Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of Lux which makes iPhone photo and video app like Halida and badsaid someone has joined Apple’s design team.
This is de With’s second stint with Apple, where he previously worked on iCloud and Find Me. Before co-founding Lux with Ben Sandofsky in 2016he has done design work for Sony, T-Mobile, and Mozilla.
“So excited to work with the very best team in the world on your favorite product,” de With said post on X.
Meanwhile, Sandofsky said in a Reddit post that Halide will still be developed by Lux. The company today released public preview of the new version of the app, Halide Mark III, and said to focus on “Look”, a feature that will recreate the aesthetics of film cameras.
De With joined Apple at a time of significant change in the division. The Liquid Glass design introduced with iOS 26 didn’t get the glowing reviews the company was hoping for, and Apple’s chief user interface design, Alan Dye, go to Metain December.
And last week, Bloomberg reported that John Ternus, who would succeed Tim Cook, took over hardware and software design late last year.