Feature Suggestions

Welcome to the Windows Phone Feature Suggestion Box! Please vote for a feature suggestion or submit your own!

We’ve created this site as a tool to help Microsoft understand how customers use Windows Phone and we welcome your feedback.

Standard Disclaimer – our lawyers made us put this here ;-) Please note that the Windows Phone Feature Suggestion Box is moderated and is a voluntary participation-based project, and if your submission is not a product feature suggestion it may be removed. Please do not send any novel or patentable ideas, copyrighted materials, samples or demos which you do not want to grant a license to Microsoft. See the “Terms of Use” link below for more information. Please limit your suggestions to 25 words or less.

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  1. Store apps & attachments on external storage and improve/provide micro SD support

    Allow users to store apps & files (mail attachments, internet explorer downloaded files, etc.) on external storage such as microSD.

    22,767 votes
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      744 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

      Thanks for your suggestion for external storage and MicroSd support. It’s always great to see such great feedback and excitement about this feature. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes and suggestions coming!

    • 7,471 votes
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        119 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

        Thanks for your notifications suggestion. Always great to see such great feedback and suggestions. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s another great idea? Keep those votes coming!

      • Support custom themes with Skinery Tiles Pro

        Many users have asked for more customization for the look and feel of the start screen. Skinery Tiles Pro now supports custom themes for live tile apps with notifications and users have asked for stock apps such as Phone, People, Office, Settings, Messaging, Xbox, Calendar, Mail and Store to be included in Skinery.

        Skinery knows it is ridiculous and far-fetching to ask Microsoft to work with an indie developer. So even if Microsoft is not interested to link up to Skinery directly, can Microsoft allow stock apps to be launched using uri scheme?

        Skinery's dream is to help Windows Phone…

        2,352 votes
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          199 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Please, let you make Nokia map for Belarus!

          Nokia map of Belarus is big white spot now! But all country around Belarus have they maps! Why?

          11,372 votes
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            544 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Add File Manager to Windows Phone

            Add File Manager to Windows Phone 8

            22,033 votes
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              646 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

              Thanks for your File Manager suggestion. Always great to see such great feedback. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes and suggestions coming!

            • Battery Percentage at the status bar

              Hugely important, like in iOS or Android..

              5,959 votes
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                44 comments  ·  Power Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                Thanks for your suggestion! Always great to see such great feedback and suggestions. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s your great idea? Keep those votes coming!

              • 817 votes
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                  85 comments  ·  Update  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Support for HID (Human Interface Device) Bluetooth profile and other widely used profiles.

                  Windows Phone loses usability, market visibility and relevance, and falls behind competing products by not supporting the HID Bluetooth profile (and others) for actions such as hooking up Bluetooth game controllers. Full compatibility between WP8 and the massive Bluetooth ecosystem is important to

                  3,969 votes
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                    110 comments  ·  Accessories  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Gives Windows Phone users a tool to clean up their phone

                    There are several problems due to the lack of file browser, or any cleaning tool for WP8.

                    I mean, for example, the "Other" section, visible in the storage settings, which doesn't stop growing, even if we uninstall apps.
                    It could be great if we could see what does it contains exactly, and delete some useless things (apps cache etc.)

                    Otherwise, a simple file browser could be interesting aswell.

                    5,530 votes
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                      124 comments  ·  File System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • The WP8's icon design needs to be improved

                      The WP8 interface instantly displays the information is indeed better than IOS and android.I mean those icons that only very monotonous unsightly white color, the future icon design can use a variety of color combinations? It would be more beautiful!

                      1,214 votes
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                        23 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Temple Run for Windows Phone 7.8

                        Temple Run can support windows 7.8 and 512 RAM..Please respect wp7.8 users,our phone is still very new

                        725 votes
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                          121 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Continue to develop and fund new Xbox games for Windows Phone

                          Lately there have been very few new Xbox games released for Windows Phone. Please begin development on new Xbox games, including major franchises like Halo and Forza! Also, reach out to third-party developers and convince them to bring more games to Windows Phone by any means necessary.

                          Xbox Live features have been a major selling point of Windows Phone since 2010, and we gamers want to see those features continue - especially with new, higher-quality games.

                          2,967 votes
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                            90 comments  ·  Games  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • IE 10 Improvements

                            Examples of the missing functionality:

                            - Password support for the IE10
                            - Forward button for the IE10
                            - Text reflow for the IE10 so it automatically adjusts and reformats text for easy readability
                            - Ability to have at least two browser control buttons

                            13,386 votes
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                              198 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                              Please note that several of the suggestions in the original post (ringer volume, orientation lock, etc.) have already been suggested elsewhere and are actively being voted on, so this idea has been consolidated to focus on IE 10 improvements.

                              To work optimally suggestions should be for a single idea or feature, so if you would like, please reallocate your votes to other suggestions that you feel are most important to you.

                            • Continue to use Zune for media sync in WP

                              The WP sync app/manual copy is inferior to Zune for syncing media. Return to Zune for syncing media, including playlists and play counts.

                              9,078 votes
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                                678 comments  ·  Music + Videos  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                Thanks for your suggestion. It’s always great to see such great feedback and excitement about this feature. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes coming!

                              • MLB At Bat 13

                                C'mon Microsoft. Apple has it. Android has it. AND NOW Blackberry has it? Blackberry? Are you kidding me? (SMH) Let's stay competitive and support the great American pastime. Fans will even pay a few $$$ per download as they do with the Droid and iPhone. Check the WP8 forums. This is a commonly requested app.

                                695 votes
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                                  38 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Allow a flick down to close applications like you can on Windows 8

                                  Align with Windows 8 and support closing an app by dragging it down.

                                  3,918 votes
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                                    39 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Pashto language support on Windows Phone

                                    Since Windows has Pashto language support it would be great if Windows Phone also had support for Pashto. There are more than 60 million people in the world speaking Pashto. Mainly in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.

                                    8,117 votes
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                                      1395 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • FM Radio

                                      WP8 seems to have removed the FM radio as a feature.

                                      FM Radio is a MUST for people without data plans or small ones, where radio apps are completely useless unless you enjoy being overcharged.

                                      On top of this, most local stations aren't on those apps anyways!!

                                      To top it off, the sound is MUCH crisper and clearer listening to FM radio, rather than over the internet, and is much quicker as well.

                                      It makes no sense for you morons to have removed this feature, and if this is what you're gonna keep doing, I'll be moving to another platform,…

                                      8,111 votes
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                                        187 comments  ·  Music + Videos  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                        Thanks for your suggestion and feedback on this feature. Always great to see such great feedback and excitement about this feature. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s another great idea? Keep those votes coming!

                                      • Third party alarm app enhancements (custom sound & snooze time)

                                        In Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Microsoft gives developers the ability to create reliable alarms (Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler.Alarm) that always work regardless whether the app is active or not.

                                        However, there are a couple of major drawbacks.

                                        First, you can’t select stock ringtones or songs from your own music library for this alarm sound.

                                        Second, you can't change the duration of the snooze time.

                                        Sadly these problems remain in Windows Phone 8 (Apollo).

                                        Can we please have these fixed in the next phone update?

                                        4,808 votes
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                                          237 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • The WP8's UI is too simple

                                          there is a reason for the success of the system ios and Android, the beauty of the heart is human nature, to impress consumers must have a beautiful appearance, attracted a lot of people are pretty ios and Android application iconWP8 the UI just blocks of color together with a simple white lines is extremely crude, ugly icon design into a 3D effect can even say, thank you

                                          896 votes
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