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26.2 is really bad when you come from 18.7.x

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So, family had to move from iOS 18.7 to 26.2 (iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 + iPads) and we are so unimpressed! During the 15+ years on iPhone never had so many crashes, reboots and frozen devices as the last few days.
  • Safari hangs when launching, freezing the device completely forcing reboot with power and volume keys
  • Apps freeze at launch - many apps freeze at launch and requires a restart of the app. Most annoying is that this happens with Signal 80% of the time on 26.2. We see the blur effect at the top of the screen but FaceId don't kick in leaving the app frozen at launch screen.
  • Completely unresponsive home-screens
All our devices were "upgraded" from 18.7 to 26.2 - i.e. no reinstall/wipe, simply upgraded from Settings.

Not happy!
 
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Apps might need updating after the 26 upgrade. I can’t speak to the Safari issues; I have not seen those (and neither has my wife with an SE 2022). 🤷‍♂️
 
Why is this surprising? The entirety of MR has been discussing this.

Why did you update? You knew this would happen.
 
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I7guy said:
Did three updates to iOS 26.2. Two iPhones and one iPad. Really like it. Neither of these devices have any issues as detailed in the first post. Performance is on par with iOS 18.
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All of our devices were fairly normal. From iPad Air 4 to iPhone 14 Pro to 15 Pro Maxes and a M2 iPad Pro - all handle and currently handle iOS 26 just fine. Battery life has pretty much leveled out too. Just my $.02 but it was far better than when iPad/Mac OS/iOS 18 came out.
 
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My entire family moved from 18 to 26 months ago.

No complaints yet. Some questions on how to get Safari to have the same address bar placements, etc, but there hasn't been a single negative issue.
 
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ResolutionNZ said:
I upgraded because they stopped security updates. Reduce transparency is now a necessary setting. They need to dump liquid glass and go back to the previous theme. Liquid glass uses up cognitive capacity I would prefer to use on other tasks.
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Luckily the guy responsible has left the building.
 
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macwebguy said:
Equally, iOS 18 is incredible when you come back from 26.2! 😂. Content is legible, album artwork syncs, it's fast, websites work properly in Safari... it's not perfect but it's much, much better.
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Just imagine still being on iOS 17.7.2 - the speed, smoothness and design of the UI is simply incredible! 👍 :cool:




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I realize will some might think I'm making this up, but I'm not.

Last night, my cousin (a surgeon) out of the blue asked me "if I'm using the new Apple stuff on the phone?"

I said "No, I've not updated yet and am holding off for now".

He said "it's awful! I can't believe how much harder to use it is"
(followed by some grumbling and asking me if there was a way to go back)

Something about an arrow icon being used now was really bothering him, in addition to all the glass and readability issues.

Nice work Apple. 🤨

New software that is alienating to middle age, high income, loads of disposable income customers in your sweet spot of shoppers.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
I realize will some might think I'm making this up, but I'm not.

Last night, my cousin (a surgeon) out of the blue asked me "if I'm using the new Apple stuff on the phone?"

I said "No, I've not updated yet and am holding off for now".

He said "it's awful! I can't believe how much harder to use it is"
(followed by some grumbling and asking me if there was a way to go back)

Something about an arrow icon being used now was really bothering him, in addition to all the glass and readability issues.

Nice work Apple. 🤨

New software that is alienating to middle age, high income, loads of disposable income customers in your sweet spot of shoppers.
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One thing I'm noticing recently (maybe just me and my friends/family) - equally across Android/iPhone users that I know - is a big push to de-digitize their life. Note, I'm in my 40s and so are the people I know (or around there). And this is the first year I've seen more than I can count on one hand say they want to use their phone less, they're tired of social media. They are going to start 2026 by using their phone significantly less.

Based off of the sales numbers of the iPhone 17 - Apple appears to be doing really really well as usual. Seeing a LOT of 17 Pros (even Airs) in the wild.

I need to read Cal Newport's books again. (Deep Work / Digital Minimalism) - great books.
 
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BigMcGuire said:
One thing I'm noticing recently (maybe just me and my friends/family) - equally across Android/iPhone users that I know - is a big push to de-digitize their life. Note, I'm in my 40s and so are the people I know (or around there). And this is the first year I've seen more than I can count on one hand say they want to use their phone less, they're tired of social media. They are going to start 2026 by using their phone significantly less.

Based off of the sales numbers of the iPhone 17 - Apple appears to be doing really really well as usual. Seeing a LOT of 17 Pros (even Airs) in the wild.

I need to read Cal Newport's books again. (Deep Work / Digital Minimalism) - great books.
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I'm the same demographic and have exactly the same attitude. ios26 certainly did help me to pick my phone up less as it was always a strain to use it and took the 'joy' out of it. As I've said previously I've managed to get back to ios18 now but have happily de-digitised. I dont do Social Media anymore and I dont even have an Amazon account. Whatever next, do I stop watching TV? 🤣.

And to add, all this AI nonsense is definitely taking the fun out of learning tech, programming languages etc
 
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Well the control centre is really awful. A UI/UX regression. Icons are smaller. Extra rounded round corners (yes in previous iOS too) now with the "glass" edging, make all that even worse.
 
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