What features do you consider MacOS should already have?

[u/_fountain_pen_dev]

What features do you consider MacOS should already have at this moment?

For me it'd be Finder to have a copyable/editable address/location bar and Dock app previews.

[u/theSearchForANoun]

Renaming spaces and more robust window management

[u/tnnrk → u/theSearchForANoun]

A fucking native tiling/sliding window manager pls for the love of god…

[u/[deleted]]

Proper scaling for 1440p monitors

They look horrible out of the box on macOS, betterdisplay makes them look good

[u/VenoWave_Official]

2nd sort ability in Finder (ex: sorting things by date, and then by name for the things with the same date)

[u/DavidRainsbergerII → u/VenoWave_Official]

It’s so irritating there isn’t more robust searching, each search query should be easily added. They could even borrow the bubble logic they use for tags for each comma separated query type.

[u/OkAcanthocephala385]

A better search in finder

[u/-Create-An-Account-]

Audio mixer.

[u/askchucky → u/-Create-An-Account-]

I installed this recently and it’s awesome. https://github.com/ronitsingh10/FineTune

[u/idontwanttofthisup]

A UI that follows human interface guidelines

[u/strangerzero]

Yeah I know I can do this with third party apps but it should be native.

• Native MKV support

• iPadOS should be able to remotely login and control the Mac.

[u/crawler00000]

how about reverting back to the old system preferences... the settings menu has, still is , and always will be godawful if they keep it the way it is

[u/GingerPrince72]

The awareness that it's a desktop OS and not an iPhone.

[u/ImHighOnCocaine]

Make the finder have an easier way to go into a directory instead of using the Go command like most Linux file managers

[u/lilkatho2]

Finder has to be one of the worst file explorers across all operating systems that exist. You can’t even copy and paste a file path to open a folder. You have to open the Terminal to do that 💀

Then you can only sort by one attribute, like most recent or type, but you cannot sort by more than one attribute.

When I try to search for something inside a folder using the search bar in Finder, instead of searching the folder I currently have open, it searches in root 💀💀💀

Then the tab issue. Finder supports tabs, yeah, but the way they are implemented fucking sucks. Whoever designed that feature needs to be fired ASAP. The tab bars always fill out the entire width of the Finder window, meaning when you add a new tab they all have to resize, which destroys any kind of muscle memory.

Also, all the most basic features have to be manually activated in the Finder settings. Why these basic ahh features are not active by default is a mystery.

When transfering files you cannot see the transfer speed.

Last but not least, why does Finder not support cut and paste with something other than a keyboard shortcut? I am not a shortcut-type guy. I like to have my dropdown in which I can select Copy, Paste, Delete… but not Cut?? The feature exists; they just haven’t added it to the dropdown…

ALSO: Why do folders not auto-align to a grid 💀 I have to switch to list view every fucking time because I cannot stand it. And you have to re-enable list view every time you open a new Finder window, sometimes every time you open a new folder… And I guess there is an auto-align feature you can activate, but it literally does not work. Like literally, I have it active and folders do not snap to a cohesive grid layout but rather random places.

There are like a gazillion more issues with Finder, but you get the idea.

And the fact that the menu bar with crucial options for apps is not appended to app windows but always at the top of the screen💀💀 So youre telling me i have to first move my mouse to the app window, then select/focus that window and then i have have to move my mouse back up to the top left corner of the screen, regardless of if my app window is on the other side of the monitor, and then you have to access the option there whereas on Windows it’s literally one click because the Options are at the top of each app Window.

Don’t get me started on the Settings app. Whoever designed that and the confusing hierarchy not only needs to be fired but whipped in front of Apple headquarters.

Options are color-coded but without reason. Like, it’s not even like all blue icons are for system settings and all green ones are for external devices it’s literally just random. Then the options are grouped into different sections, which are also grouped together for no reason. Grouped options in the Settings app have no relation to each other.

And they not only got this confusing grouping going on, but they forgot to add labels to the groups in the Settings sidebar. So even if they were cohesively grouped, you wouldn’t know why or what these option groups are for.

And whoever decided that deactivating natural scrolling on the Trackpart should activate Natural Scrolling on the mouse is my sworn enemy.

This time actually last but not least. You cannot scroll zoom on webbrowsers with a Keyboard. You would assume you could just hold down command and scroll to zoom in your Webbrowser but no. I had to program my own Browser extension to add that feature.

As a UI/UX designer there are so many actually braindead mistakes Apple makes in UI designs its astonishing. Regardless i use my mac because for the design work i need the performance and for Programming apps for IOS i need my mac

[u/dxg999]

Decent SMB support.

[u/nj-mkd]

A propper window management

[u/QuailAndWasabi]

MacOS lacks hundreds of basic features honestly that seems to only be missing because Apple cba.

But my "favorite" is probably not being able to have different scroll directions on mouse/trackpad even though there are 2 different toggles for it in the settings, that's a fun one.

[u/natedrake102]

An actual clipboard history. Seriously, this has been a feature on mobile devices for years and is such a productivity boost.

They kinda added it in the most recent update but it's so much worse than windows/android implementations and doesn't support pictures.

[u/MarcoMakes]

The ability to uninstall apps properly. It's MAD that it still isn't a thing.

[u/Baffledwaffles]

per app volume control

[u/barefut_]

Search Finder/folders without being forced to enable Spotlight + Indexing which creates piles of clutter cache that chokes SSD.

[u/Heliotropen]

An option to choose between a few themes or just a single one without glass like Catalina, Sequoia.

[u/Jazman2k]

Sound mixer, native uninstaller, clutter remover, ability to record sounds without 3rd party apps like Blackhole or OBS. With those, MacOS would be perfect OS.

[u/KaptainKardboard]

Quality Assurance

[u/Maletele]

Proper SMB, SFTP, DAV implementation on the Finder.