Thursday, June 20, 2013

The iOS 7 for iPad simulator shows us a good idea of what we might expect when the mobile OS hits the iPad. We already have an idea of what iOS 7 on the iPhone looks like, the beta is widely available to developers and we have it installed on our own devices, but Apple’s plans for the iPad still remain somewhat of a mystery. We published a handful of screenshots from the newtablet-bound operating system this morning, and now there’s even more to share, thanks to a developer named Sonny Dickson and 9to5Mac.
Thankfully the simulator gives us a glimpse of what we can expect when Apple does indeed release iOS 7 for the iPad. No, this isn’t the final version — it’s unofficial — and we bet that Apple will make a lot of tweaks to take advantage of the additional screen real estate that an iPad offers. We imagine Apple will walk us through all of the features when it introduces its next iPad, presumable sometime in the early fall.