On April 11, according to Bloomberg Mark Gurman news, the iOS 16 system codenamed "Sydney" will be released at WWDC 2022 in early June this year, and the system will not have too many redesigned elements in the UI interface, but has made "major improvements" to functions such as notifications and health tracking.
According to the screenshot of the iOS 16 system UI desktop exposed by netizens, we can see that the icon of the new system has been redesigned, and the overall is consistent with iOS 15, but each icon has added a lot of projection, which looks more three-dimensional, and seems to have returned to the era of skeuomorphism.
However, Xiao Lei found that the Dock bar in the screenshot has more obvious traces of "magic reform", the icon style is not very uniform, and the power of the status bar is also displayed as a percentage, looking very not "Apple", which may be the result of the "magic reform" after a netizen jailbreaks the iOS system.
Previously, it was revealed that Apple will launch an interactive widget "InfoShack" in iOS 16, also known as a "big component", and users can directly operate on the component, such as adjusting the brightness. This reminds Xiao Lei of the widget on the vivo mobile phone Origin OS, equivalent to a 0-level menu, the user can perform simple operation without opening the App or check the weather and other messages, very convenient, this change is still more practical than changing the icon.
iOS 16 to improve the larger notification part, Xiao Lei expects Apple to add similar to the Android notification customization, such as setting the notification priority, or different App notifications with different notification ringtones, convenient for users to distinguish, so that we can more intuitively hear from the sound of WeChat and other Apps push.
As for health tracking, Apple may make more detailed and intuitive changes in health records and analysis, or give more professional exercise advice, dietary advice, etc., or strengthen data sharing between relatives. Xiao Lei believes that as the monitoring functions supported by Apple Watch become more and more abundant, Apple health tracking will also be improved accordingly.
Then again, iOS has not made major changes for several years, in addition to the recent fire of the general control, etc., on the whole there is still not much change, the user call recording is very high, the global side return gesture, small window, application double and other small functions are still not given, quite a pity. Now that the Android system is already very strong in terms of humanization, I hope that iOS will not squeeze toothpaste, and hurry up to keep up.