https://500ish.com/apple-telegraphs-99533a2bc7d2

“We don’t comment on future products.” That’s the line everyone who has ever covered (or read coverage about) Apple knows well. And while the company is (oddly) doing more commenting on future products in very public settings these days, Cupertino is still largely a palace of secrets. But, as always, if you look closely enough and use your imagination just a bit, you can sometimes glean what the company might be up to. Two recent software changes seem to telegraph such future plans.

The first is quite public. Literally, it’s now in public beta: iOS 12. Specifically, baked into the iPad version of the software is a new gesture control system. Apple has had gestures as a part of the iPad since the beginning, and they add new ones over time. But the ones in iOS 12 are unique in that they’re different versions of the ones that have existed in the past.