Get a sneak peek at iOS 18

New Apple Sports app may contain clues.

Wanna get a sneak peek at iOS 18, which will most likely be previewed this summer at WWDC?

Download and install the Apple Sports app. It has a new, glassy floating window interface that looks a lot like the floating windows in visionOS.

Apple has long mixed and matched elements from its different operating systems, like the recently revamped macOS Control Center, which was borrowed from iPadOS.

There’s no guarantee that iOS 18 will look like visionOS, but it’s an intriguing possibility.

Here’s how to find, download and set up the new Apple Sports app.

Amusingly, most readers of this newsletter seem completely uninterested in the new Apple Sports app, according to the results of yesterday’s poll. (See below.) Who would have predicted?

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The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves, decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

— Steve Jobs, 1990.

Today’s poll

How do you feel about iOS 18 looking like visionOS?

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Results from yesterday’s poll: Which excites you more, Apple Sports app or iMessage encryption?

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