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.
CAST YOUR VOTES! – community feedback is active and growing … thanks! As a result, we are going to increase the number of votes you have available on your favorite suggestions from 10 to 20. Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Bring back contextual hardware search button
Revert the change in Mango where the hardware search button always brings up Bing and is no longer contextual, or allow us to toggle this.
1,016 votes -
Universal Search
Pressing the hardware search button should bring up a universal search box which searches through everything on the phone.. apps, contacts, calendar, web, images, etc.
859 votes -
402 votes
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Search Phone Content! Long press for Bing, short press for current app search. SMS,applist,calndr...
Search Phone Content! Long press for Bing, short press for search in current app, sms, calendar, 3rd party,eliminates the need for on screen search button.
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188 votes
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other search machines than bing , like google !
many users prefers google , others yahoo etc , so the user can choose his search machine !
150 votes -
List of Nearby ATMs/Hospitals should be embedded into Bing Local Scout (Like eat+drink /shop)
It would be nice to have following categories embedded into Bing Local Scout (Like eat+drink /shop)
1) List Nearby ATMs
2) List Nearby Hospitals132 votes -
Include Bing Rewards in WP8 Search Application!
It's built into the W8 application, but somehow the WP8 Bing application didn't get this functionality. This is a poor oversight by Microsoft as 75-80% of my searching is done from my phone cutting out a good chunk of my Bing rewards each month. This has been suggested so many times yet nothing has been done about it, please make this happen Microsoft!
126 votes -
Local Scout Improvement outside US
Need much better support for Local Scout outside the US
100 votes -
75 votes
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Press and Hold Search button
To avoid pressing the search button unmeant
64 votes -
Change default search engine
Probably not going to happen, but it'd be really nice to default to Google instead of being forced to use Bing.
53 votes -
51 votes
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Hold search button for global phone search
Global search accessible by holding the search button. It could find people, mail, messages, calendar entries, music, apps, etc. on your phone.
37 votes -
Enable Bing Audio on all phones!
That was a function that I was looking forward to, and now I'm not getting it!
28 votes -
Add button to Search Results to Save As Contact
Bing search results for businesses/places returns the data in a standard format (love). I would like to easily create a contact by pushing a button.
26 votes -
Enable context sensitive search results
Using the Search button should be context sensitive.
If that is not desired, do a 'global' search but provide Pages which are context sensitive.
For instance if I'm in Outlook and I use the hardware search "Lync", show me all mails that contain "Lync" as well as pages for "apps" and "web" tagged with "Lync".
19 votes -
Enable Bing SafeSearch filter
Enable Bing's SafeSearch filter on Windows Phone.
18 votes -
Improve the search button functionality
I appreciate that this has been said many times but...
As an enthusiastic early adopter of the Nokia Lumia 800, switching from Android, I was shocked to find how limited the search button was (quite apart from being too easy to hit when in the middle of something else). My brother, an iPhone user, was on the point of being impressed by the OS when he discovered this feature. Cue mocking.On such a quick, good looking OS that is generally a pleasure to use the button is crude and irritating, jumping you out of whatever you are doing onto…
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Global Device Search
Search for anything on the phone. I.e If there's a message in a messaging thread, a particular file, an email... absolutely anything and everything!
14 votes
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