MacworldAs whinged last week, Im not expecting much at WWDC 2025 this June. Im sick of Apple Intelligence and depressed by the likelihood it will dominate the conversation for a second year in a row. But theres another potential topic that scares me even more: the rumored iOS 19 redesign.In fact, the degree to which Apple will revamp iOSs look (and potentially navigational elements) this year is the subject of some dispute. Last month leaker king Mark Gurman described iOS 19 as the biggest redesign since iOS 7, and predicted that controls, icons, buttons, even user interface dynamics and mechanisms would all be altered to achieve greater consistency between iOS and macOS. Thats before we even get to system-wide glassy effects and rejiggering some applications for a new generation of users to better understand.That sounds pretty major. But Jon Prosser, who is more of a leaker jester, promptly showed off alleged screenshots of iOS 19 and insisted that the changes wouldnt amount to very much at all. And Gurman responded to that response by saying the screenshots werent representative and that the operating system wasnt finished yet. It all became rather tit for tat. Is iOS 19 changing radically, or is it staying essentially the same? Right now we dont know.Personally, I hope its the latter. When it comes to operating system interfaces, the means by which we navigate tech devices on a daily basis, sudden radical change is generally a bad idea. It should only happen when it absolutely has to.Take that iOS 7 update mentioned by Gurman, a less-than-positive experience for the vast majority of iPhone users. WWDC might seem like a big deal to members of the Apple media complex, but most iPhone owners didnt watch the keynote that summer and didnt know what was coming. Hence, the total aesthetic overhaul, complete with new app icons and garish color palette, came as a terrible shock, and search traffic for terms like how to go back to iOS 6 spiked on Macworld for weeks afterwards. It didnt help that focusing so much on the broad design language meant factors like productivity and motion sickness went unconsidered, but the looks alone would have ensured a mixed reception regardless.We can debate about whether it was a better or worse design than iOS 6 (and do bear in mind that the initial launch was especially garish, and was toned down in later versions), but above all, it was different: radically, suddenly, and disconcertingly different. When an interface is different its hard to get things done because all the signposts you use to orient yourself have changed. You become slow, cautious, fearful. Its like being a tech newbie all over again. Its disempowering, at least in the short term.In the long term, of course, it could be argued that iOS 7s changes were necessary and positive. For one thing, it makes sense that a device might need a thorough interface revamp six years after launch, given the impossibility of getting everything right first time and the difference in context between a groundbreaking new device for early adopters and a mature blockbuster. Furthermore, the iPhones original interface created for a less digitally literate era that liked note-taking apps to look like physical notepadshad outgrown its purpose. Apple could have handled the transition more sensitively, but I would agree that skeuomorphisms time had run out and change was necessary.But if Apple feels it necessary to rebuild the very foundations of iOS at this stage, a full 18 years into the products lifecycle, my first three questions would all be variants of, Oh God, why? And then my fourth question would be Why didnt you do this years ago? Like, maybe in 2013, when you were changing things anyway. Because as bad as major interface change can be, its a whole lot better than repeated major interface change.Still, it might not be as bad as Im making out. If Jon Prosser is right and Mark Gurman is wrong, we should be looking instead at gentle iterative change, which is the only form of change an operating system of this age should go through. Which will free up Craig Federighi to spend most of WWDC25 talking about Apple Intelligence, and allow me to sleep in peace.The only problem is that this relies on the accuracy of a man who once claimed Apple was going to rebrand iOS as iPhoneOS, and got another prediction so badly wrong that he had to shave off his eyebrows. So you can probably see why Im not looking forward to WWDC.FoundryWelcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. 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