Apple prepares to introduce one of the biggest changes in its software ecosystem, According to Mark Gurman. The Bloomberg analyst points to a deep renewal of the company’s operating systems, with the intention of adapting to a new generation of users. If the information is successful, we could be facing a key evolution in its strategy.
A “revolutionary interface”. The sources point out that the deepest renewal will focus on the interface. Apple will bet on a new design of icons, menus, applications and buttons, with the aim of simplifying navigation and control of devices. The proposal will take some inspiration in the aesthetics of the system of the Vision Pro.
The objective is to achieve greater visual coherence among the different operating systems of the company. It is not a new approach: we have already seen attempts in this direction, such as the renewal of the System Settings menu, which adopted a design closer to that of iOS and Ipados. However, the transition has not been the pleasure of all, and there are still many elements that are far from maintaining uniformity.
More than design settings. Although renewal will focus on the visual section, it will not be just an aesthetic change. New functions and characteristics are likely to also arrive. In the past, Apple has introduced interactive widgetsimprovements in privacy, a password management applicationthe function IPhone duplication and Apple Intelligence. These last two, yes, are not yet available in Spain outside the beta versions.
iOS 6 (left), iOS 7 (right)
And what about Apple Intelligence? Everything indicates that Apple Intelligence will follow its own path, although not without obstacles. Its initial launch was scheduled for September 2024 with iOS 18but did not arrive until October with iOS 18.1. The plan was to continue its deployment with an improved version of Siri in 2025, capable of understanding the context and executing actions on behalf of the user. However, it has recently been known that this advance will not reach 2026.
Radical changes, not a fusion. Gurman clarifies that the company has no intention of merging its operating systems. iOS, iPados and Macos will continue to be independent platforms, maintaining their own characteristics. This differentiation, in addition to responding to functional needs, also reinforces its commercial strategy, promoting the purchase of several devices instead of depending on one.
The changes are on their way. These novelties, according to the sources, will be part of iOS 19 and iPados 19, whose code name is “Luck”, and macos 16, Internally known as “Cheer”, which will be launched at the end of this year. However, these updates are expected to be one of the key points of the WWDC25, the Annual Apple developer conference.
We have not seen such a change for years. If you have been in Apple’s ecosystem for some time, you may remember the jump from iOS 6 to iOS 7. That redesign left Skeuomorphism behind – Icon and elements that imitated real objects – to adopt a more modern approach, with flat colors, transparencies and stylized typography. Since then, the company has refined this aesthetic gradually in each version of the operating system.
In the case of macOS, another turning point arrived in 2020 with Big Sur. The icons adopted square shapes, closer to iOS, although with an exclusive design for Mac. It was a key step in the visual unification of the brand’s ecosystem.
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