Apple will hold its World Developer Conference on Monday, when the technology giant will show the world what has been cooking last year for iOS 19 – or iOS 26 – The software running the iPhone. Until thenCNET experts have their own ideas about what Apple should take to the iPhone.
While iOS 18 brought some useful news to all iPhones such as RCS messagingand Apple intelligence To the most recent iPhones, we are still betting on what Apple will include iOS 19. Report It suggests that Apple plans a significant redesign of the iPhone operating system, changing everything from icons, applications, menus and more. But CNET writers and publishers have some ideas that we would like to see on the next operating system. Some things we have asked for in the past such as Customized blocking screen controlsI have come to fruition, so maybe we will hit the brand again this year.
Here are some of the functions and changes that we hope Apple includes the next iOS software.
Bring the divided screen to the iPhone
Constantly changing between two applications can be annoying.
Add a native divided screen. Been available at Android phones and iPad for years. But in iOS I still have to execute my calculator and the budget monitoring note in two separate windows.
– Mike Sorrentino
Start training from my iPhone
A training without Apple Watch is still a workout, right?
I would like to start an outdoor training of my iPhone’s fitness application (how I can do to Strava or Polar). That way, if I forget to bring my Apple Watch or I don’t have it, I can still record my training. It Apple Watch uses heart rate data To calculate the minutes of movement, but I do not see why the iPhone cannot give me credit for a real training through other indicators such as the distance/rhythm of a race.
– Vanessa Hand Orellana
No more green bubbles please
Bickering between Greens and Blues sounds like a plot of thunder games.
I am very pleased that Apple added RCS messaging with iOS 18 but I will dream big here: I would appraise If the texts with Android users were not yet green. Although it is great to finally send high resolution supports and see writing indicators with people who do not use imessage, it is still too easy for iPhone users to become anyone who becomes the green text. Finish the restlessness once and for all!
-Babred al-heeti
An easier way to manage unused applications
Unused applications still take precious memory on your iPhone.
I have more applications on my iPhone I will never use, after years of installing things to try and then forget about them. Add -everything to the application library helps to take it out of your mind, but this is the applications version of keeping a box of cables that you think you may need someday. So I would like a way to clean applications, similar to how large applications can be identified Settings > General > Warehouse. Let me see when I installed them, the last time I used them and I will be able to delete those I no longer want. I know this sounds steeply, but the thought of passing them all manually is exhausting, so this will never happen.
– Jeff Carlson
Porter Manager
A door manager -Remove could remember several things you copy so you can hook them later.
I want a door manager -Left to iOS 19. The iPhone has a single copy and paste option, that is, if you copy something and then copy something else, the first thing you copied is lost. For iOS 19, I would like to see a door manager -the one you can look for, which has a story of all the things I copied at the last minute, day, week or even month. And if I stick something, I would like to see several options that I can choose to appear on my fingers.
– Nelson Aguilar
More customization options for all screens
Can I move the control of the flashlight on the blocking screen, please?
I want more locking screen personalization options, start -up screen and control center. I would like to place my blocking screen controls elsewhere on the screen, so I do not accidentally open control, including, yes, my flashlight. The same with the start screen. I am grateful to place applications anywhere as long as they are inside the Apple Oppressive Network that closes our applications in small boxes. If you have large icons, like me, there is a whole empty row at the bottom where it seems that applications or folders can go, but they cannot. We breathe the air of freedom, Apple! Please, for the sake of all good, let the scroll bar move to the right side of the control center. I keep hitting it when I open the control center and take me to a page that I do not intend to be, which makes it frustrating to use.
– Zach McAuliffe
Press Long, Double Clic and More Triggering of the Action button
The action button is a small and useful tool, but it can be much more.
Now that the action button is in more iphones, add support to trigger different shortcuts with various presses. In its current configuration I can configure the action button to trigger an action at once. In default, it can change between activating the timbre and putting your iPhone in silent mode. But there are several other options to open the camera application and take a photo or take an automation elaborated in the application of shortcuts such as using Ask a Dunkin ‘coffee’.
But the action button could do much more if Apple added support for several input clicks. Just as it could be a switching for ringer/silent mode with a single long press, but do something else (such as activating/deactivating the lantern) with a long double press. I think this would add so much functionality to the button and, therefore, will open even more people who take advantage of more.
– Patrick Holland
Best record of video editing tools
You can already shoot registration videos on your iPhone, now we only need better edit tools for these device videos.
I want iOS 19 add better editing tools for registration video. The possibility of rolling registration pictures directly on the iPhone is incredible for enthusiastic filmmakers like me, but you can only edit by transferring it out of the phone to an iPad or MacBook. I would love to see Apple to bring deeper editing tools to add cinematic colored notes to the registration pictures directly to your iPhone.
– Andrew Lanxon
Intelligent organizing the photos by event in the photo app
Manually creating albums can take a long time and effort.
Okay, we are happy that IOS 18 Apple improves photo search by adding the recognition of IA images to provide all the images of your cats. It is slightly compensated for the distribution of photos and albums that confuse me to this day. I would love if at iOS 19, the photo application had a new way of seeing photos: in a intelligent time organized for the event. Say that you go to the park for a birthday and you have a lot of photos clearly of the same occasion: The application asks you to confirm that you are all connected, ask for a title, and boom a registered event was recorded. Then I could look at a vertical calendar of registered events of recent months or years, which can be sought if I cannot remember, for example, when I went to the park for the last time. Yes, I can do it manually doing albums, but it is the kind of annoying work that I cannot take. This is what I want me to do for me.
– David Lumb
Simple volume controls on iPhone
Apple, keep the volume settings I want.
Sometimes they are the small changes that can help make a softer experience. I want to see the Apple cleaning volume controls. If I set up the volume at a given level, I want it to be maintained at this level for all applications. Sometimes settings may vary according to what you do. I often encounter the problem of lowering the volume to prepare -to hear something, but surprise! – The volume is again strong because I put headphones and maintains the strongest settings that I used the last time I listened to music in the headphones. It only leads to unnecessary frustrations and causes users to feel that they do not control their devices.
– Bridget Carey
For more information about Apple, here is what to expect WWDC 2025 and our thoughts about the iPhone 16 Pro and iOS 18 Months after launch. You can also consult our IOS trap sheet 18.
