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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by torben-friis »

philistine wrote: post #42
WoodenChair wrote: post #25

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Fa…

It's still nice to see a company not double down on a fall! They seem to have been on a full year of tech debt and optimisation.

I still would have liked a more genuine walk back (they sold it as "iterations and adjustments" as if the rewinded stuff were new ideas) but overall reassuring.

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Post by zchrykng »

robotresearcher wrote: post #309
Freedom2 wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious how this trait is American? Is there something about the way Americans speak that is fake?

Oh yes. Execs are ‘super excited’ about everything. There is no dynamic range at all. They appear to have no opinions and no judgement because their opinion is always that everything is awesome. When the audience knows that stuff is either normal-level ok or actually fucked up, this message is insulting to receive. Worse, it trains people downstream that shiny happy is the only valid comms. Hard to escalate a concern…

Not American as much as it is "corporatese".

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Post by gordon_freeman »

prymitive wrote: post #256

The only thing that interested in is: did they fix screen brightness getting super dim even when the slider is at max? That’s incredibly annoying and frustrating, and it’s been like that since first 26 release. And it’s a clear bug because brightness resets to expected level if I go to photos and open an HDR image. I can wait for autocomplete that doesn’t suggest garbage 50% of the time, but this one is just too anno…

I thought this is happening for me because I have an old iPhone 11 with degrading battery, screen etc. Did not realize that this is so widespread problem across devices. Really annoying when that happens! Almost unusable phone.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by [deleted] »

Groxx wrote: post #65
praash wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass. Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?

[accessibility settings -> display -> reduce transparency] is the main option afaik. while you're in there, try "reduce motion" too, it's pretty nice imo.

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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jjice »

mohsen1 wrote: post #152
amrrs wrote: post #38

Siri AI - looks like finally Siri is getting its due update, hopefully they ship it soon!

"coming later this year" – still behind the schedule I have an iPhone 16 that was promised to have it. Now they are saying some features are available only on 17+ models

I believe the only features I saw, and I could be wrong, that require the 17 or air were the new dictation and Siri voices. Those weren't in the original promises for the iPhone 16. That said, I don't know how much actually changed in the hardware where that actually has to be gated.

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Post by chatmasta »

avarun wrote: post #274
badc0ffee wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.

Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS. At least macOS has configurability to turn off all the transparency. iOS just looks bad no matter how you configure it right now.

Try messing with the settings more. Grayscale (or whatever it’s called) makes the transparency much more tolerable, or even _nice_, than with multi-color.

It’s also more palatable on iOS because you only have one window open at a time. Many of the complaints around Liquid Glass on macOS are focused on window management and issues that only occur with multiple windows on screen simultaneously.

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Post by thewebguyd »

dmitrygr wrote: post #278
WoodenChair wrote: post #25

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

At least, unlike microslop, they ARE fixing things based on user feedback.

So is Microsoft, albeit a bit late to the party. Taskbar now movable, performance improvements hitting insider builds, MS BUILD half about WSL containers, native coreutils, a dev edition of windows using Winget config to strip all the bloat out, all new system dialogs replacing a good chunk of the old Win32 stuff, WinUI reactor, ability to remove AI models & Copilot from the OS, etc.

Classic case of the reality distortion field here.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jjice »

TeriyakiBomb wrote: post #265
losvedir wrote: post #114

I'm glad to see their "Private Cloud AI" thing is actually happening. They announced it a couple years ago and then after not hearing a ton I was worried they were going to drop it. That said, the foundational models they talk about running on it - is that something they've trained themselves? I know they had some sort of deal with Google; could it be Gemini weights loaded into their private compute or something?

I think it's just gemini in a dress

Gemini in a dress that doesn't store my data and use it to sell advertisements is a welcome dress.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jjice »

theshrike79 wrote: post #183
ohmahjong wrote: post #111

Yoof, that reframing is interesting but took LONG

It’s fully local though

Some small features are fully local (like the list sorting added in a recent iOS), but all of the neat features like world knowledge and shortcut gen seem to require private cloud compute.

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Post by nevi-me »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #64

Siri wakes up on my phone every time they say "hey siri". I thought it was supposed to be bound to my voice. :/

They should just license the tech from Google. Google might be missing the urinal with forcing Gemini down everything while not improving basics, but their keyword detection remains good for me.
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