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Please fix the iPhone

MULTITASKING: Let at least one application run in background by holding down the home button for 5 seconds (10 seconds for killing the application). Flashing icon in statusbar will remind user about reduced battery lifetime. Wish 1967

Unwanted standard iPhone application icons can't be hidden. I'm never going to check stocks. Wish 1

Different views of home screens, just like on Palm OS. Swipe up to change view. Wish 4550

Ability to put apps into categories so that I don't have 6 pages of homescreen to scroll through Wish 430

I wish there was a way to prevent the accelerometer from always turning whatever application sideways. However, I would like to be able to set preferences to make all keyboards appear in landscape mode or portrait mode. Wish 774

Extra layer of security; Allow a different pass code lock for text messages and e-mail. The iphone always gets passed around to curious friends, but I do not want them looking into my private items! Wish 841

Fix interface sluggishness! Wish 956

I wish I could accept/reject iCal Event Invitations, and not have to wait till I get home on my computer to do so. Wish 342

An Instant Messaging client.... and make one that sits at the same level as the Blackberry Messenger..... were you can send not only text but also pictures, videos, voice recording and even files.....Of course make it a background running always on application. Integration with other IM services would be a killer, Live Messenger, Yahoo, AOL IM..... Wish 571

can i please send a pic as an attachment instead of having to use the photo viewer app to send a pic? it would be nice to be able to use the e-mail app by itself to send a pic (or two at a time...what a concept!). Wish 642

Where is the Push Notification service they promised us by the end of last month? Wish 1165

Make apps display live info. Weather app should show current temp on home screen. stocks app could work with this as well as clock app, although the clock would be pointless, still pretty cool. The calender app is kind of an example of this. Wish 905

ALL sounds should honor the state of the 'vibrate' switch. If I set my iPhone to 'vibrate' I want it to be quiet...yet, snoozed alarms still sound and if I accidentally click on a game like Asphalt4, I get the LOUD opening video. If this is supposed to be a business phone, it needs to place nice in the business world and be quiet when told to. A 'silent' mode would be fantastic too! Wish 3248

Emoticons in SMS, every phone supports it, even my 4 year old palm, the razr, the sony-ericsson......! Wish 1449

Road Mode! When I drive I want to be able to see: 1. The name of the song etc. in a size I can actually read. 2. Buttons that are easy to find without taking my attention off the road in V&H. 3.Time (again, large enough to read) And I would love to see something fun that uses the accelerometer. Not just for fun, but to also show you you're currently in car mode. Wish 617

If I create an event in my calendar, I'd like to be able to click on the address of the location, and open it using the Google Maps Application. Wish 1460

I want to be able to change icons from Apps I purchase. Some of those free Apps have REALLY UGLY icons, that I would like to replace with more standard ones! Wish 41

I wish that it had a Terminal app like Mac OS X so that I could access the UNIX underneath it. Wish 787

In Contacts, let me search by any field. Especially by Company name and Notes. Wish 3607

Let my sync my iPhone with a lot of iTunes... Wish 1679

6. better note application 7. more work relativ programs like word, excel and a card/code remebering program 8. easy option to switch between a higly advanced calculator and a simple one like the standard one on it now. 9. allow Hotmail acounts. Wish 2416

Why are not all the Apps available in the U.S. store also available in the rest of the other countries stores?! We paid for the iPhone just like everybody else in the U.S.! Wish 3367

So here's the situation. You take the bus home from school or work, and you are listening to your iPhone/iPod touch. When you arrive home, you are in the middle of a song. What would be great would be if you could press a button to switch the song to the Remote app. I have my iTunes streaming all over the house, so it would be very nice to have a one-button solution. Wish 3290

Please Make every app have it's own volume setting or add a setting to make the iphone reset the volume to what it was before you lunch the app I keep forgetting to rise the volume after I leave an app then I can't hear it ring! Wish 2397

I wish have a blacklist app to filter calls and sms in the appstore Wish 1330

Add the ability to turn the iPhone in landscape mode on every app, including mail, txt, etc and even the home screen changing the row of apps. Allowing the use of the landscape keyboard everywhere. Also add the ability to disable if needed. Wish 5397

