Jony Ive he has been the head of the development team for several months iOS 7, with the code name Innsbruck, and it seems that he ordered a radical change in the design of the operating system. Several people who had the opportunity to use iOS 7, or received information about it, I say that the new design resembles to a certain extent the Metro interface of Windows Phone and we are talking about a "flat" design. iOS 7 it will remove some of the "shine" of the current design, it will remove the interface elements that resemble real-world objects, the changes will also affect the way everything works.
Jony Ive intends to eliminate a good part of the elements of skeuomorphism introduced by Scott Forstall, and this leads to a change in the way many applications work in iOS. Basically, the operating system would function approximately the same, we will have to learn a new way to use it, but the changes will be numerous and in some cases radical. We are talking about design changes that affect the functionality and the way we knew the applications are used, but it is hard to say if new functions will be introduced in iOS 7.
The native applications of iOS 7 will have a new design, the tool bars will also be redesigned, the tab bars will have the same changes and they don't stop there. Apple is also testing the possible use of side swipes to access various functions of the operating system, in a manner similar to that available for trackpads and Macs, but for now it is not known if this functionality will reach iOS 7 An example is given for the expose system for displaying applications that was tested for implementation in iOS 4, but in the end the task switcher was chosen.
Basically, for iOS 7 we are expecting a lot of changes that will give us an iOS with a new interface and we will definitely have a much improved user experience. I don't know how many of you still hoped that Apple could make radical changes in iOS, but here they are. Apple is going to present iOS 7 in the framework WWDC 2013, or maybe in a conference that could take place much earlier.
