THE IPHONE LIFE TEAM’S IOS 15 WISH LIST

“For those of us who appreciate more privacy options, it would be great to have Face ID and password protection for the Photos app and Notes app. Right now, I pay for third-party notes and photo management apps that offer this service, but it would be so much more convenient if Apple offered this!”

-Donna Cleveland, Editor in Chief

“I wish that you could manually tag people in photos so that they show up in the People album. Sometimes the phone doesn't recognize that there's someone in a photo, so this feature would be super convenient. I don't like that certain photos don't show up under someone's tagged photos when they are in the photo.” -Rheanne Taylor, Senior Video Producer

“The widgets introduced in iOS 14 were lots of fun, and we saw many thirdparty apps offer all sorts of design options for them. I'd love to see Apple offer this feature, giving us the ability to customize our widgets' appearance without using our storage space on these other apps.”

-Amy Spitzfaden-Both, Associate Editor

“I am in a lot of group texts, and it can be irritating when you receive a notification (or dozens of notifications) just to alert you that someone has “liked” an iMessage sent hours ago. It would be great if iOS 15 let us modify our settings to avoid being notified when someone reacts to a message.” -Elisabeth Garry, Feature Writer

“I like to set a lot of alarms to organize my day. I hate that when an alarm goes off while I'm using my phone, my only option is to swipe it away, which causes it to snooze. I would love for an easier way to stop the alarm rather than getting stuck in an endless cycle of snoozing. Is this where the expression ‘you snooze, you lose' comes from?”

-Olena Kagui, Feature Writer

“The iOS Home screen automatically sorts apps to the top of the screen. I'd love for iOS 15 to (finally) offer support for sorting apps, widgets, and folders wherever I want on the Home screen.”

-Cullen Thomas, Writer & Video Producer