We’ve been playing around with iOS 5 for a day now and we’ve noticed a few things that can be addressed iOS 5 to make an even better user experience. There’s all the great new features like iMessage and the Notification Center, but we feel Apple could easily improve the experience even more without changing what has already been implemented.
Newsstand cannot be put into a folder
Not everyone is going to be buying subscriptions to magazines (especially on the iPhone) and for some reason we cannot put Newsstand into a folder. Perhaps it was overlooked or we’re doing it wrong, but this needs to be addressed.
Wi-Fi sync without being plugged in
Wi-Fi sync is a great feature but it’s a bit annoying to have to be plugged into a power source to use it. Likely, your power source is the cable it came with, which is likely already plugged into your Mac/PC. We’d say as long as you have 35% or more battery, and that your backups are being done to iCloud, everything should be ok.
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, it does not require power if you choose to sync manually. In any case, doing it manually requires you to jump in two menus deep into the Settings app which can still be a bother to some.
Just copy SBSettings already
I don’t want to jailbreak but if I do it will be just for SBSettings. SBSettings allows quick toggles to many basic functions like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and more, so why isn’t this built into the Notification Center? Please Apple, don’t make me jailbreak.
We love Twitter but why can’t I just Tweet? Just a normal tweet from anywhere? Not a photo or a website but just a normal tweet. Again, this should be able to be done from the Notification Center.
Up the app limit per folder
In iOS, you’re only allowed to put 12 apps into a folder. It sounds like enough but with over 500,000 apps in the App Store and many of them being free it builds up quite fast. For example, I personally have 2 ‘Games’ folders, two ‘Utilities’ folders (at max capacity) and two ‘Apple’ folders. Can’t we just up the limit to…unlimited?
Of course many of these are personal issues but they’d likely improve the experience of iOS 5 overall to everyone, and let’s be honest, it really isn’t asking much.
Got any personal issues with iOS 5? Let us know in the comments.
