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Sketchy Rumor Says iOS 18 Will Have visionOS-Inspired Design Changes
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Medium grey letters on a medium grey text widget on a medium grey background. Now that's courage.
I love the raised edges, and if the shadows adjusted based on the orientation of your device, that would be amazing!
iOS 9 looked amazing
The greys are not the point. It's the 3-dimensional design that is the focus. The colours can always change.
I must be an outlier. But when I use my phone I don’t look for character or flair. I just want it to do whatever it needs to do for me
It’s about time to change the iOS interface
I actually really liked aqua. I was too poor to buy a Mac then though so had to look at screenshots 🥲
Brings back memories of using Kid Pix on OS X Puma in 1st grade. And we used Apple Works too.
I mean, let's really stop and take a look a the basic phone app. Does it seem like the pinnacle of innovation and design? It feels like Apple has been taking the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it approach" but for a company that always touts words such as "innovative" and "revolutionary", and with some iPhones costing over $1000, they are capable of so much more...
yes! aqua ui is still one of the best UI ever created.
I’d settle for obvious buttons again instead of color coded cryptic text 🫤
Also this is gonna have more bugs than the menu at Ant & Dec’s new restaurant. You can take that to the bank.
Come back iOS 6 all is forgiven 😕
Also this is gonna have more bugs than the menu at Ant & Dec’s new restaurant. You can take that to the bank.
Come back iOS 6 all is forgiven 😕
This is simplicity. It’s the best dialer screen Apple ever made…
Jokes beside… we had so many rumors about possible redesigns of the OS or at least single apps and the control center… please wake me up in June when we see the first beta of iOS 18.
Very happy if there really will be a new design but I won’t put any bets on it.
You just picked some of my favorite iOS interfaces haha. I loved that Podcasts UI. iOS 6/OS X 10.8 was a golden age for beautiful software.
this was like a dream. look at those UI elements, overlayed save dialog, smooothly magnifying dock icons.. I mean it was like UI heaven back then. I couldn't effort to buy a mac and all theming software was copying it like windowblinds, winamp skins, anything. this and then snow leopard with graphite(?) option felt me best ever about using a system with staring it interface like in love with it.
I’m glad you liked it and it certainly was pretty, but I felt like Apple went a little to far with the opacity of the frosted glass effect. iOS 10 and later felt better structured imo.
I have to say I really like the variable speed that the icon rows swipe when switching pages on the visionOS springboard. Happy to bring that over to iOS and iPadOS. Wonder if we’ll get round icons too? Force stagnant devs to make app updates, if only for the icon.
invisibleOS. If you need to know what's going on, you're doing it wrong.
when they made macOS more consistent with iOS that was taking a huge majority platform which had the zeitgeist as well and applied it to a much much smaller installed base.
does it really make any sense that a UI with an installed base THOUSANDS of times less should serve as template for the Mac this time? No.
Or if that doesn’t convince you, if Apple is hesitant to bring touch elements to the Mac, the Vision OS elements aren’t even designed for THAT. They’re meant to be LOOKED at.
does it really make any sense that a UI with an installed base THOUSANDS of times less should serve as template for the Mac this time? No.
Or if that doesn’t convince you, if Apple is hesitant to bring touch elements to the Mac, the Vision OS elements aren’t even designed for THAT. They’re meant to be LOOKED at.