I absolutely loathe iOS 26

[Heat_Fan89]

One thing I noticed on my iPhone 13 is that if I use clear icons, and scroll across the home home page, the icons will take 1-2 seconds to appear, it's just a clear glassy box with no icon.

If I use the regular icons there's no such issue. I decided to go back to 18.6.2 as i'm beginning to think my phone may not have enough power for all the fancy glass stuff. I do like the look but I need to think this thru because once Apple decides to stop signing iOS 18, there's no way to go back from iOS 26.

 

[turbineseaplane]

One thing I noticed on my iPhone 13 is that if I use clear icons, and scroll across the home home page, the icons will take 1-2 seconds to appear, it's just a clear glassy box with no icon.

If I use the regular icons there's no such issue. I decided to go back to 18.6.2 as i'm beginning to think my phone may not have enough power for all the fancy glass stuff. I do like the look but I need to think this thru because once Apple decides to stop signing iOS 18, there's no way to go back from iOS 26.

As a fellow 13 generation user, I think it's smart to stay on iOS18 and let this play out and watch reports from folks on 13's that have moved to iOS26 and see what they are saying as updates go along.

To your point .. once the signing stops, one is screwed and stuck on 26.

 

[T140V]

Even though there were many naysayers, I went ahead and upgraded my 10 Gen pad and 15P phone.
I'm here to say that I don't loath it, I Love it!

 

[HouseLannister]

Ugh! Now my iOS 18 is starting to look glassy. Several app developers have sprinkled glassy icons in their recent updates and the mismatch looks awful.

 

[ZipZilla]

As a fellow 13 generation user, I think it's smart to stay on iOS18 and let this play out and watch reports from folks on 13's that have moved to iOS26 and see what they are saying as updates go along.

To your point .. once the signing stops, one is screwed and stuck on 26.

As a fellow 13 user, I am staying on 18 until 26 gets RCS 3.0 and the new Siri improvements. Likely 6+ months from now. Maybe around 26.4.

 

[Makisupa Policeman]

They need to fix several things in the UI:

• Opening a new safari tab should not be buried in a sub-menu! Wtf Apple, that’s gonna confuse the f**k out of my boomer in-laws
• The mini player in Music needs an integrated skip button— when you’re not at the top it disappears
• The Liquid Glass video player/media player controls need to be vastly improved somehow, they look cartoonish
• The way certain elements of LG are layered need a lot of improvement, especially how they interact in Messages

That’s all I can think of for now.

 

[rforno]

Ugh! Now my iOS 18 is starting to look glassy. Several app developers have sprinkled glassy icons in their recent updates and the mismatch looks awful.

Yeah I noticed that too after I downgraded my 15Pro back to 18 this morning ... *sigh*

 

[Tevosn]

As a fellow 13 user, I am staying on 18 until 26 gets RCS 3.0 and the new Siri improvements. Likely 6+ months from now. Maybe around 26.4.

My 13 professional doesn’t do that. The only problem I experienced so far, is that ANC doesn’t work anymore, if I only wear 1 AirPod (AirPods 2 professional), had problems with it before so I think it’s fixable.

 

[c47v3770]

Apple should add the option to go back to the classic pre iOS 26 look...