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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7,971 votes
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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.
5,467 votes -
Create categories/folders for installed apps
It would be great if there were folders or categories to allow users to find apps easily
3,000 votes -
Locally access documents/files stored on my phone
...rather than upload them to the cloud first and download them to your PC
605 votes -
Mass storage for windows phone
Have windows phone usable as a mass storage so you can upload spreadsheets,word process files,adobe files,etc.
474 votes -
No Windows Phone 7.8... Please update us to Windows Phone 8
Please give current users an option to upgrade to Windows Phone 8. Leaving users stuck in an obsolete OS is the worse you can do.. As a developer and a tech blogger I would very much like to see WP users getting the latest and the best and not left stuck in a world of fragmented operating systems.
435 votes -
File Manager Alternative for Windows Phone 8 (especially for Phones without SD and USB OTG support)
This is how I see it:
Having a file manager is a necessity. I understand that a lot of users who do not utilize their smartphones to any extent beyond basic Office, music and video files have no use for it. However, for users like me, who have to work with other file types, this is an absolute must. Additionally, the lack of an SD card slot and/or USB on-the-go support on Flagship devices such as the Lumia 920 is a horrible lack of foresight if you are not adding a file manager for your internal drive.
My suggestion to…
377 votes -
Opened file manager
We need fully opened file manager to make all operations with files as WM 6.5 had.
359 votes -
Ability to Install Apps/Games/Maps onto MicroSD card
Games and Apps are growing in size (some hundreds of MBs). 8GB on a phone is not enough anymore and yet 8 GB phones are still around, which to me is not enough--even with an SD card slot.
Having SD support is great, but only music/pictures/videos can be installed on them currently.
I understand that installing apps/games is different, but could they still be installed onto the main storage of the phone AND have the game assets (music/voice/videos/saves, for example) stored onto the SD card instead. This would use less of the main storage for these games/apps?
Also, Nokia Maps…
347 votes -
USB Host Support
Allow USB host support to read the content of usb-drive when the phone is not connected to PC.
328 votes -
Add file manager, external storage option for save apps
Please add file manager like you do on previous versions... And add option for external storage for apps & attachments from store. We need it!
317 votes -
A Filebrowser
to browse, copy, move, delete; music, videos, pictures, documents, excel and more
257 votes -
SkyDrive File Manager
Almost everyone with a Windows Phone wants a file manager. So why not let SkyDrive be the file system? The phone could have a local file system that mirrors/syncs with the SkyDrive file system natively within the OS.
203 votes -
185 votes
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print documents and pictures from phone
Built in print option for office files and pictures.
181 votes -
Save and delete files from SkyDrive on phone
Ability to download the SkyDrive file on phone memory (esp from OfficeHub).Also, make me able to delete/rename files/folders and create/delete folders on SkyDrive from phone.
169 votes -
162 votes
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File manager support for WP
File manager support for WP office files, pictures & music
122 votes -
Hi, please implement .wav file support for Windows Phone 8, it is required by so many of your corporate users.
Hi, please implement .wav file support for Windows Phone 8, it is required by so many of your corporate users. This is the default format for most telephony systems that incorporate into MS Exchange. This is required, not a feature...
113 votes -
Folders on start screen
Ability to create folders in the start screen which can contain various pinned objects (contacts, maps, web pages, groups etc)
105 votes
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