The most consequential YouTube video of Jon Prosser’s career opens on Prosser himself, in a black hoodie and transparent glasses. The backdrop is familiar to viewers of his tech news channel, Front Page Tech, with warm, hanging lights and a bright white “fpt” logo behind him. Prosser stares meaningfully into the camera, and kicks the video off with just one line of introduction: “I have seen some things.”
The video debuted on January 17th, 2025, with the title “Here’s your very first look at iOS 19.” For six and a half minutes, Prosser describes an unreleased version of Apple’s iPhone software, not set to be publicly revealed for another six months. The images in the video, he’s careful to note, are re-creations of what he saw rather than the original images. But the implication is clear: Somebody showed Prosser the unreleased software. “I can say with 100 percent certainty,” he says at the end of the video, “that what I showed you is real.” Then he not-so-subtly asks his viewers to leak him even more.
In that first video, and in two others Front Page Tech published over the next three months, Prosser explained progressively more details of a long-awaited redesign for iOS, based largely on the software in the Vision Pro headset. The videos didn’t get everything right; Some of the finer details were different when Apple finally released the software in June at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The final software wasn’t even called iOS 19 — it was iOS 26. But Prosser was right about a lot of it, and about the big ideas behind the OS and the design system it was based on that Apple would call Liquid Glass. By the time June arrived, if you had seen Prosser’s videos, you already knew the big news of WWDC.
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