Strongly disagree. Update looks great.
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I absolutely loathe iOS 26
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The design is gorgeous. If the battery drain remained the same as on the 18 iOS, I would stay on the 26.
horrendous design. Pendulum will swing back but painful for the time being.
That all works like 💩. Been here, tried it all. Even purchased few paid themes and icon packs (that turned to be disgusting low resolution do*****). And Samsung doesn’t even care to somehow clean up that mess.
What I love in Apple is that everything works good out of the box. I would love proper theming capability + icon replacement tho, so everyone would be happy, with 3 preinstalled styles: default, minimal and oldschool (that nice iOS 6 aesthetic)
This is not normal. This is a new low from Apple (talking modern Apple). There are UX and design bugs everywhere!
After 20+ Years with endless Macbooks Pro, Airs, iPhones every year since 2007, iPads Pro, iPads Mini, iMacs, Homepods, TVs, iPods etc. I now switched to Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 and the Android 16 with UI 8 looks as clean and beautiful as iOS used to be before 7 and especially before 26 which is an insult to every iPhone user.
Waiting for the next year and watching the situation.
Android is the OS to use currently.
iOS is dead, just like Siri and Steve.
Would be cool if someone with a 6.1 inch display could post some screenshots of iOS 26 that I can view on my iPhone 12. That way I get to see what it will look like on my device without actually installing it.
I feel very represented by this post, my experience is currently the same. And I made the mistake of updating my MB Pro M4 to Tahoe, now I have to live with the ugliest and glitchiest OS I have tried in a very long time
On my iPhone 13 mini… at first it ran very laggy, but in a few hours everything seems normal. A new UI always takes a bit of adjustment time. Its normal to feel some frustration. Once people acclimate they most often dont mind or end up prefering the changes.
It was shocking on first install, that's for sure. But you know, I at least kind of see what they're doing with it, and while it's not perfect, I'm OK with giving them time to figure it out. It took several years for iOS 7's look to be cleaned up and perfected. It's intended to prepare us for a world where the digital and physical are more blended than ever, and I do think that's the world we are headed towards, like it or not.
I attached b4 and after of my home screen. looks fine to me. I disabled the transparency per app for messages, having the top bottom transparent too much. Looks good on safari though.
Not overjoyed by the new look - it’s a lot more liquidy in person, rather than the screenshots I've seen.
However, one fix would be a less saturated version of the colour / dark icons. I think that could result in a much more pleasant look.
Are there any aftermarket apps that could do that for me?
However, one fix would be a less saturated version of the colour / dark icons. I think that could result in a much more pleasant look.
Are there any aftermarket apps that could do that for me?
spam innit. If apple train siri to sort it out we'd have something but for now we all have to wait
doe anyone know how to get a custom icon for a saved book mark ? As you can see they just save with the First letter of the site as the icon. This doesn't work good when i have no labels on my icons, I know how to do it for an app but don't know how to get a custom icon for a saved bookmark ? --anyone?
Instead of a bookmark, you can create a Shortcut that opens a specific URL and add that to the Home Screen.
Apple had to present something and they knew Apple Intelligence is still no where to be found.
Solution: let’s make the OS look like Android from 2011 and call it an upgrade.
Solution: let’s make the OS look like Android from 2011 and call it an upgrade.
It’s appalling, all style over substance. Outside of some genuinely decent new features, the new interface has been designed with eye candy in mind rather than actual improvements to usability.
macOS is whole other level of stupidity.
macOS is whole other level of stupidity.
I don't get the hate. Love the clean looks so far on Mac, iPhone and iPad.
only 2 months ? Some of us have been here from the start, 15+ years. I don't think Apple will miss you, sorry.
it's impossible to gauge ios 26 with so much hyperbole in threads like this.
"loathing" a mobile OS because it's kind of clear? ok.
"loathing" a mobile OS because it's kind of clear? ok.
I'm neck-deep with Apple products (not services thankfully) but this is the first IOS that's ever really, viscerally, made me seriously consider going back to a Pixel to the point I'm already mapping out equivalent apps. Icon lines are fugly on a dark desktop (I use basic black wallpaper) and the Fisher Price rounded icons/bars are visually distracting in things like IOS Mail no matter what Accessibility settings I try.