Apple design guru has left the building

Jony Ive’s legendary run at Apple finally appears to be over.

The 52-year-old design guru — who worked closely with Steve Jobs to rebuild Apple into a powerhouse after Jobs returned from a 12-year exile in the late 1990s — has disappeared from the leadership page of Apple’s Web site.

His duties will be taken over by Apple’s vice president of industrial design, Evans Hankey, and vice president of human interface design, Alan Dye, according to Apple.

Ive, whose net worth is estimated at $400 million, had announced in June he was ending his 27-year stint at Apple “later this year,” without giving a specific departure date.

At the time, Ive — credited with the iconic designs of the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and more — said he would form a design company called LoveFrom, whose roster of clients will include Apple.

A July report in The Wall Street Journal noted that Ive felt Apple’s design studio had become neglected after Tim Cook took over as chief executive from Steve Jobs. Ive was “dispirited” by the fact that Cook “showed little interest in the product development process,” according to the report.

Cook called the story “absurd” and said Apple’s design team was “stronger than ever.” Ive was most recently responsible for designing Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif., with a massive, “spaceship”-shaped headquarters.

Ive told the Financial Times over the summer that he will still be “very involved” with Apple for “many years too come” despite not being an employee.