I get it, they want to take a step backwards and make the UI bland so next year they can add color back in iOS 27 and say it’s improved and looks better than ever!
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iOS 26: What's Changed With the iPhone's Home Screen
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Nope, Apple needs more money, you need to buy another device
Apple can limit the feature to 512gb or 1TB devices so it's an upsell - everyone wins - apple gets the extra money they want, users get the privacy they want.
Plus, it will attract *new users* from android who only stay on android because iPhone lacks the feature. By giving it the apple touch, this feature will *attract* android users who like apple but stay with android because of multiple users. And by giving it the apple touch, it will help to innovate the feature to make it better for everyone for various use cases.
And, I meant *multiple personal spaces*, for a single user. Sometimes the feature is called "multiple users" but on a phone, it's for one single user, meant for one person to have a couple separate spaces for *improved* privacy / security / data segregation, etc...
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It's like they looked at the Home Screen and said, "well, all this color and contrast makes it too easy to see the apps, so let's do away with that".
There is a word for applying techniques to make something blend into the background - it's "camouflage". That's precisely what they're doing here. Is it "cool" that you can hide icons in plain sight? Uh, sure. But it's not some thing I'd want to actually use.
And this is under ideal lighting and viewing conditions - imagine looking at it when you're in a hurry, and distracted by other things going on, and it's in bright sunlight, or maybe walking down a street going in and out of shadow. It's a usability disaster.
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There should be a secret handshake for enjoyers of Technology Connections, and I totally agree with his Christmas light opinions.
Actually nothing has changed beyond aesthetics. At all! Apple is selling baked air. Again.
Learning that you can hold down the space bar for a second to get a cursor that you can then drive around the screen (using the whole keyboard as a touchpad) was near life-changing. Makes a huge difference in iOS/iPadOS text editing.
I have never had this happen, ever. Currently on an iPhone 16 Pro, started on an iPhone 4. I suspect there's something else odd in your setup, or carrier, or something.
I'm still able to read things in a few of the pictures?!?
Unusable.
Unusable.
Lot of design changes. But like all of them. Cannot wait to try them out once I update. As for the web apps, the change is good.
Perhaps its my age. I work in fintech. I am IT literate and most people who know me would describe me as being an person with an enquiring mind. The problem is I look at all this stuff and feel; You've given me a new paint job. You've shifted stuff around so what I was comfortable with I am no more on a device I use all the time and don't want hassle around. You haven't given me what I want which is a better camera, better battery life, longer overall battery life, more robustness, better reception, better voice quality and fewer bugs. Everything is so much marketing shenanigans and BS and doesn't actually contribute anymore to the useful usage of the phone. I usually buy a fully loaded pro max. I sometimes update every year. That's stopping now unless Apple really pulls one of out of the bag. As the UW3 well unless its adds some useful sensors I wont be upgrading. AI hasn't helped the battery either and is of dubious use.
Wait until final candidate - they will have ironed out the last readability by then.
Isn't great that Apple decided to wait till now to rip off the Glasklart theme from the 2012 jailbreak community, must've thought we'd all forgotten about it by 2025😂.
To my eye none of this looks good.
I’m looking forward to using the clear mode - so I can use my phone less.
Seems like a more sophisticated way of turning on the monochrome accessibility setting to make your phone less dopamine generating.
Seems like a more sophisticated way of turning on the monochrome accessibility setting to make your phone less dopamine generating.
The text under the icons seems unreadable in most screenshots.
And how about an oled friendly "real dark" mode where most of the screen is black - i.e. the pixels are actually off?
And how about an oled friendly "real dark" mode where most of the screen is black - i.e. the pixels are actually off?
I will have to use it later in the year to give final judgment, but thus far it appears to be navel gazing on Apple's part. But, hey, they have a new movie coming out! Shame, Apple seems to have lost some focus. I honestly had no major issue with iOS 18 UX, and I think making macOS look like a touch screen UX (without a touch screen) is the entirely wrong direction for that software. They may add touch in the future? Even worse. macOS should have much sharper shaped software than iPadOS by design, to keep each visually distinct and give Mac a professional appearance. iPadOS windowing changes seems to have been a success thus far, though they should have given it a Finder on the dock. Liquid Glass doesn't blow my hair back, if I'm honest. I would rather Apple had went for a cleaner look in the direction of the CapPlay Ultra mockups, with clean lines and simple distinct shapes and no gimmicks like glass that shimmers when you move your phone. The macOS team should put their foot down and bring back the Mac. Return System Settings to its prior icon based UI, and get rid of all the transparence nonsense. For iOS somehow the tinting that needed some improving looks worse. The clear look option for LG is somewhat bewildering.
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Yeah, but on Android you just tap where you want the cursor to be and it generally works, unlike on iOS.
Well, tiny lights (LED and 2.5v incandescent) have been the dominant Christmas lighting for over 50 years. I'm much older than that and I can safely say you can't live in the past. Besides, big bulbs got fire-hazard hot and burned out regularly. Ask me how I know.
But maybe some dream of those and old flocked aluminum trees too. Go figure.
Hope they have fixed this in iOS 26 because when I try set a wallpaper it’s to zoomed in and I can’t change it why 🤷🏻♂️ you could be before honestly ios18 sucks. iCloud tabs has not worked since iOS 17 for me, sometimes I’m getting at least a 5 second when opening my phone to browse safari.
FWIW, the guy behind Technology Connections has had a long-running thing with Christmas lights - he hates the spiky single-frequency output from cheap LEDs. He found some Christmas lights from a similarly minded company a few years ago and recommends them (I don't think he's getting anything from them, he just likes the product), that use white LEDs with colored covers rather than colored LEDs, and look much better. Over the past like 6 or 7 Christmas seasons, he's had a series of tests he has run with taking white LED Christmas strings and painting/dyeing them with all different kinds of colors (nail polish, various paints, etc.), trying to achieve the effect he longed after. I think the ones from that company finally mostly fulfilled his desire.
I grew up with 7w incandescent bulbs on the tree and 15w incandescent bulbs outside. I use LED lights for everything now, but I still miss the broad spectrum output from those lamps (my favorites were the few outside bulbs that were blinkers, and were clear glass bulbs covered in some sort of clear-but-tinted cellophane or some such, that gave off brilliant jewel tones. My current Christmas lights are a string of individually addressable RGB LEDs that I got 7 or 8 years ago, and hooked up to an Arduino Uno, and wrote my own code to make them twinkle in a pattern that reminds me of my favorite Christmas lights growing up.
That’s much worse than windows aero. At least text in windows aero are legible and usable. This one is none of that. Transparent for the sake of being transparent.