Well I guess thats an effecive way to dismiss any alternative views entering your universe. Just on odds its exceptionally improbable every issue raised fits neatly into your categorisation.
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iOS 26's Liquid Glass Design Draws Criticism From Users
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Hate it.
In a series of major recent misses. Vision pro. Touch bar. Apple AI. Liquid glass.
They'll have to abandon it sooner or later. Otherwise known as tone it down.
In a series of major recent misses. Vision pro. Touch bar. Apple AI. Liquid glass.
They'll have to abandon it sooner or later. Otherwise known as tone it down.
I like the changes. I think the icons need a bit more polish. I would prefer more liquid glass. Lol
I never liked the flat GUI that became the default across platforms for years. I did like Microsoft mobiles use of a flat GUI the best and we all know what happened to that OS. I would probably be using a MS mobile phone now if it were available. In fact, that entire situation is what got me back into Apple. I used to love liquid glass in MacOS. I think it is nice to alternate. The flat GUI at the time was a nice change but now it is boring. With the state of current hardware more animations are nice. Again I think the entire GUI needs more polish but for the first release I like it.
In my opinion they need to tone it up with liquid glass. A little nostalgia isn't always a bad thing.
I never liked the flat GUI that became the default across platforms for years. I did like Microsoft mobiles use of a flat GUI the best and we all know what happened to that OS. I would probably be using a MS mobile phone now if it were available. In fact, that entire situation is what got me back into Apple. I used to love liquid glass in MacOS. I think it is nice to alternate. The flat GUI at the time was a nice change but now it is boring. With the state of current hardware more animations are nice. Again I think the entire GUI needs more polish but for the first release I like it.
In my opinion they need to tone it up with liquid glass. A little nostalgia isn't always a bad thing.
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This is an "all things Apple" website.
I do own a Google Pixel 6 Pro but I only use it for development testing. Thankfully...
I find it ok on the iPad, but I don't care for it on the iPhone. I especially dislike it in Safari. One of the ideas behind it was to make the UI go away, so we can focus on the content. But I find it to be exactly opposite. As I scroll I have a blob of the UI showing me the URL, hovering over my content, distracting me. I would much rather have a single bar across the screen at the bottom. The bar could even be liquid glass for all I care. Just don't have this blob giving me the illusion of me seeing more of the content, when I'm not.
I am a cat in the store (too), attempting to sell reason to customers who came for illusions.
I agree with you regarding the need for Liquid Glass. It seems to be purely eye candy and yet many will not like or want it. My main observation, despite that, is that new features within the OS seem to be desirable and that the often reduced battery life with new versions on older devices seems to have actually improved.
You rightly observe the consistency across devices so perhaps we would need an explanation from Apple engineers as to how they see Liquid Glass improving real-world functionality across all their devices.
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I’m really enjoying it on my iPhone 16. (It’s in perfect condition with 98% battery capacity after a year and I don’t feel a need to update). I just wish we could change the system fonts.
This update is simply awful on both iPhone and Mac. On Mac, for example, the web apps are terrible. text overlapping on the top, plenty of errors. clicking on items - not working and so on. How could they release these atrocities without testing every single bit of the OS, darn...
Y'know, for a company that only builds OSs (and its embedded apps) for devices that only they build (unlike, say, Microsoft or Google) - and that go through at least a year of testing, rewriting and retesting - the number of times Apple produces 'consumer-ready' OSs with clear problems is pretty extraordinary.
Its one thing for a 3rd Party app to have an issue - the developer maybe not as up on the changes Apple throws at an OS at the last minute - but when the company's own apps don't work as intended...
Then of course comes the question like, "What would possess you to think that (add new feature here) was a good idea, did you poll anyone (like the users) as to whether they need it, and did you actually test it first?"
It sorta makes me wonder "when" they decided to do LG, as the result seems very rushed and lacking in polish.
I don't know if it's LG or not but on 2019 16" Intel MBP, typing a reply to an email now comes with about 0.5s delay 
My sides!
Confirmed it’s only when typing in a numbered list. In the paragraph it’s normal. Wonderful!
My sides!Confirmed it’s only when typing in a numbered list. In the paragraph it’s normal. Wonderful!
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I really hope that Apple adds a section in the Settings app to allow for very fine granular control of the display of Liquid Glass in iOS 26.1 or 26.2. That way, end users can set up the Liquid Glass effect so it is a lot less obtrusive to end users.
Once others inspiredly come out with a “Robot glass” or “liquid material” it will be modern and edgy…
Apple is under pressure and this forum is very guilty of that? Nonsense! It was Tims idea to create Vision Pro and do nothing with AI.
Bad Tim! Naughty Tim!
As long as you keep filling forums and generating views about Apple, and keep buying and obsessing about the products, you villainous Tim will be language going all the way to the bank.
Perspective is a wonderful thing.
Can you imagine if someone prints out all these comments and delivers them to the Apple campus , 567 - holy moly . I guess this is more pages then Apple guidelines 2025 🙃
Sounds good. Just like how we sent back all the AOL CDs 20+ years ago. That was fun.
Not liking this update at all on my iPhone SE 2025.
- Reduce transparency makes the UI actually legible but then there are some very ugly rough edges.
- A lot of padding on everything is reducing screen real estate. Bottom tab bars have awkward blank space with the controls aligned at the top edge, making it look like the didn't think at all about how the UI looks like with reduce transparency.
- Reduce motion is also not as clean. It used to completely remove the animations but now there is a slight ugly animation around the corners of the app when the app opens. App closing is like before at least.
- Lock screen would stretch the clock vertically even after resizing it in edit mode. Only way to fix it was to put an empty blank widget
- Lock screen date on top of the time is also not legible, it's completely faded.
- Photos app is hideous and overly simplistic. I took a screenshot and a video an couldn't find it in the library tab. Has to go to collections and scroll down until i found the video and screenshots media types. Only nice thing is ability to reorder collections to put media types and utilities at the top.
note how all the 'positives' are a variation of 'feels' - 'feels so fresh', 'so bouncy', 'just so cool', 'makes a boring smartphone a little more fun' (!) - because who cares about functionality when your boring phone feels 'like bubbles', just throw some emojis in the mix, and you have the paying horde drooling.
good thing they butchered OS too with this vaseline therapy, because the suffering from flat 'depressing' UI was at pandemic levels.
mind boggles.
good thing they butchered OS too with this vaseline therapy, because the suffering from flat 'depressing' UI was at pandemic levels.
mind boggles.
come on now...zero to 100 in a second? I love it but now aI hate everything and it's rotten? really?
when its updated next, the same people are going to be saying they love the design and dont like the new one.