Your iPhone Home Screen Could Look Entirely Different Very Soon

Don’t get too comfortable with the look of your iPhone app screen with the latest iOS 18 update. One of our most reliable sources for Apple rumors and leaks said the next iPhone update won’t just offer users a way to tint their app icons, like iOS 18 offered. Apple reportedly aims to rework how you use and navigate the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Strangely enough, the new design will supposedly take cues from the red-headed stepchild of Apple’s hardware lineup, the Vision Pro. Apple could show off these new layouts at WWDC, which normally takes place in June. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, based on anonymous sources, apps could appear in circular icons with translucent panels, very much like they currently appear in the app menu on Vision Pro’s visionOS 2. The goal is to make everything look and function more consistently across Apple’s three main product lines: iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I hate to be that guy, but circular app icons sound like what Android has going on. We’ll have to ... Read full article.