Shirasaki
macrumors P6
Ugh, don’t tell me to upgrade my device to worse experience. It’s ME who uses those devices not you.
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Apple Reveals How Many iPhones Are Running iOS 26
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macrumors newbie
New statistics are in. 100% of those people wish they hadn't upgraded to iOS 26.
A significant number of the “vocal minority”. They don’t speak for everyone. If they did, Apple would have gone bankrupt a decade ago based on all the supposed “failures” they’ve had.
Nothing made up, but rather an honest observation over many years. To some, the truth is hard to accept.
Outrage? Quite the contrary, after three decades as a very satisfied Apple Shareholder holding a significant number of shares, the value of my stock and robust dividends continues to be very rewarding.
One does not have to agree with the culture or everything a company does to profit handsomely. It’s good to be invested in Apple.
Being a bit skeptical in times like these might be healthy. It'll take time for people to get used to the new normal, whatever that will be. And basically more than 99% of the global population turned into old and outdated people as they haven't grown up with or gotten used to the "mental self-defense" needed to spot fakes.
But… this is macrumors with more or less ancient accounts (and a lot of the people behind them). Like mine's approaching being a quarter of a century old. And there's active moderation happening here.
Going off about "AI slop" and bots here, to boost Apple stock, is a bit ridiculous, imo. It reads a bit "everyone not agreeing with me must be fake", and completely ignores any and all context. Like that about mental self-defense goes both ways. You need to be more alert about what's fake, but you must also spot when it's very unlikely to be fake without relying only on your biases, which would just put you in a bubble of denying anything and everything that doesn't fit with your own thoughts and preferences.
If you want to get paranoid about bots boosting stock you should head on over to Reddit and look into penny stocks, and everything having to do with crypto and meme coins and whatnot. AI bots on MacRumors trying to move the Apple stock just isn't an issue, and I'm sure the mod would catch it quickly enough.
Ok, then let me put it in other words: You're ignoring the context; and that's making what you're saying a falsehood.
You wrote "Apples ego is revealed as they brag" when the context here is that they released information to their developers, about things that developers want to know. It's up on https://developer.apple.com/
If Apple had blasted this on https://www.apple.com/newsroom/ I perhaps could have ceded a bit to your point, but even that would have been sort of normal marketing. If they'd had extra amazing number of people wanting Liquid Glass I would expect it to be up on https://www.youtube.com/@Apple and out as an ad. I'd expect any and all businesses with the resources to quickly produce content to do that. It's standard operating procedure for them, not ego.
adb1973
macrumors regular
You got to be kidding...
it's a disaster on 13 mini and the keyboard problem is the absolute worst bug I've ever encountered. And really ruins the user experience
The rest is annoyances with overlays blocking input fields, waiting indefinitely for mail messages to load/show etc.
Accidentally we left my wife's iPhone 12 mini on iOS 18. And compared to mine that one runs flawless...
I hear no iPad complaints from the kids but the iPhones I really would pay Apple to be able to revert.
A true anecdote:
My mother complained that her phone ‘looks different and she doesn’t know where everything is & it updated itself’.
So an upgrade to iOS 26 - but certainly not a fan.
My mother complained that her phone ‘looks different and she doesn’t know where everything is & it updated itself’.
So an upgrade to iOS 26 - but certainly not a fan.
I have stutter scrolling when browsing. I have stutter scrolling in apps. I have delays in text windows as the OS decides a rainbow animation is more important to me than the task at hand. I have glitches where keyboards appear without keys filled in, regardless of app, requiring resets. Those are merely top of mind; I’m not spending another second thinking of iPadOS 26 behaviour that I find egregious.
Outside of the UI/UX being a visible downgrade, which it is, it wouldn’t bother me too much as I have no real alternatives. There is no competition to the iPad for how I use it. I’m not in the market for a new phone. On the desktop I don’t want a giant, obnoxious, and noisy box running an even more annoying OS: Windows 11 annoys me on my gaming PC and that’s hardly going to get better if I use that computer for all of my work and play, not just gaming; I’m not diving down the tinker-hole of Linux for a main PC anytime in the next few years.
Even so, I am indeed entitled to complain about issues that are provably extant. You are entitled to have both a different experience and a different enjoyment and thus a different position.
Now c’mon Apple: release macOS 7 to your macOS Vista this autumn… you did not earn your position by being the sole alternative to the MS juggernaut, you achieved it by being genuinely superior for people like myself.
