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My WWDC 2024 Wish List
Mar 11, 2025
Article on Cult of Mac: https://www.cultofmac.com/858400/wwdc24-wish-list/ More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Apple will announce the next major versions of all their operating systems at WWDC24 this Monday — this is my wish list for what I hope Cupertino has been cooking up. Produced by Extra Ordinary for Cult of Mac Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones Chapters: 0:00 iPhone & iPad 5:36 Vision Pro 9:46 Mac 11:35 Apple Watch 12:00 Apple TV Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/
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Apple will announce the next major
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versions of all of their operating
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systems at WWDC 24 on Monday here is my
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wish
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list I'm going to start with iOS and
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iPad OS 18 my number one request is
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improvements to the files app file
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management is absolutely fundamental to
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getting work done on a Mac or a PC and
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it's been sidelined on iOS for way too
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long if the finder is a construction
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zone then the files app is like a
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playground sandbox I know Apple doesn't
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and certainly shouldn't expose the real
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file system of your device to the files
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app they should keep it that way but
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there is still much more room for
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improvement for example let me choose
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which app opens a file if you have an
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ambiguous file extension like MD which
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can mean multiple different things or if
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you have multiple different apps on your
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phone that can open the same type of
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file you you can't choose it can lead to
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a bunch of really weird conflicts file
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supports external drives which is great
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but you can't format or erase them so
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often if you're moving or copying a big
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file it just randomly stops in the
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middle of the transfer and a really neat
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feature would be if you could plug in an
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iPhone and an iPad together to copy
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files over just like you can on a Mac
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number two background tasks on iPad iOS
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and iPad os are very strict about what
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apps are allowed to do in the background
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and it makes sense sense because for a
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long time they were very constrained
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with battery life and performance but
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when the iPad Pro can do free form
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multi- window multitasking with an
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external display when the iPad Pro has a
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newer chip than is available on any Mac
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currently for sale it's really
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frustrating that for example you can't
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render a video and Final Cut in the
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background without it immediately being
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interrupted now I know Apple Engineers
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are scared that if they allow apps to
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take full control over the GPU whenever
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they want that everybody's batteries
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will be drained nobody will have any
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idea why and it'll be a giant mess but
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Apple already invented a method for
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exposing background processes on the
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iPhone called the dynamic Island imagine
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if when you started an intense process
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like exporting a video or transferring a
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big file in files
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or using some generative AI
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that they would be shown in the top edge
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of the screen where on the iPad you have
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much more room to show more things and
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really turn the dynamic Island into a
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screen spanning taskar or status bar
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next ethical AI features everybody knows
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that the AI features are coming and
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there's no stopping it but if Apple's
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going to play the game they ought to do
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it right I want Apple to ethically
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justify all of the features they roll
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out where the training data came from
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whether it's private and safe to use
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what the energy impact will be if this
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is a cloud-based service and whether I
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can trust the results I'm afraid that
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Apple executives are under too much
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pressure to ship to make that happen
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Apple's in a lose lose situation because
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the AI optimists who cheer behind all
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the generative AI tools like suo chat
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GPT and Sora aren't going to be
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impressed with the rumored features
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apple is coming out with the AI Skeptics
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who take issue with how this technology
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is being created powered and used are
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justifiably going to take issue with
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Apple's partnership with of all
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companies open AI to power some of these
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features now if Apple can hold
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themselves to a high standard and maybe
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publish an AI report card similar to
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their environmental report card for all
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these features that would go a long way
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convincing critics like me that these
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features are actually worth it next keep
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improving dictation the allnew speech
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detect system in Iowa 17 was a nice
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start but there's still a lot of room
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for improvement automatic punctuation
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detection for example leaves much to be
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desired and it still looks for proper
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nouns in completely wrong contexts like
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switching out has for hos the kind of
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avocado and the fact that it keeps
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processing what you've said after you're
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done dictating means that it can change
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the text to something completely wrong
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in the microsc before your thumb hits
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the send button it's really frustrating
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whisper has spoiled me personally with
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the state-of-the-art speech to text I
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know apple is so proud that all Apple
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silicon has these powerful neural
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processing units that can do everything
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on device well you know what I run
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whisper on device on my Mac Mini every
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week when I make the subtitles for these
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videos and it does a much better job
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next a clipboard manager clipboard
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managers are absolutely lifechanging if
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you don't have one on your Mac right now
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I want you to go to the App Store and
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download Mackie the fact that you can
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only cop and paste one thing at a time
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on iOS and iPad OS is as czy as to me as
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if you told me that I could only undo
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and redo one thing at a time and if
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Apple isn't going to allow any third
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party clipboard managers they should at
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least provide one of their own standby
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on the iPad standby is one of the
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neatest features to come to the iPhone
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in a long time but it would really shine
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on the iPad where you have room for many
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more widgets and interesting designs you
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can turn it into like a status board for
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your life that sets in your kit
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or a stream deck style panel of controls
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and shortcuts that sits in your office
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now let's talk about Vision Pro this is
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one of the most exciting Tech products
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I've seen in a very long time but after
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a very slow drip of content from Apple I
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really want to see more signs of
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commitment from them in Vision OS 2 this
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is the first time Apple has faced a
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truly uphill battle starting nearly from
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scratch with a new software platform in
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a long time the Vision Pro really really
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needs more native apps for it to sing as
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a product and right now I just don't see
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a lot of developer interest now there is
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one way Apple can demonstrate that they
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believe in it that it really is the
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future and that would be number two
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bring more native apps to The Vision Pro
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as it is the Vision Pro comes with iPad
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versions of podcasts calendar and
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reminders running in a compatibility
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mode and it's fine but when you see how
