It’s still months away from its introduction and even longer until its arrival, but at the moment iOS 18 is already aiming to be one of the most exciting updates in years, but its entire history, the iPhone operating system. As Tim Cook himself indicated in a recent presentation of the results, artificial intelligence will play a key role for Apple in 2024, and for months there have been quite a few leaks warning us that iOS 18 will not be the only one. In this respect, the main character, but yes, the main character.

For some time now, many of Apple’s engineering teams They focused in particular on the Apple Vision Pro, a PC/Augmented Reality 3D viewer introduced last June that went on sale in the United States a week ago today. And on the other hand, in Cupertino, they also had to get their act together in terms of artificial intelligence after 2023, when many technology companies focused on this technology, while Apple seemed to leave it aside. the fact that there are reports that they are already working on it.

This combination translates, as has also been expected for several months, into the iPhone 16 being a minor update, which, while not officially confirmed, has already penalized Apple’s stock market price (which remains spectacular, however). And what can Apple do about it? Well further reinforce iPhone’s image of innovation through softwareand in this regard, the visual side plays quite an important role.

That’s where a striking rumor from MacRumors fits in, and quite well, and which, yes, we have to take with some skepticism, since its source has a history of success, but also of failure, in providing information about Apple. And what do they tell us? So Apple will bring design elements from visionOS, Apple’s Vision Pro operating system, to iOS 18to which it will add some other element from other operating systems in the house, such as the new Apple TV app navigation bar from tvOS 17.2.

For several years now, especially after abandoning skeuomorphism, Apple has been striving for cleaner and simpler designs and has set a precedent for the rest of the industry in this regard. With this change though will again tend towards denser patterns, with shadow boxes, depth, etc. And that makes me somewhat question whether this rumor is real or not. But it is true that Apple revises its visual paradigm from time to time and may have decided to focus on the visionOS experience at this time.