Can iOS 19 turn the tide? Despite Apple’s recent hiccups, there are reasons to be excited. The leaks point to a notable overhaul which takes its vision of visionos, the operating system has cooked in the High-Tech Vision Pro of Apple helmet, giving many iPhone owners their first overview of the new generation software of Apple.
We are also talking about fascinating tools focused on productivity. With iOS 19, your iPhone could double as a second portable screen for your Mac, while the iPad will continue to evolve into a real laptop alternative.
Here is everything we know about iOS 19, including its release date, its features and its design.
There is not yet an official launch date, but Apple generally deploys iOS updates in stages – starting with a beta version of the developer during its WWDC event (confirmed from June 9 to 13), followed by a public version in September alongside the new iPhone.
The WWDC 2025 logo teases the new iOS 19 design with its transparent numbering
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But we may not get all major changes at a time. Mark Gurman de Bloomberg suggests that IOS 19 upgrades will gradually be published, as is the way in which Apple’s intelligence has been introduced in the phases in iOS 18. This indicates a liberation cycle traced for iOS 19 as a whole.
According to the veteran apple leakage brand Gurman, iOS 19 will represent “one of the most dramatic software revisions” that the company has ever attempted. Here is what he has in store:
Using your iPhone as a second screen
Currently, there is no official way to use your iPhone as a second screen for your Mac – unless you are ready to fight with awkward third -party applications. But, it is about to change with iOS 19.
Apple will soon allow you to connect recent iPhone models to your Mac using a USB-C cable, and they will not simply reflect your screen as they do now. Instead, you can use your iPhone as an extended screen, a bit like you would for a monitor (although a much smaller scale).
Apple currently allows you to reflect the screen of your iPhone on your Mac, but it could soon act as an extensive display.
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Why bother? Well, you can’t take your external instructor with you when you leave the house. And, the iPhone is always ideal for multitasking on several applications, increasing productivity in the process. For example, you could be on a zoom call on your main screen, while taking notes on the iPhone using your MacBook to type even faster. And, thanks to the massive size of iPhone Pro Max models, with their 6.9 -inch screens, you now have more screen space than ever.
Admittedly, this still does not seem as rationalized as the use of an iPad with Sidecar; A wireless function that transforms the tablet into a second screen for your Mac with support for the touch screen. It is also not advanced that Samsung Dex, which allows you to use your Samsung Galaxy phone as a desktop computer by simply connecting it to a monitor.
However, for Apple fans who seek to make the most of their expensive iPhones, it is the best thing.
iPad inches closer to MacBook territory
The rumor of the second iPhone screen comes from Tech Leaker Majinbu, who spent the best part of this year sharing replicas of the alleged iPhone 17.
They also claim that iPados 19 will make the iPad to feel even more as a proper replacement for laptop. With the software update installed, an iPad with a magic keyboard will obtain a modified interface with a new macOS style menu bar at the top.
Adduant to Apple’s thrust for greater experience of the desktop computer type, the new software is also defined to introduce the 2.0 stage manager – a multitasking mode that activates automatically when a keyboard is connected. Based on the original function, which allows you to resize, ride and switch between several applications, the new version promises more fluid and more intuitive window management.
iOS 19 at a glance: new features revealed
- Use your iPhone as a wide screen for your Mac via USB-C, improving movement on the go.
- A macOS style menu bar on iPads with a magic keyboard, pushing the device closer to a laptop replacement.
- Internship Manager 2.0 will improve multitasking on iPads, providing management of applications and smoother windows when a keyboard is connected.
- IOS 19 will offer a new design, including rounded application icons, glassy buttons and applications with a lower pill -shaped navigation bar.
- The Camera application will obtain a complete viewfinder with transparent controls and quick access options for settings.
- Siri will be smarter and more personalized, winning the possibility of modifying and sharing photos, although a full upgrade can take until 2027.
More broadly, iOS 19 will offer a new look, reworked icons and a redesigned arrangement. It is difficult to remember the last time that iPhones underwent such a transformation – more than a decade with iOS 7 in 2013 ago.
The new interface would be inspired by the Visionos software used in the Vision Pro Helmet – £ 3,499 of mixed reality, which few have known because of its high price.
Visionos arrangement and interfaces could serve as inspiration for iOS 19
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In a word, it has a floating window system positioned in your field of view, such as opening several applications on a laptop. But, iOS 19 is more likely to borrow its global design language, including glassy buttons and interfaces with rounded conceptions and circular application icons (as opposed to rounded squares that we have now), certain applications earning a background navigation bar.
We had an early overview of the overhaul of rumors thanks to a model of the new camera interface shared by YouTube Channel Front Page Tech.
The revised arrangement has a complete viewfinder, with parameters and commands nestled in a transparent bar at the bottom. Taping it reveals quick access options such as video and spatial timers while pro levels of pro levels such as the resolution and frequency of images are now easily accessible at the top of the screen.
The redesigned camera application that imitates visionos, via front page tech
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Apple’s iOS 19 redesign will come to iPads and iPhones and will also be reflected in part in the style of macos macos.
Finally, Apple could finally be ready to deliver a smarter and more personalized Siri with iOS 19.
According to the New York Times, sources familiar with the company’s plans indicate that a more competent digital assistant – with the possibility of modifying and sending photos on order, among other actions – could happen this fall.
Siri could finally start her transformation into a chatgpt style assistant with iOS 19.
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Initially planned for iOS 18, the functionality has been postponed due to engineering obstacles, persistent insects and internal concerns concerning its preparation. The delay has also seen an upheaval of leadership, the surveillance of Siri passing by the head of the AI John Giannandrea to Mike Rockwell, the executive behind the vision of vision pro.
Apple confirmed in March that updates should be deployed “in the coming year”, but Mark Gurman de Bloomberg warns that the Siri entirely altered in a chatgpt type which was initially promised could not arrive before 2027 at the earliest.
