Turn on the `Reduce Motion` accessibility option, it solves all the distracting distortion effects while keeping transparency - it's essentially the prior iOS look.
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I absolutely loathe iOS 26
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Point taken. Maybe Jony would not have done this
And surely Mr. Jobs would never have allowed this monstrosity. So, Mr. Cook, we look at YOU. I be looking at Debian 13. Not because I WANT to. But because I am being FORCED to.
No you won’t. And on iOS 26, Reduce Transparency also reduces the contrast of UI elements.
Question? How long can I postpone the "upgrade"? My intention is to do it forever.
Just turn off automatic updates. Eventually you might have apps that can’t get updates. Eventually there might be a security exploit that can only be fixed by updating your OS. But it’s far more likely that you will want new hardware before then and just get no choice in the matter due to compatibility issues.
Super! Thank you. That is what I was hoping for. I see no need whatsoever to update at this time. Double checking now to make sure it is turned off. I may go ahead at some point with the iPad. I only use it for watchi9ng Baseball at this time. I speak mainly of my desktop. Where I can already do anything I might need to. It is a no go on my phone also
iOS 26 seemingly does more under the covers than iOS 18. But I dialed back some of the settings. But I like many of the improvements. I haven’t used the mail app extensively but I like the functionality in the phone app and safari.
I do not prioritize battery life because charging solutions are aplenty. But my phone should last the day which it does. I typically use from 80% to 30% on a 15PM.
It also kills all the other animations in the OS. So no thanks. Shouldn't be all or nothing like this.
It did look like Fisher price and it made Mac OS X look like a futuristic spaceship in comparison to its brokedown fisherprice toy
Apple's lucky they don't have that kind of competition
Just goes to show someone thought really hard about all these very bad decisions and made them anyway!
just smoke a joint..then you'll be in cartoon land to match your phone wonkyness 😄😄
There are two separate keyboards, with different spacing on letters, and different methodologies on how they work. The official apps have one keyboard, and everything else the other. The "old" keyboard is very broke.
On RC 26, I had the option to stretch the clock on the lock screen. But on the latest public version of 26, this setting is no longer available. What happened?
I had to translate, but are you saying the clock constantly looks stretched now? And you can’t make it smaller?
No, the clock is now the same size as in iOS 18. And I can't drag it down to fill the entire screen, for example. There's no slider in the bottom right corner. There was a slider in 26 RC.
This is what I can't do now on the latest version 26, as shown in the picture:
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Reduce transparency = basically turns off all glass effects. Very useful for older phones as they stop lagging.
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And another 10 years to get to where iOS 18 is now… say iOS 37…?
wait for the indexing to finish, it will get faster after a few days. I have a 13 pro and this exact issue. All new iOS updates do indexing in the background so they always seem slow and buggy at first, the indexing is what causes the performance drop and can then cause the animations to stutter, but once it finishes it should improve.
Just skip a year. Many of us have done it before. Past OS version are supported for a few years.
Best thing is to put it to the back of your mind and get on with life. Add a reminder for next June or July to see how things have progressed, and have a peek at what's coming in iOS 27.
fwiw, I have an iPad on iOS12, and most things work just fine.
I might be crazy, but I like how songs on Music are blended without a gap. I also think the music sounds better using my phone’s speakers. The rest of ios26 is too “fabulous” for me.
I've done that, and tbh, it looks like I'll be doing that this year as well. I largely avoided most of the beta discussions, and thought liquid [gl]ass (sorry couldn't resist) was more of return of the Aqua UI, but its monochrome, everything is largely see through.
I'm also seeing complaints about battery life, and hotter iphones, because the processor is needing to work harder at rendering.
This is the first time that I'm seeing wholesale articles, and YTs about turning off features when you install iOS 26 - so many of them, that just tells me, its not an upgrade I really want to embrace.