Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide’s co-founder for its design team

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Sebastiaan de With, the co-founder of Lux which makes iPhone photograph and video apps similar Halide and Kino, said connected Wednesday that helium has joined Apple’s plan team.

This is de With’s 2nd stint with Apple, wherever helium antecedently worked connected iCloud and Find My. Before co-founding Lux with Ben Sandofsky successful 2016, helium did plan enactment for Sony, T-Mobile, and Mozilla.

“So excited to enactment with the precise champion squad successful the satellite connected my favourite products,” de With said successful a station connected X.

Meanwhile, Sandofsky said successful a Reddit station that Halide volition inactive beryllium developed by Lux. The institution contiguous released a nationalist preview of the caller mentation of the app, Halide Mark III, and said it is focusing connected “Looks,” a diagnostic that volition recreate the aesthetics of movie cameras.

De With joins Apple astatine a clip of important changes successful the division. The Liquid Glass plan introduced with iOS 26 didn’t get the glowing reviews the institution astir apt expected, and Apple’s main of idiosyncratic interface design, Alan Dye, left for Meta, successful December.

And past week, Bloomberg reported that John Ternus, who is successful enactment to beryllium Tim Cook’s successor, took implicit hardware and bundle plan towards the extremity of past year.

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