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Comment by nicholassmith | Hacker News Reader

Here's my feature wishlist for iOS7:

Nothing. I don't want anything new. I'm happy with the current feature set my phone currently has. What I desperately want from iOS 7 is a renewed focus on stability and Not Sucking. There's been a significant amount of additional functionality brought in over the last few releases, but it feels like in terms of stability it's not improved anywhere near as quickly.

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Apple Maps is the first time I've ever had a "what the fuck were they thinking" moment on my iPhone. On my 5, it's really easy to accidentally switch it into 3D mode while zooming, which slows the phone to a crawl if you've got an iffy network connection. Like 30 seconds between screen updates. Just absolutely awful.

I'll go even further and say:

I want to be able to turn existing stuff off in Settings. I don't need a Spotlight home screen to the left, I don't want the ugly notification centre that I accidentally trigger and never use, and neither will I ever touch Newsstand or Stocks or Weather or Siri. How hard can it be to present a list of on/off switches - some of them exist already for parental controls.

I think iOS 4.x was the best iOS. I'd probably stay there too if apps didn't start requiring iOS5+. About the only thing I like in iOS5 is the weather app.

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