I agree its fugly, cartoon icons and with an iphone orange looks like you have a new child toy lol.
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I absolutely loathe iOS 26
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I have a 15PM and I’m liking iOS 26. Some good functionality upgrades. As has been said Apple will continue to tweak the interface. Different strokes for different folks.
It seems pretty universal to me. I must be using only compatible apps.
Right now I find it a bit visually distracting, but that could just be the novelty. I might get used to it with time. Reducing transparency and increasing contrast in Accessibility makes a big difference, so I’ll keep that as a fallback if my eyes don’t adjust to the Liquid Glass effect after a few weeks.
Yeah, this reminds me of when iOS 7 came out. Many improvements were added and issues got ironed out with iOS 8.
This is definitely one where I am content with 18.7 on my 13 until sometime next year
It luckily was improved with iOS 26. It’s easier and the swipe is not only recognized right at the edge of the screen anymore. But yes, you’re probably already using apps that work well with it.
Some that simply don’t work good are Google Keep (so not Apples fault, Keep is just junk), Google Drive, PayPal (doesn’t work at all), Apple Support (either only at the edge or you have to press Cancel etc.), Uber Eats (same as PayPal), Mimi Hearing (only X or Cancel) and a couple more.
So yeah, it depends on what apps you use.
They luckily toned the effect down in most if not all places. Still there are many UI elements that can look weird and confusing, especially for older people that just wake up one day and have 26 installed.
Its buggy. I have encountered several visual bugs. I recall the same thing when iOS7 came out.
I installed it on an iPhone 12 and I’m shocked by how fluid everything is (icon redraws aside). Found some visual bugs, but nothing showstopping. I mostly use alternatives to Apple apps, Brave Browser (no ads!), Spark Mail, etc. The only thing I can’t get over are the icons. I dislike all versions, light, dark, clear, tinted. That ooh shiny effect really, really doesn’t work for me and reducing transparency won’t get rid of it. I will learn to… maybe not love them, but not loathe them… but I would prefer not to have to tell myself patiently that this is good for me and I simply can’t understand Apple’s refined taste and that’s my fault.
I'm running iOS 26 on my iPhone 11, and my iPhone 14, and it runs perfectly fine. After the post-update indexing and background tasks are done, the battery life goes back to normal.
Maybe there's some weird bug on that phone, because I'm seeing nothing like that on my iPhones.
I like iOS 26, I just wish they actually improved the keyboard, not just made it looks less bad.
This has probably been mentioned already but in Safari, you can quickly double tap the 3 dots to show all tabs. I was also annoyed that it takes an extra step to see tabs but with double tap it’s still a single step.
Quicker to swipe up the address bar surely?
I liked this initially but as you're scrolling down a page, my address bar gets minimized and the swipe up doesn't work unless I scroll UP the page (making the bar bigger), then I can swipe on it to get the list of tabs:
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Do any of the accessibility features make the nav bar a fully differentiated from the content "bar", that is full width, with a solid background?
I like my buttons and navigation to be distinct, clear and legible.
I do not understand this Apple fetish to blend everything together.
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That is a good question - and yeah maybe it is my age but I've always hated how scrolling directions changes things on pages / browsers these days.
The only accessibility feature I'm using that I know of is reduced motion.
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Whether you love it or hate it, there is no shortage of opinion on Liquid Glass. I have thoughts about what it is, but today I want to focus on why it exists. Apple’s public rationale for the new design language is that it offers a universal solution across platforms that takes advantage of...
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“. One thing that’s clear from this work is that you never want a control or container that touches the edge of the screen.
It’s like when safe area insets appeared in iOS 11: it wasn’t clear why you needed them until the iPhone X came along with a notch and a home indicator. And then it changed everything.
There has also been an emphasis on “concentricity”. It’s an impossible thing to achieve and an easy target for ridicule. But it’s another case where Apple wants to take control of the UI elements that intersect with the physical hardware.
All of this makes me think that Apple is close to introducing devices where the screen disappears seamlessly into the physical edge. Something where flexible OLED blurs the distinction between pixels and bezel. A new “wraparound” screen with safe area insets on the vertical edges of the device, just like we saw with the horizontal edges on iPhone X.
The user interface work of the past few months will all make a lot more sense, and developers who haven’t been paying attention will have their “holy ****” moment.
I can see this new physical design being very successful with touch-oriented devices: it will feel natural with a phone, tablet, or watch. Hardware and software becoming one in classic Apple fashion”
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What's the verdict for former naysayers who updated? Should I go ahead, iphone 15 pro here.
Still on the fence.
Still on the fence.