Updated iOS overnight and what the fuck man. Also Settings search is so totally broken I can’t even
Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
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#12I just hope that my current Mac keeps being usable long enough that Liquid Glass has been fixed or replaced entirely by the time I'm forced to upgrade to whatever's shipping on my next computer.
My kid dumped a glass of water all over my MBP M1 a few days ago. Deciding between an inferior M4 with Sequoia or a fancy new M5 with Tahoe has been rough :/
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#13Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.
iOS 26 is also very bad. Many Christmas conversations between boomers baffled by their phones, and as I younger (than boomer) person I am not as baffled but there are a number of things that take more button presses than they did in previous versions for no apparent reason. And it’s real ugly imo.
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#14its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
Ironically that would be a new kind of dogfooding.
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#15its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
It would not matter if they dogfooded it, the decision makers higher up in the chain are getting paid more to make a visible change and/or increase revenue, not to make a better user experience.
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#16Since macOS went to a yearly cadence, I usually upgrade during Christmas break, this allows for a couple of point releases to work out the kinks. I won’t be upgrading this year. I hope macOS 27 fixes this abomination. Otherwise, this 30+ year Mac user will be moving on…
You would do well to avoid 26. I upgraded to be a Guinea Pig for a few colleagues and I regret it. Things like apps and scripts work in the technical sense, but it is worse because the myriad of graphical and interactive issues.
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#17Tahoe is such a criminal worsening of UI quality, it really is worrisome that Apple is proudly releasing it. If this kind of software trend continues in 2026, it might be the first time I take a serious look at Linux distros on Mac.
I'm holding off upgrading my laptop (2013 MBP running Catalina) until they get their UI stuff together. I'd just gotten used to Sequoia on my desktop but this is unbearable.
Not a single update since 2019 has improved the UI more than it regressed it in my opinion. Too much whitespace, too little contrast, too big controls, and now too little readability.
It's almost like their entire UI department is under threat of being fired unless they invent a radical UI update every other year.
Even Vista was a readability zen compared to this and they aren't listening to feedback at all.
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#18liquid glass is a total disaster. what the hell is going on in the ux teams at apple? this is like their windows vista era. i hate it so much
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Installed Mint on my GAMING Windows system, uninstalled Steam on Windows. All is well. While at it, nuked my old MacBook Pro and Air with Mint too - not like they are getting updates anyway. It can be done, it should be done. These commercial operating systems have enshitified to a critical point and are beyond repair.
The thing that’s weird about this though is it isn’t enshitification. I don’t want to defend the worsening of software quality/ux/ui for monetary gain but at least it’s somewhat rational. This is not a change that emphasizes profit driven changes over user driven ones. Maybe I’m missing some profit motive but it just seems like an awful design choice. Edit: Not to disagree though. I too have a Linux gaming pc and are…
Maybe not enshittification in the sense that every other UIImageView has an ad in it, but definitely a huge regression from the UI it had before.
Sadly it's only a matter of time until everyone copies it because it's cool and it's what Apple does so they must be right!
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#20I do enjoy the liquid glass controls in some places. The glass effect is really beautiful. What I hate about it is the way the overall UI constantly gets in the way of my content.