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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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!
327 votes -
Data Counter app for windows phone 8
Windows Phone 8 users desperately need a Data Counters App similar to Nokia Counters released for Windows Phone 7.x.
This is an absolute basic need for phones which run on Operators who DO NOT currently support the Data Sense Feature.
I DO NOT need any of the nifty features like Data Compression and all of that, just a basic Data Counters App which works the same as Nokia Counters for Windows Phone 7.x.
It's really a shame that you leave out such a critical feature when you know NOT every operator in the world would have been capable or even…
357 votes -
Improve Sync App for Windows Phone
The PC Syncing app for WP on both Win7 and Win8 is terrible and a major step back from Zune. Bring all the features that were standard in Zune Application to the WP Sync App. Examples:
1) WiFi Sync
2) Podcast Sync on PC
3) Playlist Sync
4) Play Counts
5) Ratings
6) Auto-Playlists
7) Autofill
8) Zune Music Pass Songs
9) Combine Xbox Music Player, Store and Sync Apps2,127 votes -
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 -
Instagram + Snapchat for windows phone 8 soon!!
I would switch to windows phone 8 right away if they got these two apps that I use daily on my smartphone
1,614 votes -
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.
30,294 votes
AdminMobile 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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MLB.tv Compatible MLB At Bat App For Windows Phone 8
We need an At Bat app that has the same functionality as basically every other device out there. You can stream MLB.tv on iPhone, iPad, any Android device and Kindle Fire. There is even word that it will soon be on a Blackberry device! It is ridiculous that Windows is the only platform on which this service doesn't exist. It doesn't even have an app for Windows 8.
238 votes -
Beta Facebook for all windows phone (wp 7.x)
Beta facebook for all devices, not only for windows phone 8
101 votes -
MessageMe App For Windows Phone
We all want MessageMe app for wp!
217 votes -
candy crush saga and bubble witch saga
To be able to play these apps like iPhone users
679 votes -
Windows Phone 8 Screen to PC Function please.
I am speaking in behalf of most Windows Phone trainers and instructors, and even app developers. Please allow us developers to have the ability to stream our Windows Phone screen to our PC like in your tech demos. It's so inconvenient for us to use a camera setup which is clunky and troublesome. We are doing our best to promote Windows Phone but such a basic tool is missing.
The emulator can only do so much. You all know that.
76 votes -
Add Orientation Lock to Windows 8
Windows 8 needs to have an orientation lock. Its a spectacular system but the lack of a portrait lock ruins the whole user friendliness the minute you lay down on your side and try to read your phone. Don't let something so simple belittle the windows 8 phones and give the iPhone that one extra edge
490 votes -
Opera Mini Browser for Windows Phone 8
You must let Opera developers to port Opera Mini browser to Your platform. Stop sthis **** with IE, like You did it on Windows. On desktop we use Chrome, but we still use Windows and Office, so come on! I uses Opera Mini on
1) SonyEricsson T610, 2003 year
2) SonyEricsson K610, 2006 year
3) Nokia C5, 2010 year
4) HTC Wildfire S, 2011 yearNOW Nokia Lumia 630, 10 YEARS later I can not use it anymore. WTF Microsoft?!?!?!?!
111 votes -
Set vibration intensity
Allow the user to define the vibration-intensity. On the Lumia 920 it is VERY strong and annoying when calls come in. However the one at startup is nice, so it should be possible to change it.
1,723 votes -
Snapchat!!!!
Almost everyone using/owning a windows phone(nokia lumia/htc 8x) really want SNAPCHAT on there cellular device! Please consider or having snapchat on our phones you have given us instragam and temple run! I think also more cell phone users would switch to windows phones if there was a snapchat on there! More people would get snapchat to the #1 app on the app store. Mostly all others have gotten snapchat on there phone so please for windows phones it would be great if there was snapchat..
thanks for reading
~172 votes -
20 votes
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Delete App Installation Files
I find WP8 won't delete app installation files, even if you unstall them. Those installation files occupy "other" space. The problem becomes poorer as user installs more apps. A big problem is WP8 uses only "free" space to decide whether or not user can install new app and add video, music, ... even if "other" space has many space to be released.
Please provide a function for WP8 to delete the app installation files!
392 votes -
install apps & games on sd-card on WP 8
Please Microsoft add function to install apps on sd-card. Especial for HTC 8S.
376 votes -
Allow camera button to launch a Lens app
Lenses are camera-centric apps. I think it would be a great option to allow users to choose which Lens launches when they press the camera button.
(As the developer for ProShot, this is actually my most-requested feature!)
Thank you!
331 votes -
vpn [Virtual Private Network]-no vpn feature on winphone8 = no user privacy concern from microsoft
as title says lacking vpn feature in microsoft winphone 8 means that this company does not pay attention to win8-usr-privacy and does not have any concern about it.
for me as a usr , network privacy and security and of course freedom is of most important priority......hope microsoft solve this issue in the oncoming updates......else i won't stand not-secure-web-using any more....114 votes
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