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If you want to express a future-tense wish, use would instead of will.

If you want to express a past-tense wish, use the past perfect form: That's natural enough, but when you have a wish sentence in which the verb is a compound constructed with a form of to be, you always use 'were' to communicate a present-tense wish. When the main clause expresses a wish, you use the past tense of the verb to express the subjunctive mood: Thousands of pounds have been wiped off the average price of a house - and experts explain why an offer to save money on your next railcard is coming to a close in days. University of Washington has some good Subjunctive Mood examples that demonstrate when to use " I wish _ would _" in your sentence structure. This is what's shown in your screenshot example and it's called the "Subjunctive Mood" in English. In this case, you say you wish something would happen because it hasn't happened yet, but it continues to be possible. However, "would" is used to express a wish in the future tense too. As others have mentioned, "would" is an expression of a hypothetical desire and "wish" is usually for an unlikely or impossible desire.