Well, to be fair, it can’t be any worse than any build of iOS 18 or even through iOS 26.2. The Photos app remains destroyed, begun in iOS 18 and continued through this day, and Apple just couldn’t care less.
The health app is a pure, raging joke. More than one Apple rep has admitted to me that Apple only cares about consistency, not quality or duration of sleep, which is pure hog wash. If I’m in the bed for 8 hours, sleep for a bit over 7, but I go to bed 2 hours later on the weekend than I do during the week, it gives me a failing grade of 65 like it did last night, but it says it’s “OK”. The point that it ignored was the almost 2½ hours of REM sleep which is a higher percentage than many get. Typical adults get 20-25% of their sleep in REM, I typically get 30–40% of my sleep in REM sleep.
All of these issues tell me unequivocally that Apple has young 20-somethings writing their code, and 30-somethings managing it as product managers. These children, and let’s make no mistake they are really that, don’t have any understanding of how Sleep actually works. They are prioritizing schedules rather than quality and quantity, failing to understand that people have schedules during the week and schedules during the weekend.
In the end, Apple destroyed iOS with their fluffy liquid glass garbage that is completely unnecessary, unwanted, and wasn’t ever asked for by any customer, but the children they have riding their software won’t fluff not functionality. It’s kind of like when you ask Siri to do something and she says “uh-huh” very loud loudly. Every time I hear that I think of the Zac Brown Band singing Sic ‘em on a Chicken and I hear that accent deeply. I love the song, but Siri sucks, and it’s not going to get any better when it’s powered by Gemini which is wrong 75% of the time when you ask it something.
It’s time for Apple to hire some adults and stop letting the children run the asylum.
