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.
38,372 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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33,088 votes
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Close app on multi task screen
Some apps, like the Internet app and game apps, back button doesn't close the app, troublesome to tap a few times before its finally closed.
30,312 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your multi tasker suggestion. It’s 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!
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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 votesAdminMobile 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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Add File Manager to Windows Phone
Add File Manager to Windows Phone 8
22,091 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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!
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Enable all Bing features for non US-countries
See comments.
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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 buttons13,413 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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.
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Swiping left from home screen should show list of missed text message notifications
I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket the other day. After I finished typing, I took it out, and the screen was off.
I turned it on. From the lock screen, I see no text message indicator, so I know I didn’t get a text.
I enter my pin, and the start screen appears.There’s no obvious way to know what caused it to vibrate in the first place. Whatever toast it was, is now gone.
Was it facebook? Was it weatherbug notifying me that it was above 80 in seattle? I’ll never know.It would be nice if…
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12,367 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
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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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Under status bar, we need a shortcut to turn on/off connections and Internet sharing
Under status bar, we need the ability to turn on or off the following (when specific icons are clicked) like in WM6.5 (this saves a whole lot of clicks):
- WIFI
- 3G (data connection)
- Bluetooth
- Internet sharing12,283 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your shortcut suggestion. 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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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?
11,375 votes -
11,035 votes
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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.
9,090 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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!
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Block calls and sms from specified numbers (blacklist)
Need to add a block sender for both calls and sms on a so called SMART phone. Creates a black list of phone numbers.
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notification center with toasts on lockscreen
notifications displayed in the lockscreen with a toasts displayed at the time of release by raising the background.
notifications can also be called the center of the 2 main screens of Windows Phone 7 with a new button under the arrow to the right side.http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6161/conceptnotifichecomplet.jpg
This image was created by me (by Mrk360)
8,326 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your notification center suggestion. 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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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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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,…
8,114 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
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!
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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 votesAdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Reading of Bengali/Bangla is supported in Windows Phone 8
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8,068 votes
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Week view in Calendar
There needs to be a weekly view in Calendar where you can see what appointments you have on for the current week.
7,836 votes
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