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Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 4

I was relieved when they improved their liquid nonsense by reducing the effect of it, so ****’s actually readable.

Now they walked it back?? Because, well, they introduced it to the world and can walk back on the shiny objects the marketing released to the world? This is an operating system for god sakes, it should support the job at hand, be functional first, pretty second!

And I’ve looked at the camera mode selection online. This is not going to be usable at all! Who came up with that ****?
 
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Frosty1 said:
Ya I like the Liquid Glass, they shouldn't tone it down - of course for legibility make it easier to read if you can (like darkening the background on lock screen is a nice touch) otherwise you can just use reduce transparency
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That’s like taking a picture with the wrong white balance settings and overexposure settings, and then asking the Photoshop guy to compensate for these mistakes by lowering the brightness and shifting overexposure.

Just take the right picture….
 
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Can’t wait to turn off Liquid!
And a few other features. Waiting to decide if I pass 14 pro to grandkids or suffer another year to 20th. Camera might be nice but the rest … eh?
 
Before anyone replies “ItS a BeTa!” I’m well aware, and YES I have already submitted feedback via the app.

I hope they sort out performance by the time the final version launches, it has improved slightly since beta 1 but right now I still get big performance hitches when doing things like opening an app or going to the home screen, pulling down the notification shade or quick toggles, the animation for notifications appearing also stutters. This is my experience across both my devices (15 Pro and M4 iPad Pro). I feel like I’m using a budget android handset. It’s about on par with the Samsung A series phone they make us use at work.
 
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This post is so effing infuriating!!! I am refusing to read entries from editors who don’t give a damn about readers, this was OUTRIGHT LAZY!!!

BEFORE always left
AFTER always right!

If you are too good for that convention then just stick to one geeeeez
 
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klapaucius44 said:
This post is so effing infuriating!!! I am refusing to read entries from editors who don’t give a damn about readers, this was OUTRIGHT LAZY!!!

BEFORE always left
AFTER always right!

If you are too good for that convention then just stick to one geeeeez
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Those "Beta 4 on left, beta 3 on right" and "Beta 4 on right, beta 3 on left" really confuse me. Why not simply place Beta 4 on right and write down "Beta 3 and Beta 4"?
 
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I have to say for a company that cares so much about every single detail, down to their product packaging, this entire design seems ‘off’ to me. And some of the changes between betas seem to indicate there’s not a unified thought process on this. I’m a big Apple fan, I appreciate my Mac, iPad and iPhone, but this almost feels like a windows vista moment coming.
 
Dr McKay said:
Before anyone replies “ItS a BeTa!” I’m well aware, and YES I have already submitted feedback via the app.

I hope they sort out performance by the time the final version launches, it has improved slightly since beta 1 but right now I still get big performance hitches when doing things like opening an app or going to the home screen, pulling down the notification shade or quick toggles, the animation for notifications appearing also stutters. This is my experience across both my devices (15 Pro and M4 iPad Pro). I feel like I’m using a budget android handset. It’s about on par with the Samsung A series phone they make us use at work.
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The Samsung A devices aren’t that bad :D
 
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d4cloo said:
I was relieved when they improved their liquid nonsense by reducing the effect of it, so ****’s actually readable.

Now they walked it back?? Because, well, they introduced it to the world and can walk back on the shiny objects the marketing released to the world? This is an operating system for god sakes, it should support the job at hand, be functional first, pretty second!

And I’ve looked at the camera mode selection online. This is not going to be usable at all! Who came up with that ****?
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Personally I can read everything just fine, and they do have the reduce transparency in Accessibility settings that basically turns it off. It would be nice to have a slider to control the affect of Liquid Glass, but I doubt they will do that.

The camera control could be a bug, we can't full judge them until it's officially released.
 
CrysisDeu said:
The new slider for camera modes selection in b4 is a UX disaster.

The button slides, the selections also slides at the same time.
When you drag the button to the left, the button moves, the background selections also scrolls to the left. But usually, if you drag to the left, the scrollable content should slide in reverse to the right.

This is so confusing and impossible to use. Just try it out.

And who tf thought it’s a good idea to hide the function toggles behind the mode selection? No one expects clicking on the mode selection again will expand shooting options.

I know I am on beta, but beta testers are only responsible for finding unintended bugs for Apple. The design itself is so horrible and wrong in the first place. That’s skill issue
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I was wondering about this part. Thanks for confirming exactly what. thought would happen.
 
