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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to completely customize what the user can or cannot do based on different PIN.
#1 --- to customize the phone behavior for different users (admin, users, guests …). This can be done regardless of how to distinguish them.
#2 --- here is the how question. Either via PIN, or puzzle or anything that current technology offers.User Scenarios:
- When I enter my PIN, I can see all apps and do everything (admin)- When I let my son to play with my phone, and he enters his PIN which assigned by me, he can only play certain games, and downloads things that are PG level. He can only make 911 calls or to…
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Allow users to customize the colors of individual live tiles on the start screen.
Users should be able to override the accent color for individual live tiles on the home screen to help them stand out.
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Multitouch Capabilities on Pinned Tiles
Add multitouch capabilities for certain tiles. For example, the Calendar tile should allow users scroll through the appointments on the pinned tile when using two fingers. Same concept for the picture tile.
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Enable applications to place notification icons on lock screen
Enable API to allow developers to custom design an icon that would be automatically/programmatically placed on the lock screen when notification received whilst phone locked
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Screencapture / Printscreen
Screencapture is useful to share funny conversations and is easier/faster than favorite/copy-paste somethings and to show how different WP7 is to friends. Think about it.
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voice commands for phone settings
voice commands like: "put wlan off" or "put flightmode on" or "put brightness low"
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offline maps, bluetooth file transfer, real multi-tasking and lastly internet explorer 10
Windows 7.8 must have features for windowsphone real initiators
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Screenshot feature for WP 7.8?? PLEASE!
In most of the Declined Posts i ve read the reply by 'Mobile Guru' Im somehow agreed with yew but I dont think so that giving a "Screenshot Capabilty is hardware related??" even 600MHZ HTC explorer running android's 2 year old gingerbread, Captures it! But my HTC Radar 2nd gen 2011 phone having 1GHZ processor, 512 MB RAM does not! Its a pain, Understand our pain please,
I know yew guys can do it! But why not focussing on it?? I feel pain to capture the screen with a digital camera or other mobile cameras just to show anything to…
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MY VOICEMAILS WILL NOT PLAY ON MY WINDOWS 8 PHONE WHEN THEY DID ON THE PREVIOUS VERSION..THEY ARE .WAV FILES
CAN YOU PLEASE RELEASE AN UPDATE TO MAKE ALL WAV FILES THAT WORKED IN THE PREVIOUS WINDOWS PHONE VERSION WORKED ON THE CURRENT WINDOWS PHONE 8.....PLEASE HELP US HELP YOU MAKE THE WINDOWS PHONE THE BEST PHONE OUT THERE!!!! WHICH I THINK IT IS - BUT A COUPLE OF UPDATES ARE NEEDED.
THANK YOU48 votes -
Fully funktional screen reader for blind and magnifier for visually disabled
In order for blind and visually disabled people to use phones they need a phone with propper accessibility feetures like a screen reader and magnifier. Settings like large fonts and changing cullors in themes doesn't help a lot when it comes to people with serious eye problems or blind people. We need a fully funktional screen reader which would be able to compete with Apple's Voiceover and Android's Talkback, something which does exactly what the name says, read what's on screen. There are fully funktional screen readers on Symbian like Mobile speak, Talks and Nokia Screen Reader, but we need…
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Make a Lumia Phone with Stereo Speakers !
i hate watching movies or listening to music with only a mono speaker! (1 speaker), please MS & Nokia, make a Lumia handset with Stereo speakers to improve the sound quality !!
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Nokia Lumia 800 font size
The font size of text and phone numbers is way too small. There seems to be a lot of posts on numerous websites where other people are making the same observation. In my contacts list, the persons name is a good size, easy to read, but the actual phone number display is tiny by comparison, it really is stupidly small and there is plenty of space on the screen for the font size to be much bigger. Likewise, the font size in text messages, so small, so hard to read. Please make an upgrade / update so font size can…
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WP8/Lumia 920 requested bug fixes and/or improvements
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’d like to request some bugfixes and/or improvements for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Windows Phone 8 in general.
Doubtless, the Nokia Lumia 920 is a phantastic device and Microsoft offers a great system with Windows Phone 8.
As with any device and system, there are a few short comings.
Me and other users would be glad, if you could care about the items below.
Please find first an overview and later some detailed information regarding the topics in the overviews.
So, please could you fix the following things:
Overview Maps/GPS-related:
a) Making NMEA/GPS-raw-Data accessible for…
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Allow Dynamic Lockscreen Wallpaper
Allow the lockscreen wallpaper to change at timed intervals like a windows desktop or like when zune is showing the current playing artist
46 votes -
smaller tiles
I want smaller tiles on the start page. May be an option to add 3 tiles per row? Or allow me to have one more page of tiles on the LHS of the start page.
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45 votes
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Left bezel swipe should bring multitasking cards
Just like windows8 Left bezel swipe should bring multitasking cards
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44 votes
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44 votes
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Start Screen Background
Would love to be able to add a background to the start screen / apps list screen
44 votes
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