Ability to Scroll with the volume buttons Wish 3894

My iphone is synced with my friends itunes library. i now want to sync it with mine but when i try doing this it comes up with a message saying it will erase everything currently on my iphone and resync. BUT i have too many apps, messages, phone contacts currently installed and do not want to loose this. PLEASE HELP? Thanks Wish 5072

When the next generation arrives we all wish we can get the new one with a discount, customized with our own message engraved and including the apps we have already bought. And of course all the rest of the most wanted wishes included !!!! Come on Steve !!! Get everybody to work !!! If you make us happy, we promise we will buy your phones !!! Wish 2907

I want to be able to have the alarm clock open an app. I want to wake up to pandora at a specific time. Wish 3706

Eradicate the long stalls when starting apps, the Camera specifically... 30~45 seconds to boot a little camera? wtf... Wish 6541

I have a music transmitter that allows me listen to my iphone in my car. When I am listening music everything else works, check email, text message, etc. Why can I not talk on speaker phone while connected to the device, have the sound go through my speakers in my car. Wish 683

Improve the method of switching between email accounts! Navigating back through the hierarchy and then back to the inbox is tedious. Should be one click. How about a drop-down menu??? Wish 3511

virtual network between iphone Wish 1121

add a spam filter to iphone's mail program. Wish 2718

iPhone has same problems as lot of their competitors. Why not Apple join the Symbian, Android and Palm community and let developers work across to create multiple cross platform applications. After all all of these guys are friends and they do communicate behind doors. Enough of nonsense about owing and creating application for your own preparatory use. Wish 655

Have an other browser like firefox or opera .. ho can support flash player Wish 5862

Please allow me to send/receive texts (SMS) within iTunes *AND* manage them. Also, allow me to backup/restore notes, SMS, application settings, voicemails, etc... individually! I may want to restore my phone and *just* restore my SMS and not all the other files included in the backup... Wish 2070

when you tilt your iphone on the home screen, it shows all the categories of apps you have and a search Wish 7022

Sync my iPhone with Thunderbird and Firefox... 'coz i hate Outlook and IE... Wish 2524

An app that can be almost exactly like a mac OS with word powerpoint photoshop etc. Wish 6755

When typing a text to multiple people, you should be able to add those people as a group (so that the group can be sent a message later) FROM THE SMS APP. Add an option to add the people to a group when entering the names in the "To:" field, and under the "Details" section after the text has been sent (and add a group to the list of names the text is being sent to under the "To:" section). Wish 5696

Add option to set the 'silent' switch to mute all sound or only incoming calls etc Wish 697

Make Exchange mail update even when the phone is off or not in the mail application-like a PocketPC or BlkBerry would do. It only seems to check when the phone is on. Also how about a 'new mail' indicator, instead of just telling me how many old unread messages I have (I leave them 'unread' to flag them for follow up since there is no other way, the count of 'unread' messages is useless) Wish 3130

What about sorting in long lists of every app? And it would be nice to change the sorting creteria too. :) Wish 3020

Remote.app lets me create playlists. Why can't I do that on the iPhone itself? Merge Remote and the iPod functionality. Wish 2038

I wish Apple would allow a jailbroken app like CUSTOMIZE into the App Store. Wish 5045

A caller ID that connects with the yello pages/white pages and gives you information on whos calling you even if you don't have them in your contact list. Wish 3309

instead of always having to buy and install apps maybe like a free 2 minute demo of the app Wish 1559

There is no support for Microsoft Office Communicator. Wish 2854

An iPhone only messaging service, so we can finally be a list assholes Wish 3170

Real GPS in Iphone!!!! For USA google maps is good(i think), but for other countries it's not useful. Im living in Russia and GoogleMaps don't showing full and fresh information in my location (Saint-Petersburg, Moscow), I can only track me on old map, no other actions, so please, let other apps like iGo do it for you!!!!! Wish 5106

in the facebook app your are unable to edit you profile also you can't look at your friends friends to make new friends. Needs updating Wish 3953

Allow me to stream video from my itunes to my iPhone wi-fi and esp 3g. You can stream you tube and there's a few other "sites" I've found that can actually stream in pretty high quality. Wish 2095

