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it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Apple toned down the liquid glass as a quick temporary fix, and plan to revert back to a more glassy effect once they refine it further. There are a few reasons they would do this. From a testing standpoint, I feel like they have received a metric ton of feedback about the contrast issues, and may be doing this frosted effect so we can move past it for now. Pure conjecture on my part, but I really hope the frosted effect is temporary. I actually like quite a bit of the glass design and hope to get some of it back.

It’s almost like they forced on reduce transparency.
It's probably not temporary. I don't see how they can fix the original crap accessibility liquid glass version without toning down the transparency / glass effect in some form.

The best of both worlds is probably going to be a hybrid, where it's the "can't read crap / not accessible at all" liquid glass from B1 and promo material in motion (e.g. when you scroll or when you tap it to change tabs or it morphs it's form, it goes full liquid glass or turns part of the area you tap into liquid) but starts to freeze up and become more frosted glass once it's settled down (e.g. when you stop scrolling or are no longer tapping it). The hard part is probably balancing the 2 states, considering the UI has a lot of subtle animations and movements (e.g. you need to ensure that notification content is readable on the lock screen when sifting through your backlog, without having to stop scrolling 24/7). There should probably be a threshold, e.g. not turning it into liquid glass with minimal movement but actual scroll.
 
The space, visually, around text and iconography, is more important than the actual text/iconography itself.

We read the space. The space between items onscreen gives our eyes time to relax. Lack of space make the experience hectic for our brains.

... just found on the iPad, running Beta 3 - that´s definitely a sub-optimal usage of available space (at least in my eyes, maybe for the programmer it was optimal :) )

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Reduced transparency in action beta2 to beta3. Also Safari now has this faint overlay bottom and top. Unsure if I like it but “reduce transparency” option (in per-app settings) surely makes it look less than ideal now. Had it enabled but had to disable after updating
 

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Referring to this with Safari. That transition blur to no blur is weird now being so abrupt
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. Was even more pronounced with reduced transparency.

EDIT: force close Safari seems to have fixed it. Appears to be just intermittent visual bug then.
 
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Reminder that this is a development Beta.

This is not necessarily going to be the final article.

I bet there are more ‘public’ people on this dev beta than actual devs.

If you are public on a dev beta and you can’t cope with testing changes every two week and are just going to complain then don’t install it.
A reminder to look at the name of this forum article. If you can’t cope with it there are other threads that do not mention any changes between versions (for better or for worse)
 
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Could someone confirm something for me in any previous version of iOS?
In landscape mode, when opening the Control Center, do you see the battery level in the upper right corner?
Because I don’t in beta 3.
 
So iOS 26 is just a fresh coat of paint and even that isn’t that new, why advertise liquid glass and make it like iOS 18. This isn’t the update we all deserve and years in the making. Such a shame they have removed most of the liquid glass in this beta
Liquid Glass was simply a sop for people on iphone 15 or older who get very little else.
 
I feel that the only way to please everyone with the Liquid Glass look vs readability would be an opacity slider that the user could set for how much transparency they want. As others have said this is an early developer beta so it will change and refine by September
 
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I feel that the only way to please everyone with the Liquid Glass look vs readability would be an opacity slider that the user could set for how much transparency they want. As others have said this is an early December beta so it will change and refine by September
I’ve been reading for many pages to see if anyone has suggested this. If it’s possible to do in a simple slider, I agree with you that it would be a way to please more people. Opacity Slider is much better than my idea of Frost Factor 🤭
 
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I realize this is the first morning after we installed the beta yesterday afternoon. However.

Has anyone’s phone successfully charged wirelessly overnight back to 100%?

Once again, 2.5 hours on a MagSafe2 charger should have been more than plenty to have taken my 15 PM from 40% to 100%.

The 90% I woke up to is an improvement over the last two betas, but it still means I’m going to have to plug in like a peasant to make it through the day (not that I wouldn’t have to anyway, battery life has been a joke since the first 18.0 beta, but at least it would charge to full, wirelessly).
 
I realize this is the first morning after we installed the beta yesterday afternoon. However.

Has anyone’s phone successfully charged wirelessly overnight back to 100%?

Once again, 2.5 hours on a MagSafe2 charger should have been more than plenty to have taken my 15 PM from 40% to 100%.

The 90% I woke up to is an improvement over the last two betas, but it still means I’m going to have to plug in like a peasant to make it through the day (not that I wouldn’t have to anyway, battery life has been a joke since the first 18.0 beta, but at least it would charge to full, wirelessly).
Same here with Qi2 charger. Specifically the Nomad Charge One stand.
Seems to work normally with an Apple MagSafe 1 puck - from my limited testing. IP14 PM
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Same here with Qi2 charger. Specifically the Nomad Charge One stand.
Seems to work normally with an Apple MagSafe 1 puck - from my limited testing. IP14 PM
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MagSafe1… so you’re suspecting thermal issues as well then?

I obviously don’t know how warm my phone got because I was asleep, but during the previous 2 betas, trying to use a Qi2 battery pack would cause it to stop charging and give the heat warning.

I’ve also noticed that when using CarPlay, the phone is abnormally hot and rarely holds a charge, more often than not it loses.

Like they broke the code that controls the charging speed to keep the heat down.

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MagSafe1… so you’re suspecting thermal issues as well then?

I obviously don’t know how warm my phone got because I was asleep, but during the previous 2 betas, trying to use a Qi2 battery pack would cause it to stop charging and give the heat warning.

I’ve also noticed that when using CarPlay, the phone is abnormally hot and rarely holds a charge, more often than not it loses.

Like they broke the code that controls the charging speed to keep the heat down.

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Mine is getting hot but not that hot. I don’t get any message about battery temp.
I have been experimenting in the early evening and watch the charge progress. When I first connect the phone to the stand it takes at least 6 seconds to actually start charging and show the charging animation.
If I place the phone on an Apple MagSafe 1 puck it begins charging within a second or so.
 
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