According to a new report by Mark Gurman by Bloomberg (who is easily the most specific journalist of Apple’s future products and features), we are in a major change later this year.
With iOS 19, iPados 19 and MacOS 16, Apple intends to introduce “one of the most dramatic software revisions in business history”, according to Gurman’s sources. The objective is to transform the interface “for a new generation of users”. For the iPhone and iPad, it will be the biggest change since iOS 7, where Apple has abandoned the skeuomorphic design language in favor of a new flat design, a changed lock screen, a control panel, and more. For MacOS, it would be the biggest change since MacOS Big on (MacOS 11) in 2020.
The company has struggled to bring its efforts to the AI to its competitors, and recently underwent a setback when it announced that its major Siri features will not arrive this year. There will certainly be new features of Apple Intelligence as part of iOS 19 and MacOS 16, but with a chain of delays repelling the most exciting things, all hopes are on a new dramatic interface to help stimulate excitation and demand.
According to the source, the interface would be based “freely” on Vision Pro software, which gives us a break – the Vision OS interface is good for a model of interaction of gaze and pinch but is rather simplistic compared to expectations for iPhones or Macs. We hope that “freely” will have a lot of weight. However, the article claims that the global objective is to make the different operating systems of Apple more coherent, instead of the discordant difference between icons, windows and interface elements that we see today.
The new interface will be unveiled at WWDC in June and should be the highest point of the new iOS and macOS. If history has taught us something, it is because it will have a mixed reception at best, because major design changes are almost always encountered at the beginning.