Option to save the order of the icons on all home screens. It is really annoying that I need to re-sort them all again after a major phone crash, specially if I have a lot of applications installed. Wish 5186

allow a second row of fixed icons Wish 4176

Near Field Communication (NFC) to enable the iPhone to be used for payments and RFID tickets, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication Wish 5151

Hand-writing recognition in note, wmail, and SMS. Wish 804

Password protect individual apps. The iphone contains too much private data. I want to be able to give my iphone to people to make calls. They should not be able to sneak up and read my email however. Alternatively have a 'guest mode' for every app, so that strangers can use apps on my iphone without being able to view my data. Wish 4615

How about a photo-to-translate app like the one Nokia is developing (www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/07/nokias-shoot-to-translate-application/)? This would really make the iPhone useful for tourists and business people in Asia. Wish 2447

A mobile iWeb application to update blog, post pictures, add links, etc Wish 5583

Not being able to get picture messages No copy and Past no landscape typing unless you get an "APP" to do it No voice dialing with out an "APP" Push email isn't really as push as you think it is. I constantly have to make my phone look for new mail Support for all websites including thinks like Java. I'm tired of seeing that little square on webpages Wish 3009

Please allow applications to interact with one anther's information. Eg. I'd love to have an application that has the ability to search the whole phone, SMS, notes, downloaded email, call logs and etc. To resolve the privacy problem make the request have a similar pop-up to the location service API. Wish 1843

Ability to connect an APN camera and to back-up the pictures (incremental mode) in full size format. Wish 3215

filetypes for iphone apps. I want to be able to sms my location to other Iphone users. I can send an sms with http:// and its recognised as web and clicking on it opens Safari. Why not the same for all apps. SMS/Email locations to other users. Send high scores. Send links to Facebook events which open the facebook app not just in safari. Wish 1630

I'd like the ability to create labelled folders on my home screens in wich I could put some apps. I don't want to have nine home screens ! Wish 6979

Allow Skype to put skype on the AppsStore ! Even only for chats (and allow them to have their application running in background, so that new messages beep like new SMSes. Wish 4335

Option for gesture to release iPhone rather than passcode. Could have multiple gestures. Gestures could be relative to a random cycle of different wallpapers. E.g. Shrek wallpaper = twang his left ear twice iChalky style. Or maybe something a bit less easy to spot OTS. Wish 3426

Let us sort app store lists by star rating! Many low-rated apps make it to the top 25. Wish 5917

Have photos and images on NetNewsWire when my iPod Touch is offline. Wish 1646

Allow to freely install applications (without using iTunes, without your benediction). Wish 1578

In addition to flash support in safari, I'd like to see a stand alone flash player so that flash devs could finally get in on the aps / games wave. Wish 3931

How about the ability to create Apps on Windows? I would love to try it out but I don't have a Mac! Wish 6548

spelll chek pleese Wish 1521

Let me put my app icons wherever I want on the home screen. I don't like that I'm forced into the top-left-to-bottom-right flow. If I have just four icons on one of my app screens, why shouldn't I be able to have them in the four corners of the screen, rather than all four across the top? Keep the grid if you must, but let me put the apps where it makes sense for me. Wish 1939

Please add an official to-do list application that synchronizes with iChat over MobileMe. We also need data detectors in Mail that would allow one to automatically create a reminder in To-Dos. Wish 528

Make it super easy to switch between email/SMS and watching a video! For Pete's sake, give me the option of having new message notifications while watching videos and a 'quick look' mode that lets me skim read the email and get back to watching my video quickly. Wish 1017

Ability to view AND edit documents (MS word, excel, etc.). That's the ONLY reason why I didn't change my Palm TREO for an iPhone yet! Wish 1552

iChat Application with support for chat clients (AIM, gTalk, etc.) and SMS. Video chat would be nice too. Wish 6504

There needs to be a robust Getting Things Done (Lists, To Do, etc.) application BUILT INTO the iPhone/iPod Touch. Ideally, it should have the ability to update wirelessly and to save data for viewing/editing when not connected (as is possible with Google Calendar and GMail). This is one of the most basic functions needed on any PDA. Wish 6781

