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iOS 26.1 Features: Everything New in iOS 26.1
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Try power cycling your phone. As I had some messages showing as separate to their pinned messages and also had some text messages come back. Once power cycled everything was back to normal. Did not notice any abnormal storage usage though.
Oh my. This is indeed very backward!
Also, swiping to the previous song doesn't get the song title into view until the change is already made
.Me too! I was not to fond of the Liquid Glass in the beginning but it has grown on me. I'd like the lock screen clock to be more transparent, for example.
A slider would be perfect!
How else would they do it? It's a touch screen environment. If you slide your finger to the left you wouldn't want the interface element you're touching to move right as that would be totally confusing. You move it left so you can see what's to the right of it. Much like you would two sheets of paper on a desk. Move one in front of you to the left and bring the one to the right of you in front.
Same here till I turned off increased contrast in accessibility. Under the toggle it showed me a sentence with a link taking you there
Turned off the phone haptics for the calls - don't like it. Turned off camera swipe. Now if they could please fix the sleep/wake alarm that STILL doesn't sound. It does the action but no sound. I have to set a manual alarm now. HATE IT! Lol
Not a fan of the left aligned headers either. Seems like so much wasted space.
Not a fan of the left aligned headers either. Seems like so much wasted space.
so these so called hackers that call from your bank now now what your (preferred) bank is and your preferred app for communication. I would never share this info mate.
Lmao. Tell that to Apple. They were the ones that promised AI to be released last year. Everyone was able to do it except for Apple
That's right...to turn ON the tinted liquid glass you need to turn OFF reduce transparency in accessibility first. However, I just found that after tinted is on, you can go back and turn ON reduce transparency. Tinted now stays on. You can see an obvious difference with adding the reduce transparency when you swipe down the control center.
It's annoying that they dimmed the Liquid Glass transparency even more. And why did they remove the cool 'light from within' animations when you touch things? It also seems like my battery is draining faster, which is a first for me. I'm going to give it a few days, though. the background processes usually need time to settle down after updates.
Regarding Communication Safety, I don't appreciate that when my 13 year old updated his iPad, it set the Screen Time settings from "Only Approved Websites" to "Limit Adult Websites." By doing this, the list of allowed websites was cleared out. I did get an email telling me this happened, but I can't undo it. It was a lengthy list of websites that was curated over a period of time.
Why do people sigh over the update size, like 11.49 GB? That space isn't even added to iOS's current total storage requirement, so what's the deal?
This screen shows you everything that is currently wrong with the glass design. It's a visual mess.
Who thought this was a good interface? Even when approached objectively, it’s hard to read, difficult to understand, and a real pain to use.
Icons overlap, text is truncated, documents appear as nanoscopic miniatures, and the branding is obscure and unnecessary. What the hell is Quick Look, and why do I need to know about it? Wouldn’t “preview” suffice?
Trying to solve the problem of limited screen space by layering multiple UI levels on top of each other makes no sense on a 2D display. It might work in a VR device like the Vision Pro, but even then the random apps, commands, and icons create pointless clutter.
It’s time Apple looks beyond its bubble and acknowledges the growing disconnect between its products and users.
I have almost 10,000 on Geekbench on my iPhone Air, but the whole system is laggy as hell. Sometimes the icons in the settings don't even pop up and there's a second-long delay. Apple, optimize for users, not for Geekbench. WTF, Apple!?
"There are some useful new features in iOS 26.1 that address complaints about Liquid Glass"
The UI is still ugly with the new widgets and buttons. This update does nothing to fix that.
The UI is still ugly with the new widgets and buttons. This update does nothing to fix that.
Update - Adding reduce transparency with the Tinted option makes somethings much better but some things, like the menu bars at the bottom of the photos app, worse. Seems to be a mess everywhere.
I am with you. I don't have a 17, though. I have a 15 and I swear the network performance on my phone is worse than it was on my 12. This is at my house (major metro area suburb), my office (major metro area inner city) and my cabin (rural). Doesn't matter. I am frequently unable to use CarPlay for music and navigation via cell. Really a problem.
My anecdotal opinion is “Network” performance for my point of view doesn’t seem to have changed with iOS 26 from iOS 18. You could go to another platform or just wait it out.
The iOS 26 update was 11 gig and came down to the phone in 3 minutes in WiFi.