iPadOS 19’s Mac-like features leaked, and it’s nothing groundbreaking

Reports preceding WWDC 2025 say Apple will make big software design changes this summer. iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16 will look very similar. VisionOS design elements might make it into all these operating systems.

We saw concepts of purported iOS 19 apps that show what the iPhone's operating system will look like. If these are accurate, we're going to get menus with curved corners, circular buttons, and lots of translucency in the UI.

iPadOS 19 will mimic those UI changes, of course. But the iPad will also get to behave more like a Mac, the same leaks said. As I explained before, Apple has no choice but to make the iPad and Mac work similarly, if not outright merging. You can't release a foldable iPad/Mac before that software convergence happens.

A new leak gives us some of the first purported iPadOS 19 changes coming this year to make the iPad work more like the Mac. The iPad will get a menu bar at the top like the Mac, and multitasking is getting a Stage Manager 2.0 update.

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