Love the shade he threw at Marques Brownlee in that video, I laughed. As for the rest, I like the translucency so we can fully see the borders of what we're shooting, and if the redesign is more intuitive I'm all for it.
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iOS 19 Rumored to Feature Redesigned Camera App Inspired by visionOS
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I just want to stop scrolling through photo options. hate scrolling through 5 other options to get from Photo to Pano...
Moving the shutter button away from the edge like that is NOT going to be popular. Guess we are all using hardware buttons now.
Ergonomically its a better position, but largely irrelevant to me because I use the volume button which lets me hold the phone securely while taking the photo one handed.
Damn too simple I want pro camera features...
iOS 19 will feature a redesigned Camera app inspired by visionOS, according to a new video from Jon Prosser, host of the YouTube channel Front Page Tech.
A re-created render of iOS 19's redesigned Camera app (Credit: Front Page Tech)
Prosser obtained video of the alleged new Camera app, but he elected to share his own re-created images to protect his sources. The images reveal that the app will allegedly gain translucent menus for various camera controls, with the design of these menus looking very similar to the visionOS interface on the Apple Vision Pro headset.
The camera controls are split into photo and video categories, with options for recording spatial video, turning on a timer for a photo, and more. Additional controls for video resolution and frame rate pop over at the top of the screen as necessary.
Overall, the new design has a cleaner aesthetic, with more of the Camera app's viewfinder visible on the screen compared to iOS 18.
A previous rumor indicated that iOS 18 would feature a visionOS-like redesign, but that never happened. An alleged screenshot of the Camera app with translucent menus even leaked a few months after that initial rumor, but it appeared to be fake. In the end, perhaps these are changes that Apple was working on for iOS 19 instead.
It is possible the visionOS-like design changes could extend to other iOS 19 interfaces and built-in apps, but this is purely speculation. For example, Prosser visualized the translucent design extending to Home Screen widgets.
iOS 19 should be announced at WWDC 2025 in June, and released in September.
Article Link: iOS 19 Rumored to Feature Redesigned Camera App Inspired by visionOS
I wish they would copy what Halide app does with their exposure adjustment feature: just swipe up or down to increase/decrease exposure. I hate how inefficient iPhone exposure/af lock implementation is. I also hate how the lock af and exposure adjustments are tied together. Just have an af lock button or at the very lease decouple the exposure adjustment. I hate having all my images flat or "overexposed" because there is a predominant dark color in the frame. I want to often exposre for the highlights and not the shadows.
You're coming to this conclusion based on a mock up of a rumor?
Seems to me that you're looking to confirmations of your own ideological biases that are mostly unrelated to Apple.
Am I right, comrade?
Lots of people here claiming that this is iteration for the sake of iteration.
It's a rumor and a mock up.
Seems like y'all are hating for the sake of hating.
It's a rumor and a mock up.
Seems like y'all are hating for the sake of hating.
"It is possible the visionOS-like design changes could extend to other iOS 19 interfaces and built-in apps, but this is purely speculation. For example, Prosser visualized the translucent design extending to Home Screen widgets."
Thank you! For using the correct term "translucent" design. All the time the term "transparent" is used and this so incredibly incorrect it's vomit inducing.
Translucent allows light through but scattered resulting in a "blurry" effect.
Transparent; used more often all the time to describe the above effect in many iterations in articles all over the web and not just about iOS design elements but Windows, Android, et al, is an incorrect term. If any design element were truly transparent it would be that it's completely clear and you could see CLEARLY what's behind it, even if tinted.
This would render the user interface impossible to understand if it were transparent as the user would not be able to discern what they're looking at with text overlayed on top of text, etc.
Transparent = clear
Translucent = blurred
Thank you! For using the correct term "translucent" design. All the time the term "transparent" is used and this so incredibly incorrect it's vomit inducing.
Translucent allows light through but scattered resulting in a "blurry" effect.
Transparent; used more often all the time to describe the above effect in many iterations in articles all over the web and not just about iOS design elements but Windows, Android, et al, is an incorrect term. If any design element were truly transparent it would be that it's completely clear and you could see CLEARLY what's behind it, even if tinted.
This would render the user interface impossible to understand if it were transparent as the user would not be able to discern what they're looking at with text overlayed on top of text, etc.
Transparent = clear
Translucent = blurred
I don't see this as a first world problem dude. They adopted the "flat" design because it took less resources for the display to procure (not having to render so many shadows and translucent/transparent design elements which saved a lot on battery life; at the time) back when the "flat" was first introduced with iOS 7. Could this still be an issue now? Who knows? Not a total mood killer though. Really this is a spilled milk kitchen table issue.
You can technically override the icons at least on your homescreen(s) but it takes a lot of customization and creativity using the Shortcuts app. There are apps on the App Store that do this, but none of them should be trusted because they're all junk.
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I hope you’re older and this type of thinking hasn’t trickled into the youth too.
Me: *critiques capitalism*
You: “Must be a communist”
I hope you’re older and this type of thinking hasn’t trickled into the youth too.