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iOS 19 Will Bring Biggest Design Overhaul Since iOS 7

Yes please! A redesign is long overdue. Not because there is anything particular wrong with the current design but because I’m tired of seeing the same ui every day. Looking forward to a redesign. This is actually exciting!
 
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I am hoping for anything at all that is not Apple Intelligence. But the nicest things would be third party browser engines (which will not happen), more desktop class apps on iPadOS, and improvements to StageManager. The biggest letdown to me last year was no major improvements to iPad to justify the M4.
 
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smulji said:
There was much hatred for the photos app redesign in iOS 18
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Apple doesn’t care I’m sorry to say.
As someone said earlier…

Kabeyun said:
Going out on a limb: people are going to hate it…until they like it.
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And that is exactly how Apple moves.
Previous examples: the jump from FinalCut Pro 7 to X, the jump from iMovie HD to iMovie 2008, iOS 6 to 7, Mac OS 9 to X.
Apple moves forward, people eventually grow to love some of it and like other parts less.
 
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arc of the universe said:
its clear that the intent is to make the interconnectedness of the operating systems more intuitive and apparent.
in order to do this and for usabiility sake, the design language needs to be consistent between the operating systems.

the result will be able to make it less apparent (less important) that there are indeed separate operating systems on each device.
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That doesn’t make much sense, because these are different device categories for a reason, with different affordances. Increasing the consistency of the user interface within a device category would make sense (there are a lot of inconsistencies that could be fixed, and UI conventions streamlined), but trying to unify the UI between device categories only leads it to be less suited to each individual device category. Microsoft demonstrated this by trying to turn desktop Windows into a mobile and tablet UI.

To be fair, I wish the UI of apps would be more consistent between iPhone and iPad. The same actions/icons are often on the top or left on one but on the bottom or right on the other. It messes up muscle memory when using the same apps between devices.
 
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throAU said:
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.
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It reminds me of the 5C cases:

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arc of the universe said:
its clear that the intent is to make the interconnectedness of the operating systems more intuitive and apparent.
in order to do this and for usabiility sake, the design language needs to be consistent between the operating systems.

the result will be able to make it less apparent (less important) that there are indeed separate operating systems on each device.

this is great news.

and yes, if the general direction it takes is the visionOS-ification of organisation and icons, the result should be beautiful.
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what you're describing is the opposite of thoughtful UI/UX design. Design is how it works as a smart guy once said 😉 forcing even a round peg into a square hole is a terrible design at best. At the worst it's actively hostile to the user. Look to the MacOS system prefs for a glimpse of things to come if what you describe comes to pass.
 
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I'm excited, in fact the OSs needed a big update, even for some things they weren't beautiful or consistent.

I believe that this change is being prepared for 4-5 years gaining greater strength in the last 1-2 years.

Let's wait to see :cool:
 
Honestly, I would welcome this. I've always disliked the boring and flat design they've given us after iOS 6. I'll take the abundance of new bugs (and old) it will introduce if at least it looks pretty.
 
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Bones402 said:
Always refreshing getting a new UI, though we were expecting this thru some rumors for a while now. With their latest issues with Apple Intelligence, I assume this will be the shiny new toy at WWDC.
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Honestly, a refreshed UI is leagues more useful, interesting, and fun than the AI slop which is "Apple Intelligence".
 
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JohnLuke said:
I hope they report the depth that iOS 6 had. So tired of this flat design
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iOS7 was "flat design" done wrong. Flat can be nice if done well.

However, I much prefer the personality and soul iOS6 had, indeed. We didn't then, but we now have over 200 DPI and really powerful GPUs. Would be nice to put that into good use! I'm dreaming of something towards "neumorphism".
 
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Finally....

Just goes to show that low sales and media mocking of the same phone year after year finally forced apples hand.

New iPhone designs and iOS UI in the same year... what a time to be alive.
 
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Clickbait, clickbait this is. Really new. Only Rumors, yikes. We need software with lesser bugs, not more or new bugs.
 
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attila said:
Honestly, a refreshed UI is leagues more useful, interesting, and fun than the AI slop which is "Apple Intelligence".
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The only real AI is Allen Iverson. Apple better just recognize that and deal with it. Or maybe they need more "Practice"
 
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