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Apple’s upcoming visionOS-inspired iOS 19 design overhaul may also lengthen to tvOS and watchOS. It will assist the corporate ship a extra constant expertise throughout all its gadgets.
“Whereas iOS 7 in 2013 was the biggest-ever visible change to the iPhone’s software program, the most recent overhaul will likely be far more broadly felt,” says Mark Gurman.
visionOS design will develop to Apple Watch and Apple TV
Leaks level to iOS 19 getting a glassy redesign, with the general feel and appear much like that of visionOS. As a part of the revamp, Apple will swap to squircle icons and redesign many system apps. Even the digicam app will get an overhaul, with Apple shifting most controls to the underside for straightforward entry.
Apple will carry the identical new design language to iPadOS 19 and macOS 16. However that’s not it. In keeping with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, within the newest version of his Energy On e-newsletter, the Cupertino big additionally plans to increase the refreshed look to tvOS and watchOS 11.
The brand new design language gained’t introduce a steep studying curve. As an alternative, it would give the whole lot a extra fashionable feel and appear.
Whereas bringing the visionOS-style to its different working programs, Apple may also enhance visionOS. The OS powering the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset “will get some changes — in instances the place the modifications make sense for a headset.” So, don’t count on something radical, however there ought to nonetheless be some tweaks.
Apple’s AI fashions will come to third-party apps
As Gurman beforehand reported, Apple will permit third-party builders to combine and use its LLMs of their apps. This could permit extra highly effective apps to hit the App Retailer and assist iOS apps differentiate themselves.
Regardless of Apple trailing its rivals in AI improvement, giving builders entry to its LLMs might assist it to face out.
This could be the corporate’s greatest Apple Intelligence-focused announcement at WWDC25.