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great native apps are like music mail
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and Safar
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that's where the action is at and that's
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what you want to see apple says every
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year at WWDC that if you stick to their
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own development tools Swift and Swift UI
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that making native crossplatform apps is
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easy you know it's only a little bit of
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extra work to turn on iPhone app into an
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iPad app and an iPad app into a Mac app
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it's hard to believe them when so many
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of their own apps aren't available
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across all of their platforms next
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integrate Vision Pro with the iPhone my
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iPhone can unlock my Apple watch when I
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first put it on and when I sit down at
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my desk my Apple watch can unlock my Mac
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and when I put on a face mask my Apple
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watch can unlock my iPhone but when I
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have my Vision Pro on I have to enter in
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my iPhone passcode every single time I
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want to use it and while we're at it I
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would really like call forwarding if I'm
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already sitting at my desk and I get a
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phone call I don't have to pick up my
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phone and hold it up to my face if I'm
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already wearing my headphones I can just
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bring down my microphone and click to
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take the call on my Mac answering a
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phone call while I'm wearing my Vision
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Pro is much more disruptive especially
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because I have to take it off and you
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really want to be careful where you sit
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it down because that can be an expensive
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mistake and add a ringing phone to the
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and a Time sensitivity to the
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situation I should just be able to
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answer the phone call on the headset
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next a bigger more customizable app view
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the app view in vision os1 is kind of a
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placeholder and that's a reasonable
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compromise to make because people aren't
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going to be downloading hundreds of apps
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in the first few months so there are
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only 13 apps per page the first page is
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all of Apple's built-in apps and then
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all the subsequent pages are all of your
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third party apps in alphabetical order
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let me make folders let me rearrange
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them and let me see more icons on the
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screen at once I have my entire field of
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view available to me and yet I see fewer
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icons than an iPhone 3GS if it's
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possible please reduce the motion blur
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and image smoothing The Vision Pro adds
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motion blur when you move your head
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around to fast and it Smooths over
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individual pixels on the screen I'm sure
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there are probably reasons for that
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because with a device like this it's
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really important to reduce eye strain
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and motion sickness but I feel like it's
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a little over corrective if it's
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possible I'd like a clearer view I'd
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also like some improvements to window
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management Vision OS treats Windows like
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physical objects they stay where you put
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them if you close an app in your living
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room then that's where it'll spawn the
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next time you open it but if hours have
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gone by since I've last used an app and
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if I'm in a different room I don't want
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to go on an Easter egg hunt I'm opening
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slack because I want to look at slack
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I'd also really like to be able to
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customize the digital Crown as it is the
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digital Crown controls two things how
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immersed you are in a virtual
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environment and also the volume output
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of the audio you're playing so to change
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the volume you have to spin it a little
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bit then you have to look at the volume
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icon then you have to spin it the rest
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of the way to make your adjustment as
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someone who almost never uses the
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virtual spaces and has audio playing at
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least 90% of the time I'm wearing the
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headset I'd really like to be able to
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switch those defaults so that when I
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want to turn up the music I don't
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accidentally open a portal to the
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surface of the Moon next let's talk
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about the Mac my number one request is
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the journal app I really loved diving
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into the journal app when it came out a
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few months ago but I've barely added
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anything to it since I just spend more
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time sitting in front of my Mac than
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with my phone during the day and
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especially if I have a story I want to
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write out with several paragraphs I want
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to add a lot of pictures I'd rather do
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that with a physical keyboard on a
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bigger display not on my cramped little
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phone number two please fix
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notifications notifications have
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actively gotten worse over time in OS 10
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Mavericks when quick replies were first
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introduced you used to be able to click
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on a text box on the messages
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notification type out a response hit
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enter send your reply it was that easy
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now you have to carefully hover your
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mouse over an invisible button click on
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it go down to show more which doesn't
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even remotely describe the action that
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it's trying to perform then you type out
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a response then you hit enter it's a
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mess and notification center why can you
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only see three notifications at a time
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on my 24in desktop display that's crazy
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finally I'd like more control over
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photos tagging I lovingly curate my
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photo library I take time out every few
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weeks to manually tag faces and recent
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pictures sort things into albums but I'd
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really like more manual control back in
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ioto I was able to bring up a view that
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would show me every untagged face in my
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photo library I could just add them all
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from there now I have to go through
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picture by picture manually and that can
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be a pain if I search for car or laptop
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I see a bunch of results that the
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algorithm has surfaced but if there are
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false positives or images that don't
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belong I can't correct it to improve it
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over time on the Apple watch I just have
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one request and that is more different
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practical Apple watch faces and look I
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get it if it's 10 years in and they
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still haven't opened it up to custom
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watch faces I'm okay with that but if
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apple is going to be the one and only
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designer of Apple watch faces I want
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more useful options all the most
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exciting designs are coming to the Apple
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watch Ultra but I don't want or need a
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giant watch I also have just one request
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for the Apple
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TV I want it to be able to Output to a
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4x3 television because look if I'm
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playing old video games with Delta and
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I'm airplaying them to the Apple TV or
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if I'm watching old episodes of Doctor
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Who I want to watch them on an
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appropriately old Zenith television
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which I connect to my Apple TV with this
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HDMI to RF modulator but the Apple TV
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only outputs in widescreen so that means
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I need to stretch the image out so that
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it's correct aspect ratio but then the
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left and right edges of the screen are
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cut off so I can't see the menus when
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I'm navigating in Plex or the TV app now
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is this a common use case no but what
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else is the tvos team
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doing and with that we have my WWDC wish
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