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iOS 19 Will Bring Biggest Design Overhaul Since iOS 7
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I hope that they will fix the back gesture on iOS. It needs to be a universal gesture like the way it works on Android. It's one of the few things that I think Android does better than iOS.
More parallels to the System 7.5 era.
When Copland was DOA, Apple had no answer for Windows 95, and we got amazing (but useless) Easter eggs in the "About this Mac" panel.
Whoever came up with the idea to add the "Apps" folder in Settings to distinguish OS-level settings from app settings should be put in charge of the redesign.
Great. Build it from the ground up. Don’t just apply a new UI overtop the buggy iOS 18
(I realize this is wishful thinking).
(I realize this is wishful thinking).
Agreed my friend. When the updates are minor, all I see are complaints about how "it's just boring...nothing new". When it IS new...the question is why are you doing this???? :0)
Frankly iOS could do with an overhaul because not every design concept that worked great when the average phone had a 4" or 4.7" display is necessarily the best approach for a 6.1" and beyond device. I frankly don't care whether the icons are round or rounded, but I'd like to fit more of them in a row on my home screen, for example.
There's probably lots of stuff that could be improved, but I do worry that what we'll be getting is cosmetic rather than a true and clearly thought through overhaul of the interface, although I'm very much hoping to be wrong.
Particularly the iPad is absolutely in need of fresh approaches, but there I'm even less optimistic about getting them. At the same time, the Mac more and more starts to look like a big iPad.
There's probably lots of stuff that could be improved, but I do worry that what we'll be getting is cosmetic rather than a true and clearly thought through overhaul of the interface, although I'm very much hoping to be wrong.
Particularly the iPad is absolutely in need of fresh approaches, but there I'm even less optimistic about getting them. At the same time, the Mac more and more starts to look like a big iPad.
Man I remember the beta for iOS7. Holy crap it was literally the worst beta I ever experienced. It barely ran at all. I wouldn't even call it a beta. Anyway, I hope that 19 isn't deja vu.
And probably more terrible design decisions and reduced information density. I'd love to be proven wrong but Apple's current UI team is really, really bad at their jobs
When Jony Ive took over UI design, many good UI designers left Apple.
If Apple dumbs down MacOS to be more iOS-like, I’m going back to pencil, paper, and a slide rule.
There's a lot wrong with the current interface design but I don't think Apple's UI team knows what's actually wrong with it.
The stupid unified titlebar-toolbar filled with wasted space that leaves it simultaneously cluttered and without enough space to fit everything is one of my least favorite things about the MacOS today
Also really dislike icons that are all the same shape. It makes it harder to quickly pick out the icon you're looking for
Wireframe greyscale icons in toolsbars instead of something easier to read
Lots of extra clicks, like when you want to respond to a message notification
The horrible practice of bringing iOS design to a giant screen where it doesn't make sense (Launchpad and System Settings)
I could go on and on. It's bad right now!
An updated design has been rumoured for at least four years now so I’m not so sure if it will actually happen in 2025.
The Vision OS design looks great and the transparency makes sense with regard to the product so that it blends the real world with the virtual, but I don’t see the point in iOS. You want white backgrounds that provides strong contrast with text, as do you want fun colours like on widgets, and the rounded square icons are now iconic.
The Vision OS design looks great and the transparency makes sense with regard to the product so that it blends the real world with the virtual, but I don’t see the point in iOS. You want white backgrounds that provides strong contrast with text, as do you want fun colours like on widgets, and the rounded square icons are now iconic.
No, as far as I can tell most of them left because he left himself in 2019, and/or they were people who had been working there for decades in their 60s and 70s retiring.
People just like to put a bad spin on literally everything, when there really isn’t any conspiracy.
The people that were around for OS X 10.0, iPhone OS 1 and even iOS 7 to some extent are also several years older than they were at the time.
Things change, people move on.
This is what twenty years of software updates does to a person.
I'd personally not want Vision OS anywhere but my AVP. Bringing that design language to the iPhone is not a good path forward. Phones should be phones. I like one UI 7 on my S25 more than iOS on my 16 pro max.
Yes, this is what Alan Dye has been locked in his office working on instead of UX that helps the user.
And now that he's been released it's time for the other OS branches to feel the wrath of the frosted glass.
A unified style for all the app icons on macOS would be welcome. Currently it's a mess.
I’m likely to believe it a lot more now mainly because Apple has been hinting at it themselves.
Recent additions like the action button settings page, the sports and Invitations app and the recent photos redesign, as noted by others, don’t really fit into the iOS 7 design at all.
Also, the design changes that were being suggested last year for iOS 18 actually happened, the revamped control center and being able to place your icons anywhere were the two biggest rumors and those two things actually happened.
Also, Apple has slowly but surely been rolling out that frosted glass look throughout the rest of their operating systems, like the TV app sidebar.
I get that it’s pretty easy to dismiss all of this talk, but there is quite a bit of evidence pointing towards it being likely.
There was much hatred for the photos app redesign in iOS 18