This bit me today. I'm sticking with my iPhone 12 mini, and since it's now five years old, I decided to stay on iOS 18. But last night I got the prompt that an update to 26.1 was available and clicked the "update tonight" option without really thinking about it. I was tired, and I do have iOS 26 on a newer iPad, and for that moment I forgot that 26 is for my iPad and 18 is for my phone. Then I picked up my phone this morning and *#)?!(* here's all this Liquid Glass. Of course downgrading is impossible and getting a new small iPhone is impossible. I was happy with my setup and now it's gone. I don't think such a big and irreversible change should be triggered by a single prompt. Going from iOS 26 to 26.1 maybe, but not iOS 18 to 26.1. I'm mad at myself for this moment of inattention, but mostly mad at Apple for pushing their vision of big phones and distracting graphics. I did send feedback through the official Apple Feedback page, but it also helps to vent here.
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Apple Pushes iPhone Users Still on iOS 18 to Upgrade to iOS 26
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Locking people in Liquid Glass jail for mistapping a popup seems crazy.
Daily notifications, at least on my phone since a couple of days.
They could not even wait for the .2 release, which hopefully has fewer bugs 🙄.
Many here speak of iOS26 bugs but as they haven't actually installed it they must be relying on hearsay. My experience of using both iOS26, TVOS26, CarPlay and Tahoe on a number of devices has been positive from Day 1. Can someone list the bugs that affect all users and are not just affecting a small minority. The latter could occur for a number of reasons so the bugs we need to hear about are universal issues.
There are plenty of users who have upgraded and reported a poor experience. The experience is very poor, given that it is Apple. The stability and bugs in iPadOS and macOS put it right in the same ballpark as Microsoft Windows.
Like I said earlier, unless your iPhone has at minimum 6 GB of RAM (iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, and all iPhone 14 and newer models), I would stay with iOS 18.7.2 (maybe iOS 18.7.3 when that comes out) for now. That extra 2 GB of RAM over the 4 GB of RAM on older iPhone models may make it possible for the Liquid Glass UI from iOS 26.1 (soon iOS 26.2) to work properly.
People disagreeing with this but no evidence! Many just have a gut feeling because they heard it from someone else. These comments need to be backed up with examples.
So annoying that a reminder pops up "reminding" you to update to iOS 26. You can dismiss it, but it just reappears a few days later. I've already moved the settings app off my home page onto it's own page so I don't have to stare at the red dot.
Apple is sure insistent people install this garbage. I'll wait and see what iOS 27 has to offer now that the UI guy is moving over to Meta. Perhaps Apple will realign with their customers once again.
Apple is sure insistent people install this garbage. I'll wait and see what iOS 27 has to offer now that the UI guy is moving over to Meta. Perhaps Apple will realign with their customers once again.
Where’s your evidence to use the word garbage? Not hearsay - evidence.
The forum is full of examples if you care to seek them out.
The search function is readily available.
Well without direct examples I wouldn’t waste my time. My devices are working just fine and much comment here is from people who simply dare not upgrade, which is ridiculous.
Older users like myself have seen this kind of bleating so often it becomes tiresome.
I had a house full of iPhone users last evening - none of them were complaining that their phones were messed up.
Great!
So why not leave everyone else alone who are having issues and allow them to discuss their frustrations?
Now we agree! Good point! No more comments from me and thanks for putting me right!
I've made several posts in the forums citing and identifying specific user hostile design features of iOS 26. There's also a poll here showing only 30% (29.3% last I checked) of users saying they are happy with iOS 26, clearly not just my opinion.
You literally quoted someone telling you there ARE direct examples posted on the forums.
Yet how would you know it's a small minority? But if even, one cannot dismiss a commonality of members experiencing the same issue. I always laugh at replies pouting that for them, everything is fine, which is great but often borders on a dismissal that an amount of users are actually all having similar problems.
Of course this, or any Apple-centric forum, will state having some sort of issues. There are many, and folks will always write about problems rather than not having any, even if Apple denies they exist and ends up losing in court. And that's a great thing and has helped so many to navigate the source of issues. There's also the wide spectrum or variables of OS, age of the device or country used (feature limitations). Evidence? Examples? Forums are riddled with them...just do a search.
Yes, but what is the point when Apple is of the attitude that it will not acknowledge the existence of such issues?
This is not true. I think Apple has enough acolytes so as not to need another one attacking people with genuine concerns.
You find the evidence in these forums. Stop attacking end users just because you have a different experience.
Many of these reported defects are anecdotal or aggrandized to the level of blue screen of death. I personally worry about glitches the stop me from using the phone. Small UI glitches, if there are any, don’t bother me.
Isn't everything we as users share here "anecdotal"?
That doesn't mean things aren't true.