iOS 18 will appear like Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, says foolish rumor

Mockup of visonOS on an iPhone (Supply: William Gallagher)

It isn’t as if Apple is in opposition to introducing frequent options throughout its platforms — iPad widgets got here to the Mac in 2023, as an illustration. And you may’t spend years designing one OS with out studying classes that may then be utilized to the others.

But this new rumor from Hebrew-language publication The Verifier says that Apple is going to take the options seen in visionOS and rework iOS to be the identical.

“The visionOS working system is the mannequin that Apple makes use of to replace the person interface on the iPhone,” says the location, in translation. “The menus, built-in apps, Safari and extra, will all be up to date with a contemporary design.”

This appears to be based mostly much less on any inside info, and extra on how Apple just lately redesigned its TV app on Apple TV 4K. That redesign brings a really barely translucent columnar menu bar, which The Verifier says is just like the controls on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

“The brand new floating menu additionally involves the iPad,” says the publication. That at the very least makes extra sense than on an iPhone the place the narrower display screen means a floating — and by implication movable — menu has little room to maneuver.

It is as if The Verifier believes that because the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional has come out, shocked iOS designers have been hurrying to catch up. It is as if the publication believes that Apple is so eager on how its headset OS works that it is eager to take it from maybe 200,000 customers, and put it in entrance of a billion iPhone house owners.

Apple’s iOS designers have had years to see what Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’ visionOS seems to be like, in the event that they have not in reality been engaged on it for that entire time.

The visionOS software program in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional may be very spectacular. It has gaze detection so it is aware of whenever you’re taking a look at it, and it will possibly reply to gestures made in empty air.

Nonetheless, when you take away the weather which are particular to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional like this gesture- and gaze-detection, what’s left is a poor expertise.

The apps in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s residence display screen are iPad ones, until they’re native, however the best way they’re displayed is extra akin to the Apple Watch. They’re spherical icons, organized in what’s nearer to a honeycomb than a grid, and you may’t rearrange them.

Apple might change all of its app icons to spherical, however it will make no useful enchancment and even distinction to how the apps are used. Equally, it might add extra translucent drop down menus, however even The Verifier says that was within the Apple TV app earlier than it was in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

What Apple couldn’t take from Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional to the iPhone is the headset’s key capability to put home windows anyplace across the person.

So it is just the weakest parts of visionOS that could possibly be redeployed on the iPhone.

Something might occur and it is anticipated that one thing will, since reviews declare that iOS 18 will characteristic a major redesign. Extra typically, that is stated to be as a result of Apple will introduce extra AI options into Siri, although.

However the notion that with none person profit it, the iPhone will copy the spherical apps and translucent menus of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is absurd.

We’re not rating the iOS 18 redesign rumor as unlikely as a result of we expect the revamp is not going to occur. We’re ranking this explicit report from this explicit publication as unlikely, as a result of getting the fitting reply from the incorrect math would not get you an identical credit score as an entire and proper reply, begin to end.