I miss the iOS 18 design

[Brettka7]

Totally agree. It seems like they’d satisfy the vast majority of people if they had a way to control how “liquid” vs “frosted” the glass is in various places. For me, I think I’d have it frosted everywhere.

Sometimes it’s also about the *way* Apple frosts the Liquid Glass.

In the screenshot here, one bubble looks like frosted glass. One looks like frosted plastic to me.

 

[OldAppleIIUser]

I only got it to add Preview to my iPad; however; to me it was not worth it.
So I'm trying to decide if hooking my iPad up to life support and going back to 18 is worth it > in a while there will be all those constant upgrade reminders.

It's kinda like the pseudo oxygen monitor fakeout that Apple just pulled off. Paired iPhone my my foot. Perhaps I go back to a Garmin watch also.

 

[OldAppleIIUser]

Totally agree. It seems like they’d satisfy the vast majority of people if they had a way to control how “liquid” vs “frosted” the glass is in various places. For me, I think I’d have it frosted everywhere.

Hummm, shattered glass everywhere is starting to sound good to me. My iPad goes on life support tonight.

 

[chabig]

So I'm trying to decide if hooking my iPad up to life support and going back to 18 is worth it

If you'll upgrade next month anyway, then I would leave it. But if you intend to return to 18 and never upgrade, then sure.

 

[OldAppleIIUser]

Howdy chabig,
I appreciate the reply.
To be honest, it is an older iPad Pro and so yes I am considering never upgrading. I do not like the look and I just got an app (non-subscription) that does a great job with PDF files; Preview still has a way to go to catch up with the desktop version.

 

[FeliApple]

I never update anything for performance and battery life reasons.

But for the first time in a long time… design will be just as important. My iPhone 16 Plus and my 11th-gen iPad will be staying on iOS 18. And I haven’t even tried Liquid Glass. Maybe at some point somebody will lend me something for a few minutes to try it with.

I haven’t liked it since I saw it the first time. The Control and Notification Centres are hideous, and readability has been severely impacted (from the few screenshots and videos I’ve seen).

 

[That70sGAdawg]

I tried the developer betas all the way until beta 7 with a 16 Pro- HATE IT. Rolled back today to iOS 18.6.1 and will keep that for A WHILE. The look is just window dressing and hate what it did to several apple apps like contacts (favorites). Search bar in Apple Music is hard to see. I gave it a good shot but still don't like it.

 

[That70sGAdawg]

If you'll upgrade next month anyway, then I would leave it. But if you intend to return to 18 and never upgrade, then sure.

It's worth it ! I rolled back and iPad pro and iPhone 16 pro back today and couldn't be happier.

 

[That70sGAdawg]

I miss my Palm VII and my Motorola Talkabout pager. Best cellular devices ever made.

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How about the Palm Treo? I even had a "Newton" back in the day..

 

[That70sGAdawg]

I miss my youth. Also never coming back.

iOS 18 can remain for a long time on devices if you simply don't update..

 

[That70sGAdawg]

I’ve done just that, today! Glad I made backups. I feel “right at home” again. It’s a much simpler and easy to read UI compared to the glass.

The glass to me currently feels like Apple is shoving it everywhere they possibly can, even if it leads to things being less readable as a consequence. I’ll definitely consider installing it again once the final version is out and I can see how they’ve tweaked it.

Careful with that, they will stop signing iOS 18 shortly after 26 release...