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iOS 26 Adds All-New 'Clear Look' Option Alongside Light and Dark Mode
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I get that this is a beta and that they’ll be tuning things.. but it just looks awful.. specifically the Notification Center and how its difficult to read and the “glass” bubbles look ridiculous.
As far as visual aesthetics.. How is this a bigger overhaul than iOS 7? That’s almost laughable. Why not allow the icons to be circular instead of a rounded rectangle like everyone’s been wanting and hoping for? The mockups were even way better than this..
The only thing (again.. just speaking about the visuals..) that actually looked nice were the few updated app icons. If they were going to do something like the old icons.. why not update the Safari one instead of keeping the cartoonish one? The OLD Safari icon was so much better.
As far as visual aesthetics.. How is this a bigger overhaul than iOS 7? That’s almost laughable. Why not allow the icons to be circular instead of a rounded rectangle like everyone’s been wanting and hoping for? The mockups were even way better than this..
The only thing (again.. just speaking about the visuals..) that actually looked nice were the few updated app icons. If they were going to do something like the old icons.. why not update the Safari one instead of keeping the cartoonish one? The OLD Safari icon was so much better.
There is a few things that need some work like tabs in safari, but over all I have no major issues with the new UI seeing it beta 1.
Feels like a lot of the doom and gloom comments are from people that did not live through the iOS 7 betas, or at least are not recalling the hatred towards iOS 7.
Massive amount of hatred about the new look including font size, font weight, readability, button states. Apple made massive changes to the tweak the usability of iOS7 before the release. I am sure that will occur again. I would expect significant visual tweaks over the coming months of betas.
The iOS we have today is the result of a lot of complaining and iterative fine tuning over the past 12 years. A redesign takes time and trial and error to get right.
Massive amount of hatred about the new look including font size, font weight, readability, button states. Apple made massive changes to the tweak the usability of iOS7 before the release. I am sure that will occur again. I would expect significant visual tweaks over the coming months of betas.
The iOS we have today is the result of a lot of complaining and iterative fine tuning over the past 12 years. A redesign takes time and trial and error to get right.
I call them who moved my cheese people ...
With Apple proud and loud about its accessibility options - I had to do a double take......no!...what the ********** is this???
If you thought the Apple AI fail was bad - this system wide UI update is truly horrendous!
If you thought the Apple AI fail was bad - this system wide UI update is truly horrendous!
While robbing them of one of the most important ways of doing that. Color is one of the single most effective "branding" tools, to the point that corporations trademark them. At the same time, it's great for general association: Google, LibreOffice, etc. use blue for their word processing app, and green for the spreadsheet app because Microsoft has made those colors synonymous with those functions. There's a reason we switched from B&W TV and monochrome monitors: color is useful!
If you’ve updated to the beta long hold on your wallpaper screen and tap edit in the top left corner!
Wait, here me out. Apple is throwing this thing out to drive attention away from their non existent AI.
Apple has shown over and over that accessibility is an afterthought. They clearly have a team dedicated to that, because there are a lot of work-arounds... but they are just as obviously not involved in the design process until late, and have to argue for these, rather than being allowed to shape the direction of the software.
Here me out, they just changed the UI on every one of their systems and it’s beta 1. Maybe they will find some time to tweak it before the final version is public.
Looks like a third-party theme from 10 years ago
Wooow, it is indeed ghosty. I believe it may work out especially well with neon blue backgrounds
It's fundamentally horrific. You can't tweak that into "usable".
I've seen better UI themes made by teenagers on Cydia
This really irks me,
Why does everything need its own bubble?! 😂 Apple gotta bubble everything!
And this was so wrong?
Why does everything need its own bubble?! 😂 Apple gotta bubble everything!
And this was so wrong?
This looks absolutely awful.
What the **** is going on at Apple?
Yep, back when I was jailbreaking my iPod touch back in 2009 I had better looking themes than this.
What the **** is going on at Apple?
I dunno, there is already well integrated Chat GPT on all new iPhones.
Design and UI refresh were very much needed for so many years (13 to be exact). Every other manufacturer literally copied what Apple was doing. For example Google’s and Microsofts design languages are awful iterations of minimalism. You will see how they are gonna start hurrying up and making their interfaces glassy too in next two years. And by that time Apple will polish their own AI that is more secure and private than whats currently on market
Looks like sh*t. It makes the text barely readable. The control panel is crap as well. I hope they give the option to disable this UI.
I think it looks nice and most likely this works better with basic background or gradient but the moment you start adding images or people is when it starts to get funky looking
I wonder if Apple also made a virtual Apple cloth to keep its ‘liquid glass’ clean for the most coherent experience…
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