One rumored feature could make iOS 18 'the best iPhone update in years'
The iPhone always gets some welcome new features and apps when a full new version of iOS comes along, and we're soon going to get a good look at the next iteration.
At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, Apple should follow years of precedents by showing off some of the changes it's working on for iOS 18, the next major software update.
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This software will arrive alongside the iPhone 16 line-up, but we're incredibly unlikely to hear anything about the new phones at this point.
Still, iOS 18 could potentially change the game for iPhone users, and one new rumor suggests it could do more than would be expected.
Apple only quite rarely updates the actual visual design of its iPhone software - things like app logos, keyboards and in-app aesthetics.
However, this year there's a rumour circulating, first reported by MacRumors, that Apple will be giving the iPhone a bit of a facelift in software terms, all prompted by the release of Apple Vision Pro earlier this year.
The Vision Pro was revolutionary in many really obvious ways, and people who've used it extensively have all been impressed by how seamless some of its software is, but you might not have realised that it has its own look for that software, too.
This is much flatter and grayer than your current iPhone's software, and is almost designed to look like frosted glass when it floats in the air around your face.
Well, the question is whether Apple might be planning to bring that same frosted glass design to the iPhone (and eventually, by extension, the iPad and other devices).
The problem is, while there are plenty of people who are really excited by that idea, and think it could make the update the best in years, the evidence for it is looking pretty thin. One allegedly leaked image of the camera app using this redesigned look has been outed as fake, and there's not much else to go on.
So, while this might be a nice idea that some people would welcome, it would seem that we're probably most likely to be getting tweaks to the existing design language that Apple uses, rather than a rewrite.
Still, there are other parts of iOS 18 that people are rightly getting excited about.
We're not alone in thinking that simply being able to move our apps around freely on our homepage, including being able to leave gaps, is one of the most long-awaited features we could think of, for example.
There are still a few weeks to go before WWDC, though, so there's plenty of time for more leaks or rumours about it to spring up.