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Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide’s co-founder for its design team
Sebastiaan de With, the co-founder of Lux which makes iPhone photo and video apps like Halide and Kino, said 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 2016, he did design work for Sony, T-Mobile, and Mozilla.
“So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products,” de With said in a post on X.
Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple. So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️ pic.twitter.com/9gzU4ziIJ7
Meanwhile, Sandofsky said in a Reddit post that Halide will still be developed by Lux. The company today released a public preview of 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 didn’t get the glowing reviews the company probably expected, and Apple’s chief of user interface design, Alan Dye, left for Meta, in December.
And last week, Bloomberg reported that John Ternus, who is in line to be Tim Cook’s successor, took over hardware and software design towards the end of last year.
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