A simple app that will turn off Data Roaming and/or 3G in times that I want to preserve battery life or am out of the country and want to limit the ridiculous roaming charges. I am tired of having to go through multiple layers of the settings menus to toggle these two features off/on. Wish 3840

Add timer feature to the camera application. Wish 1247

Partner Tracker, an app that tracks the location of your spouse via GPS so you can keep tabs on them and make sure they're where they say they are. Wish 5086

iDesk application that handle file management and storage issue Wish 4431

More freedom for Apps... We want Firefox... We want Podcaster... Apple doesn't want this Apps but we do Wish 2777

Dear Santa, I want to watch any TV channel live and any tv show on my iPhone through my cable or satellite. And no, YouTube is NOT an alternative to this. Thanky boy, L'il Bo Peep Wish 2645

Wifi Printing so I can print from home where I don't have my own computer (so I can't install a server app on my computer). Wish 6715

Add a functionality to the iPhone Stopwatch that allows us to save the timed results. I want to save them for reading them afterwards. My old phone could do that! Wish 3103

'Hide update' button for app store -- so I can get rid of the update that sticks adverts in my app and still see at a glance when there's an update for something else. Wish 7039

this is for the i touch- but will it ever have full internet capability, not just wifi? id be willing to pay about $10-$20 a month for this. Wish 4122

Let me create a library of shortcuts, so for example, when I type "gg" it expands to "going" -- it's the only feature I miss from my blackberry. Wish 3476

Please add PictBridge so I can print photo's via blue tooth or usb. Wish 6015

I wouldn't mind a small mail icon in the menu bar so you can see if there is an email when in a different app or if you don't have the mail app in the dock. It just seems the menu bar at the top displays so little information and could be used or a lot more. Wish 6476

I would to edit song informations and tags !! actually we can only change numbers of stars ...... It's would be good for intelligent playlists !! please !! Wish 2308

Native Google Reader, anyone? Wish 613

ALL Apple iPhone applications support ALL rotation modes WITH text entry. Wish 4042

Make the light sensor efficient and faster it takes 10 minutes to detect your in a dark place, then it lights down... On jailbroken 1.1.4, there was that app which allow you to switch between two lights behavior in a single tap : Toggle Backlight Wish 3026

SpringBoard Stacks for grouping apps on the home screen. Wish 5932

We can control iTunes via Remote but not Keynote? Why not give us a decent remote for the Mac Apple? All the other remote options are rubbish Wish 1676

File Explorer Wish 5201

Arranging Apps. Moving an application from 1st Screen to the 4th Screen is a pain, you've to drag it across all the screens in between. I thought it would be helpful if somehow Apple implements Spaces in iPhone, just like it did in Leopard. Checkout a quick demo in Flash, on how it'll look: http://blog.satpalsharma.com/?p=81 Wish 1315

A WebApp as a AppStore Wish 5567

I want to be able to have location aware available (or an app) that will alow me to change to vibrate when I'm say at a meeting. Android phones such as the G1 have this why can't the iPhone Wish 5811

if I have an application update, let me choose to use the 3G if wifi isn't available. Don't lock it out just because I'm not plugged in. If I want to wait for as long as it takes, then it's *my choice* not nanny-hardware! Wish 5836

And so, after include the file manager of exclusive Apple's property (not of the third-part applications property), what do you think about an unlock at the bluetooth chip, which can do at a very large of potenzial customers, the FREEDOM to buy this wonderful object and at the developer the FREEDOM to develop billion applications? Wish 4392

Either allow apps to access settings outside the application itself, or make an Apple-certified application dedicated to toggling different radios (3G, Wifi, EDGE, etc) so that I can save battery. Make it accessible so I can toggle 3G while I'm still in Safari (emulate apps like SBSettings from Cydia). I'd rather not Jailbreak my phone for apps like that, they should be a part of the OS. Wish 5562

