• Apple is preparing to change the entire look and feel of all its devices in terms of software.
• The changes will impact all Apple products in a bid to hopefully boost sales.
• According to a report, the revamped OS will look more like the Vision Pro software.

Users of Apple devices should get ready for what is being called “one of the most dramatic software overhauls” in the history of the iPhone, mac, Apple Watch, and the rest of the company’s products.

This as a Bloomberg report claims that Apple is set to completely revamp the operating systems of all of its products in a bid to transform them for “a new generation of users.”

Later this year users of Apple products will be presented with a top-down change to the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons after a decade of the current systems only being iterated upon and expanded.

The entire look and feel of the software powering Apple devices is expected to change.

According to Apple, the new design will be based on the Vision Pro operating system, that of Apple’s extremely expensive VR/AR headset.

Given that the current customer-facing experience of the Vision Pro is similar to the rest of the Apple OS ecosystem, it will be interesting to see what changes and what is kept when the revamp takes place.

But it will be beyond just UI elements and will extend to accessibility as well, as Apple will reportedly seek to make its operating systems even more simplified and easier for users to navigate and control their devices.

Apple hopes changes to devices can spur slowing sales

It looks like Apple is hoping that these changes to their device software can light a fire under consumers who have slowed on its products in recent years. This as the iPhone, traditionally Apple’s biggest product, saw its sales fall during last year’s holiday season when usually its the opposite that happens.

The iPhone, buoyed by the end-year launch of the iPhone 16 series, saw a one percent fall in revenues over the 2024 holidays, per AP News. This accompanied a disappointing launch for the series, seeing sales that were about 12 percent lower to those of the iPhone 15 series a year prior.

As Apple scrambles to get its sales back up, we noticed that the company’s strategy for 2025 so far is to re-release the same devices just with new processors, keeping the rest of the hardware exactly the same.

Such as with the M4 MacBook Air and M3 iPad Air so far.

Alongside these releases is the cheaper (but not by much) version of the iPhone 16, the iPhone 16e, which launched in South Africa late last month.

Expect changes to the OS to begin rolling out with the iOS 19 “Luck” and iPadOS 19 “Cheer” later this year.

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