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iOS 19 Leak Reveals Alleged New Design With Rounder App Icons, Floating Tab Bar, and More

shadowboi said:
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
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I seriously doubt Apple would purposely leak info.
The more leaks, the less the "wow" effect on release.
 
Rumor mongers sharting on other rumor mongers and being snarky about it = Do not recommend this channel in my YouTube account.
 
TechWhisperer said:
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!
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You don't want that from 2025 Tim Cook Apple, trust me.

It'd be a bug filled, feature incomplete, total nightmare.
 
So many of you guys talk like it’s already happening the redesign - Prosser is still a leaker, like Gurman too…
In roughly two months we will see the end result for iOS 19 by Apple itself.
We will see if it will look like this or somehow different.
We will see , keep calm ☺️
 
This looks mostly the exact same and people will still throw a fit about it.
 
Can't stand the YouTubers who push a 10min video for something that could be seen in 2 screenshots.
 
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IOS 19 has to be more exciting than rounded Apps. After all ,almost nobody is going to pay $2000+. For 2 better cameras an improved SOC. and an aluminum frame
 
I wouldn’t worry too much about rounded app icons. Apple is all-in on squircles for iOS, they only just now pushed out devices with squircle borders / bezels.
 
Le0M said:
I seriously doubt Apple would purposely leak info.
The more leaks, the less the "wow" effect on release.
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This is how modern (or not really modern) promotion works. They might be warming up the interest for newer iPhones that way. Since WWDC is around the corner already – just 2 month left, they really have nothing to lose and will probably gain some more new customers (customer logic: “uh oh tariffs, I better get this new shiny iPhone 16 for good price. After all it will get a nice shiny update soon”).

Good news also keep stock prices higher, so having news like “Apple is working on iOS redesign” definitely keeps investors happy
 
We're seriously still doing 6 rows of 4 columns of apps in 2025 with no way to customize the number of columns, rows, and spacing despite all the different screen sizes across various devices, Apple ??

Just... wow
 
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ayephoner said:
So, Windows Phone?
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WP (Metro UI) was only real innovation and revolution in UI in last decade or so. That Apple redesign is just skin update with few drop down menus. But nothing new same old “look here is an icon” paradigm we saw in Mac OS back in 80s. Scaled for touch screen. Ok, if I’m fair I can count Forstal’s iOS as kind of innovated icons on screen back in 2007. But since then, only MS came up with so ething new. No one else is even close to them.
And certainly not Apple with this play-it-safe approach.
 
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I find it fascinating how many people have passionate opinions about the shape of icons. Mixed with some Android tribalism it's the perfect storm.

I'm more interested in whether they will actually bring any kind of new ideas to the table, or at least adapt some established ideas (from Android or elsewhere).
 
If those icons end up being legit, they are a 100% rip off from Samsung's OneUI, not "Android." The only difference is, with Samsung you can replace them with an icon pack of your choosing. No jumping through hoops to change one icon at a time. Even better, If you don't want an icon pack, then OneUI allows you to change the size and shape of all default icons in one sweep.

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Tozovac said:
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.
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For what it's worth, I agree with you that change for the sake of change is bad. I'm also not convinced iOS really needs a revolution rather than a substantive evolution, but equally I'm not convinced that iOS really is the pinnacle of refined design as many here claim it to be.

Sometimes you just gotta mix things up to move stuff forward as iterative change after iterative change only compounds fundamental design choices made a long time ago for different hardware with different capabilities. And change is hard for some people and that sucks for them, but Nokia and the BlackBerry had equally conservative user groups.

Now, as I said in the beginning, I'm not sure whether Apple at the moment has good ideas to revolutionise how we interact with our mobile devices. I know I don't, besides some very basic stuff, but then I'm not a user interface designer and there's a reason for that. All I'm saying is that sometimes you just get stuck if the primary goal is to please a user base that doesn't want change. Best case (for Apple) the whole thing stagnates, worst case someone else swoops in. Almost 20 years ago that was Apple with the iPhone, in 5-10 years it might be someone else.
 
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If those icons end up being legit, they are a 100% rip off from Samsung's OneUI, not "Android." The only difference is, with Samsung you can replace them with an icon pack of your choosing. No jumping through hoops to change one icon at a time. Even better, If you don't want an icon pack, then OneUI allows you to change the size and shape of all default icons in one sweep.

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For the first time ever since 2008, I am starting to seriously look into other options than just an iPhone. It's stagnated and frankly, becoming not worth the cost. I don't like change for the sake of change, but when I hear from my friends on Android what features and options they have, I am starting to think maybe I am missing out on stuff. In my understanding, Android today is very different to what it was about 10 years ago, and I am starting to wonder how it is because Apple is seriously beating on a dead horse these days without bringing anything new to the table when it comes to iPhone.
 
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Well, I might be in minority, but it these icons stay like this - ugly_nearly_rounded - I am not upgrading.

They look absolutely hideous. Like really really horrible. This might actually be even worse than if they were rounded.
 
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It does match the increased corner radius of the display from the iPhone 12 onwards, I suppose as there's now not going to be many iPhone 11 pro and earlier still in use it's as good a time as any to update. I'm on the fence aesthetically, it's better than going fully to circles, but I'll wait and see what Apple actually announces and how it looks in context.
 
Atog said:
WP (Metro UI) was only real innovation and revolution in UI in last decade or so. That Apple redesign is just skin update with few drop down menus. But nothing new same old “look here is an icon” paradigm we saw in Mac OS back in 80s. Scaled for touch screen. Ok, if I’m fair I can count Forstal’s iOS as kind of innovated icons on screen back in 2007. But since then, only MS came up with so ething new. No one else is even close to them.
And certainly not Apple with this play-it-safe approach.
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It looks a bit different, but metro UI is still just a wall of icons. And I think people are hyper critical of apple for iOS looking the same, when they have done quite a few things. They have adopted widgets. The smart stack and siri app suggestions are pretty creative (imho), but I don't know how original those concepts are. The control center and app library are other ways to interact with your apps other than just a wall of icons.

And the criticisms of iOS seem to just completely miss their overall motivation. There are well over a billion iphone users. They aren't trying to shake things up. Most of those users want familiarity. Small changes is what sells the phones. Why would they seek unique innovations?
 
ayephoner said:
Why would they seek unique innovations?
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That’s what is pushing people forward. Bold steps. Or if they have not enough courage then just don’t call it biggest UI overhaul in years. It is just a small tweak of already flat design. They basically do a flat design with a more prominent edges.

But that would be not the worst part. The worst part is that even if they still wont bring us anything looking like a new era, they still may screw UX by adding more clicks and taps just to look different. Judging by the new camera UI, which looks great until you realize that clean look is achieved by drop down menu of sort, so one more click when taking adjusting or changing camera features, terrible design.
 
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