Age, Biography, and Wiki
Jony Ive was born on February 27, 1967, making him 58 years old as of 2025. Born in London, England, Ive is famous for his minimalist design philosophy, which has significantly influenced consumer electronics and technology aesthetics. His biography is detailed on his Wikipedia page, highlighting his career at Apple and his role in shaping iconic products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
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| Date of Birth | 27 February 1967 |
| Age | 58 Years |
| Birth Place | Chingford, London, England |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
| Country | England |
Height, Weight & Measurements
There is limited publicly available information regarding Jony Ive's height and weight. However, he is often recognized for his distinctive style and influence in the tech world.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Jony Ive is married, but specific details about his personal life and relationships are not extensively documented in the media.
His father, Michael Ive, was a silversmith who lectured at Middlesex Polytechnic, and his grandfather was an engineer. While attending secondary school, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Ive received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2009. On 25 May 2017, Ive was appointed Chancellor of the RCA in London, effective 1 July 2017, succeeding Sir James Dyson. In this position he serves a fixed five-year term as the Head of college, where he will govern the college as an academic administrator. Ive began running committee meetings, attending faculty meetings, and conferring degrees in the summer of 2017. Ive said of the appointment: "I am thrilled to formalise my relationship with the RCA, given the profound influence the college has had on so many of the artists and designers that I admire." Ive was still chancellor in January 2023.
Upon launch in 2019, Apple was a client of Ive’s. In July 2022, the consulting agreement with Apple was ended, thus ending Ive's relationship with the company.
While he was attending secondary school at Walton High School in Stafford he met his future wife, British writer Heather Pegg in 1987. They have two sons. His family resides in the Pacific Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, California. Their home was purchased for US$17 million in 2012. While at Apple, Ive commuted an hour and a half from San Francisco to Cupertino every day. He said in 2014 that if his work at Apple ever became substandard, he would "make things for [himself], for [his] friends at home instead". Ive also owns a house in the Cotswolds.
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2025, Jony Ive's net worth is estimated to be around $2 billion to $4 billion, depending on the source. This significant wealth came largely from his tenure at Apple, where he earned substantial salaries and stock options. Additionally, his recent sale of his company, io, to OpenAI for $6.5 billion in May 2025, further increased his net worth. He owns approximately 11% of io, which translates into a substantial amount from the sale.
Ive has received accolades and honours for his designs and patents. In the United Kingdom, he has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng), and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 2018, he was awarded the Hawking Fellowship of the Cambridge Union Society. In a 2004 BBC poll of cultural writers, Ive was ranked the most influential person in British culture. His designs have been described as integral to the successes of Apple, one of the world's largest information technology companies by revenue and market capitalisation.
In 2011, it was reported that Ive was paid $30 million in base salary with a $25 million stock bonus for the year. His compensation ceased to be publicly disclosed by the firm thereafter, rendering him the only Apple executive to be afforded such a provision. A year later, it was estimated that his net worth was £80 million.
Career, Business, and Investments
Ive's career at Apple spanned nearly three decades, from 1992 to 2019. During this time, he rose to become the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design and later the Chief Design Officer. His design philosophy emphasized simplicity, elegance, and usability, contributing to Apple's success as a technology leader. After leaving Apple, he founded LoveFrom, a design firm focused on cross-industry innovation and collaboration.
In 2025, Ive made headlines by selling his company, io, to OpenAI for $6.5 billion. This transaction not only increased his personal wealth but also marked a significant milestone in his career, as he became one of the few non-CEO product designers to achieve billionaire status.
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is a British-American designer. He is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he was senior vice president of industrial design and chief design officer. Ive is the founder of LoveFrom, a creative collective that works with Ferrari, Airbnb, OpenAI and other global brands. He has been chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017.
Ive joined Apple in September 1992, and was promoted to senior vice president of industrial design in the late 1990s after the return of co-founder Steve Jobs. He was Chief Design Officer from 2015 until his departure in July 2019. Working closely with Jobs, Ive played a vital role in the designs of products including the Apple Watch, iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS. He was also responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores.
Born in London, Ive lived there until his family moved to Stafford when he was about 12. He studied design at Newcastle Polytechnic and later joined the London-based design firm Tangerine, where he worked on client projects for LG and Ideal Standard as well as Apple. After leaving Tangerine to join Apple full time, he began designing the decade's PowerBooks and Macs. He acquired US citizenship in 2012. He was invited to join the Royal College of Art in May 2017 as its head of college, serving a fixed five-year term until May 2022.
Ive's designs at polytechnic garnered him the RSA Student Design Award in 1988 and 1989, which afforded him a small stipend and a travel expense account to use on a trip to the United States. He travelled to San Francisco, where he met designers including Robert Brunner, who ran a small consultancy firm that would later join Apple Computer. After returning to England six weeks later, Ive interned at the product design agency Roberts Weaver Group (his college sponsor), where he impressed executives with his attention to detail and work ethic.
After a year with Roberts Weaver, Ive joined a London-based design agency, Tangerine, in Hoxton Square. He designed a diverse array of products, such as microwave ovens, toilets, drills and toothbrushes for clients including LG and Ideal Standard. However, he became frustrated after he designed a toilet, bidet and sink for Ideal Standard, and the company rejected the work, stating that the products were too costly and looked too modern. He became unhappy with his clients who had different ideas.