Beta 4 much better than 3, do miss beta 1. Give us some sliders for opacity Apple. Control centre is still beta 3ish. Notifications on the lock screen are a delight to flick through for the effect.
 
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fullauto said:
Beta 4 much better than 3, do miss beta 1. Give us some sliders for opacity Apple. Control centre is still beta 3ish. Notifications on the lock screen are a delight to flick through for the effect.
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I didn’t join the beta train until B2, but B4 is much better than B3 I do agree. The Liquid Glass changes are certainly to my liking, and now that iOS has had time to settle down, the stuttering is largely gone. My battery seems better on B4. The only major bug I’ve encountered is the issue in Mail when viewing emails with white backgrounds, but that’s clearly an actual bug and not expected behaviour.
 
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Both of these look designed by a guy who just fired up Figma for the first time and had a few VPs behind him so was extra nervous. What the actual puck has happened over at Cupertino. I don’t even care if it’s flat or skeueo, the amount of technical mistakes rivals that of Adobe or MS.

Did they reduce their UI team to 4 interns??
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I really can’t understand this Camera icon. They design something that looks fairly realistic and not in keeping with the the Liquid Glass material philosophy, yet they design a Mail envelope out of glass that looks like soggy paper. What they heck are they smoking over there?
 
I admit I haven’t been following the iOS 26 news but my first reaction on seeing this is “so it looks like windows vista and the icons are finally back to iOS 6 skeuomorphic.” At long last I’ve waited years for them to kill the iOS 7 flat look.

As someone who prizes readability can anyone tell me if reduce transparency cuts down the effect by x%? Hopefully it’s by 90%
 
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d4cloo said:
I was relieved when they improved their liquid nonsense by reducing the effect of it, so ****’s actually readable.

Now they walked it back?? Because, well, they introduced it to the world and can walk back on the shiny objects the marketing released to the world? This is an operating system for god sakes, it should support the job at hand, be functional first, pretty second!

And I’ve looked at the camera mode selection online. This is not going to be usable at all! Who came up with that ****?
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Apple is truly a welcoming and diverse company. It’s so impressive that they hire blind UX testers. They’re truly inclusive!
 
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AUGUSTU5 said:
Apple is truly a welcoming and diverse company. It’s so impressive that they hire blind UX testers. They’re truly inclusive!
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there is a certain irony their devices are the most accessible out of box for blind users. Now it seems only blind users can use it at all.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
I might be in the minority, but I really enjoy the strong transparency. I didn’t think it would last though. Same as with the Mac OSX Leopard betas that re-introduced menu bar transparency, but Apple heavily toned it down before release. Too many complaints from the chorus — and I would bet most of those complaints were from people who didn’t actually have issues with it but they love to echo whatever niche complaint getting amplified online.
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I wonder how they test it when in beta 4 they have stil do basic adjustings to be text readable in various scenarios.
 
minimo3 said:
I admit I haven’t been following the iOS 26 news but my first reaction on seeing this is “so it looks like windows vista and the icons are finally back to iOS 6 skeuomorphic.” At long last I’ve waited years for them to kill the iOS 7 flat look.

As someone who prizes readability can anyone tell me if reduce transparency cuts down the effect by x%? Hopefully it’s by 90%
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I was really hoping apple would lean more toward neumorphism than aero though. I'm glad we will have something new to look at now but it still seems like a let down.
 
I'm just hoping battery life is restored to its former iOS 18.5. watchOS too is draining A LOT more. Has any one else noticed? Sorry if this has been mentioned before. Aesthetically, there are some slight improvements, hopefully it'll just get more refined. I think the core functions need to be resolved first. Perhaps the battery drainage is due to the background operations. I'm not sure though. I'm running the beta 4 on my MacBook Pro M3 Max, iPhone 16 Pro, and Watch Ultra 2.
 
The real problem here is glass takes on the appearance of its background…which can make contrast hard because that color is dynamic.

On some screens where the background is a static color it makes sense…but it doesn’t scale to other configurations and layouts.

What concerns me is that Apple is not thinking of the whole system and just micro designing things in isolation. This makes for initial fast progress but can lead to stasis for overall system configurations and lean practices and the ability to pivot fast.

This is a management issue. (With other workers just doing what to do to get by).
 
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