Need to be able to view, save and backup PDF files Wish 700

Folders to clean up home screen of cluttered apps Wish 6417

RADIO Fm!!!!!!!!!!! And support for TWO sim-cards. Wish 2309

Get AT&T to not disable MMS and WAP Push on every iphone internet customer, so that all AT&T users can just use SwirlyMMS for their MMS... Believe me I tried calling them but its gonna take a mass!! It is very well possible so you all know...... They PURPOSELY disable those two features on every line with the iphone internet plan... Wish 6771

A way to get repeated audible notifications for missed calls and sms Wish 6457

Allow the Photos App to have a deeper tree view (more than one menu), as it is on your computer. Wish 6203

Please add support and dictionaries for more languages like catalan, euskera... Not only the official language of each country, I think this will make some people really happier. Wish 1448

Microsoft Exchange and Apple Mail support encrypted email. Generally known as PK. Wish 3736

Privacy please! With the App Store now comes a lot of iPhone "sharing" - "hey, friend, play this game!". I should be able to prevent SMS messages from popping up while I'm in an application! Disabling SMS preview is a start, but that's irrelevant if my phone is unlocked and in my friend's hand. Wish 575

Mac has so many capabilities that all of the users here Complained about. Why not make more portability available to phone same as the Operating System in the past 5 years. Majority of the complains here are relating to the functionality which MAC/Apple has solved in past 5 years. Make the developers work from OS team and Phone team. This is make majority of the problem disappeared. Wish 648

Make ANY app icon hidden with a small button like the good old minimize button in OSX or windows Wish 666

I wish an application that let me work and edit files in the iPhone something like windows mobile or palm that you can edit files and not just like air sharing that all you can do is view files. The iPhone should do that. Wish 1462

The world does NOT only include AT&T and the USA - why can't we use Nullriver's NetShare App in Canada - Since we have a fixed data limit and tethering is NOT prohibited in our iPhone? Wish 4250

Lookup any field in contacts. Also be able to add more fields. Wish 2050

We need a Finder-like file structure behind the scenes so that all applications can access all the documents on the iPhone regardless of which application was used to download the documents. Wish 3241

Put the option back in to let the dev. of a web page assign which keyboard is shown in a form field. A tag of some sort is best, but just the feild name like it use to be whould work. Wish 1952

The ability to move an entire springboard screen instead of app by app. So you can move screen 3 to 4 or whatever you wish. It is a pain te rearange your springboards now Wish 5789

Ability to mark apps in appstore for downloading later. I often see apps that look interesting but don't particularily want to download it straight away. Wish 2411

Integrate "Stickies" Application and Dashboard Widget with Apple Mail Notes AND the iPhone's Notes app. So that, where ever notes are added or edited they are synced to all devices AND viewable/editable from ALL above listed applications. Add To Do support to all above applications, EXPECIALLY on the iPhone! Also, allow for access of "notes" and "to dos" from MobileME website. Wish 6423

Let the Remote app control Front Row! It can already control Apple TV and Front Row is just that on a man. Come on Apple... Wish 2360

I wish the ringer volume could be detached from the system volume, so my wife would stop lowering my volume when she plays Bejewled! Wish 1666

Notes is cool and all but we need some real word processing applications. Wish 1757

Ability to bookmark "Favorite Apps", or "App Wishlist" in iTunes App Store (Desktop and iPhone app) I'm burnt out having to exit the App Store app, having to open a note app and having to enter the name of the app I was just looking at. Can't we just tap "Add To Wishlist", and have them saved to our iTunes accounts? Wish 7080

I want to choose the direction in which I hold my phone. For example, Quicktime forces you to hold the phone with the volume buttons facing down, and the Home button on the right. I want to view video while holding the phone with the volume buttons facing up! Safari is polarly agnostic--Why not every other app? Wish 3396

Ability to arrange the icon placement from within iTunes, where it would be easier to drag icons between multiple screens displayed all at once, then synch over to the iPhone. Its important as there are more apps. Yes, you can search for apps in 3.0 but only if you know the name Wish 7409

Stream movies/clips from iTunes or PC to iPhone. SimplyMedia does a great job in doing this for music but how about for clips? Wish 3407

I wish that apple would allow us to try before we buy some of the applications that do not come as 'Lite' versions. Wish 5042

The Remote app should allow you to use your iPhone as a remote speaker - allowing you (via WiFi) to stream music from your iTunes library on your computer to your iPhone for listening. Wish 3795

