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iOS 26: New Lock Screen Features
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With the amount of people driving while on their phone, which increases reaction time than being over the alcohol limits, the lack of contrast will make things even worse in cars. Thanks apple
Great artist steal, and it’s been a few years since so stealing a failure isn’t the end of the world lmao.
Somehow iOS looks so childish and so awkward with this liquid ass design. Lockscreen could be done much better like Windows phone used to have, this design with big ugly clock font on top…🙁
iOS 18 is iOS 25 under iOS 26 naming scheme so both are correct.
Yeah and the ugly long clock does not mean anything but showing how ugly your clock is. I would NOT want the clock to stretch like that on my Lock Screen. I never used a windows phone but iOS 26 Lock Screen isn’t all rose and shine either compared to iOS 18.
I would kill if we could freely move the clock to one side of the screen or another.
Great article that perfectly highlights what's wrong with Apple these days. Why even have a clock on there when it's impossible to read it? Form over function nonsense.
Here's a suggestion for Apple: Don't even show the right time or a time at all, just render beatiful random numbers or shapes into the home screen with amazing liquid effects.
Here's a suggestion for Apple: Don't even show the right time or a time at all, just render beatiful random numbers or shapes into the home screen with amazing liquid effects.
See I’m not sure why everyone keeps referring to Vista. It had a sheen. But iOS 26 is not like that at all. And the name Liquid Glass seems spot on to me. Especially when scrolling and you see things move behind menus. It looks great and I am sure there will be some tweaks ahead for stability.
By that logic, last year's OS was 24, and the OS before that was 23... until we get to the iOS version released eight years ago, which somehow also would have been iOS 18
That's what happens when you just make things up.
More than anything I wish Apple would copy the universal and swipable media controls, which are not limited to one app at a time, Google introduced with Android 11.
It would be genuinely useful to be able to pause one app and resume another all from the same interface.
Im very curious about spacial scenes. Its a cool feature and all, but something that's always bugged me especially since this was announced is the fact that iPhones can now capture spatial photos, and they haven't done literally anything with it besides a Vision Pro which not that many people have. Why not already create this feature when you take a spatial photo? So confusing.
I can just guess that liquid glass will look way better in real life than on those images. Also I had the feeling it looked way better in the WWDC video than now as it seemed to have a reduced effect for readability. I don't thing this compromise will work out.
The clock behind the wallpaper looks great, though.
And yes, we need more cat images!
The clock behind the wallpaper looks great, though.
And yes, we need more cat images!
Cute dog but man, everything is super hard to read.... 🤦♂️
They clearly lack any innovative features so they came up with this.
I wonder, had iOS 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 passed this WCAG Color Contrast Checker?
It seems like contrast is on the same level, that’s why I am asking
Like all the changes for the lock screen in iOS 26 especial the spatial scenes. Will definitely customize a lot once I update.
Windows phone? Hahahahahah it looked like a Lego bricks nightmare.
Deez ugly tiles, oh I still remember how much I hated them. When Windows 8 was out I was like “tf is that? Is this even usable?”
If there is liquid 🍑, it is indeed Microsoft design department
…and yet, many like Lego bricks. Or Minecraft.
Minimalist, good contrast, readable.
It was a mess on (non-touch-enabled) desktop computers though.