An unreleased iPhone multitasking interface, unseen for over a decade and a half, was brought back to life with the help of AI and emulation.
An unreleased Expose-like multitasking design has surfaced once again, with the help of AI.
Before the iPhone got the app switcher we all know and love, Apple made multitasking available through a sliding drawer that popped up at the bottom of the screen. However, the company experimented with a much more impressive design, showing open apps as on-screen cards.
After AppleInsider described an Expose-like interface in early 2010, a special build of iOS 4 was discovered on an iPhone 4 prototype the very next year. In the decade that followed, nobody had ever showcased the card-like multitasking design – until an emulator developer used AI to bring the scrapped UI back to life.