Would love to see line-in audio enabled, allowing applications to take advantage of this feature. Wish 5868

Try before you buy for apps. Install for 3 days (or some limited period) and if you don't get on with it then uninstall for a refund. It could use the same sort of DRM as movie rentals to manage it. Wish 6262

Unread items in folders on Ecxhange server are displayed, but read items are not downloaded (so I am unable to view email with passwords or other documentation when I need to provide support when I am away). So I still need to drags computer around. Wish 5672

Increase the number of APPS that I can store on the phone! I love the plethora of apps available and I want to keep them all on the phone at the same time. I'm now at the stage of having to selectively choosing what I want to keep on the phone because I have far more apps than the phone can store. Wish 2793

Ability to play heavy games on my iPhone without crashing. I have been forced to switch to Safe Mode in order that I can play them. Some of these games normally crashes on Normal mode while playing or even worse, they won't start at all. Wish 6273

Allow downloading from App Store worldwide, NOT only allowing US users to use free / cool content! Wish 3423

When listening to music with the iPhone sleeping, if I unlock the phone to show me the iPhone app very quickly, the phone goes to the main menu! Is this supposed to be like this? Wish 1954

Hi apple I wish one application that changes The LOGOBOOT and do you can sell the imagenea or picture. 2.that firware 2.2 get VIDeO REC 3.Flash in safari 4.messenger 5.MMS text andpicture 6.More volume song 7.VIDEO RING TONE 7. Wish 1256

Copy and Paste Application Background Push Better warning of e-mails, SMSs, App Notifications, etc Integration of Contacts Birthday field and Calendar reminders Multimedia Messages Control Sound Volume from remote Wish 3615

what if i can use my itouch as an aircraft skateboard to go to work? Wish 1620

Instead of pressing the home button a billion times a day make all apps have a "back to home" button Wish 5749

I want an app that gives you the latest news and updates about the iphone. Wish 3435

I want to hear music from my Rhapsody account (yeah, like that's ever going to happen!). Wish 376

Allow the ability to save email attachments (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) to the iPhone. Wish 6237

Want to be able to get themes without jailbreaking. This should be available in app store. Wish 6520

Why do apps, that I downloaded last week for example, show up in the app store that they have updates available that date back to a month or two ago, and it's the same version of the app that I allready have? Wish 6903

I wish iPhone had an option for choosing the default encoding for non-unicode text, because in some applications, such as IMs, I receive badly encoded text written on my native language and I can't read it. Wish 4509

Where's the ability to view and edit Google Docs. I really don't get the complete lack of support for any "office" apps. Wish 2465

An optional "organize home screen apps by frequency of use" feature. Over time or on command it would shuffle all the most used apps to the first couple of home screens. Wish 5823

I would like to protect access of a TAB (that contains private applications) with only one password. Once authenticated I can run several apps from protected TAB without being asked a password at every app launched. Wish 7075

The most wanted thing I want to be fixed in the Iphone, is the Camera App. We need a Camera Application that make digital zoom, that saves photos in multiple sizes and resolutions, that have multiple effects like B&W, sepia, cartoon, etc. and has self shooter. Please Apple learn from Sony Ericsson Phones. I want to that the camera app make video recording too. Wish 4399

add the ability to quickly scroll long table views to the end. At the moment you can only scroll to the beginning of the table view by touching the upper status bar, but it seems there is not a method to go immediately to the end. It would be nice also a method to scroll to a specific position of the table view without contnuosly swiping until that position is reached, but in a more rapid way Wish 2563

no search/cut/paste !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no searchable word processor or text editor!!!!!!!!! Wish 6301

let us use qik on the iPhone. I've seen it working, so please approve it. We want video! Wish 3089

Fix the memory leaks, ever since the App Store came out the iPhone has been very unstable (at least the 1st generation is). Wish 3801

Double-tapping the status bar should jump the user to the "bottom" of a webpage, or app. Tapping the status bar to "go to top" is a nice feature. Double-tapping to go to the bottom would be a sweet evolution of this feature. A godsend for YouTube comment pages for example. Wish 4620