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Re: Slow Liquid

#31

Granted I have the M4 Mac Studio, but it seems to be running just fine in my 3-4 days of use so far. Also the OS seems to be as stable as last version. I wonder if there are any issues besides the visual glitches and slowness? Also over the years I have found MacOS generally stable. I hope they will address the issues over time. On the side note, I actually miss Snow Leopard release and in general miss the "Skeuomorp…

You do realize you're comparing a high-end desktop to a budget phone, right?

Re: Slow Liquid

#33
If you turn on “reduce transparency” in the accessibility settings, the Liquid Glass effects are toned down, and the UI is much snappier.

Unfortunately there are a lot of visual bugs still with this setting, like clipped text boxes. And it removes your wallpaper for inexplicable reasons.

Re: Slow Liquid

#34

I will say, wait at least a day before coming to this conclusion. Maybe the iPhone 13 Mini really will stay choppy, but even my brand-new current gen iPad got super-choppy for the first couple of hours and I was freaked out. Turns out it was just that thing where iOS reindexes everything for Spotlight on a major version upgrade, or god only knows what it's doing in the background.

Yep, this always happens.

My phone always runs slowly immediately following an OS update. I assume it's doing a bunch of work in the background, deleting temporary files or whatever. Even downloading and installing app updates I'm now eligible for. Can always tell because the thing gets warm.

Within a few hours it's back to normal. I don't like the Liquid Glass update but it's not impacted performance.

Re: Slow Liquid

#35

I will say, wait at least a day before coming to this conclusion. Maybe the iPhone 13 Mini really will stay choppy, but even my brand-new current gen iPad got super-choppy for the first couple of hours and I was freaked out. Turns out it was just that thing where iOS reindexes everything for Spotlight on a major version upgrade, or god only knows what it's doing in the background.

My 13 mini still runs super slowly 4 days after updating. I’m just hoping for a quick patch update from Apple at this point, because 26 is a serious downgrade from 18 at this point.

How's your battery health?

Re: Slow Liquid

#37
This is Windows Vista all over again! I remember people complaining their pieces of crap computers couldn't render the fancy desktop transparent windows

Re: Slow Liquid

#38

I am running iOS26 on my iPhone 13 Pro, and on my m1 iPad Pro. It runs fine on both, but I really regret upgrading on my iPad because the new window management options are terrible. It makes me actively dislike using my iPad now, and it used to be my daily driver.

You can turn those off, no? When I upgraded it asked me which I preferred, the old or the new style, and I kept the old. I presume it’s a setting toggle somewhere.

Re: Slow Liquid

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post #23

Does anyone have experience with iOS 26 on an iPhone 15 Pro yet?

Smooth, no performance issues for me, been using it since first public beta. I thought the whole liquid look was pretty meh at first, but I'm used to it enough at this point that I don't even think about it.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 13 mini still runs super slowly 4 days after updating. I’m just hoping for a quick patch update from Apple at this point, because 26 is a serious downgrade from 18 at this point.

How's your battery health?

94%. The phone itself is fine, just the software that’s problematic.
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