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iOS 26 Beta 2 Fixes Control Center Design
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> Indros said: I find it really disappointing that Apple is spending any time on Liquid Glass while we wait for over-promised Apple Intelligence features.
Also, transferring the Apple Car people to AI is like eating your dead enemies to get their strength and wits. Counter-evolutive, maybe.
These are going to be done by completely separate teams not even related to each other. You can't just throw more developers at something and have it come out quicker.
It’s almost like their designers are different people to the ones working on Apple Intelligence as they’re two quite different skill sets.
Personally I think the „glass“ is too thin in general. It doesn’t really look like glass, or anything.
In old macOS versions it looked more like glass than it does now.
In old macOS versions it looked more like glass than it does now.
In my opinion, it looks way worse. I loved the look of Beta 1. Now it just looks boring - closer to iOS 18 than Liquid Glass. Personally, I did not have any issues reading any kind of text, but maybe there were people who did. I hope they let people adjust the transparency effect and if not - roll it back to how it was in Beta 1 and let people choose a setting to reduce transparency ( just like how it was in Beta 1).
I don't think the buttons are more opaque, as the article suggests, but they reduced the translucency of the background sheet that the buttons reside on. If you look closely, that appears to be the change.
I just think fundamentally, philosophically, "Liquid Glass" is proactively user hostile design. It yeets away practicality in favor of aesthetics, and I frankly think the aesthetics are also tacky and ugly.
Beta 1 looks WAY better. Beta 2 is what we have now in iOS 18.
Readability is better with Liquid Glass than it is currently in iOS 18. Right now, I often have a hard time deciphering whether a toggle is on or off. I have to think whether a white or black icon indicates something is on, especially with something like Dark Mode. With iOS 26, there's a better distinction.
Readability is better with Liquid Glass than it is currently in iOS 18. Right now, I often have a hard time deciphering whether a toggle is on or off. I have to think whether a white or black icon indicates something is on, especially with something like Dark Mode. With iOS 26, there's a better distinction.
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I somewhat agree, though I think it really depends on a few key factors. What your background looks like (complex vs largely just simple colors), how blurry the background is made, and how opaque the controls are. Ultimately they may need to make all of that user controllable to please everyone.
Don't be
I just downloaded and installed it on my 15, and so far, performance is leaps and bounds ahead of what it was on DB1
I still don't understand the shade of dark blue they use for some of the activate states of control center items in light mode and others in green. These colors are literally nowhere to be found anywhere else on iOS.
Apple has to occupy their designers with something after they were done with visionOS.
They actually have multiple developers in the team and are able to work of multiple things in parallel.
I find the foundational philosophy good: Lets put the content first. Glass helps in making this possible.
omg it still looks so bad an not thought through at all. why will i have to waste processing power, battery life and brain capacity for this distracting eye"""candy""". UI is not meant to take the center stage those ppl really should know better
