How about Apple actually fix the iOS wifi hotspot? Disconnects when it wants to, selectively connects to clients only when it wants to. Broken on every iPhone I've used in the past three years. When it does work the hotspot drains 30% per hour. Can run a hotspot on an Android phone half the day without any issues.
What an infuriatingly amatureish product.
iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
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Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#152Give me proper theming support. Allow me to disable all animations, rounded corners, opacity, white space and whatever else I don't need. Imagine how snappy and productive it could be!
Disable animations? How else would you know how old your phone is?
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#153Still insane to me how broken the UX is. In safari, tapping the back button, disabled or not, makes it react in the same bubbly way.
If the back/forward arrows are present, it again reacts identically, regardless of which button is tapped.
Not to mention simple QoL regressions like taking 3+ taps to share a url instead of 1.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#154So, so, much money, time, and resources poured into this update that only made things worse; and now again to roll it back...
I immediately disabled transparency effects and liquid glass hasn't bothered me since.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we follow the same pattern, iOS 27 and corresponding releases will be completely flat and look like Mac OS System 7. Chicago font wants to live another day. Windows 8 got some serious hate back in the day, it had some sound ideas that were implemented poorly, but no one could deny it was lightweight. It had the smallest memory footprint of all the modern Windowses IIRC.
Unironically Mac OS 7/8/9 felt the best IMHO. Even though there were some missteps (the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip was awful) and 9.x got a bit overloaded towards the end. Mac OS X (and macOS still) never felt as good.
Apple's classic human interface guidelines were well thought out. They should consider (re)reading them sometime.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Customizing tools is extremely common, and many manufacturers do ship moldable handled tools—they’re made of wood.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#157I always wanted them to turn the traffic lights from Jaguar into a fully shader based orbs. Full @2x/Vector Aqua Liquid Glass in all it's glory...
I'd like to see Apple pull a Jaguar with their marketing department. Might clean the sewer enough to get them toward a that sweet middle ground of "users like us" and "shareholder profits."
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#158In big engineering programs engineers are paid bounties for every kg they remove from the design. We need software developer bounties for removing CPU cycles and memory.
I heard about this story when BMW was designing the 1300GS, they had a bag of 40 lbs of sand hanging in the engineers' office. Engineers who developed weight savings got to do a ceremony where they removed that amount of sand from the bag.
This reminds me of the “battery bucks” design philosophy at Tesla, where a part could be as expensive as an engineer wanted if it increased range by at least that much cost in batteries. This was responsible for, among other things, monobloc brake calipers on the model 3 because it retracted the pads faster than a sliding piston caliper.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#159"Apple says that the new toggle was added because during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass."
I'd like to have a COMPLETELY OPAQUE option. No liquid glass whatsoever. That's why I'm still running iOS 18.
Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
#160How did they not do enough user testing to know users wanted this before it even got to beta? Are they so paranoid about secrecy that they can't do event the most basic of UX design processes?
Reminds me of when Google brought out a revised Maps app some years ago. Everyone hated it; there was a website for comments, with literally 10,000 comments, and everyone I read except for one was negative--and that one was a parody. Did Google revert back to the earlier look? Are you kidding? The only company I've ever seen do that is Microsoft, after the Win8 debacle.