What white UI flashes? When do you see that? I realize that don’t all have the same setup and experience, but I have yet to see anything like that on my 15Pro?
Hit the text field in imessage. Then you see what happens. This is also happening on every keystroke hit when you have 'increase contrast' enable. That did not happen on iOS 17 (can't tell about iOS 18).
Apple Intelligence (and Siri) is already far more capable than most people have been led to believe. While there are some benefits to the new versions of the Apple Foundation Models based on the same base model that Gemini was, the real power lies in the ability to use the capabilities of the apps on your device via AppIntents.
If only all apps would properly 'fill' them. It's anoying as **** that whatsapp feeds them easily for apple maps (share ETA), but others like not at all. "Oh you wanne share ETA with the last person you phoned or chatted via $otherApp? Better scroll your contacts because it won't be in your AppIntent/Suggestions.
Of course it'll have Liquid Glass, which is really cool. Not sure what the resistance from some people is. It's easier to accomplish nearly everything; it's visually cool looking, etc.
I have two devices. iOS 17 starts to look used, i give you that. But in no way its easier to acomplish
everything.
For instance. I have several favorites in apple maps. iOS 17 used to suggest 4 as icons, and you saw that explicitly. In iOS 26 its now 3 entries
rows. Plot Twist? Guess what, if you try to scroll - since the third is already cut off half - (yes i do not own touch based Car Play - this feels like a big oversight of apple) and notice "Oh damn, you only get 3 now" you have to scroll back to click "show more" or whatever its called
ONTOP! (have no pic at the moment, can supply one later, if wanted)
Also, why the **** is the 'selection' now GREY? Instead of BLUE? This gets even more riduculed when the AUTO Accept loading bar for re-routing in maps is filling BLUE now, when NOT actively selected. I misclicked dozends of times now, including to cancle navigation instead of starting the route since i didn't see AT A GLANCE that i was on cancle instead of one of the suggested routes.
Also, Text Backgrounds are nor blackish/transparent instead of greyish/transparent, even WITHOUT using increase contrast. Full black background is worse for people with astigmatism, hence, proper dark themes do grey+grey instead of black+white/grey.
Pic 1-3: Different levels of transparancy based on the size of the navigation information on iOS 26.
Pic 4: Alternate route autoloading in iOS17 (no Pic avail for 26)
Pic 5: Which route is selected, the first or the second?
Pic 6: Ending route is now grey if selected - like every other element. It's simply inferiour to before. Maybe I don't get the new design language, but who would suggest to have the selection to be light grey.
These kind of comments confuse me.
“I’ve never installed a Liquid Glass and I hate it. I’ve heard from kids on forums that it’s tragic, I hate it. I will never upgrade my iPhone again, despite never using LG because I hate it!”
Well, better to stay away if you get the feeling you don't like it, because, you know: You can't go back. Apple literally doesn't allow you to. Also, some people might just check it beforehand in an Apple Store or some other Shop. Thats what I did back when the iPhone X was introduced: Waited for release, tried it, felt awesome and was instantly ordered.
Yes and no. When I upgraded to the Beta, I thought it was disabled as standard. It was only after I compared it to another iPad without LG that I noticed where it was. My wife and daughter haven't noticed it, or at least never said anything positive or negative about it.
But I'm sure that some people have problems with it. It is the nature of change, some people will not notice, some will like it and some will hate it. At least Apple provides tools to tone it down or disable it, for those that find it annoying.
Yes, there are options to change the behaviour. I haven't tried on on 26.2, but at least on 26.0 they were making it different, but not better. Increase Contrast for example makes your keystroks HDR (see above "white flashing").
WHY? Disable transparancy did not look good either. I think on 26.0 I went with the LG activated since it - overall - was the least ****** experience. Maybe they fixed some stuff, I have to check again. Just saying that I was using all three acessability settings for ages (reduce motion, increase contrast and reduce transparancy) and I no longer can do that...
When browsing websites in Safari the UI elements change back and forth between light and dark to try to contrast against the page being rendered.
I use dark mode and on many websites the UI tends to flash white, as the page is loading, before going dark again.
Also check hitting a text field (in imessage for example) or enabling increase contrast making keystroks flash hdr white, as described above. (Tested on 26.0, may now be different)
It’s seems likely old people saying it. The funny thing they can turn it off with “reduce transparency.” I’m just tired of repeating it. You just gloss over those comments after a while.
It removes the Liquid Glass. That’s not debatable.
That is not getting you back to the pre iOS 26 experience, like at all. (Tested on 26.0, may be different/improved on .1 or .2)
So my best friend called me in a huff today because her phone auto updated to 26 even though she specifically had auto update disabled. Spent a half hour walking her through how to disable as much of the Liquid Glass filth as possible. This is the umpteenth time I’ve done this with friends and relatives.
No, it’s not “subtle,” and yes most people immediately realize something has changed and they HATE it. If you like it, great for you. You’re far from the majority.
Thats the Problem and discussed ad-absurdum: We don't know who is the majority and who is the minority. I for one had a friend tell me to be "artificially upset", while clearly stating, that the experience beeing - in my opinion - beeing objectively worse.