Outside of the UI/UX being a visible downgrade, which it is, it wouldn’t bother me too much as I have no real alternatives. There is no competition to the iPad for how I use it. I’m not in the market for a new phone. On the desktop I don’t want a giant, obnoxious, and noisy box running an even more annoying OS: Windows 11 annoys me on my gaming PC and that’s hardly going to get better if I use that computer for all of my work and play, not just gaming; I’m not diving down the tinker-hole of Linux for a main PC anytime in the next few years.
Even so, I am indeed entitled to complain about issues that are provably extant. You are entitled to have both a different experience and a different enjoyment and thus a different position.
Now c’mon Apple: release macOS 7 to your macOS Vista this autumn… you did not earn your position by being the sole alternative to the MS juggernaut, you achieved it by being genuinely superior for people like myself.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Another true anecdote. My wife didn’t notice. On her iPad Pro and iPhone 14.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Stutternhas been a thing that has been complained about for years in various places. I have not seen the keyboard glitch you describe either in iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.
It’s not imo.
Absolutely. People will have a differing experiences.
Your perception of iOS 26 is perfectly justified not downplaying it. I’m not having the same downgraded experience as you claim.
Turning on ‘tinted’ was the only thing I can do.
She doesn’t understand why everything has gone transparent. She’s over 70 and has to have the UI zoomed in and this is not great for her at all.
I quite liked Liquid Glass when I first had 26.0. Now I’m of the opinion that it’s a mess.
turbineseaplane
Suspended
My mid 50's female cousin who is totally tech illiterate and as "normal" as it gets in terms of users also can't stand LG.
WarmWinterHat
Suspended
You don't use my devices, I do. I'll upgrade them when I'm ready and when I want.
Thank you.
Black_Mage
Contributor
Not on my Mac Studio and MacBook Pro. They are running 15.7.4. See my signature. I keep it updated.
bigandtasty
Suspended
it sucks... Sequoia runs much better. Have it on dual boot, and am reminded every time, why I personally prefer Sequoia. It's ok. Different Strokes I guess.
FeliApple
macrumors 603
I’m just now noticing (and the methodology has been consistent: I checked) that this count is about devices that transacted on the App Store... in a specific day (!!!)
My 16 Plus on iOS 18 wasn’t counted, my Xʀ on iOS 12 wasn’t counted, etc.
See the issue? iPhones running older versions of iOS don’t transact every single day. Newer iPhones with people installing newer apps are more likely to do so.
Now I’m questioning the validity of this information. I have been checking this for years and I had never noticed that. Massive error on my part.
This is almost a random cut of devices on that day. There’s too much margin for error. If it were a month I’d believe it more.
In any case Apple. Count it for a full month, allow unfettered downgrading from the Liquid Garbage and try again.
My 16 Plus on iOS 18 wasn’t counted, my Xʀ on iOS 12 wasn’t counted, etc.
See the issue? iPhones running older versions of iOS don’t transact every single day. Newer iPhones with people installing newer apps are more likely to do so.
Now I’m questioning the validity of this information. I have been checking this for years and I had never noticed that. Massive error on my part.
This is almost a random cut of devices on that day. There’s too much margin for error. If it were a month I’d believe it more.
In any case Apple. Count it for a full month, allow unfettered downgrading from the Liquid Garbage and try again.
FeliApple
macrumors 603
Use this OS yourself thank you very much, and let me use what I want.
Signed:
An iPhone Xʀ running iOS 12.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Yeah 7 in total. 2 iPhones, 2 iPads, 2 AW and 1 ATV. Plus one iPad on 18.7.4. (And a partridge in a pear tree).
FeliApple
macrumors 603
The contrast is a little funny!
6 iPhones, 3 iPads and 1 Mac
Fully updated? 1 iPhone. An iPhone 5c running iOS 10... which bootlooped on its own on iOS 9, and has been in a drawer ever since.
I have an orange tree if you like?
ITsJamie
macrumors member
I run some very specific programs and they simply perform quite bad in Tahoe. For this and testing reasons I updated my Mac Mini M4 to the latest Tahoe, but my Macbook Air M4 is still on Sequoia. The latter performs still much much better than the Mini running Tahoe.
That's fair, and it's a very professional response. You've got a unique case, and you verified it before going full in. Programs not having been upgraded, or where you occasionally need to stick to an older version, needs to be taken into account.
My "problem" is with that most people that are what we might call passionately against certain things (in this case Liquid Glass) are acting weird. Some of them have made that cult their personality simply because they at first saw something they didn't like in a picture, and some seem to treat not installing security patches for years as some stroke of tech genius by which they seem to think that they're outsmarting Apple (or whatever company it's about).
