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Here Are Apple's Release Notes for iOS 26.4

The ambient music widget having additional stuff added* is cool, and making the caption settings more convenient to access is nice as well.
*I'm assuming curated playlists means some actual person somewhere was involved, and not just AI?
 
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The keyboard bug is the only thing that interests me. Several
Gigas of useless “new features” for me.
We should be able to select which “features” we want. I don’t even use or want Apple Music app!, but I will be forced to consume space on my phone for a force on me app?
 
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Octavius8 said:
The keyboard bug is the only thing that interests me. Several
Gigas of useless “new features” for me.
We should be able to select which “features” we want. I don’t even use or want Apple Music app!, but I will be forced to consume space on my phone for a force on me app?
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You do know you can delete the Music app right?
 
ypl said:
Now add point 4 in 26.5 "Turn Liquid Glass design off" and I'm ready to upgrade my devices to 26 + buy new products like AW SE3 or M5 Air.
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Never going to happen. Liquid Glass is staying. If you think Apple spent millions on the design revamp only to completely revert it, you are off your rocker.

I like Liquid Glass. I like the reflection effects and how everything shines through the various elements of it and how modern everything looks. Performance could be better, but it'll hopefully improve with iOS 27. And for once, with Liquid Glass in 26.4, Apple brought back the colourful album backgrounds for albums that used to exist before they redesigned the Music app in iOS 10, which is a very welcome change.

Boycotting products because of a design revamp is very much questionable and iffy.
 
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WarmWinterHat said:
You sure are speaking for a lot of people. I turn it on, and advise other to turn it on.

What do you have against it for everyone else?
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It doesn't work! It will lock you out of your own phone and unable to make any changes for over an hour. I tried it when they first introduced it. I was at home. My contact card had my home address. I was on my home WiFi. Even Apple Maps knew I was at home. Tried to make a change to a setting, but no, the device protection said, we don't recognize your location, unable to make changes for an hour. Once that hour was up, I turned that 💩off.
 
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DMG35 said:
The fact that Apple wants to continuously tout new emoji's as an added feature shows how truly lost their development team is.
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Um, emoji usage is insanely popular, especially among Gen Z people and younger. Why wouldn't they point out in the release notes when they add new ones? And how exactly does this show how "lost" their dev team is? Excluding it from the release notes when they add new emoji makes absolutely zero sense. Just because you potentially don't use emoji very much or keep the usage of them to a minimum, doesn't mean they aren't important to others. Plus, they pointed it out as an enhancement, not a feature.
 
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ericg301 said:
Siri was never promised in 26.4, it was rumored. And that rumor pre-dates the entire shift to Gemini.
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Last Spring, when Apple admitted they blundered and could not get Siri right, they said it would be delayed a year, to this Spring. Crickets chirping. So Apple did 'promise' it, but has delayed it again with the announcement that they are looking to Google to make their fantasy AI work as they claimed in their pulled ads.
 
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ypl said:
Now add point 4 in 26.5 "Turn Liquid Glass design off" and I'm ready to upgrade my devices to 26 + buy new products like AW SE3 or M5 Air.
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You already can turn it off. Change Liquid Glass to Tinted in Displays, then under Accessibility, turn on Reduce Transparency, and you can even turn on Reduce Motion too. Liquid Glass will be off.
 
Parowdy said:
Let’s hope they fixed the recent battery drain because what is this
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I suspect part of that is the "glass" effects. It takes a lot of cpu cycles to render all that blurring and refracting. Look at how hot Nvidia GPUs get when rendering graphics effects -- hot enough to melt their own cables! That's battery power used for no good benefit. Also faster refresh rates probably also a factor. Coz before iOS was rending an effect 60 times a second, but now they're doing it 120 times a second. Who knows.

On my Samsung Galaxy, I set the refresh to 60 (even though it can do 90hz) to save battery power:
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Also, I don't really care if my refresh rate is 90 or 120hz. I'm fine with 60. I'm a cinema fan, so I consider 24fps to be the gold standard ; )
 
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Like the changes with Apple Music. But the biggest change is with Family Sharing. Also good to see the new emojis. Will update within a few days of release.
 
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capamac said:
I suspect part of that is the "glass" effects. It takes a lot of cpu cycles to render all that blurring and refracting. Look at how hot Nvidia GPUs get when rendering graphics effects -- hot enough to melt their own cables! That's battery power used for no good benefit. Also faster refresh rates probably also a factor. Coz before iOS was rending an effect 60 times a second, but now they're doing it 120 times a second. Who knows.

On my Samsung Galaxy, I set the refresh to 60 (even though it can do 90hz) to save battery power:
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Also, I don't really care if my refresh rate is 90 or 120hz. I'm fine with 60. I'm a cinema fan, so I consider 24fps to be the gold standard ; )
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Wow this looks sooo much like iOS, except for the radio buttons. Same colors (fronts/botton).
 
Mikegwald said:
Completely pointless update. Who even asked for emojis? It’s sad to see how things are turning out.
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Get over the emoji thing. Apple doesn’t decide on their own to bring out new emojis. There is an international organization that plans out new emojis for the year. It’s usually just a handful each year. These are added to the standard for Unicode fonts. Then each platform maker, such as Apple, Google for Android, Microsoft for Windows and all of the others has to build in support for them. Otherwise when your niece sends you a text with an emoji, you’ll see the image instead of a black box. And emojis are hugely popular so that is what drives this every year.

And no, Apple isn’t devoting large numbers of developers on emoji instead of doing feature development. Emojis are just images done by a few designers.

Sorry to be so blunt but every year when emojis start coming out we get tons of comments by people complaining that Apple shouldn’t be wasting resources creating new emojis but should be using those developers to fix their software. Now you know what those comments are so annoying.
 
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Tagbert said:
Get over the emoji thing. Apple doesn’t decide on their own to bring out new emojis. There is an international organization that plans out new emojis for the year. It’s usually just a handful each year. These are added to the standard for Unicode fonts. Then each platform maker, such as Apple, Google for Android, Microsoft for Windows and all of the others has to build in support for them. Otherwise when your niece sends you a text with an emoji, you’ll see the image instead of a black box. And emojis are hugely popular so that is what drives this every year.

And no, Apple isn’t devoting large numbers of developers on emoji instead of doing feature development. Emojis are just images done by a few designers.

Sorry to be so blunt but every year when emojis start coming out we get tons of comments by people complaining that Apple shouldn’t be wasting resources creating new emojis but should be using those developers to fix their software. Now you know what those comments are so annoying.
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I’m so sick of that endlessly repeated, ignorant comment!
 
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All of the people I SMS with mostly use GIFs instead of emoji. Chat backups sure take up a lot more space using them, but they're so much more fun.
 
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DMG35 said:
The fact that Apple wants to continuously tout new emoji's as an added feature shows how truly lost their development team is.
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Reminds me of when local cops announce a "major" drug bust but then they show the evidence laid out on the 3x8' table and it's just a few grams of coke, some weed, and musket from the War of 1812
 
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