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iOS 19 Leak Reveals Alleged New Design With Rounder App Icons, Floating Tab Bar, and More
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I wish they'd give us an entirely new experience that truly reimagines the concept from the ground up, creating something transformative rather than just iterating on the familiar. When innovation only extends to minor adjustments, it leaves us craving the excitement and possibility of something genuinely revolutionary. Hope Prosser is wrong!
Because then they'd be copying what Android with the many Launcher apps have been able to do for years and years.
I'm not sure what I would do if my iPhone actually looked different than everyone else's!
I don't see that much of a difference. When I hear "major changes" I think about more than just semi-rounding of icons, so if this is mainly what it's going to be, it's not major in my book. Of course, this is just a guess on his part, we won't know for sure for a couple of months.
The Safari icon looks crap, and that's just from the video poster frame 🤣 It's already difficult to fit a circle in the current squircles.
Anyway, these are just mockups, so I'll take all of it with a grain of salt.
Anyway, these are just mockups, so I'll take all of it with a grain of salt.
How about something where they have a "classic" theme and a customizable theme where they allow people to have more control over the home screens? There seems like so much wasted space, I'd love the ability to modify the home screen to have more icons on it.
Nice idea, but I doubt it, as Apple will only go so far with customisation - it wants their devices to look 'Appley' with one solution/look, not several. So we might get a choice of tint colours perhaps (but likely the UI will take its tint colour from the wallpapers and hero content in apps etc.).
They might allow something like Widgetsmith to do what you want.
Else I suspect that what you want is found in getting Android and downloading a launcher of your choice!
Anything with a smaller tap area is a step in the wrong direction.
Slightly changing the shape of the icons doesn’t constitute a major overhaul. It still just looks like iOS 7. Which is fine, but this isn’t the “ground up” redesign that was rumored.
You probably shouldn't rely on a limited 3rd party mockup to determine what the full iOS release will look like.
I want something that does NOT include round icons. Any more, they will have to pay me to consult. A three year old could have come up with, "make the icons round, mommy!"
They both could be technically correct. What's be reported now may be fact, but changed in the end.Yes.
Gurman: Jon Prosser's iOS 19 Mockups 'Aren't Representative' of Redesign
The iOS 19 mockup images that leaker Jon Prosser shared today are not representative of the actual iOS 19 design, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said on...www.macrumors.com
Only time will tell who's correct.
I'm sorry but this is a scary wish to many of us, to me at least.
This is a good wish when there's no actual transfortative leader or technology/interface already in place, like cell phones before the iPhone. Blackberry was maybe the most popular "hi tech" leader but didn't cause the worldwide cultural shift that the iPhone became.
To wish for the current refined interface to be "reimagined" brings back shivers of iOS7 from which Apple has finally walked away from the worst and most extreme aspects of some of iOS7's reimagined dumbness and forced minimalism.
It's suggesting there's room for objective and subjective functional improvement in most every nook and cranny of the OS that could only be done via major overhaul and would bring robust value to most users. This would contradict the thought that the OS is rooted in a best-of-the-best basis built on decades of learning, and which is refined constantly.
To suggest Apple might be holding back on introducing better ways to do things in the customer-facing interface that can only be brought out via a major overhaul is what Marketers and minimalist has-beens (who think the world is a perpetual minimalist design contest, general usability be damned) dream of lol, and so far from what would likely result in a robust interface universally-loved like the original iPhone, which was genially revolutionary at the time.
Revolutions occur when the environment and competition supports it, and there are exploitable holes in the marketplace for which your offerings aren't yet filling those holes. The iPad/iPhone OS's, and the competition, are now far from being full of exploitable holes. Apple is pretty good at "revolutionary innovation" when an opportunity is really there. But Apple is also pretty guilty sometimes of change for the sake of change via spaghetti on the wall, which then puts many of us in the doldrums for a few years until Apple undoes the worst aspects of the spaghetti on the wall.
Forced reinvention is truly great for those who like the next shiny new thing. It's awful for a large customer base (of which I"m not, but I'm related to many) who abhor major changes because they're not nearly as good at adjusting to the learning curve as some of us are. This can be a real problem with Apple forgets the iPhone/iPads are not just for techies, to put it bluntly.
Again, this is NOT a redesign. It is barely a design change. Rounded icons like on Samsung? Meh. Same design aesthetics and icons with LSD-like acidic colors? This SUCKS, ever since iOS 7. White color everywhere? How this is “transparent”? It is not even Frutiger Aero level. Really, Apple should have tried harder. I just mean it looks boring and cheap. I don’t care about “visionOS” if it looks so bad
Bunch of NPCs who believe this hahahahah - Apple doing this to weed out leakers in the org.
Since he was “allowed” to show “similar version”, I bet 95% it was a controlled leak from Apple, i.e. he is paid in exclusivity (so his channel will be cited and looked up by fans rather than MKBHD’s, LTT’s or someone else’s), Apple receives clout and shi
Another classless design, I still prefer the pre-flat, puke colored icons, where a notepad looked like a notepad - that was class.