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iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
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Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#92I hope they release a version of these fixes on iOS 18 in a form installable on an iPhone 14; I've been trying to stay away from Liquid Glass until it's actually usable. I really don't want to be forced to upgrade, since Apple seems to have replaced UX testing with "just ship it," as has become standard in the industry.
I immediately enabled “reduce transparency” and “strong contrast” in the accessibility settings and didn’t really notice much difference to 18 then. Not a big deal at all.
Reduced transparency is somewhat ugly (the giant bars on the top and bottom of the screen in the web browser for example. But it isn’t obviously awful like the giant transparency thing.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “My hope was that Apple would be forced to course correct in subsequent releases but that doesn't seem to be happening.” I’m optimistic that they will eventually course correct on Liquid Glass, but we’ll have to wait until iOS/macOS 27, or perhaps longer. There are parallels to Apple’s butterfly keyboard fiasco on the hardware side. Sleek looking on the surface but an objective step backwards in usability. Unfortun…
> There are parallels to Apple’s butterfly keyboard fiasco on the hardware side. There are also parallels with the original pinstripes-and-transparency-everywhere aqua UI. I am also optimistic that it will be toned down over time but retaining the responsiveness.
What was the Windows Vista thing, right? It was pretty bad but nobody bought a windows laptop because they thought it’d look nice.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
"100% usable" is an exaggeration that doesn't describe Apple's Liquid Glass. iOS 26 is still very rough and it's still not in a release-appropriate state. Just for one instance, bug I ran into a few hours ago (persisting in 26.3!) is that, sometimes, you can't even open the lock screen. It just wiggles. The performance continues to be very poor, rendering far below the 120fps target that iOS 18 hit consistently. This…
> Just for one instance, bug I ran into a few hours ago (persisting in 26.3!) is that, sometimes, you can't even open the lock screen. It just wiggles. Even if true, which I haven't experienced, that doesn't sound like a problem with glass. > The performance continues to be very poor, rendering far below the 120fps target that iOS 18 hit consistently. This persists with 26.3. Do you realize how tiny of a minority you…
It is true, and it's a problem that only started with iOS 26.
I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users. The performance of iOS 26 is very bad. Look at the huge recent spike in "iPhone battery problems" in Google Trends shortly after iOS 26 released, hitting its highest-ever in January 2026. The last peak was in 2011.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...
And look at how dramatic the graph for "iPhone slow" is. It's the highest it's ever been, by far, seven times higher than the previous highest peak:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...
Do you realize how tiny of a minority you are in not to complain about this, much less not to even notice it?
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#95macOS was so buggy for me a few days ago that I updated my computer to the public beta. Boom, problem solved. So bizarre.
Do you feel an improvement in speed? My 32GB RAM M5 MBP is slow as molasses in Tahoe. My M1 MBA feels much faster (I haven't updated yet).
Do you use a lot of electron apps or a Chromium-based browser? Ever since Liquid Glass, I've had to run this script at each boot:
#!/bin/bash launchctl setenv CHROME_HEADLESS 1 defaults write -g NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false
It removes the drop-shadow from Chrome and removes an autofill context.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#96Have they fixed all the keyboard bugs introducted in iOS 26.0 yet? I’m not sure how much longer I can put up with issues like this - I might need to switch back to Android if they don't fix these soon. Seriously, how hard is it to correctly measure the keyboard height and not render important UI elements, such as submit buttons, underneath it so you can’t click “Send”? It's getting close to unusable. Update: No they…
So many bugs in this version of iOS, ive never seen anything like it. The UI for so many websites is mildly broken or misaligned now, keyboard randomly has a noticeable lag, audio does not return to normal volume if a background app makes a noise for a moment, and many more. Really awful, I’ve never wanted to downgrade iOS back to the old version until now.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s been fine for me, I have been running since 26 beta 2 on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I have noticed zero bugs, it’s been perfectly usable with only two design decisions that I dislike, but are minor. On Mac, the corner handle grab change was a miss but doesn’t affect me much because I don’t do much window resizing. On my iPad, the fly in and fly out animation for the App Library doesn’t necessarily follow your swipe…
Nope, the wiggle problem requires turning the screen off and then back on. It's a software problem, not a user problem. I'm happy it's working for you, but it's still an inconsistent and broken release.
> it's still an inconsistent and broken release
There are 10 iPhones in my immediate family orbit, all running 26 (Including an iPhone 12 Pro). Users ranging from their early teens to 90 and I am the one they call when there is any tech issues.
No one is complaining. Not too bad for an inconsistent and broken release.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, the wiggle problem requires turning the screen off and then back on. It's a software problem, not a user problem. I'm happy it's working for you, but it's still an inconsistent and broken release.
> it's still an inconsistent and broken release There are 10 iPhones in my immediate family orbit, all running 26 (Including an iPhone 12 Pro). Users ranging from their early teens to 90 and I am the one they call when there is any tech issues. No one is complaining. Not too bad for an inconsistent and broken release.
That is nice for your family, but we have opposite experiences, my anecdata is just the opposite. Plenty of people are complaining. It's not always the most salient topic given current events (I'm in the United States) but it's just kind of like when Windows 11 or Windows 8 released.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#99Now if they'd only fix the CarPlay issues, I really miss working navigation in my car. I have called and opened tickets, and I keep hearing it'll be fixed real soon now.
It broke my carplay too. Updating my infotainment system' fixed' it.
Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Updated my 13 mini. Performance is fine / maybe better.. but battery. Tanked. How true is the ‘it takes days for reindexing’ statement?
ios 26 has made my 13 mini consistently laggier and hotter
Same. I would’ve stayed on 18.x if they provided updates.