After the information published by Bloomberg in which they talked about the new interface that would include the iPhone 8 exclusively? and multi-touch gestures to replace the absence of the home button, It did not take long for the first images to appear of how the interface of the next iPhone could be in different applications.
The rounded corners, the status bar split in two by the front sensors, the floating dock, the bottom bar to unlock the device and close the applications or open the multitasking… We can even see in a video how the floating dock that right now only the iPad enjoys in the new iPhone 8 would look like.
According to Bloomberg, the top bar will be split in two, and Apple will do nothing to hide it. Despite the fact that on black backgrounds, thanks to the new OLED screen, that gap in the screen to place the sensors will not be noticed, the white interface will highlight it. Company employees even call the two spaces on either side "ears", and those ears will be where the icons for coverage, WiFi and Battery (on the right) and the time (on the left) go. What will happen to the other icons like alarm, Bluetooth, Location, etc? We do not know if Apple will give the option to choose which icons we want to appear and which not, as we can do for example in macOS, or if they will not appear directly. According to Bloomberg, depending on the applications that we open, that status bar would change, showing different information.
This is what the floating dock looks like on an iPhone pic.twitter.com/BbKVIL7yO8
- Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) August 30
Another novelty that Apple would include in the iPhone 8 would be the floating dock. Similar to the iPad, the dock would not be anchored at the bottom, but would be "floating" in a rectangle and could even be deployed within applications, as is already the case with the iPad. Applications can be docked on the Apple tablet so that they remain fixed in the dock, and the last ones used appear on the right for quick access from anywhere. This option could also have the iPhone 8 exclusively. In fact, the video that we can see in that tweet is made with the iOS 11 simulator, it is not a concept created by anyone.
Multitasking would also change, although the data that Bloomberg gives us does not correspond to what we see in the video. According to Bloomberg, multitasking will be displayed through the gesture of swiping up to half the screen, as in the video, but the applications would appear as independent cards, as in the iPad, not as stacked cards which is how they appear right now in iOS 11 and as we can see in the video. To close the application and access the home screen we should slide from the bottom to the top of the screen.
What a shit is going to see, is what we criticize the most for iOS11 with the iPad and yet they dare to put it on the new and revolutionary iPhone