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iOS 26 visual glitch megathread
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Diopter
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I saw this one from Craig Grannell yesterday (with reduce motion and prefer cross-fade transitions enabled):
If you step through it frame by frame using the , and . keys it's just silly how many weird glitches are happening. Random black lines appearing and disappearing, drop shadows and button shapes snapping in and out, the buttons becoming massive circles that are clipped at the bottom, changes in transparency and blurring "wiping down" the button...
It's all these strange animation micro-glitches that make the whole OS feel shoddy. Much like when a TV is displaying a video in a slightly wrong aspect ratio, it's as though there are people who just don't see it and others who immediately notice it and can't stop noticing it. Unfortunately for me, I'm in the latter group. I don't even consider myself to be very "OCD" - it's just like: Really, Apple engineering managers? This is what you're shipping and thinking it meets the high standards of quality that Apple is supposedly renowned for? It's been 5 months since the public release and it's still so bad.
And I'm not against giving the OS a new visual style, but this is all just so sloppy.
Maybe it'll be better in another 7 months when iOS 27 ships 😅
If you step through it frame by frame using the , and . keys it's just silly how many weird glitches are happening. Random black lines appearing and disappearing, drop shadows and button shapes snapping in and out, the buttons becoming massive circles that are clipped at the bottom, changes in transparency and blurring "wiping down" the button...
It's all these strange animation micro-glitches that make the whole OS feel shoddy. Much like when a TV is displaying a video in a slightly wrong aspect ratio, it's as though there are people who just don't see it and others who immediately notice it and can't stop noticing it. Unfortunately for me, I'm in the latter group. I don't even consider myself to be very "OCD" - it's just like: Really, Apple engineering managers? This is what you're shipping and thinking it meets the high standards of quality that Apple is supposedly renowned for? It's been 5 months since the public release and it's still so bad.
And I'm not against giving the OS a new visual style, but this is all just so sloppy.
Maybe it'll be better in another 7 months when iOS 27 ships 😅
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Going through a video frame by frame is like pixel peeping. iOS 26 does not feel shoddy in any way, but I guess like always YMMV.
Diopter
macrumors regular
But I do notice the flickering of random lines, things snapping into place and drop shadows suddenly appearing instead of smoothly transitioning. There are so many animations that don’t look “clean” and feel a bit janky - slowing it down, you see the specifics of why.
Even the passcode entry keyboard is sometimes off center (and of course the Lock Screen clock randomly does the same)!
I’m sure they’ll clean this stuff up eventually, but right now it’s rough for a .3 release.
dimon2242
macrumors regular
dimon2242
macrumors regular
I’ve edited the original post showing what’s been fixed so far. Still some issues, but they’re slowly fixing them.