Late final month we confirmed you a mock-up of what was claimed by FPT’s Jon Prosser to be the Messages app redesigned for iOS 19. Among the many modifications, softer, rounded corners for the phrase suggestion packing containers are discovered on high of the digital QWERTY keyboard, and spherical “bubbles” encircle the again arrow on the highest left and the FaceTime/Share Display menu icon on the highest proper of the display screen. Moreover, there are menus that ape the look of visionOS, and the iOS 19 mock-up contains translucent digicam controls.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman questioned the authenticity of the leaks, particularly in mild of his earlier assertion that iOS 19 can be “Essentially the most important replace” to iOS in years. However now Prosser has returned with extra photos of the subsequent main iOS construct. He says that app icons aren’t precisely spherical like in visionOShowever are formed someplace between the present design and the circle utilized in watchOS and visionOS.
It appears as if Apple will add extra depth and shadows to menus and transferring the iPhone display screen will make some components shimmer. As Prosser notes, this helps the weather look as if they’re fabricated from glass. The App Retailer bar will float as a brand new UI surfaces while you faucet the Search tab. The search area on the Messages app will transfer to the underside of the display screen.
A video launched by Prosser reveals what he calls “essentially the most full construct of
iOS 19 but.” He provides that it’s the closest factor to a last construct that you will see earlier than Apple previews the brand new cellular working system at WWDC 2025 coming this June. Earlier than you click on on the video, be warned. The primary jiffy proceed the continued battle between Prosser and Gurman. Truly, it all the time seems to be Prosser towards Gurman because the latter has by no means left any indication that he is aware of Jon is alive. However that is one other story for one more day.
What’s essential is that Prosser did replace his new mock-ups to incorporate the rounder (however not completely spherical) app icons that he says Apple was hiding behind the old-style app icons in earlier take a look at variations of iOS 19. Apple did this to stop the brand new look from leaking out within the case that somebody leaves a tool with a take a look at model of iOS 19 at a bar in San Jose. However I am simply babbling; one thing like that would by no means occur. Or may it?
Away from the revamped working system, Prosser’s video notes that there’s one massive change coming to the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max digicam. It’s a characteristic that Samsung first launched in 2013 on the Galaxy S4. It permits customers to report video from their front and back cameras concurrently. That is what passes as progress typically by Apple.
Did Prosser and his sources nail it this time? We would know by the point the Keynote is over.
