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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 mcswell »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #76
cardanome wrote: post #19

Give 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!

> give me proper theming support This is sort of like walking into an art gallery and demanding they hang different art. Apple has always been visually opinionated. That’s fine. Not everything needs to be customisable. The problem is their aesthetic historically varied between daringly great and daringly fucked. Nothing about Liquid Glass, on the other hand, screams daring, thought or even vision. It’s just a random…

We're talking about a phone, not an art gallery.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by strunz »

mcswell wrote: post #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.

There's been a "reduce transparency" toggle under Accessibility settings forever and it's exactly what you want.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by mcswell »

kcplate wrote: post #146
cardanome wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 exper…

> Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again.

1) A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't complain about the change, it's only because I don't remember enough to recall what it used to be.

2) Exception: Windows 8. Nobody complained when Windows 9 came out, because they remembered what Windows 7 looked like (indeed, many of us were still using 7). (Of course some did complain that 9 didn't look exactly like 7, but since 9 was such an improvement over 8, their voices were muted.)

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by mcswell »

strunz wrote: post #162
mcswell wrote: post #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.

There's been a "reduce transparency" toggle under Accessibility settings forever and it's exactly what you want.

No, I do NOT want "reduce[d] transparency", I want OPACITY.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by kalleboo »

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!

The touch animations for switches and selector controls, and the animations of tab bar controls splitting and joining are "liquid".

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by discordance »

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…

Missing my Mini too

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by storoj »

mcswell wrote: post #163
kcplate wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 exper…

> Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again. 1) A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't complain about the change, it's only because I don't remember enough to recall what it used to be. 2) Exception: Windows 8. Nobody complained when Windows 9 came out, because they remembered what…

Noone complains about Windows 9 because Windows 9 does not exist.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by LoganDark »

monster_truck wrote: post #36
throwaway48476 wrote: post #30

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I dont mean to impugn, but that sounds like how someone would describe a toddler being given an ipad. I turn off animations and use apps with an OLED theme.

The first thing I do every time I install a new version of iOS or get a new iPhone is disable all of the animations and enable reduce visual motion in accessibility. Not only is it faster in the countless cases where overambitious UI designers subject us to >0.2s animations, but it dramatically extends battery life

I would do this on macOS if it could make it faster to switch Spaces; unfortunately it does not (just makes the animation into an ugly fade that still takes just as long).

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by gambiting »

CharlesW wrote: post #85
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???

> I just don't understand how more people don't complain about this all the time. I'd assume because they're using the share feature: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-an-airtag-iph41... You can also turn them off altogether in Settings > Notifications > Tracking Notifications.

I should have mentioned - I'm on android, she's an iPhone user. Afaik there is no way to do this without also having an iPhone.
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