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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 busymom0 »

endymi0n wrote: post #7

Meanwhile, core functionality like “Find My” is completely and utterly broken. Leaving behind my stuff at a new place gets me at least two different messages on my Apple Watch at different timing. One for my devices, one for my Apple tags. One only has a “dismiss” button, the other has a “trust location” button that when I click, it says “content unavailable”, and if it works (which is only! over Wi-Fi), then it only…

Talking about core functionality, iOS `UISlider` api is broken in iOS 26. A lot of my users emailed me last few days how the font sizing menu in my hacker news app is broken because the sliders don't do anything. Turns out it's a bug many developers are facing.

This bug somehow went through the beta releases and still exists:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/797468?login=true

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by gambiting »

throwaway48476 wrote: post #15
zamadatix wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The M3 can run modern 3D games at high frame rates, surely it was something else about the update than the glass effect in the UI causing slowness?? It's a more appreciable burden on older iPhones though.

The glass transparency effect is just very computationally expensive.

I just don't understand how if Visa could render its transparency efects smoothly on Intel 920 grade GPUs with 128mb of ram.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by afavour »

montroser wrote: post #3

So, so, much money, time, and resources poured into this update that only made things worse; and now again to roll it back...

Exactly what happened with iOS 7 as well. 7.0 make all the text incredibly thin and light and then 7.1 made it darker and bolder.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by tiahura »

GenerocUsername wrote: post #5
montroser wrote: post #3

So, so, much money, time, and resources poured into this update that only made things worse; and now again to roll it back...

I don't see it said enough, but liquid glass slowed my M3 noticably. Odd I got the update 2 weeks before M5 launch. Software as a means to obsolete hardware. Trillion dollar company

Four trillion

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by gambiting »

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.

I mean I do remember the feeling of switching over to KDE from Windows around.....2005-2010 era and just being blown away by how pretty everything was. I yearn for that feeling again. But I have both android and iOS devices at home and the liquid glass is just......not that nice(imho). I hope I'll get that feeling of awe with computers at some point again.

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by joshuat »

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.

You forget that HN is incapable of detecting even the most obvious sarcasm

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by gambiting »

toast0 wrote: post #18
endymi0n wrote: post #7

Meanwhile, core functionality like “Find My” is completely and utterly broken. Leaving behind my stuff at a new place gets me at least two different messages on my Apple Watch at different timing. One for my devices, one for my Apple tags. One only has a “dismiss” button, the other has a “trust location” button that when I click, it says “content unavailable”, and if it works (which is only! over Wi-Fi), then it only…

You should try it if you're only a step into their ecosystem. Kiddo got some airpods for use with his android phone. Registered them with 'find my' on an iPhone SE I have for work that sits on my desk, so that when they get lost, we have a chance of finding them. Now, we get to be alerted to potential trackers every time when travel with him... even he gets the alerts, because he travels with his airpods frequently.…

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???

Re: iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Post by aylmao »

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 when looked at from slightly different distances. This is depth information our brains automatically interpret, and it makes easy to tell what is "the glass" vs what is "on the glass".

On a 2D screen both eyes see the same refraction pattern— your eyes are receiving no depth information. It's just up to color contrast and semantics to figure out what's part of the glass vs laid on top of it, so things that might look legible or easy to tell apart on physical glass will look messy on the screen.

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