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iOS 18 Rumored to Have Design Changes, macOS Revamp Coming Later
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Believe it when I see itiOS 18 is - imho - the most exciting release for years.
But hopefully they will focus on quality as well.
I wouldn't go so far (though bug fixes would be appreciated indeed), but it would indeed be nice if they spent a release just polishing the experience and adding small features here and there to improve it.
An “ambitious” new OS only spells one thing “buggy”
I don’t care what they use, make it modular so that features that one doesn’t want don’t become bloat/overhead
Ahh Gurman is now trying to exist on software rumors, which he has not real sources for. He's been mostly hardware rumor oriented these last 2 years.
iOS design changes don't necessarily need to be a GUI redesign makeover, it's making some parts of the features utilizing AI more if they keep their promises.
I would say the same for MacOS, it's more likely that Apple's suite of applications needs to be made AI enhanced. The Sora example makes one think of what is possible with AI enhanced applications.
Sora: Creating video from text
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Oh, no... Inteface change again? What is up with Apple line of thinking? Instead of hone and polish what they have already, once more they are ready to jump on another shiny idea? Every time such change was happening in a past it was at the cost of good ideas from the past. We kill iTunes, bastardize iBooks, give you waky Music experience, but hay, Dear Apple User, watch at those of useless emojis - be happy! We are the Apple, we know better what you want! Ugh.... I am nervous now... It is like coming to your home and seen that somebody not just rearrange your furniture, but changed location of all doors and windows without asking you, but charging you price for doing so.
Epitome of Apple users here.
Camp 1: Fix the bugs, make it work.
Camp 2: Make it pretty.
LOL
Camp 1: Fix the bugs, make it work.
Camp 2: Make it pretty.
LOL
Finally. Change it up significantly or let us fully customize the look without having to do shortcuts. For those that like the current design just have a "legacy" option.
I hope the iOS redesign looks like the visionOS renders. I think it looks great!
Most would not like the use of 3 layer round icons that VisionOS utilizes. It was done that way for looking at your icon array from many different angles such as utilizing VR. Currently iOS still uses flat icons because of they can be attractive on a small display with a wallpaper. People often discuss making iOS icons more Mac like, but that means making them larger a bit, which wouldn't work out given the current icon separation and sizing IMHO. The most desired GUI change needs to be customization wallpapers, a lot more so then what iOS17 presently offers. MacOS always came up with new wallpapers each year, iOS needs this too. Also it would be cool to be able to easily switch home screens on the fly.
Watch this very useful iOS 18 concept for more thoughts to consider.
That, and just recognize the fundamental fact that macOS is not iOS. Don't make things consistent for the sake of consistency, make them make sense for the platform they are on.
If they would just leave the icons where I put them, I would be so happy. I just don't want to feel like a bomb went off if I dare to change my mind about what apps I want on my screen, or where I want them. Same thing in Launchpad. That may have made some sense in 2007, but it's just frustrating now.
iOS should allow you to have icon array groupings, all separated by what your needs are for time of day, location, or activity. You just select which ones you want to work with, the GUI automatically uses that array at that moment first. This would replace the current icon placement that you have to always scroll through to locate the icon.
There will always be bug. Rather than what Apple gave us in the last decade or so (just bugs) I’d rather have bugs AND new features.
How about no? Give us REAL yearly releases packed with features.
It's been 13 years...and MacOS looked better before the revamp with the Aqua scrollbars and other premium elements that set it apart over other desktop operating systems.
Hopefully flat design is going out of fashion.
how long does it take to reskin os? android pirates re-skin faster. Maybe they should be hired by Apple to do the job.
I care less about new features than the things I already do actually continuing to work. Since I updated to Sonoma on my Intel Mac I sometimes have to restart the thing just to play YouTube videos at a framerate that isn't what I'd get out of a Mac released in 2005.
Hopefully this redesign has a cohesive overarching strategy that makes sense across all the platforms. Redesigns simply for sake of redesigns are the biggest waste of time and effort.