Mine: require setting a URL to support password managers. You download an app, go to login, tap the password field, and open Bitwarden. Does it find your login? Half the time, nope! The dev didn’t tell Apple one time what their URL is, so everyone now has to search their password manager every time.
Since the question is specifically about what Apple could make developers do, I’ll say this: enforce the App Store guideline rule about not using push notifications for advertising.
I very rarely enable push notifications on apps anymore because so many use them for spammy advertisements. This makes apps less useful than they could be if notifications were used responsibly.
If I remember correctly they’ve since removed that rule
It’s still there, although there’s a loophole of course.
4.5.4:
Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages.
The “explicit opt-in” could easily be language hidden in a massive ToS that nobody reads. So I guess I wish Apple would do away with that entirely and start enforcing it.
I hope they require a separate toggle for promotional notifications.
In an ideal world, Apple intelligence will take care of this. But it’ll probably just highlight more important notifications while everything else is still there a swipe away.
Force them (including myself) to implement dark mode, and soon dark app icons.
Thirdparty developers literally carried the Apple experience to where it is now. The ones stopping Apple from being better are Apple themselves
I didn’t realize how ungrateful this post sounded until you pointed it out. Wish I would’ve rephrased it at the least. Thanks.
Be less clever with payment information, including billing address. I suppose that was helpful in the Olden days but now that Apple Wallet can autofill, get out of the way.
Apple could start by stopping taking Europeans for fools and claiming that the DMA prevents them from publishing Apple Intelligence in Europe.
I’ve been an happy Apple exclusive customer since 2008. But if they play it that way I won’t follow. I give them one year to put their shit together. After that I’m done with the brand.
Long live Europe
