I've gotten used to it on iOS 26 at least, but, I have been using the official macOS release on my work macbook and it's _horrid_. I'm holding onto macOS 15 as long as I possibly can on my personal machine.
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
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Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#52Literally every change made in iOS 26 feels like a downgrade to me. This is the first time I have ever considered downgrading iOS.
Is it even possible?
It was, but Apple is no longer signing the old releases. (https://ipsw.me/iPhone14,4).
I downgraded about 10 minutes after trying iOS 26. Sorry to all who missed the window.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#53Literally every change made in iOS 26 feels like a downgrade to me. This is the first time I have ever considered downgrading iOS.
Agreed, it’s pretty bad. It causes my 16 pro max to lag in some apps, Siri is broken, etc. Very surprised this made it through QA to GA.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#54Some of it (like hiding the Safari tab button in a menu) feels like Windows-11-stupid. Luckily, Apple is ok at supporting older phones, so I just have to be careful to not accidentally upgrade my SE to iOS 26. Makes me nostalgic for Apple's interface guidelines, which were very well thought through, based on evidence, and with clear principles. https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/pdf/Human_Interface_Guidel...
You can just set it to show the tab button
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#55I 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.
I made the mistake of upgrading (13 Mini) and it is very clear that the new UI was not tested at all on smaller screens. The rounded buttons take up so much extra margin that actual usable space is greatly diminished.
How's the battery on your 13 Mini? Mine is abhorrent compared to a few weeks ago.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#56It’s also introduced a bunch of UI-related bugs, like how guided access has become completely botched and destroyed to the point of almost being non-functional.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#57Sometimes 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.
Remember that iOS 18 was over a decade of evolution on the design changes in iOS 7, which also had a significant amount of hate when it was released for being ugly, confusing, and hard to read.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#58Some of it (like hiding the Safari tab button in a menu) feels like Windows-11-stupid. Luckily, Apple is ok at supporting older phones, so I just have to be careful to not accidentally upgrade my SE to iOS 26. Makes me nostalgic for Apple's interface guidelines, which were very well thought through, based on evidence, and with clear principles. https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/pdf/Human_Interface_Guidel...
You can just set it to show the tab button
Why isn’t the better option the default?
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#59In summary, Apple messed up, they had nothing to present this year, so they came up with a bad design and passed it off as "revolutionary". This is the kind of thing a failing company does. I'm sad, I'm an Apple fan, but they are pulling scams for years instead of actual developments.
Re: Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
#60I 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.
It has horrible battery life, even on a relatively new device. Don’t upgrade.