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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Custom sounds for SMS, MMS, Email, Notifications etc
Custom sounds for SMS, MMS, Email, Notifications etc, I know we can do ringtones on Mango but you can't set custom SMS sounds, email ect.
38,364 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your suggestion for custom sounds. 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 your great idea? Keep those votes coming!
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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.
22,788 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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!
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12,361 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your suggestion. Always great to see suggestions for features like this. 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!
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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.
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Bengali/Bangla Language Support
Bangla despite of being sixth most spoken & native language of 250 million isn't supported by windows phone. We want full Bangla support on WP.
8,069 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Reading of Bengali/Bangla is supported in Windows Phone 8
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7,497 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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!
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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?
4,823 votes -
Disable Auto Rotate
ability to turn Auto Rotate off, for when your on your side ex. in bed laying down trying to read, screen doesn't rotate sideways
3,718 votes -
Battery life percentage in status bar
Yes I can see the percentage in Settings/Energy Saving somewhere, but I want to be able to configure, that I can see it in status bar.
2,892 votes -
webOS style notification light
A few weeks ago I tweeted about the idea of a webOS style notification light for Windows Phone, I received a few tweets back from my followers saying that they like the idea, so I figured I would write up this post explaining the idea.
Inspiration
Everyone has been talking about the idea of Windows Phone having a notification centre, some like the idea, some hate it, I'm not here to voice my opinions on that, but if it does happen, then people will likely want a notification light to go with it. A standard red/green/blue/etc circle of light at…
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Manage "Other storage" on internal storage, install apps and save files on SD cards
- Please let us manage the 'other storage' category on the internal storage - view it, move, and delete files. I've got an 820 with 8gb internal storage.... The "other storage" is filling up at an alarming rate.
- Please allow users to install apps and save files to external SD cards.1,611 votes -
NFC tagg system changes
Add NFC options to change many settings at once when you tap nfc tags. E.x. At office nfc tag (data off, wi-fi on, volume 5, brightness high...), at bedroom tag (data off,wi-fi on, vibration, brightness low,...)..
1,323 votes -
Support Swype for alternate keyboard entry
I'd like the keyboard to support the SWYPE input model.
1,066 votes -
Alarm can wake phone up from being switched off
If the phone is switched off, the alarm will still sound. Why its not already possible I have no idea.
974 votes -
Georgian (ka-ge) language and keyboard support
There is nothing special to be done technically, Windows Phone has already support UNICODE character set, please add missing font to OS
925 votes -
Tamil Language support
Please support tamil and additional south indian languages (Telgu/Malayalam/Hindi etc) support on WP7
899 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Please note that reading of Tamil is supported in Windows Phone 8
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Adding Arabic Support in Windows phone 7.8
Please Add Arabic Support in Windows Phone 7.8 Features
605 votes -
Add support for SIM application toolkit (STK) and USSD reply
Mango does not support STK (for mobile banking application) and USSD reply (used to request service package and/or provisioning from operator)
592 votes -
Screenshot Support for Windows Phone 7.8
I know that you can now take screenshots in Windows phone 8, but please bring this feature to Windows phone 7.8 users!
541 votes -
Vietnamese TELEX and standard Unicode
Please implement TELEX typing method for Vietnamese keyboard, and use the standard, preset Unicode encoding scheme instead of the current Composed Unicode on WP8 devices. Current keyboard and composed Unicode encoding scheme give a very ugly output on Office and OneNote apps.
524 votes
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