Well.. was hoping for a redesign if true looks like we’re probably never getting that
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Leaked iOS 13 Screenshots Reveal Dark Mode, Revamped Reminders App, and Merged 'Find My' App
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It’s not 2010 anymore. It’s time for you and others to curb expectations of major software or hardware redesigns every couple of years let alone every year. The market is mature. Overall the design of iOS is just fine, but could use some tweaks here and there. Which is what happens now. And apple is selling loads of devices and making lots of money. Clearly they know what they’re doing.
For the 50th time around here, I’ll refer to the car market. Cars get very very minor tweaks every year and moderate or major redesigns every 5-7 years.
Guys, this is fake. If you look at the 9to5mac website, they show a new dark dock. However in the next screenshot they show it as light again. Same wallpaper.
Smh.
Smh.
Whatever you do, people will always cry
I don‘t even know whats there to redesign in terms of home screen other than the usual suspects:
- New icons
- Free grid placement
- Resizable widgets placed inbetween apps
- Dynamic app icons (e.g. weather condition for weather app, dynamic activity rings and so on).
It‘ll probably be one of these on the iPad, potentially being able to place files directly on the home screen?
- New icons
- Free grid placement
- Resizable widgets placed inbetween apps
- Dynamic app icons (e.g. weather condition for weather app, dynamic activity rings and so on).
It‘ll probably be one of these on the iPad, potentially being able to place files directly on the home screen?
I want a re-vamped Photos app; the current one is all but useless and hasn't received any meaningful updates in a very long time.
guess they are not getting rid of that annoying bar at the bottom........ smh
No, it's because we need to move on. 1 GB should be ancient history now, and developers shouldn't feel constrained by having to develop for 1 GB iPhones, iPads, and iPods in 2019.
Dark mode is to reduce eye strain, homeboy. There’s also an added benefit of prolonging battery life. Do you not feel eye fatigue after staring at the bright, artificial light from your phone at night or in a dark room?
I’m genuinely envious if you don’t.
MacOS Mojave uses mostly dark gray, while pure black makes more sense to conserve battery with an OLED screen. But if there's one takeaway from years of browsing these forums, it's that you can't please everyone.Whatever you do, people will always cry
Cannot believe we will be going into iOS 13 and still no way to put the god damn app icons anywhere I want in a different app icon sized grid! does android have a patent on that or something
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From a user-facing design standpoint, Apple is much more about evolution than revolution. The big updates in iOS 7 happened because they saw a need to do a big course-correction. So, what would the actual large course-correction be now to justify a revolutionary change?
There were obviously a lot more changes than grouped notifications in iOS 12, but that was the most impactful one, and came because there was a need to better manage notifications (and notification spam) in general.
"Feeling dated" is something that can be changed later. "Being boring" is in some ways a good thing - change for change's sake is terrible design.
That said, from a developer perspective Apple has been staging larger-scale refactoring as swift gets the deployment features they need. With this release, they can finally write/rewrite core frameworks in Swift rather than in objective C. So there could be quite a few functionality changes that have been pending that floodgate to open.
That makes me nervous though - because that would give the same sort of instability that we saw in iOS 11 when the rewrote a lot of the core apps in Swift.
5.5 years, but sure.
Possibly. Generally, Apple has small teams working on apps in isolation, and WWDC becomes a forcing function to decide what features they each think they can commit to for the final release. The first two developer seeds are about infrastructural changes, not design polish.
That said, the "Find My" app seems a bit too far off. I thought this leak came from them figuring out how to pull images off of a pending preview section on developer.apple.com until I saw that.
Internal builds doesn't include new wallpapers. That's only for the developer release.
100% This.
The majority of iPhone users don't pay attention to WWDC, or iPhone launch events, and certainly don't frequent forums like this one. The majority of iPhone users are actually very happy with the current state of iOS. They know how to launch their apps, they can take their selfies and post them to Instagram. They can message their friends and family without even thinking about it. They get news and music to their phone whenever they want it. It all just works for them.
Then there's us, the people who eagerly await WWDC, who create and drool over mock-ups of what iOS "could be", those who, no matter what happens, there's always something else to want.
So which group do you think Apple is going to develop for when they aim to create a new version of iOS?
Hint, it's the group with more wallets, not the group with more demands.
So, considering that the current user interface was introduced in 2007, I would say we’re a bit past your 5-7 major redesign window.
I don’t know of any operating system out there that has the same look and feel of one they had in 2007 — including Mac OS.
It’s tired, old, and time for a refresh. Maybe this article is BS and we’ll still see that next week.
Hmm...
Guilherme Rambo (@_inside)
5/28/19, 11:05 AM
Y’all freaking out about "no new home screen design" and "no new wallpaper” on iOS 13, pay attention to tomorrow’s @stacktracepod episode
I agree I think the "Dark Mode" screenshot is from iOS 12. Why would they have the same wallpaper iOS 12 came with? Also, the Apple Music screenshot has no changes from iOS 12, no bottom tab subtractions/additions, or any of them being moved around, which is common for a major release of iOS.
I hope the dark mode as the option to have "True Black" or greyish version. I don't like "True Black" UI.
Also, "Find My" is a bad name choice, I much prefer the name "Find". Cleaner.
I hope the dark mode as the option to have "True Black" or greyish version. I don't like "True Black" UI.
Also, "Find My" is a bad name choice, I much prefer the name "Find". Cleaner.
No new wallpaper, same boring grid of apps. Apple, darling, buddy, old pal, you are doing it wrong.
A phone that is for productivity is BORING. We want FUN. We want NOVELTY. I suggest a hide-and-seek mode. For example. Every time you unlock your phone, all your apps are rearranged and you have to find them.
Also, widgets on the Home screen. I need the weather widget at all times taking up real estate, even though some people claim you check the weather once for the day, I need it constantly on the Lock screen and Home screen. You never know when you need to know the current temperature.
Also, split screen. I want to listen to a Podcast and watch YouTube at the same time.
A phone that is for productivity is BORING. We want FUN. We want NOVELTY. I suggest a hide-and-seek mode. For example. Every time you unlock your phone, all your apps are rearranged and you have to find them.
Also, widgets on the Home screen. I need the weather widget at all times taking up real estate, even though some people claim you check the weather once for the day, I need it constantly on the Lock screen and Home screen. You never know when you need to know the current temperature.
Also, split screen. I want to listen to a Podcast and watch YouTube at the same time.
It really needs one. I’d at least home home it rolls back and reverts back to a more classic and stronger design before iOS 7.
"Find" would be mistaken for "Search". It might be clean, but it's too generic.