Why haven’t they brought these in yet?
There are people out there who fill every pause in their day by whipping out their smartphone, going from app to app in search of some mild entertainment to pass the time.
Apps like Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter consume whole hours of our days. With that in mind, we’ve dreamt up some improvements that these apps could make in order to become just that bit more user-friendly.
Here’s what we’d change to perfect some of the most popular smartphone apps:
Give Twitter an edit button
Twitter have allegedly proposed several unpopular changes in the last few weeks – including an increase in the character limit from 140 to 10,000, and a feed that organises tweets by popularity instead of chronology. Both of these rumoured proposals have been met with scorn from the Twitterati, as well as one straightforward request:
I just emailed Twitter to see if they can add an edit feature so that when u misspell something u don't have to delete & repost Let's see…
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) July 25, 2015
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly responded to tell Kim what a great idea it was, but it’s been eight months now and still no edit button. What gives?
Instagram – ‘Are you sure you want to like this?’
A common mistake people make when scrolling down the Instagram page of somebody they fancy is to mindlessly like one of their photos, only to realise that it was uploaded 104 weeks ago. When you end doing this, it completely gives the game away and makes you look like the creep you definitely are.
There needs to be a safeguard against this, a simple ‘are you sure you want to make yourself look like a creep?’ button should do it.
Get rid of that thumb on messenger
Have you ever hit off the blue thumb by accident? You know the blue thumb in the corner that you can send without ever even pressing a send button? Yes? And tell us, have you ever thought, wow, what a great and useful feature that only-ever-used-by-accident button is? No? Case closed. Chop that thumb off and chuck it in the bin.
YouTube – keep playing
We could forgive Apple’s rising iPhone prices if they could do two things for us. Make a charger that can survive more than two weeks of usage, and a YouTube app that doesn’t stop playing once you try to do anything else on your phone. Spotify can do it, Soundcloud can do it, get up to speed YouTube.
Facebook stalker index
This one is a bit of a double-edged sword. After all, it would be nice to know who out there is spending the most time browsing through our photos and Facebook posts – the downside is that all of our creepery and Facebook stalking would be exposed to the masses.
Maybe we’d settle for Facebook telling us the top five people who spend the most time looking at our profile.
The Snapchat emoji warning system
Back in April of 2015, Snapchat introduced little emoji warnings to let you know if the person snapping you is your mutual best friend (yellow heart emoji) as well as several other emoji-accompaniments to give you more information about who’s sending you pictures.
We’d like emoji warnings so we know which snaps to ignore – for example, the flexed-arm emoji for a gym selfie, a selection of world flag emojis for an envy-inducing holiday snap or the broken heart emoji for a selfie from your ex where they look far too attractive. Nobody needs these negative influences in vanishing-photo form.
Tinder – the no-mystery version
Tinder could basically remove the last vestiges of mystery from dating if they were to release an add-on for their app that would allow users to see exactly who had swiped right for them. This way you never have to swipe right and then sit in the vain hope that they are going to get back to you.
Finally, a way to date with almost zero chance of feeling like a loser. Almost.
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