If it makes Apple users feel better about Liquid Glass, the Material 3 Expressive in Android 16 is an overall worse experence than what came before. Yes it looks better, but apps are much laggier, at least on my Pixel 7 anyway. The venreble 120 Hz refresh rate on Android doesn't help when scrolling HN is enough for an FPS drop.
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
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#12Liquid Glass looks and feels like early 2000’s WinAmp Skin Generator skins.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#13I haven't upgraded to iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass, mostly because I've read that it causes performance degradation on older devices (I use an iPhone 13 Mini because I have zero interest in using a larger phone). So, it looks like I'll be using iOS 18 for the foreseeable future.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#14Made my phone immediately much laggier (iPhone 13 Pro) which is probably the intention
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#15Sometimes it looks really cool and I find myself playing with the UI just to see what happens, sometimes it looks so ugly and terribly antithetical to the idea of a cohesive design that I miss the previous design language significantly. The phone is a tool I use.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#16All of this is true. The first thing I did was turn down transparency. But there's no way to tone down the new animations, which make the UI feel twitchy and distracting.
And there are some stupidly obvious bugs - like the WEATHER header in the weather app is black on a dark background.
And the way the buttons at the bottom of the page are tight up against the content instead of being centred in the space under it.
It reeks of design-for-resume-padding instead of design-for-user-delight.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#17Literally every change made in iOS 26 feels like a downgrade to me. This is the first time I have ever considered downgrading iOS.
I think there are a few nice changes in 26, but they’re small things.
They are certainly overwhelmed by the problems caused by the terrible visual design, which does not accomplish its stated goals and usually is a very large setback compared to what we had previously.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#18They also managed to introduce regressions into WebKit so that the visual and touch positions of fixed input elements diverge. Really makes you question what’s going on at Apple.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it even possible?
Only for a very limited time after the release. And you can’t strictly “downgrade“ it, you have to restore it from factory with the older OS and then reload your back up.
Then you would be forced to upgrade after factory reset (basically digital sisyphus)?
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