

Notch / Dynamic Island hardware also needs to go under the screen.

There’s a lot to improve :)

Mute switch instead of the new button

How could it get any more awesomer?

I reckon the hardware has basically peaked, but the software has a long way to go.

• get rid of the notch. Proper under display camera system
• bring fingerprint back for 2-factor biometrics. Also under display
• faster charging both wired and wireless
• longer battery life
• fast data transfer across the board, not just the pro phones
• bring 3D Touch back

improve cooling and faster charging time

Better widgets and options surrounding them. They introduced widgets and it hasn’t gotten much attention from Apple or app developers since.

I would love to see a shift from yearly models to different upgrade paths, introduce an Air, bring back the mini and go into an 18 month cycle for each line, but with a release every quarter, keeps the market happy and gives time for development.

My volume only adjusts when Spotify is open half of the time… and Siri straight up doesn’t work. Like at all, she won’t do anything. Just says she can’t help with that.

I’m waiting on the flip iPhone

I’ve been playing with the new voice ChatGPT and thinking about how amazing an AI assistant that was fully ingrained in the hardware could be. Siri has that access but no where near the ability of ChatGPT.

If I could just ask Siri to write an email to my kids school saying that my daughter won’t be in on Friday, or take all the photos from the Christmas concert and put them in our family group chat that would be amazing.

Let’s just say the only thing I’m freaking waiting for is for them to unlock the app grid and let us put apps wherever we want. I don’t even care about the custom icon crap, I just want to put all my apps on the bottom of my Home Screen without having to use widgets I don’t need to push all my folders down to the bottom. Back when I used Android long long ago, I always had just the bottom two rows of apps and an empty space above to see my wallpaper, I liked the minimal clean look and be able to see my wallpaper when I’m actually using my phone and not just on my Lock Screen. Other than that my iPhone does literally everything I need it to and it’s my only device. TV, Movies, YouTube, Social media, photography and videography, editing, rendering, occasional gaming, finance, business, everything is done just on my phone I don’t even own a TV let alone computer or tablet etc. iPhones and smartphones in general have peaked. Until we have some crazy technological innovation, they’re gonna stay basically the exact same with spec improvements. Foldables still are janky and damage stupid easily for $1700+ devices… and they aren’t good for the general public besides basically literal office workers that don’t do anything besides sit there all day. The plastic “glasstic” screens dent with a finger nail or the pixels bleed in less than a year… give it another 5-10 years and we’ll see something insane happen but till then it’s gonna be much of the same we’ve had. Sorta how we went from these tiny ass smartphones with sub 300p displays, all the way to 2.5k displays in less than 10 years. Just gotta give it time. Till then start saving some money and rock your favorite iPhones till they lose support unless they come out with something insane before that point!