they are caving sadly, to the minority
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Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 3
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But Liquid Glass does have transparency (really translucency) as one of its main design features, in addition to emulating light reflecting off of glassy UI elements. The main complaint many people have with Liquid Glass isn't with its reflection simulations, but with this transparency effect, since even in its more toned-down versions, it allows too much of what's behind a UI element to bleed through and make what you're supposed to be focusing on, in the UI element, require needless extra effort to distinguish from the stuff that's bleeding through.
I still don’t understand the concerns about legibility. I’ve seen some cherry-picked screenshots showing a very light background, Liquid Glass notifications, and white text. Yes, that is a poor accessibility scenario, and the system should automatically provide darker text for contrast. However, I think people confuse legibility (“the quality of being clear enough to read”) with decreased contrast (“the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association”) due to greater transparency of Liquid Glass. The system generally handles text color well with varying backgrounds. I bet you can read the text. You just don’t like the “distraction”.
It’s not like you’re looking at your phone from feet away; If you struggle to read the text on a phone in your hand, increase the text size in Display settings. iOS has also had Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast accessibility settings for ages. If the new design is too overwhelming for you, use these features.
The issue is not legibility. It’s people forcing their opinion to have a flat, stagnant UI on others, when they already have a way to opt out.
Even beta 1 was “legible”. Ignore the frutiger aero theming:
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It’s not like you’re looking at your phone from feet away; If you struggle to read the text on a phone in your hand, increase the text size in Display settings. iOS has also had Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast accessibility settings for ages. If the new design is too overwhelming for you, use these features.
The issue is not legibility. It’s people forcing their opinion to have a flat, stagnant UI on others, when they already have a way to opt out.
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Looks like total crap now, a bunch of lazy developer is probably complained loudly they didn’t wanna have to change too much. Hopefully it goes back in other direction.
That's been true, to varying degrees, since the first releases of OS X. With OS 9, 8, 7, etc., Apple stuck with some pretty good, consistent HIG (Human Interface Guidelines, for those who don't know), but when OS X was released, they said developers now had more flexibility in where some buttons were placed, some aspects of the appearance of UI elements, menu arrangement, etc. They said it was time to experiment. This was a nice idea in theory, but the actual effect was that some (many?) developers produced apps with non-intuitive, inconsistent interfaces that were sometimes unpleasant to use. Apple eventually straightened things out fairly well, but now the themers have gotten control again. Not that this is bad, but it needs to be done right to not be bad.
I don't think it's a minority that doesn't like it.
its a minority
Man I really liked the liquid glass look, I wish they weren’t toning it down quite so much 
stop falling for the clickbait. they did not tone it downMan I really liked the liquid glass look, I wish they weren’t toning it down quite so much
To answer the hyberbole. It looks like very few actually used beta 3 so far.
Apple simply adjusted readability in light mode vs dark mode . Glass is still there, PROMINENTLY. 90% of users in first 3 pages didnt even use the beta before replying...apparently neither did the author of the article
Apple simply adjusted readability in light mode vs dark mode . Glass is still there, PROMINENTLY. 90% of users in first 3 pages didnt even use the beta before replying...apparently neither did the author of the article
I know several people who run the betas, and none liked it...so in my personal circle, it's 100%.
I know several people who run the betas, and all liked it...so in my personal circle, its 100%.
These are cool and all but can we get multiple private spaces? Sometimes called multiple users? Thank you
All the more reason for me to stay off iOS 26 until at least 26.1.
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Oh, that looks fine to me!To answer the hyberbole. It looks like very few actually used beta 3 so far.
Apple simply adjusted readability in light mode vs dark mode . Glass is still there, PROMINENTLY. 90% of users in first 3 pages didnt even use the beta before replying...apparently neither did the author of the article
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I did wonder if it would look better in motion. Screen shots really have a hard time really showing off the effect, in any of the betas so far
here is another app in light and dark mode in beta 3
You likely are in dark mode. Dark mode is still the beta 2 version of glassy. If you take it off of dark mode, light mode is mostly frosted plastic with barely a touch of glass. 16 Pro Max.
At least that is what I am seeing on my device. 🤷♂️
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Every single post in this thread could have been written two months ago. All sane people were expecting the original concept to be toned down before public release. I can’t think of a single serious Apple pundit that did not point this out on the first day.
Most users won’t know how it looked like on reveal, or during beta stage. Most users will only see the final, refined version. Prepare for the public outcry in mainstream media, followed by all the geeks saying “you should have seen the beta!!!”, like anyone actually cares.
Most users won’t know how it looked like on reveal, or during beta stage. Most users will only see the final, refined version. Prepare for the public outcry in mainstream media, followed by all the geeks saying “you should have seen the beta!!!”, like anyone actually cares.
Well, lots of Macrumors users have been asking for it for years, commenting how the current design looks “stale”. Can’t win ‘em all I guess.
I’ve already decide to get an android this year. Apple lost me after the last year of ****** OS releases. I feel they are about as incompetent as you can get now.