Steve Jobs, who left in 1985 after being pushed away by John Sculley, was staging a return to the company and recruited Ive to join him in taking the firm in a different direction. Jon Rubinstein, Ive's boss at the time, managed to retain Ive as an employee by explaining that Apple was "going to make history" under Jobs in 1996.
Ive became the senior vice president of industrial design in 1997 heading up the industrial design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products. Ive's first assignment in this capacity was the iMac, introduced in 1998 (he is credited with designing its translucent plastic case). The iMac helped pave the way for many other designs such as the iPod and eventually the iPhone and the iPad. Ive became the first human to make a public phone call with Jobs after he introduced the iPhone on 9 January 2007. It was reported that Ive's desire for keeping the products as thin as possible may have led to the mechanically fragile butterfly keyboard and removing the Magsafe power connector, HDMI port, and SD card reader from the MacBook.
On 29 October 2012, Apple announced that Ive would "provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company, in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design." With the 2013 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) announcement of iOS 7 and Ive's role as principal, Apple press information was also updated to reflect his new title: senior vice president of design. In the same press update, Ive stated that he hoped his best work was yet to emerge and that he preferred to be identified as a maker of products, rather than a designer. On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Ive was promoted to chief design officer (CDO), at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple along with CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri (Jeff Williams would be promoted to COO at the end of 2015). On 8 December 2017, Apple announced that Ive would resume direct responsibility for the company's product design.
In 2023, Ive led the development of a foldable red nose for Comic Relief. In the same year, LoveFrom announced its own scholarship programme, which is aimed at increasing representation in the design industry by supporting designers from all backgrounds. The programme covers the full tuition of a student at the California College of the Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and two students at the Royal College of Art each year.
In September 2024, LoveFrom announced the launch of a new outerwear collection in collaboration with Moncler. In the same month, the company unveiled a new logo in the latest iteration of its brand. The new logo includes the addition of a bear, which is LoveFrom’s mascot called Montgomery, named after San Francisco’s Montgomery Street where the company is based.
In September 2024, the New York Times reported that LoveFrom is working with OpenAI on the development of an artificial intelligence hardware device that is “less socially disruptive than the iPhone”. In May 2025, it was announced OpenAI would acquire Ive’s AI venture, called ‘io’, in a deal that values the company at $6.5 billion. Ive founded io in 2024 with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan. As part of the deal, OpenAI will become a customer of LoveFrom with Ive and LoveFrom assuming creative and design responsibilities across all of OpenAI’s operations. LoveFrom will remain an independent company with other customers. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval.
Throughout his career at Apple, Ive has received nominations and garnered awards for his work. He has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng), a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2006 and Knight Commander of the same Order (KBE) in 2012. He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts, and made an honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art. On successive Wednesdays in June 2016, Ive was awarded honorary doctorates at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. In 2004, he was named the "Most Influential Person on British Culture" in a BBC poll of cultural writers.
Social Network
Jony Ive is not overly active on traditional social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter. However, his influence and work are widely discussed across various platforms by fans, designers, and tech enthusiasts.
Jobs described Ive as his "spiritual partner at Apple", stating that"The difference that Jony has made, not only at Apple but in the world, is huge. He is a wickedly intelligent person in all ways. He understands business concepts, marketing concepts. He picks stuff up just like that, click. He understands what we do at our core better than anyone. If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it's Jony. Jony and I think up most of the products together and then pull others in and say, 'Hey, what do you think about this?' He gets the big picture as well as the most infinitesimal details about each product. And he understands that Apple is a product company. He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way I set it up."
In June 2019, Ive announced the launch of his own independent firm named LoveFrom, along with fellow designer Marc Newson. LoveFrom keeps a low profile but in October 2021 unveiled a minimalistic website.
Education
Ive attended Walsham Endowed School and later studied industrial design at Northumbria University. His education laid the foundation for his career in design, which eventually led him to join Apple in 1992.
Overall, Jony Ive's net worth in 2025 reflects his enduring influence in the tech industry and his innovative approach to design, which continues to drive value across multiple sectors.
Ive was inspired to become a designer by his teenage love of cars. He investigated car design courses in London, including one at the Royal College of Art, but was repelled by the students: "The classes were full of students making vroom! vroom! noises as they drew." He studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, where he was introduced to forms of design inspired by the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus expressed the idea of only including what is needed into designs. This philosophy can be seen in his work with Apple. While at Newcastle, some of his designs – including a telephone and a hearing aid – were exhibited at the Design Museum in London. He graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts in 1989.
He is also said to have been influenced by the Bauhaus tradition (known for its credos form follows function and less is more), which emerged in Germany during the 1920s and became a staple design approach adopted by the Ulm School of Design during the 1950s. The Bauhaus / Ulm design style was also adopted during the 1980s by luxury automotive brand Audi, which also influenced Jonathan Ive's designs (particularly his work with Apple), and has garnered comparisons in colour stencil, structure, and lighting design.
Since his early years in England, Ive has expressed an interest in automobiles and automotive design. While in university he drove a Fiat 500. He frequently attends car shows and exhibitions such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where he serves as a jury member for competitions.