My iPhone Feature Wishlist- 10 Software Fixes I Hope To See Soon

August 7, 2007

After one full week of use, I really have been enjoying my iPhone. User interface candy for sure. Every so often I hit a rough spot with usability, but the overall user experience so far has been great.

Chris Pirillo had an interesting quote about the iPhone a few days ago in his post “20 Reasons I’m Happy with the iPhone” (a follow up to “20 Reasons I’m Not Getting An iPhone“):

Don’t buy it for the hype - TRY it for the hype, but buy it because you’re tired of the shit everybody else keeps shoving into your pocket.

My iPhone Feature Wishlist Most if not all of these are software fixes. Hope to see them soon in an upcoming OS release:

Multiple SMS recipients and group based SMS sending. This is so sorely missing from the feature list, that I’m almost certain I just haven’t figured out how yet. Anyone?
Rotatable screen for SMS sending to get that nice big chunky keyboard you get in the web browser.
Fast app switching- give me a gesture based ALT-TAB-like switching device.
Automatically sync the camera roll to my desktop on sync.
Allow me to sync my yahoo calendar or any iCal/vCal.
When I’m looking at a map point and I tap the up-down “directions” button, pre-fill the ending point value with the point I’m looking at instead of clearing it. OBVIOUSLY, this is going to be my point of arrival (or origin).
Make it a little harder to accidentally call people I haven’t talked to in years. It’s far too easy to accidentally dial phone numbers- usually when you are trying to view a contact’s details.
Allow draggable reordering of weather cities.
Unlimited access to YouTube, and fresher Featured and Most Viewed collections- these were stale within 24 hours of walking out of the Apple store. Currently YouTube access is limited to a very small subset of what’s available on the site. Right now I can’t view any of the videos I’ve uploaded to YouTube.
Background page rendering in Safari. Rendering seems to halt when you pop a new window and take focus away from the current one.