We have heard for a few months now that iOS 19 and iPados 19 (and, to a lesser extent, MacOS 16) will include a huge redesign. Perhaps the biggest since Apple swept away the skeuomorphism in iOS 7.
The last leak gives us some clues, but perhaps not much as it seems. The 10 -minute video of Jon Prosser spends a lot of time in a cat fight on which has disclosed what first and who has the real Information, but offers only a few small information on real design changes. The icons are much rounder (but not perfect circles), the tips are different and most Apple applications use a new “tabview” at the bottom of the screen to move fluid between the sections of the application.
In particular, we do not have much information on the operation of animations and transitions. When iOS 7 appeared, everything went from police to notifications to multitasking and more. Apple slowly changes the main iOS aspects for years now: the application library and widgets in iOS 14, customizable locking screen in iOS 16, tincture of icons in iOS 18, etc. There will probably be additional changes in iOS 19.
Prosser's video is animated, but it is a reconstruction of the interface as it saw it, not real screenshots. It is not necessarily complete – as it mentions, apple compartmentalization is therefore not being built together, and some are hidden intelligently.
The fact is that after having updated iOS 19, your iPhone (and iPad, and Mac) will be very different, and for certain things, it goes behave very differently. Your muscle memory will be broken.
You're going to hate that. And that's good.
Everyone always hates major user interface changes
The major interface changes are a necessity. Modest updates offer stability, but technology skills and the way people use it change on time, and these modest and stable changes can never follow. From time to time, you have to make things happen and make it easier and faster to do the things you do today, rather than the things you have done five years ago.
Obviously, there are good interface (iOS 7) and bad (Windows 8) revisions, but any By the time you change spectacularly to the appearance and operation of the beloved apparatus, you will get a decline.
People always hate changes in user interface at first. Even the most successful, like iOS 7, are greeted by an apprehension and complaints. “Change for change”, “fun, but boring”, “bold but defective” are only a few of the descriptions in the wake of the release of iOS 7. While most were enthusiastic about the idea of daring change, the nit were chosen from everything, from the ill-aligned and maladed icons to the animations that made the phones slow.
When we get our first complete practice with iOS 19 with the initial beta version of the developer at WWDC in June, people will find all kinds of problems with this. This is part of the agreement when you get a whole new interface. There are a lot of good changes and some troubles that you just can't neglect.
In iOS 15, Apple published a radically new version of Safari but has made a lot of the most shocking changes back.
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Apple will take care of most of them in time, and for others, we get used to them. I hope he follows Safari's trajectory in iOS 15. Do you remember that? Apple moved the address bar down the screen and changed its way of working. With the first beta outings, I hated that, just like many others. We rejoiced when Apple added the possibility of putting it up in a subsequent beta update.
But then, during several additional updates, Apple more or less corrected it. The “floating” nature has been abandoned in favor of a single interface section of cohesive browser, buttons have been added, others have been moved and the sweeping behavior has been changed … When most iPhone users really got iOS 15 on their phones, the Safari browser bar was a plot better. Seeing it at the bottom was always a shock, and there have been changes in the interface flow, but everything worked more or less.
And I would like to guess that the vast majority of iPhone users have their browser bar at the bottom of the screen today, and do not think about this change of user interface.
With iOS 19, we will get a beta version in June which has a lot of big changes and many problems. It will be rented and swept, probably. Hopefully Apple will listen to and make quick improvements during beta test. Then, when released, the public will also have a strong reaction – and will overcome it after a few months.
