{"id":38540,"date":"2013-04-03T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=38540"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:32:20","slug":"will-ios-7-be-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/will-ios-7-be-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Will iOS 7 be delayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jony Ive<\/strong> now leads development of Human Interface<\/strong> at Cupertino, and there are rumors that the changes he is bringing in for iOS 7<\/a><\/strong> are big enough that its development is behind schedule.<\/p>\n

Jony Ive is responsible for the clean industrial design of most Apple products, but until now he has not been in charge of how its software looks.<\/p>\n

The Daring Fireball blog suggests<\/a> that engineers from Mac OS X have been moved across to help push iOS 7 development along, which suggests both may be released later than expected.<\/p>\n

Both Mac OS X<\/strong> and iOS<\/strong> have featured a lot of ‘skeuomorphic<\/strong>‘ design up until now. Skeuomorphic design means something is made to look like a material or object it is not. The iBooks<\/strong><\/a> app is an example of this, with its wood-effect bookshelf.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jony Ive is reportedly not a fan of this style of design, which suggests the next version of iOS will have a flatter, more utilitarian look to it.<\/p>\n

The recent update of the iOS Podcasts<\/strong><\/a> app may be a an example of the kind of changes we can expect to see in iOS 7. The original design had a retro tape reel<\/strong>, echoing machines of the past. The new version, released since Jony Ive took charge, throws that skeuomorphism out replacing it with a clean, flat interface instead:<\/p>\n

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iOS 7 is expected to be released around June 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jony Ive now leads development of Human Interface at Cupertino, and there are rumors that the changes he is bringing in for iOS 7 are big enough that its development is behind schedule. Jony Ive is responsible for the clean industrial design of most Apple products, but until … Continue reading “Will iOS 7 be delayed?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-38540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t