Perhaps not, but 'hostility' implies that Apple designed it on purpose to annoy people with disabilities, as if this was a discussion the software team had one Tuesday morning. I won't argue there are parts that people might find inaccessible due to a lack of feedback and/or ignorance on Apple's part but to claim for one minute they did it with the intention of hurting people in some way is hyperbole at its finest.
As someone who is visually impaired himself, Apple has done more than almost any other tech company out there to make sure that all of their products are as accessible as possible for people with different accessibility needs.
Even iOS 26 itself introduces tons of new accessibility options and features, and every product they make, from the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac, to even tiny things like HomePods and vision pros, all came with a screen reader and a massive host of accessibility features from day one.
This idea that they are introducing a new interface specifically to make it more difficult for people with visual impairments is just silly.
And by the way, there were these exact same complaints with the switch from iOS 6 to 7, the switch from the iPhone with home button design to the iPhone X, etc.
Anyone who has actually looked at the Settings menu for iOS 26 very well knows that Apple is currently not even pushing it as the main update, they are pushing 18.7 with iOS 26 as a completely optional install, and it likely won’t be pushed as the main new update until December.
By December, we should be on 26.2, and there will likely be several more introduced customization features between 26.1 and 26.2 to make the new design easier on people based off of public feedback.
Let’s not forget that it was iOS 7.1, not 7.0 but 7.1, that first introduced the accessibility options for “reduced transparency” and “increased contrast”.
