At its event this morning in Cupertino, Apple announced that iOS 7 will be available to everyone beginning on. iOS 7 was first announced back at WWDC in June, and has spent the last three months in a developer-only (wink, wink) Beta testing mode. Apple’s Craig Federighi just announced that iOS 7 will be available to the masses on September 18.
As expected, the update will be available for the iPhone 4 and later, the iPad 2 and later, the iPad mini, and the 5th gen iPod touch.
“Since we make updates easy, and available to as many customers as possible,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “iOS 7 will quickly become the world’s most popular mobile operating system.”
If you’ve somehow missed it, iOS 7 is a pretty massive departure from iOS’ past iterations. Almost every core visual of the OS — from the icons, to the typography, to the overall style itself — has been changed, moving from the look we’ve grown accustomed to over the past 6 years to something quite different. Gone are the gradients, the drop shadows, and the heavy use of texture; instead, iOS 7′s design language focuses on a degree of minimalism, with a focus on bold color and simple lines.
We did a deeper look at everything that was new to iOS 7 back when the update was first announced.
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