It interested me as it felt like they were already moving away from a central plank of iOS 26 that of liquid glass.
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I absolutely loathe iOS 26
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It interested me as it felt like they were already moving away from a central plank of iOS 26 that of liquid glass.
I feel the exact same. And one also knows FOR SURE... that in 5 years they will bring a revolutionary new look and feel involving... yeah, you guessed it... FLAT ICONS again! Pathetic. One would think they have much much better things to accomplish.
Heh! And a bunch of folk on these forums will be saying how fresh and clean and modern it is. And after a day of using it, they'll say that when they now look at iOS 26 it looks old fashioned and outdated. And then they'll say: everyone who doesn't like it, hates change. Same old…
I have to agree with OP .. My wife and I purchased 2 17 Pro Max's .. Turn them on hated IOS26 and returned the 17's and went back to our great 15 Pro Max's ! That's that. We have apple care on the 15's so we keep these for now. They also lowered the volume when texting and there was no way to make it louder. The liquid glass looks terrible. Car Play wallpapers look like crap the list goes on !
Wait it out at least a few months. And this goes double for macOS 26, if you have a Mac.
There are weird bugs left and right. A few UI improvements and some cool features, but it's not worth it IMO at this juncture.
I will have to return my iPhone 17 that just arrived - iOS 26 isn't any better on the newest devices, it still hurts physically in my eyeballs to try and focus on anything on the screen because it's all a blurred, glassy mess.
26.1 looks like it might help? Frosted glass is much easier than the clear, reflective stuff everywhere.
My wife installed iOS 26 on her iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch . I have not heard any feedback -positive or negative.
I'm ok with Liquid Glass.
I'm not ok with the new scheme regarding blocking/unblocking unwanted calls and the extra steps involved, You can't just see everything and have to switch views. Hate that!
Thank goodness my wife hasn't updated her phone yet. I'm not looking forward to that day.
I'm not ok with the new scheme regarding blocking/unblocking unwanted calls and the extra steps involved, You can't just see everything and have to switch views. Hate that!
Thank goodness my wife hasn't updated her phone yet. I'm not looking forward to that day.
Liquid Glass grew on me. Almost all of iOS 26 did. Except the bugs. 17.0.1 fixed exactly as many of them as the release notes promised, i.e. none whatsoever.
💯 agree iOS 26 is shithouse, the safari tab have to click to times now when before it was only once it’s annoying why couldn’t they just leave it as it was
Try out a Pixel. I have the 10 Pro and it's great. I had the OG iPhone and got off the Apple train after my 15 Pro Max.
Swipe up from address bar, or squeeze 3 dot hamburger swipe to all tabs.
I’ll probably wait until at least iOS 26.1 before trying it, but maybe not even then.
I don't feel really annoyed by it, but that's my 'biggest' annoyance. It was so simple before-and not once have I used the other options within that pop-up menu. As I also mentioned in another thread, maybe even this one (can't remember now), I don't like the new UI when camera is open. I prefer the old setup. But, as I've used it more, I really don't mind it. I like the chat backgrounds too, nice touch.
My wife upgrading was my biggest concern: she is not a tech head at all, so I gritted my teeth when upgrading her iPhone, but so far she said she quite likes it.
I get the divide on it-there are a lot of changes, and I think iOS has changed so minimally over the years, that a significant change is always going to upset the 'Apple' cart. But I think back to moving away from Skeuomorphism (think I spelt that right haha!) and the uproar that caused, now we're seeing that uproar again because the OS has significantly changed. Time tells me that it will improve.
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You are the smart one haha. Wish I waited.
Go into Settings for Safari, you can change from the (now default) "Compact" tabs to the former Bottom or Top tabs, which removes the extra step to access your open tabs and bookmarks.
I am with OP and am gathering pitchforks and torches.
I just "upgraded" my iPad and I wish I had not.
The new interface is pointlessly ugly. Everything now has to have a circle / rounded square border which is non-uniform in color (to give a glass look) which gives it a broken look. Everything like the dock, the tabs in Safari, the buttons all either have to be bigger (and thus take up more screen realestate) or be squished down.
Its a downgrade from what it was.
It was fine before.
It worked before.
It looks like a counterfeit Android.
If you remember, Aqua was criticized quite heavily for attempting build something that it was not and not meant to be; the imitation of 3D glass.
This has now come back with a vengeance like a monster in a horror movie that did not quite die yet in the first movie so comes back in the sequel to haunt again. Sequels like that are never rated higher than the first movie, Apple.
I just "upgraded" my iPad and I wish I had not.
The new interface is pointlessly ugly. Everything now has to have a circle / rounded square border which is non-uniform in color (to give a glass look) which gives it a broken look. Everything like the dock, the tabs in Safari, the buttons all either have to be bigger (and thus take up more screen realestate) or be squished down.
Its a downgrade from what it was.
It was fine before.
It worked before.
It looks like a counterfeit Android.
If you remember, Aqua was criticized quite heavily for attempting build something that it was not and not meant to be; the imitation of 3D glass.
This has now come back with a vengeance like a monster in a horror movie that did not quite die yet in the first movie so comes back in the sequel to haunt again. Sequels like that are never rated higher than the first movie, Apple.
My gripe too.
Why have we gone from one tap to perform a function, to now requiring two taps?
Safari - Having to double tap the Safari tabs button to show all tabs that are open (can be reverted back to pre IOS26 in settings)
Screenshots - the delete icon is gone, you have to first tap the 'tick', then tap delete.
Photos - now requires two taps to delete a photo
Ios26 is a major backward step from what I've experienced so far.
