Sebastian de With, co-founder of Lux, which makes iPhone photo and video apps halide And KinoSaid on Wednesday that he has joined Apple’s design team.
This is De With’s second stint with Apple, where he previously worked on iCloud and Find My. Before co-founding Lux with Ben Sandofsky in 2016He did design work for Sony, T-Mobile, and Mozilla.
“I am so excited to be working with the best team in the world on products we love,” said de With. a post on x.
Meanwhile, Sandofsky said in a reddit Post that Halide will still be developed by Lux. The company released today a public preview The new version of the app, Halide Mark III, and said it is focusing on “looks”, a feature that will recreate the aesthetics of film cameras.
De With joins Apple at a time of significant changes in the division. The liquid glass design introduced with iOS 26 did not receive as good reviews as the company probably hoped, and Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, off to metaIn December.
And last week, bloomberg John Ternes, who is in line to succeed Tim Cook, was reported to have taken over hardware and software design late last year.
