Your iPhone is going to get a fresh new look, according to Mark Gurman — he reports that iOS 18 is going to be a massive design refresh over iOS 17. He doesn’t go into specifics, alas, but he then goes on to say that MacOS is getting a revamp, too.
Interestingly, he also says that the new iOS design is not going to look like visionOS, something that many had suspected might come to pass. He claims that work has been done on the redesign for some time now and that while the macOS redesign is going to take its time getting to us, we’ll see iOS sooner rather than later.
New iOS look?
Gurman says that iOS is going to come around this summer, although there are suggestions that te update will not be as impressive as some of the large visual updates that came before, such as iOS 6 to iOS 7.
The macOS part of the revamp is reportedly going to take a little longer coming to the best Macs, apparently making its way to us in 2025 or 2026.
Further on, the newsletter says that updates to either aren’t going to look like the fresh and new visionOS. Instead, Apple will be looking at solidifying the visual identity of its other OS platforms, and bringing a more interesting upgrade to the table.
This would be the first time in a number of years that iOS and iPadOS will have been given a significant new look, the last major redesign being iOS 7 in 2013. That saw the skeuomorphic icons of iOS of old moving out and in with the flatter appearance that we know and love now.
We won’t know for sure until Apple unveils both — and with WWDC on the horizon, we’ll get a glimpse of this new iOS design soon.
