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iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks

Streamlining code is always a good thing. But I don’t believe the “not many new features thing”.
 
Nothinghere said:
I don’t want much. I’m a simple man. How about start with having my notifications sync between all of my Apple devices? My Watch says I have 32 unread messages, my Mac says 6 unread and my phone has 0 unread messages.
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Especially for Reminders. If I check the reminder on my phone why don’t the notifications on my Mac and iPad also go away?
 
For macOS and iPadOS can we please just take a step back from some of the weird design choices. No need to throw out liquid glass. The glass isn't really the problem. It's the weird buttons and floating sidebar islands and, on macOS the absurdly large corner radii.

Just clean all that up and I will happily upgrade my Macbook Air and iPad mini 7.
 
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Nothinghere said:
I don’t want much. I’m a simple man. How about start with having my notifications sync between all of my Apple devices? My Watch says I have 32 unread messages, my Mac says 6 unread and my phone has 0 unread messages.
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Yes. And It would marvellous if messages would sync between devices. And if Mail would stop constantly re-downloading thousands of messages. A usable System Settings would be a nice bonus as well
 
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Nik said:
Remove Liquid Glass.
Thanks.
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Just make it an option. Linux Mint gives me three options for the desktop, Zorin about eight, Ubuntu ten. Come on Apple, you can manage two, Sequoia and Liquid Glass.

Also on the suggestion list is to increase the number of deletable applications, even more so since Launch Pad is gone. For instance; Chess, Clock, FaceTime, Freeform, Home, Messages, News, PhotoBooth, Podcasts, Reminders, Shortcuts, Siri, Stickies, and Voice Memos are all apps I've never used especially on the Mini which has neither microphone nor camera. Why are they still cluttering up the Applications Menu? Why is Stickies so important that it can not be deleted?

The iPadOS allows a lot more deleting of useless-to-me apps and there Messages no longer clutters up my screen. If I decide I need it I can reload it from the App Store.
 
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I wouldn’t call bug fixes ‘modest and muted.’ I’d call it ‘ground-breaking and revolutionary’ - and I want it badly.
 
OMG - Yes please! Fix the semi-infinite number of bugs. Better yet - create a software QC department and implement real, meaningful changes to improve software quality. It's also fair to say that there is likely a layer of management that has been letting crud out the door at the expense of quality - those people either need immediate remediation or be let go. Whatever happened to "It just works!" - it's just so horrible at this point...
 
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I surely hope they fix the biggest bug in iOS 26:

REMOVE LIQUID GLASS
(Or at the very least allow users to turn it OFF)

As a 35 year Mac user, and iPhone user from day-one, I can sincerely say that Liquid Glass is by far the worst design decision to ever come out of Apple. I suffer through it on my iPhone & iPad as I want the latest security and other benefits, but on my Mac I had to downgrade to Sequoia (or is it an upgrade?!) as I was unable to use a number of apps due to the horrid train-wreck of a UI (even with Reduce Transparency turned on.) Apparently there was a kill-switch for “Liquid Morass” in the betas, but it was removed.

REMOVE LIQUID GLASS !!!!

Let us use our devices and computers in peace again!
 
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ForkHandles said:
This is the first criticism of iOS 26 that I have read that sounds valid.

There are two issues as a coder I struggle with. First is the inconsistency that stock apps are built with and second is being able to mimic some of the button layouts.

Eg 1
Button for New item: should this be a blue + circle or a pen inside rounded rectangle

Eg 2
getting collapsible page tabs on the left and a single button that isn’t a search tab on the right. It’s just wasn’t possible within xCode standard code.

Mimicking stock apps of course is the easiest way to make your app feel intuitive. It’s quite tricky to achieve.
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I sympathise with you. Apple always used to have a strong design language.

The inconsistency of design, the failure to consider common user interactions (eg moving search and major functions to the bottom of the screen), and the functionality hiding are the things that stand out to me. I don't much like the transparency effect, so I have turned it off (I didn't notice performance degradation but I'm on a fairly new device). The rounding is meh for me, but I can ignore it. For various reasons (eg lack of value for Apple paid services, poor design), I also tend to stick to Apple core apps (Safari, Photos, Mail etc) now and use third party apps/systems for other capabilities that I need. I am still holding on to Safari, but that may not be a good choice
 
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There must be steel barriers between each operating system design crew.

I have to delete messages on each platform. They synch the incoming, why not the deleting?

This synch capability between all Apple operating system was a fundamental feature years ago.

Crappy design apparently is now Apple's actual plan for both hardware and software. The customer base is forced to consider upgrading in the hope that the new device or operating system will cure their issues. Does that false hope drive Apple's sales?

I started with Apple products in 1990 and we certainly did not have the issues we have today with either the hardware or the software. Remember the phrase "It just Works"? That was actually very true then.

The apparent Apple mind set seems to be we will make crappy software and hardware and "you will love it".

The Golden Goose is getting old and desperately needs feeding of 100% quality to continue. Apple is NOT to big to fail!
 
I’ll never get the hate for the transparency effect; personally, I love it. I used to love it in Windows Vista before they kept drastically dialling it back in every new version.

I’m certainly not against having a toggle or a slider, ideally, so you have a lot more fine control over it for the ones that don’t like it.
 
Radeon85 said:
I’ll never get the hate for the transparency effect; personally, I love it. I used to love it in Windows Vista before they kept drastically dialling it back in every new version.

I’m certainly not against having a toggle or a slider, ideally, so you have a lot more fine control over it for the ones that don’t like it.
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It makes content unreadable in many cases, all kinds of glitches etc.,
 
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c84216 said:
I’ve been on iOS since day 1 at 1.0. 26 is the buggiest version of Apples system software I’ve used of ANY of those releases in between.

On the Mac, nothing will ever touch Lion for sheer awfulness, though. So 26 is merely fine.
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I agree with you on Lion. By far the worst year I’ve ever had on Mac. However with iOS I gotta disagree. I remember being super annoyed with iOS 8 and then nothing could prepare me for the absolute hell that was iOS 9 😂 maybe it was fine on the latest hardware, but the lag, and stuttering, things taking 5 seconds to respond to basic touch input, typing was a nightmare. Yeah I’m really not having any issues with any versions of OS26, and I know I’m the minority but I enjoy Liquid Glass ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I hope iApple doesn’t device trap people by limiting iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 hardware (intel macs are already screwed)
 
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Mick-Mac said:
OMG - Yes please! Fix the semi-infinite number of bugs. Better yet - create a software QC department and implement real, meaningful changes to improve software quality. It's also fair to say that there is likely a layer of management that has been letting crud out the door at the expense of quality - those people either need immediate remediation or be let go. Whatever happened to "It just works!" - it's just so horrible at this point...
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In my experience, the pressure to release is usually coming from the top, and reflected through middle management. Developers usually want to do a good job. If they're releasing rubbish, there must be a serious cultural problem.

I saw an interesting documentary over the weekend about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Engineering managers were told not to raise concerns directly with senior management (follow the "chain of command" and keep the senior manager happy). If senior managers allow that to happen, they are not in touch with reality. The system is set up to fail.
 
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