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iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by cardanome »

kcplate wrote: post #121
cardanome wrote: post #92

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No that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home. If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. And don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care. People don't buy apple for liquid glass or whatever but because the…

> If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. This attitude always cracks me up. Only with tech products and among techies do we hear these demands of infinite customization of the products and tools we use. Can you imagine any other vocation or industry m…

Custom made tooling was the norm the vast majority of human history, the whole mass production thing as a very recent fad.

People will decorate their workplace. Imagine working in an office and not being allowed any personal items on your table, no family photos nothing, empty clean table. It would seem draconian.

It isn't just about efficiency and accessibility but also about individuality. Tech is already dehumanizing enough.

Plus accepting the same feature that Windows, Linux, literally any operating system ever had isn't exactly outrageous. It wouldn't be a big deal to implement for apple. They don't because they are pretentious wankers. Simple as that. If you had themes, everyone would deactivate that liquid glass shite and that would hurt their egos.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by mouse_ »

aylmao wrote: post #50

IMO a big problem with Liquid Glass is that you're trying to recreate an effect that's highly reliant on the sense of depth we get from binocular vision in a 2D screen. When looking at glass in real life, your left eye and your right eye see slightly different refraction patterns since they're looking at the surface from slightly different angles. It might be minimal, but light refraction patterns can change a lot wh…

I'd love to see 3DS-style lenticular 3D display with the power of modern Apple hardware + FaceID hardware eye tracking. I bet they'd be able to do it seamlessly.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by RandomBacon »

bombcar wrote: post #113
RandomBacon wrote: post #98

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Same (though a slightly newer version). I'm an Android person, but I got an iPhone 4S for her first cell phone because it was straightforward and hard to mess up. Now there are double-secret swipes, all other kinds of anti-user "features" that almost make her cry because she can't figure out her phone anymore. Now I am thinking about getting an Android and finding a home app ("launcher") that makes it impossible to s…

There is a “kids mode” that can lock down iPhone. It’s useful for kids, seniors, and those unfamiliar with the device.

Thank you, I will look into it.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by Shadowmist »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #89
mycodendral wrote: post #20

I switched from Android to iOS exclusively because of Liquid Glass. It's amazing. I'll just sit there and drag the glass back and forth over different things on my screen and stare in awe.

But wait, have you noticed that it's named "Liquid Glass(TM)", but none of the glass is actually liquid, or even flowing? Everything is solid pieces of glass. You fooled us again, Apple!

Some they are using Metal instead of OpenGL they should just remove the GL from the name.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by netsharc »

edualm wrote: post #106
gambiting wrote: post #49

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I just don't understand how more people don't complain about this all the time. My wife has an apple tracker on her keys and I get a notification about an unknown tracker travelling with me on my phone every time we go anywhere. Why isn't there an "I know this tracker, leave me the fuck alone" option anywhere???

That shouldn't be happening. The way it should work, is that if the keys are nearby the user that owns them, the tracker shouldn't be giving unknown tracker notifications to other nearby users.

> nearby the user

You mean nearby the user's phone.. nowadays the 2 are almost interchangeable..

Maybe the wife doesn't take her phone when they go somewhere (yeah, implausible, but, maybe). Or she has several phones..

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by kcplate »

cardanome wrote: post #141
kcplate wrote: post #121

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> If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. This attitude always cracks me up. Only with tech products and among techies do we hear these demands of infinite customization of the products and tools we use. Can you imagine any other vocation or industry m…

Custom made tooling was the norm the vast majority of human history, the whole mass production thing as a very recent fad. People will decorate their workplace. Imagine working in an office and not being allowed any personal items on your table, no family photos nothing, empty clean table. It would seem draconian. It isn't just about efficiency and accessibility but also about individuality. Tech is already dehumaniz…

> If you had themes, everyone would deactivate that liquid glass shite

I’ve been using iOS 26, iPad 26, and MacOs 26 since the initial developer betas and it’s perfectly fine and perfectly usable for me. I like it well enough that I would prefer not going back at this point. I downloaded the 26.1 beta today, flipped off all the standard settings to minimize the Liquid Glass effects. It’s not exactly the iOS 18 experience, buts close enough. After 15 minutes I put them all back, I prefer the Liquid Glass. Everything is subjective.

Frankly, every time there is any sort of UI change on any public platform be it OS, site, or popular app, there are always detractors until they get used to it. Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by kcplate »

hu3 wrote: post #126
kcplate wrote: post #121

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> If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. This attitude always cracks me up. Only with tech products and among techies do we hear these demands of infinite customization of the products and tools we use. Can you imagine any other vocation or industry m…

What you call "demands of infinite customization" is a basic thing on Windows and Android since forever. Users can change the theme however they want.

And they are available to use if that’s a requirement for the user.

I don’t think that every OS needs to adopt every feature of every other OS that’s out there.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by mikepurvis »

Gigachad wrote: post #59
mikepurvis wrote: post #23

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Wasn't Windows 7 doing this same stuff back in like 2009?

Nah liquid glass isn't just transparency and gaussion blur, it refracts/bends light around the rims as well as a kind of sub pixel colour splitting on some elements like when you have a water droplet magnifying your screen.

Sounds like some computationally expensive, unnecessary bullshit.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by debian3 »

mroche wrote: post #77
frizlab wrote: post #6

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I have an M3 max and see literally no difference in performance. YMMV I guess! I do have performance issues on my iPhone 13 mini, but I expected it.

I migrated from a 13 Mini to a 17 Pro last week. Updated the Mini to 26 beforehand to mitigate any potential 18->26 issues with data transfers/backups. I'm still getting accustomed to the device size, the Mini was such a perfect device. If only app and web developers would actually preview their work on its dimensions, I probably would have just replaced the battery (76%). Reduced Transparency is a hard requirement f…

I just replaced the battery on my 13 mini (actually I got a brand new one since I still have Apple Care+ on mine and I did an express replacement). I’m good for an other 2 years.
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