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Apple starts updating its App Store apps for iOS 7, starting with Apple Store & AirPort Utility apps

On top of our running list of apps being updated for iOS 7 today, Apple too is preparing for the release of iOS 7 later today with updates to its own apps. The latest to get support for iOS 7 is Apple’s AirPort Utility app, which allows users to manage their Wi-Fi networks and AirPort Base stations such as AirPort Express and AirPort Time Capsule.

Apple has also updated its Apple Store app today with optimizations for iOS 7 and “a refined user interface.” Not only has the app been given a new iOS 7 style icon, but the UI has also been refreshed to offer a cleaner, flatter design that fits in with iOS 7 (as pictured in the screenshots above). The updated app continues to offer free content in form of app and iBook downloads as part of Apple’s retail sales push that we reported last month.

Although Apple announced that its biggest apps– Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iPhoto, and iMovie– would become free for new iPhone customers starting this month, it has yet to update the apps for iOS 7 with refreshed user interfaces. Other Apple apps that haven’t received a makeover for iOS 7 yet include: Garageband, iTunes U, Find My Friends, Remote, Podcasts, and iBooks.

Version 2.8 of the Apple Store app is available on the App Store now alongside Version 1.3.2 of Apple’s AirPort Utility for iPhone and iPad.

iBooks has also been updated with iOS and iCloud-related compatibility fixes, but it has not been redesigned (yet.)

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Comments

  1. Michael C. Mahtin - 11 years ago

    Looks like Pandora now as well!

  2. James Cox - 11 years ago

    On the new iCloud, the iWork icons have lost the gloss and now have flat gradients. Not a big change, I know, but I think they’ll use them for the iOS apps.

  3. Daniel Raymond - 11 years ago

    No update for Remote yet !!!!

  4. Lachel Ardi Rupin - 11 years ago

    Hey, so, the free apps are only for iPhones? Like the iPhoto, is it going to be free for iPads as well?

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Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s Logic Pros series.


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