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Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

accrual wrote: post #23

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

so far, i haven't noticed any performance issues myself. my phone usage is pretty minimal - i don't venture outside of iMessage, feeed, my insulin pump software, a couple of low-requirement games and Orion.

on the other hand, my coworker also has a 15 Pro and he complains that things are slow compared to iOS 18 for him.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by adastra22 »

robin_reala wrote: post #30
vamsiraju wrote: post #14

Toggling Reduced Transparency ON in Accessibility makes it so much better.

It makes it much more usable, but it doesn’t make it faster. Or at least it doesn’t bring it up to an acceptable level.

On my phone it made it very snappy, just as fast as the old 18 experience.

Far less polished and imho still a downgrade from a usability perspective, but definitely faster than with the setting off.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by _2d30 »

Alternatively, you can add my voice to the chorus of people with older phones who at first had a choppy experience and then it became perfectly smooth. Likely due to background indexing/updates. iPhone 14 Pro.

My Mac actually seems to run faster but I may just be imagining that (M3 Max MBP)

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by lapcat »

I'm puzzled why this very short 133 word blog post that offers nothing new — literally: "I will add my voice to the chorus" — is getting upvoted so much on HN.

I don't disagree with the blog post, but it's just not interesting, informative, or useful.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by qingcharles »

yesfitz wrote: post #17

Counter example: 12 Mini runs fine. Health-wise, it's got 22 GB free, and the battery was replaced in February, 2025. I really dig the redesign. I've been suffering through flat UIs since at least 2013, so having some volume back is very welcome. I know we probably won't go back to skeuomorphism, but that'd be great. Metaphor in design is important. It's a shortcut to understanding. As it stands, I'll gladly take Liq…

My very old 8th Gen iPad (32GB) works just fine with 26 too.

Re: Slow Liquid

#46

Post by adastra22 »

accrual wrote: post #23

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

I’ve an iPhone 16 Pro and it is definitely a noticeable slowdown for me, if you compare having “Reduce Transparency” on or off (which toggles most of the Liquid Glass effects).

As evidenced by the sibling comments, not everyone seems to be as sensitive to this.

Re: Slow Liquid

#47

Post by rdtsc »

I haven't updated my iphone 14, and seeing posts like these makes me want to wait longer.

Does anyone enjoy or like the changes after the upgrade? Are there any worthy tradeoffs like "ok it's slower but at least I can now do $x or they fixed $y and I don't regret updating it".

Re: Slow Liquid

#48

Post by adastra22 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #8
waynecochran wrote: post #3

Remember when Snow Leopard came out? No new user features. It just ran faster. Greatest OS release in history. Why can't Apple just do that again with one of their OS's?

This is generally seen as mythologizing, as Snow Leopard had mountains of bugs at launch. Everybody just fell in love with 10.6.8.

You seem to be saying something entirely different and not contradictory?

Re: Slow Liquid

#50

Post by tobr »

Just got a brand new iPhone 17 Pro. Even in the setup flow there are tons of little UI glitches going on. Layout jumping around randomly, screens resetting awkwardly, icons not laid out well in their buttons. Not so great first impressions of Liquid Glass, and with absolutely no excuses.
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