I absolutely loathe iOS 26

[Ursadorable]

Honestly, I should be thankful to Apple. They saved me CAD$2000 from upgrading my 13 Pro Max to the 17 Pro Max. Hopefully by the time the 18 Pro Max comes out, they will have hired some UI aesthetics people that didn't recently get fired from Jaguar.

 

[adrianlondon]

Honestly, I should be thankful to Apple. They saved me CAD$2000 from upgrading my 13 Pro Max to the 17 Pro Max. Hopefully by the time the 18 Pro Max comes out, they will have hired some UI people that didn't recently get fired from Jaguar.

Best to wait and see what iOS 27 looks like before you can relax.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Best to wait and see what iOS 27 looks like before you can relax.

"Totally transparent UI"
"Shake device to see anything on the screen"
"Fully powered by SIRI+, now part of iCloud+"
"New iPhone Mini with a 6.6" screen"

 

[adrianlondon]

The new iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPad Pro M5 running iOS 27 "Solid Glass".

 

[derek33]

Their design team is on cook-aine now.

I think you can only do that under mushrooms.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The new iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPad Pro M5 running iOS 27 "Solid Glass".


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Nice to see how they look in Sky Blue!

Also, are those with or without the Bumper "case"?
I can't quite tell.

 

[MrNomNoms]

I upgraded my mum's phone to 18.7 because iOS 26 doesn't look ready for mum to use given how different it is. What I do hope that based on past experience there will be two 26.x update before the end of the year that address the usability and legibility issues that some have raised. At the rate things are going Apple has some how made One UI 8 from Samsung appear to be the 'adult in the room' as so far as releasing an update that makes improvements that benefit users rather than change for the sake of change (or to distract users from their AI over promising and underdelivering).

 

[Toonartist]

Well... iOS26 has been installed for a few days now.

I actually really like it. Yeah there are bugs that need to be sorted and some of the transparent options aren't appropriate with all background types. But, overall I like the animations and the, speed of use etc. As with most things there are areas that could be improved but reading some comments you'd think the sky has fallen and the world was about to end. It hasn't.

 

[DR3MCLAREN]

Some of my ongoing irritants include the fuzzy app icons; all my frequent use apple icons live on the first page, and it is like I have a vision issue?!

The translucent clock on my wall paper is much harder to read as it so desperately tries to vary the shading; just let me have a solid color, please.

And, contact cards for people having small white font and app icons on solid backgrounds, like soft yellow, pink, peach, light blue, ... - which is a color it picks up from the custom memoji's backgrounds. I have to squint each time to see what is what .... Who thought that was a great idea, on anything but solid black or maybe some very deep colors?

You can make the clock solid. When you customize the wallpaper just tap on the clock and then at bottom switch from glass to solid and pick a color.

 

[super chimp]

I dislike it as well. And the experience on my 13 Pro is terrible - all the animations run slower than iOS 18, and there is a sluggish feeling in how things perform

I had a bad feeling about iOS 26 from looking at videos of the public betas so I kept my iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 18.7.

 

[super chimp]

All of these complaints are normal. Apple made some changes. However, once the initial shock of change wears off, and you use the system for a while, everything that’s now new and scary will become normal. Give it some time.

That’s not going to fix the inferior legibility compared to iOS 18.

 

[I7guy]

That’s not going to fix the inferior legibility compared to iOS 18.

My eyesight isn’t the greatest but I’m having no trouble at all with legibility.

 

[Shawn MacApple]

I usually update early on, but I decided to wait to see the general verdict after the issues on iPadOS 26 I have had. It does get tedious sifting through the dislike of the UI (which is subjective to each person), but using it on my iPad I really don't think it is horrible (at least it is not that video-game-looking skeuomorphism nonsense). I am more interested in the functionality of how things WORK and not what they look like (I will have to see if there is a forum about that).

I do have to say it is pretty difficult waiting to do the update but after looking up how to roll back eff that....I'll wait

 

[turbineseaplane]

I do have to say it is pretty difficult waiting to do the update but after looking up how to roll back eff that....I'll wait

Waiting seems like the smart move. Even those who are reporting they like the concept of liquid glass seem to be acknowledging that there are still lots of things to work out.

 

[tbgb50]

Plan B worked. No one that bought an iPhone 16 to get AI is talking about being misled by Apple.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

That’s not going to fix the inferior legibility compared to iOS 18.

My eyesight is not the best and I had no issues with legibility. I thought the overall look of iOS 26 was nice. I decided to go back to iOS 18 because my iPhone 13 seem to skip a beat with iOS 26 and once Apple stops signing iOS 18 there's no way of going back.