iOS 27 will be presented in a few daysand rumors indicate that the update will bring new design changes, big and small, to a variety of iPhone apps. This is what’s coming.
Major Design Changes: Camera and Imaging Playground
According to Mark Gurman’s report, two iPhone apps will get the biggest design updates in iOS 27: Camera and Image Playground.
Apple redesigned the Camera app in iOS 26, but Gurman says even more changes are coming in iOS 27. he writes:
Apple Inc. plans to update its Camera app, making the software fully customizable as part of a broader set of user interface changes that will be included in its next iPhone software update. With the new approach, users will be able to choose which features appear in the Camera app and where they are located.
In addition to being “fully customizable,” the camera will add a new Siri mode for visual intelligence features.
Image Playground is another app that is undergoing major design changes. Gurman says “has been completely redesigned in iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27.”
Updates to Image Playground reportedly include a redesign of the gallery and optimization of controls when creating new images or editing existing ones.
Minor design updates: Find My, Weather and Safari
There are at least three other apps receiving design updates in iOS 27, albeit in minor ways: Find My, Weather, and Safari.
Here’s a preview of what’s coming, by Bloomberg:
- find my: “subtle visual update in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, including new icons in the tab bar.”
- Climate: “the new ‘Conditions’ panel on the home page for a particular city… allows the user to see data points beyond temperature, including information on rain and wind”
- Safari: “new home page with four tabs at the top to more easily move between favorites, bookmarks, a reading list of saved articles, and browsing history”
As with every major operating system update, iOS 27 is likely to have a variety of other smaller design tweaks and improvements to other apps.
Liquid Glass improvements will also affect most applications
iOS 27 isn’t expected to make any major changes to Liquid Glass, but some improvements are coming.
One change involves the tab bar. In iOS 26, Apple split search into the bottom right corner of apps, separate from the tab bar. But iOS 27 will reportedly reintegrate search with the other browsing tabs. Bloomberg mention This affects the Music, TV, Podcasts, News, and Health apps, but will likely apply to all apps.
However, we expect more improvements from Liquid Glass in addition to the tab bar update, and any system-level changes could also affect Apple’s built-in apps.
What new design changes do you hope iOS 27 brings to Apple apps? Let us know in the comments.
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