iOS 19 Will Bring Biggest Design Overhaul Since iOS 7

[upthetoffees]

I don't like MacOS becoming more like a phone OS. I love computers, have done for 40 years, I like to use computers, not smartphones when at home or at the office. It drives me nuts when I see the OS looking more like IOS.

 

[Frantisekj]

Apple doesn’t just slap together a new UI. IF 19 has a new look it’s been worked on for years now (likely alongside VisionOS). Stop being so dramatic.

Are they returning some 3D elements from iOS 6 back? 👍

 

[turbineseaplane]

Hopefully it won't be riddled with bugs and we won't have to wait until iOS 20 to enjoy iOS 19.

(narrator) It will, in fact, be stuffed full of bugs

 

[npmacuser5]

The good news, more continuity across all devices.

 

[furbzv1]

"Biggest Design Overhaul Since..."

Blah.Blah.Blah.

Well get the same thing next year

 

[MajorFubar]

Oh dear. I fear more IOS-ification of my computer's desktop operaing system that I did not ask to be a glorified iPad.

 

[Avenged110]

Considering what an horrendous and hideous mess iOS 7 was and the slow degradation of macOS since version 11, I'm quite pessimistic. They're just going to break more, fix less, and usability is going to suffer...again. I'd like to think otherwise, but Apple's done absolutely nothing to earn that goodwill.

 

[Schizoid]

It won’t

 

[albert421]

Ah sh*t. Back in the beta train for me

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Apple plans to update the style of icons, menus, apps, windows, and system buttons, and the company will simplify the way that users navigate and control their devices. The changes "go well beyond a new design language and aesthetic tweaks."

I hope this doesn't mean embiggening every icon, button, and text box. Big Tech for some reason decided it hates information density and I'm sick of it.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

I think they're asking for a mass bug fix release, not a security patch.

I think the "I don't want xyz, just fix the bugs!" comments are as predictable as the claims that Apple is working on emojis instead of fixing bugs, when we all know the unicode consortium decides on emojis and it has absolutely nothing to do with iOS engineers fixing bugs. But people here love repeating that clichéd comment anyway. Since neither you nor I know the specifics of the 18.3.2 release we don't know what it contains, and we can't accurately speak to whether it is a "mass bug fix release" or not.

If Apple were to delay a bug fix/security release in order to make it somehow larger or more significant, then they would rightly be criticized by people who ask why Apple didn't release some of those fixes and patches sooner, when they were first ready. If they do a series of smaller releases as soon as fixes and patches are ready, then the same people complain that the fixes aren't significant enough.

 

[Siliconguy]

I think that instead of a redesign, they need a Snow Leopard release for iOS.

Now there's a thought for macOS. Recompile Snow Leopard with up to date drivers for the M1 series hardware. Or even Mohave.

 

[Warped9]

Please, no.

 

[Siliconguy]

They said the same thing with iOS 6 when iOS 7 was around the corner. Some folks hate change and hate things moving forward.

Too often "moving forward" is just a side step with shiny dangly bits to distract you from the fact that nothing useful has actually happened.

See also the change in MacOS System Settings to the IOS style.

 

[mailhojo]

I am all for continuity across platforms. I actually like VisionOS. Can they bring eye tracking and hand gestures to the MacOS? I kind of like the idea. How about just allow people to choose either MacOS or VisionOS/iOS as the operating system on their Macs. That way you could have everything from a complex os to very simple os depending on your needs - just saying.

 

[throAU]

If they do round icons for macOS and iOS they have properly lost the plot. Rounded rectangles and squares are the brand identity.

Round icons in a square screen are the sort of braindead tasteless crap I’d expect from Android. Maybe it’s fine in Vision Pro but on a square screen I don’t want.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Delayed until 2027.

 

[Reeneman]

Are we back to this yearly rumours about the big iOS design change…
Let me guess over the coming months we get the news „changes aren’t as big as rumoured a while ago…“.

 

[MajorFubar]

I think the "I don't want xyz, just fix the bugs!" comments are as predictable as the claims that Apple is working on emojis instead of fixing bugs, when we all know the unicode consortium decides on emojis and it has absolutely nothing to do with iOS engineers fixing bugs. But people here love repeating that clichéd comment anyway. Since neither you nor I know the specifics of the 18.3.2 release we don't know what it contains, and we can't accurately speak to whether it is a "mass bug fix release" or not.

If Apple were to delay a bug fix/security release in order to make it somehow larger or more significant, then they would rightly be criticized by people who ask why Apple didn't release some of those fixes and patches sooner, when they were first ready. If they do a series of smaller releases as soon as fixes and patches are ready, then the same people complain that the fixes aren't significant enough.

You make it sound as though Apple can't win. The people talking about emojis are mostly just being flippant. The main underlying theme is existing users would prefer Apple hold off releasing new features no one asked for and instead concentrate on making their OS's solid and bug-free, with promised features that reliably work. That's not an impossible ask, it's just an unsexy ask that doesn't sell products to new people.

Agile Project Delivery and the SAFe way of working has a lot to answer for IMO, even though we have to follow it in my organisation too.

 

[nt5672]

OMG, just no, no, and no. We already have too many problems with the current design. How about we get that fixed first before we add new problems to every single view in every single app because Apple's UI facing software developers are terrible.

 

[victorvictoria]

Did you ask Apple to redesign their interface? I know I didn't. Then who the @#$% did? I don't think it's broke, so why fix it and make me relearn how to use it?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Frosted glass, the new brushed metal.
Or is it the new gray linen?

 

[zombierunner]

It’s crazy how many google services I use on my iPhone, if they up their hardware game, I might just switch to a pixel device … I’ve had it up to here with apple

 

[Chungry]

Too often "moving forward" is just a side step with shiny dangly bits to distract you from the fact that nothing useful has actually happened.

See also the change in MacOS System Settings to the IOS style.

A fresh coat of paint covers all sins and it makes the shareholders happy. What doesn't make them happy? Unsexy bug fix releases. Only Jobs could get away with that

 

[Premium1]

Can't wait for more of the grade A software apple has been pumping out with all those work from home engineers. Sure there won't be near the bugs IOS 18 has (LOL).