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iOS 17 Speculation Thread

gwhizkids

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Kal Madda said:
As an aside, when will an iOS 18 Speculation Thread be set up? We’re not that far out from June. It would be interesting to have a place to start discussing some of the features we think will drop in iOS 18.

Now, back on topic, so far the second developer beta for iPadOS 17.4 has been running very smooth for me. 👍🏻
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This very thread - the iOS 17 Speculation Thread - was started on February 27, 2023. I'd say the beginning of March would be a good time for a new speculation thread on iOS 18. The mods will move that thread over to the new iOS 18 forums just after the WWDC keynote.

The iOS 18 Speculation thread should be pretty lively, even before WWDC, as I expect a fair number of rumors (and intentional leaks from Apple) on iOS 18.

My own suspicion is that iOS 18 will be The Big One...the one that will replace iOS 7 as the sea change version of the OS. We shall see!
 
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gwhizkids said:
My own suspicion is that iOS 18 will be The Big One...the one that will replace iOS 7 as the sea change version of the OS. We shall see!
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Well interpreting the wordage from Craig Federigh regarding iOS 18 codenamed Crystal — will have "ambitious" changes all around. Looking at the definition likely that means "Greatly desirous". So a colorized make over maybe, and the end of a dumb SiRi both things consumers might like. Using other payment plans then Apple Card might be another. ;)
 
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Realityck said:
Well interpreting the wordage from Craig Federigh regarding iOS 18 codenamed Crystal — will have "ambitious" changes all around. Looking at the definition likely that means "Greatly desirous". So a colorized make over maybe, and the end of a dumb SiRi both things consumers might like. Using other payment plans then Apple Card might be another. ;)
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I’m hoping for the pneumorphic app icons from macOS. And on iPadOS, I’d love to see a more capable Status Bar that could perhaps be a blend of the Dynamic Island and macOS Menu Bar. 👍🏻
 
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Kal Madda said:
I’m hoping for the pneumorphic app icons from macOS. And on iPadOS, I’d love to see a more capable Status Bar that could perhaps be a blend of the Dynamic Island and macOS Menu Bar. 👍🏻
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Both iOS/iPadOS 17.x wallpaper customization is minimal. Icons would change if they did provide translucent menus to show off the wallpapers. Sightly larger icons IMHO wouldn't work with iOS that well.
 
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Reverend Benny said:
I do think its getting harder to guess about releases these days, especially since security issues are more important to address these days. Sure the bigger releases are easier to make qualified guess on, but the smaller x.x.x releases are tricker.
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I’d go so far as to say that any speculation about X.x.x releases is as close to 100% guesswork as you can possibly get.
 
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Realityck said:
Both iOS/iPadOS 17.x wallpaper customization is minimal. Icons would change if they did provide translucent menus to show off the wallpapers. Sightly larger icons IMHO wouldn't work with iOS that well.
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That makes sense. I don’t think they’d have to increase the size of the icons. I agree that larger icons would look bizarre. Another thing I’m also hoping for is the ability to pin shortcuts to folders, files, playlists, etc. to the Home Screen. This is already technically possible with the Shortcuts app, but it’s a more complicated process to do this with Shortcuts than it would be if you could just copy-paste or drag and drop things onto the Home Screen. That would be an ideal implementation. I could imagine you could quickly create shortcuts to notes, files, folders, playlists, movies, etc. similar to how you can with the macOS desktop. It will be really interesting to see what iOS 18 will bring, it sounds like it will be a big update! 👍🏻
 
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Pearsey said:
I don’t think it’s too much to ask for the iOS to have the same app icons as MacOS, so there’s a global visual connection - VisonPro included.
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Yeah, I’m really hoping for the macOS app icons on iOS and iPadOS! I have noticed that some of their new app icons on iOS such as Apple Music Classical and Journal have a bit of a neumorphic design similar to the ones on macOS. The Mac app icons would look amazing on iOS and iPadOS! 👍🏻
 
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Beta 3 is out OTA

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