Apple is hiring the co-founder of iPhone camera app Halide to its design team

Sebastian de With, co-founder of Lux, which makes photo and video apps for the iPhone Halide and evilHe 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 joint establishment Lux with Ben Sandowski in 2016He has done design work for Sony, T-Mobile, and Mozilla.

“I am very excited to work with the best team in the world on my favorite products,” said De With. Share on X.

Meanwhile, Sandowski said in A Reddit After that Halide will continue to be developed by Lux. The company released today General preview Of the new version of the app, Halide Mark III, she is focusing on “Looks,” a feature that will recreate the aesthetics of film cameras.

De With joins Apple at a time of major change at the division. The Liquid Glass design introduced with iOS 26 didn’t get the great reviews the company might have expected, and Alan Day, Apple’s head of user interface design, said, Left for deadin December.

And last week, Bloomberg It was reported that John Ternos, who is set to be Tim Cook’s successor, took over the hardware and software design at the end of last year.