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iOS 26: All the Little Changes

Devnul0 said:
Reduce Transparency reveals, at least in 18.5, how bad some of the UI aspects are. Check out a photo album with that turned on. The photos in the album have gaps between them and there’s a background photo for some inane reason and without the translucent effect it’s almost unusable due to the background photo showing through all the gaps.
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This is the first beta. It will get tweaks and many things will change.
 
awshucks said:
I do wish Apple would get rid of the back and refresh button. We could just pull from the top to refresh and swipe from left to go back.
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Uhhhhhh . Terrible Idea. If I am on a long page, I don't want to have to scroll pages and papges up just to refresh... and then scroll pages back down. I want to be able to just hit refresh and have my page refresh without scrolling. While your at it why don't we make the camera button send an email. Or the power button change the volume. Keep scrolling and refershing separate. Note for the special people: the terrible thing about the idea is REMOVING the refresh button, NOT the pull to refresh.
 
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rumourmonger said:
Finally! But how? how could have they achieved this? This is insane engineering! Top notch nuclear science level thing right there!
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Now if there was a way to select text in the message, and reply to have a quoted reply. That would be INCREDIBLE. No one has ever done that before except when you select text in mac mail and hit reply or when you select text on a webpage and hit share. Oh wait.
 
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carswell said:
Glad to hear transparency is optional. Not saying I won't give it a try but in apps that already use the feature, I find it sometimes interferes with legibility, especially when I'm in dark mode (my default). So it's great we'll have the option to turn it off if, as I suspect the case may be, it turns out to be another example of form over function.
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I had to turn it off. It looks nice in parts, but other spots, such as control center, the transparency is horrendous. I’m sure they will fix it in future betas to be significantly more legible, but for beta 1 it’s going to be off for me.

I know it’s just the developer beta, so it’s obviously not meant for anything but development, but I’m a little surprised that Apple let such an unpolished feature through. As they say, you only get one shot at a first impression.
 
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Lord Solo said:
Seriously though, what the hell is late night mode???
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It’s a Focus. People set their Sleep Focus for late at night when they don’t want to be disturbed and are winding down and off their devices. But they’re not sleeping so that Focus isn’t really suited.

Late Night mode fills that gap.
 
ronno said:
Anybody else having a hell of a time trying to delete photos?
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Why are you trying to delete some of your photos?

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TMRJIJ said:
By new users, you mean people who have never used a smart device before? Because most of these gestures have been around almost a decade and are similar to Android.
My 72-year-old grandmother knows how to close an app and see her notifications on a government-issued Android phone.
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Older people tend to keep their phones as long as possible. If you're not used to a full-screen phone without physical buttons, or worse, without a clear home button, it’s easy to get lost. I recently switched from an iPad with a home button to the latest model and had to look up online just to figure out how to go back.

No offense, but your grandmother isn’t the only use case. When I work on UX/UI design, I always think from the perspective of non-tech-savvy users. My goal is to create the most intuitive and ergonomic solutions possible, they’re my primary focus.
 
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A nice set up of updates and features that will make some of my everyday uses better and easier to deal with.
 
Tim in October: OK folks how’s the iOS rollout? What’s everyone’s favourite setting?

Lackeys : Um… Turn off Transparency

Tim: Excellent!! Going forward let’s charge them a subscription to use that feature!
 
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Since iPhones started supporting more than one SIMs I have held off using more than one just because it didn't have what must be an insanely difficult and magical to implement feature:

Focus eSIM - There is a Focus mode for silencing a single eSIM, so you can disable a home number at work, or a work number at home.
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and I just hope it really is what it says i.e I can have another/secondary number/SIM on my iPhone that I can just silence (w.r.t notifications/alerts) w/o having to disable or switch that SIM off or affecting the first/primary number in anyway and that they didn't think it was urgent to make it "location based" or some other very Apple shenanigan.

Because I can't believe I could ever peacefully use two SIMs on one iPhone which has been unheard of in the smartphone world.

By the way over the years I have written quite a few, and proper hostile, emails to Cook regarding this. Seems it worked 😏
 
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