Jony Ive’s rethink of iOS ushers in a new era for the world’s favourite mobile operating system. Here’s what’s new…
If you’ve been eyeing Apple’s creaking mobile operating system askance and thinking that the venerable old workhorse needs a total overhaul, you’re in luck.Cupertino’s resident design guru Jony Ive has taken the wraps off a totally redesigned vision for iOS, calling it “unintrusive and deferential.” Tim Cook describes it as “the biggest change to iOS since iPhone.” Here’s what’s new.
New icons and fonts
As
expected, the icons have taken on a cleaner appearance, swapping out
textured designs and drop shadows for a translucence that reacts to your
movements to create layered movement for depth. The fonts too have been
rejigged, with finer, larger lettering that’s reminiscent of a
lighter-footed Windows 7.Control center and true multitasking
Apple’s taken Android’s pull-down settings shortcuts for network and screen controls and reinvented it… by moving it to the bottom of the screen. It does look pretty nifty, but it’s definitely “borrowed”. iOS 7 also hands a freer rein to third-party devs, with greater access to Apple’s core functionality and data. It might take them a while to catch up to some of Apple’s own reworked apps – Safari’s got a gorgeous new Rolodex tab browser, while Weather has had a serious graphical injection. Even Calendar is starting to look hot. And everything previews in full screen when you’re flipping through your open apps.
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