

The new look, featuring flatter icons, a new slide-to-unlock function, and new animations, was described by Ive as "profound and enduring beauty in simplicity". IOS 7 introduced a completely redesigned user interface, a design credited to a team led by Apple's former senior vice president of design, Jony Ive. It was succeeded by iOS 8 on September 17, 2014. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2013, and was released on September 18 of that year. IOS 7 is the seventh major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 6.

Obsolete, limited third party app support The mobile OS from a whole new perspective. Proprietary EULA, except for open-source componentsĪpple - iOS 7 at the Wayback Machine (archived September 8, 2014)
