A compilation of predictions and wishlists for WWDC 2021.
Blog Posts, Articles & Tweets
- Casey Liss
- Federico Zanetello, Five Stars
- Matt VanOrmer, Peer Reviewed
- Ryan Jones (@rjonesy)
- Simon Nickel (@simonnickel)
Podcast Episodes
Videos
- iPadOS 15 Wishlist by Damian Mal
- iPadOS 15 What to Expect & Wishlist! by Fernando Silva
User-Facing Apps & Features
iOS/iPadOS
- The ability to view and configure Smart Mailboxes in Mail for iOS. (Becky Hansmeyer)
- The ability to schedule a background task for a specific time or interval. (Darren Jones @venderbase)
watchOS
macOS
- Widgets should be moved somewhere other than the Notifications panel. (Becky Hansmeyer)
tvOS
Developer Tools & Frameworks
- SwiftUI hot-reloading similar to Flutter (Simulator and on device)
UIKit
SwiftUI
- A way to manage First Responder (think TextField focus and tab order)
- Search Bar support or similar in
Lists orScrollViews to add views to the navigation bar that appear with a scroll gesture. (@JoshHrach)
Other Apple Frameworks (i.e. AVFoundation, SiriKit, etc.)
- A modern successor to Core Data that plays well with Combine and SwiftUI
- Improved support in NSPersistentCloudKitContainer for scheduling background uploads, improving the reliability of saving to CloudKit when used in an app extension (Josh Hrach)
Xcode
- Xcode for iPad
Miscellaneous
- SwiftUI-like simplification of 2D/3D (perhaps building on top of SpriteKit/SceneKit like SwiftUI builds on UIKit) (Josh Hrach)
- Ability to define alternate app icons as App Icon Assets instead of manually including icon images in the project. (Josh Hrach)
App Store Policy, Tools, and APIs
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, or Mixed Reality
Other
- Improvements to music storage and syncing with Apple Music that will hopefully mean reliable song integrity when dealing with artists with multiple live concerts, especially when uploading song versions not found on Apple Music. (Apple Music currently can't handle this and destroys music libraries as a result.) (Josh Hrach)