Rumor: Apple delays iOS home screen redesign

Apple is reportedly delaying several major new features, such as a redesigned Springboard for iPhones, to focus on improving the performance of current software. That reports financial news agency Bloomberg.

Reporter Mark Gurman, who has been known for years for his good sources of information about unannounced Apple software and hardware, writes on Bloomberg that Apple has postponed some of the iOS 12 updates to 2019 to focus on improvements this year. of the performance of the current firmware for iPhones and iPads.

Apple is said to have taken that step, after it had to deal with many complaints about iOS 11 in recent months. In addition to the problems about decreasing performance with aging batteries, Apple also had to fix security problems with HomeKit twice in recent months.

The manufacturer had wanted to put a newly designed home screen in iOS 12 and add multiplayer mode to games that take place in augmented reality. Those features are now likely to be postponed. Also, a Photos app with better filters to automatically sort images will only follow in 2019, says Bloomberg.

What the information seems to confirm is that Apple has made a big announcement for iOS 11.3. Normally, the manufacturer pays less attention to such smaller releases. If the American company follows the pattern of recent years, the announcement of iOS 12 will follow at its own developer conference WWDC in June, after which the release will take place in the fall.