What purpose does it serve though? You already know which page you're on as you're most likely signed in to post something and you're not likely to need to to go to another page as youre in the middle of typing something into a field. 🤷♂️
Yep. It seems everything they changed created a lot of unintended side effects. We all thought of Liquid Glass as a skin over the existing Springboard, but that would actually be better. This is just broken.
The arrows move you between the input fields of whatever form is currently being used on the site.
Genuinely never even knew they were there. Certainly never used them. Liquid Glass working well then.
On an actual form that is styled like a form and has many user-fillable fields, the new design may make some sense (except for the URL pill), but “forms” with a single field like here in the forum are pretty common as well, and there it makes no sense for the form navigation elements to be so prominent. Not to mention that the floating design takes more space and makes it less clear what is part of the web page versus browser controls.
Or just tap away from the keyboard like we've always done and can still do. It's simply not needed. It's like they thought 'right we've got this really cool liquid thing going that people are gonna love so we need to come up with ways to cram it in everywhere'. So they needlessly separate stuff from the keyboard just to add useless effects to it and the whole thing causes confusion as its vague and useless to boot.
Yep! And just to clarify, they changed it from "Previous" and "Next" buttons to the arrows in iOS 7 (of course.....), so it's been arrows for a long time, but the "Done" button survived all the way until iOS 26!
I actually appreciate it and use it regularly. On the iPhone, text areas can fill up almost all the screen above the keyboard, so there is little space to tap outside the text area.
Well, the Done (or now, vague tick...) is there to make sure there is always a clear way for people to dismiss the keyboard without having to tap on the page itself, where it's possible that you might have nowhere to tap that isn't a link, etc.
I can't see how the executives can look at this and think it's good enough
I dunno. I’ve been tweaking accessibility options since the iPhone 4. Increase contrast and reduce motion.
I had those on before iOS 26 and when I installed 26 I turned the off so that I can see all the issues ... 3 months later, those settings are still off, and while there are some glitches, nothing prevents me from using my iPhone the same way as before. And again, I am not saying what is reported in these threads is not real, just that all of this has not made my usage of my iPhone any different from the past multiple years ...
I really hate that. Changing text labels to iconic buttons has been confusing, especially since sometimes a checkmark replaces Done, Accept, and maybe even cancel!?
I am also on iOS 18. I can’t bring myself to upgrade based on all of the information I have seen.
