iOS 4 initially showed up almost 10 years prior as Apple’s first mobile operating system to drop the iPhone OS naming convention. A 18-year-old engineer has now affectionately recreated iOS 4 as an iPhone application, and it’s a beautiful blast from the past. In the event that you never found the chance to utilize iOS 4, or you’re an aficionado of the iPhone 3G, OldOS almost flawlessly pulls off the experience of utilizing an iPhone from 10 years prior.
OldOS is “designed to be as close to pixel-perfect as possible,” says Zane, the designer behind the application. It’s completely assembled utilizing Apple’s SwiftUI, so it includes buttery smooth animations and surprisingly the old iPhone home button that vibrates with haptic feedback to cause it to feel like a genuine button.
Apple’s implicit iOS 4 applications have additionally been recreated here, and it’s a genuine flashback to the skeuomorphic days of the iPhone at whatever point they launch. Photographs allows you to see your current camera move as you would have 10 years prior, while Notes transports you back to the yellow post-it notes of days gone by.
The just applications that don’t function as you would expect are Messages and YouTube. Apple used to package YouTube straightforwardly into its operating system, and the developer behind OldOS says there are “still some major issues with YouTube” and Messages that they’re working to fix.
All the other things is for the most part immaculate. what’s more, you can even peruse the web in the old UI of Safari. The App Store additionally list applications that will divert you to the cutting edge store to download and introduce. There are a few things that basically don’t work, including envelopes and no wiggling to adjust home screen applications.
We’ve seen this type of nostalgic app show up on the iPhone previously. Rewound dispatched in the App Store back in December 2019, transforming an iPhone into an iPod. Apple immediately pulled the application a couple of days after the fact, citing store violations.
This most recent OldOS application is accessible on Apple’s TestFlight service, which is regularly used to disperse beta versions of applications. That implies it presumably will not keep going some time before Apple protests, snatch it while you can. Zane has additionally distributed the source code for the entire project on GitHub, so in the event that you’re willing to arrange it in Xcode, it will live for eternity.