Following rumors that Apple may be developing real, customizable widgets for the first time in iOS 14, we showed you gorgeous conceptual renderings, created by Parker Ortolani, which imagine how these widgets might look and work on the Home screen. Here's another concept that imagines bringing Apple Watch complications from watchOS to the iPhone and iPad.
iOS has had widgets for quite some time now. Widgets are snippets of code that provide timely information from your favorite apps at a glance, like News and Stocks, but they're limited to the Today view overlay accessibly by swiping right over the Home screen, Lock screen or while looking at notifications. With iPadOS, widgets can now also live on the Home screen. A new concept attempts to imagine what the rumored Home screen widgets in iOS 14 might look like.
Toronto-Ontario based designer Iskander Utebayev took it upon himself to imagine what a clamshell-folding iPhone might function. His vision for a foldable iPhone may have taken certain cues from recent clamshell devices such as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip and Motorola's resurrected Razr, but it's on a whole new level of intuitiveness.
We've been hearing some complaints lately about multitasking on iPad which, for all its advantages and advancements, hasn't really reached a point where average users could figure out that stuff on their own to multitask like pros. Honestly, it's a convoluted mess. Such harsh criticism is grounded in facts, and that's precisely why this deceptively simple iPad multitasking concept has been making rounds in the past couple of days.
Moscow-based designer Misha Petrick, who runs the Russian animation studio Petrick, took it upon himself to imagine what Instagram would look like on Microsoft's Windows 95 as a native app, creating convincing mockups that you need to see to appreciate attention to detail.
Anytime you jailbreak an iOS device, one of the first things you’re ever advised to do is change your handset’s root password, which is commonly used to access elevated privileges in mobile terminal when entering complex commands. The password is always “alpine” out of the box, but users can change this to almost anything they want to increase their handset's security from a commonly-known password.
As imperative as changing the root password may be, many jailbreakers either forget to do so or shrug off its importance. For that reason, we’re particularly fond of a sleek concept that was shared to /r/jailbreak over the weekend that rethinks the way jailbreakers will interact with their root password after jailbreaking their handset for the first time.
Apple will preview iOS 13 next Monday, but that's not stopping various concepts from hitting our inbox. Today, we feature the latest concept from Michael Calcada, a Toronto-based UI/UX designer who has some nice ideas for how Apple could address some of the longest-standing user paint points, like lacking notification features and limited customization.
On June 3, Apple is going to host its keynote speech for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference. At that event, we're likely to see the company announce iOS 13, the next big update for the mobile operating system. Ahead of that, concept artists and designers envision what it could all look like.
Apple may be working on an augmented reality headset said to sport dual 8K displays, custom chips and an operating system and other perks, with potential release at the end of 2019.
Apple is expected to release the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR successors in the fall and much of the debate has thus far focused on that massive rectangular-shaped camera bump that we saw on CAD renderings. One designer has put together some cool mockups imagining the next iPhone with a minimal camera bump and a notch-less appearance thanks to a hole-punch display like we saw on the Galaxy S10 range.
A fresh batch of new iOS 13 concepts come courtesy of 3D artists Léo Vallet and Daniel Korpai who shared their mockups showing off some of the rumored features coming to iOS 13, like an unobtrusive volume HUD, enhanced multitasking, a system-wide Dark Mode, writing iOS apps in Xcode for iPad with external monitor support, a Finder-like app for iPad and more.
A recent report claimed Apple will port the iOS Screen Time feature over to the desktop so folks could see how their computing time is spent (or wasted, depending on your point of view). The upcoming macOS 10.15 feature will probably use the company's Marzipan framework that helps developers create cross-platform apps across iPhone, iPad and Mac.