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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7,768 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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Allow changing your windows id live location
I moved from UK to Switzerland 2 years ago. I bought a phone here a month ago. I now cannot use all the services.
7,382 votes -
6,673 votes
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Blinking LED notification for Missed Calls Email SMS
Display a blinking LED notification when there are missed calls, voicemails, emails, text messages (SMS) etc waiting for you. Also, a blue LED when Bluetooth is on would be a great option. It enables the user to know something is awaiting is attention by just looking at it, without even picking up the phone. No more turning on Power to know what awaits you.
6,658 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your missed calls 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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"Vibrate AND Ring" not "Vibrate then Ring"
Let's make another option, becuse now it doesn't vibrate after the first two one. Continuous vibrating is a must have option for noisy environment.
6,646 votes -
Battery Percentage at the status bar
Hugely important, like in iOS or Android..
6,218 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your 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 your great idea? Keep those votes coming!
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Full Sync with Outlook
WP should fully sync to Outlook, tasks, including categories calendar including categories contacts including categories and notes including categories
5,850 votes -
snapchat
An app that almost everyone with a smart phone uses.
5,815 votes -
5,802 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your feedback on font size. 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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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.
5,674 votes -
Instagram for Windows Phone
Instagram for Windows Phone
5,672 votes -
5,480 votes
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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?
4,918 votes -
Sync directly to Outlook
Be able to sync directly to Outlook without having to sync via the cloud
4,664 votes -
Allow pasting in the phone dialer
Please consider allowing the users to "paste" a phone number that was copied in an email or an SMS in the phone dialler. I receive phone numbers via email or sms and I have to memorize them before I can dial the number. You can do this copy-paste in Android and its extremely useful.
4,532 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your suggestion for the phone dialer. Always great to see such great feedback and novel 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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Create Ringtones Directly From Music Hub
I'd love to be able to create ringtones DIRECTLY/on-the-fly from the songs I have in my Music Hub.
4,508 votes -
Add option to keep WiFi alive while the phone is locked
It would great if the wifi keep alive while the phone is locked. Adding an option in WiFi configuration screen.
4,436 votes -
Make Xbox Video compatible with Windows Phone
Make Xbox Music & Video copying compatible with Windows Phone 8, such as transferring music or videos purchased through Zune or Xbox Music & Video on Windows 8 Pro.
4,339 votes
AdminMobile Guru
(Admin, Windows Phone)
responded
Thanks for your suggestion and feedback Always great to see 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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Data Sense: Enable it for 'unlocked' phones
There is no reason why unlocked phone owners should suffer the effects of carrier exclusivity when it comes to WP8 specific features.
We pay 500-800 EUR/USD for our phones, carriers do not subsidize it for us, yet, we are still controlled by them.
I ask Microsoft to enable Data Sense feature (at least reporting, if compression is too much to ask) for all Windows Phone users, Android has had it for years.
4,321 votes -
Add 'WhatsApp' Support in 'Messaging' Hub
Add 'WhatsApp' in the same way as the Facebook Chat.
4,126 votes
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