I understand that, but still; 1 person working on emojis needs management, resources, etc. and is 1 person that could (SHOULD!!) insteead be working on discovering & fixing bugs.
I get your point, but nothing is truly limitless.....
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(Almost) A Year With iOS 26
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I get your point, but nothing is truly limitless.....
Honestly, I could care less about the eye candy. I just want my devices to WORK. Speed, performance & latency are all that matter to me. It could look like Win98, and if it ran fast AF, I couldn't care how it looks. Actually, at this point; a retro iOS release would be extremely welcome. I still think everything went downhill soon as they abandoned skeuomorphism. 😋😅
I really, *REALLY* hope that iOS 27 is in fact going to be largely a "bug fix & polish, no major new features" release...... well, sounds like there's some new siri releases...whatever...siri can barely dial a phone call for me. 🙄
Oh dude, TRUST ME.... I know.... I'm painfully aware of what happens when you go cheap..... you truly do get what you pay for....
So yes; if I was gonna try an android device, it would be top-end.
Re; Screenshots; I'm little confused; when you take a screenshot in IOS (which you can also do by swiping up from the bottom left corner 😎) you immediately get a little preview in the bottom left corner.... (Default was changed in iOS 26 to a full-screen preview, which was annoying AF, esp. if you were trying to take multiple screenshots; I immediately disabled that junk).
So you can either immediately tap on the tiny corner preview, or just go to photos & it should show right there in your camera roll; you CAN go to "screenshots" but it certainly is not necessary. It should just show up right there as your most recent "photo"...... does this not happen for you?
Anyway; Thanks for the info re: Pixel & such. I might give them another look! Or really, probably a high-end android tablet...
Luftkopf
macrumors 65816
I guess they should stop updating their website, and lay off the webdev staff too, since the management of the designers has now been tasked with QA. What else can't Apple afford to do with their 90,000 U.S. employees?
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
You know if one doctor can deliver a baby in 8 hours two doctors can’t deliver a baby in 4 hours.😎
.....but what if you cut the baby in half.....?!
🤷♂️ 😜😁
Websites are necessary for just about any business today, esp. since Apple sells so many products / huge volume via their site.
Come on...just admit that liquid glass & emojis have ZERO impact on your ability to make calls, text, send emails, etc.....
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Happy_John
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Pretty much. I can understand how people are from vides on the aesthetics, but there really hasn’t been a major jolt to the functionality.
Honestly, the shift from preferences to setting in macOS was a far bigger adjustment to get used to than the shift to a lucid glass ui.
Aesthetic awareness is great if you have the time to worry about it. If you are under pressure to get work done to a deadline, it’s really not that significant.
Luftkopf
macrumors 65816
Yeah, but they could be working on fixing bugs instead, right? Apple’s website doesn’t impact my ability to make calls, texts, or send emails either.
My point in ask of this is that the argument that Apple shouldn’t update its emoji set is tired, irrelevant, and doesn’t understand how things work.
If Apple didn’t update their emoji set when the Unicode Consortium updates then, there would be millions of words written in articles across all media about how Apple is losing it, not to mention the countless hours of videos made, the moment generic placeholder blank boxes pop up in messages instead of the emojis that were sent because Apple sacked to one person doing them to hire another QA member.
Maybe I’m being too literal in our discussion here, and if so I apologise. I’m just really tired of this broken record.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
I admit it. But along the same vein a skeuomorphic flavor has zero impact. I mean let’s go back to command line ms-dos. Just admit we all like eye candy, but different types of eye candy.
Friendly picking nits here 😎 but no; a GUI offers obvious benefits over CMD line.
i mean; come on; how are we supposed to browse cat photos from the command line?? 😹😹😻
I do honestly prefer & miss the skeuomorphic...... 😓
TBH: I don't really mind liquid glass; I'm just pissed it came at the expense of a fully / smoothly functioning OS.
Like; if 26 ran HALF as well as iOS 18; I'd be very happy. Being perfectly blunt; LG actually does look pretty nice & cool. I don't hate it. (OK I do kinda like it)
But I vehemently hate that it came at the expense of function. I've always been function over form. 😎
Technically; absolutely! So yes; if i was CEO of apple, yes; I'd likely slash the web dev budget & reallocate it to iOS; specifically the bugfixing & finding dept (apple has that specifically, yeah? 😅)
Fair point about the unicode consortium; maybe I should save my pitchfork & torch for them...... but still; apple doesn't have to make them a focal point of every new iOS release......as they do with wallpapers..... They absolutely give off the perception that they dedicate significant resources to cooking up new emojis, memojis & wallpapers.....
ETA: I don't get the "tired of it" argument. Truly.
Let's try an analogy:
You go buy a car. It's a beautiful brand new car. The transmission fails. You take it back to the dealer and they put in a very crappy, used transmission that is as smooth as gravel.
You complain. They wax your car for you. The transmission still sucks.
You complain again. They tint your windows.
You complain AGAIN. They clean & condition your leather seats.
You complain yet AGAIN.
The dealer strips out & replaces the carpet inside your car.
etc. etc.....
THAT is what this whole thing is!!
Emoji & wallpaper have zero to do with anything remotely resembling function + reliability / stability (or battery life), yet apple keeps rolling them out constantly and trumpeting them as some big, grand awesome thing that we should all be so excited & grateful for.
Meanwhile, mine & my wifes phones - thanks to iOS 26 - are literally burning up overheating (in the middle of my childs' play, no less, when all we are doing is taking pics & video) and the battery lasts MAYBE half of what it did on iOS 18. Prob less.
It's not either of our phones. It's 1,000,000% absolutely iOS 26.
On ios 18, our phones were PERFECT: we had ZERO complaints before this BS apple calls ios 26.
On my M1 iPad; I've already reinstalled the OS once. Didn't make any difference.
I should absolutely NOT have to reinstall an OS after installing an update, just to get my phone to run reasonably well & not have the battery die by 10 am.
Imagine if every year when windows released a major new update to Win11 it caused anywhere NEAR these same sorts of problems. It would cause riots.
That's my rant for the day, LOL. 😮💨 😀
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I7guy
macrumors Westmere
That’s why I keep saying horses for courses. What for you is a lack of form and function, to me it’s not. I have little issues with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. To me iOS 26 runs the same as iOS 18 in Terms of battery life and performance but with additional options.
As I said, YMMV.
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Luftkopf
macrumors 65816
If my iPhone ran noticeably worse than it did before, I wouldn't be happy either, but there's little difference in performance or battery life between iOS 18 and 26 on my iPhone 14. Maybe I got lucky, but I've been running it since the dev betas, and the only problem was my reminders app used to freeze and need to be reloaded every now and then. That's been long fixed though.
For me, the whole emoji argument is like complaining that a car company spends too much time choosing the colours of the next mode, and should fire the people working on the paint, and assign them to engineering so they can improve the reliability of the engines.
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
The mother delivers the baby in 8 hours. The doctor usually just needs to be there for the final 15 minutes or so.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
UliBaer
macrumors 6502a
Exactly!
They put filler in the holes, paint the pig in new colors and add gimmicks again and again... 🐷🎨
Instead they should simply exchange the pig for the long ago promised unicorn! 🦄🦄🦄 😎
Aoligei
macrumors 68000
iOS 26 is good on phones with more RAM. Any iPhone with 4GB of RAM is not great experiences. Generally, iPhone 13 for example, only able to hold 2-3 apps in the background at once. Sometimes if you play videos on the background and browsing the web in the foreground , background video play back can crash due to RAM constraint. The amount of JetStream Event logs is incredible.
Other than that, iOS 26 is okay.
Other than that, iOS 26 is okay.