iOS 6 icons are full of personality, distinguishable and is a signature of iOS. It's like you took one look and you know those icons came from an iOS device
I’m predicting skeuomorphic designs will come back as we’ve been stuck with flat designs for a decade now. Maybe it will be neomorphic, a combination between fake and realistic.
There is two different clock icons in iOS 6. The one shown here and a grey and white one which utilized the Swiss railway clock design. That one was only used on iPads.
Back in times, there were the need of make it *most detailed and good-looking possible* Now, we are reduces to sad simple geometric icons... *...GLORY TO THE PAST!* - an Android user
You would think that iOS 16 was the old version and that iOS 6 was the new one. Think back to the original Macintosh icons and the design progress they reached by OS X.
I don’t understand all the talk about oversimplification. I’m indifferent to it. On one hand, I think they did looked better before but on the other had, It’s really the companies choice and at this point I don’t see why they would go back. As times change I can see them changing them again, but not back to skeuomorphism.