iOS26 is an actively hostile user experience for disabled and/or visual impaired users.

[Quarric]

And in case it helps anyone with safari who is struggling with the lg stuff, try the noir dark mode safari extension app, you can customise your own text colour and background colour that you can apply across every website if you want.

 

[GBstoic]

No one much over the age of 25 would be seen dead with a bright orange phone let alone anyone over 50, so it's very clear they have completely abandoned the older market altogether.

Really? I am 71 and have orange smart folios on my iPads, regularly buy orange trail running shoes from Saucony & Salomon as my daily choice of footwear and my iPhone 16 is in ultramarine. People’s liking for vibrant colours doesn’t change as they age.

 

[Ta_whirimatea]

I agree with the original post. My wife is hearing impaired & we both find iOS is leaps & bounds ahead of the competition in audio fidelity during calls. Blue toothing everything to her hearing aids was a game changer for her.
A friend / work colleague who is blind & has an iPhone uses all the accessibility features & I can see 100% the struggle she would have with the visual display of the operating system. Watching her use her iPhone is awe inspiring & shows an impairment isn’t a disability etc.

hopefully when she upgrades to ios26 it’l retain all her settings otherwise she’d be screwed trying to find stuff.

These software ‘updates’ are only as good as the designer/coder is. Personally whoever is writing code UI for Siri / CarPlay & iTunes (music app) on iPhone & Mac should go back to their kindergarten as they’ve clearly never tried to play music in a car, transfer albums to an iPhone without it duplicating songs etc

 

[maverick100]

I agree completely; TOTAL DISASTER. I tried iPad 26 on my iPad. worthless; it is terrible when trying to read lots of web sites they are just plain blurry. Glad I found a way to wipe the iPad and return to 18.6 and them update 18.7. At lease now I can see things.

 

[tallen21]

I agree! Maybe not hostile but certainly NOT user friendly if you have vision issues. The least they can do is make an option to turn off the "liquid" look! Overlaying words on top of words or words under "liquid" makes them VERY HARD TO SEE. I haven't used it enough to learn all the other problems they just saddled us with. To say I'm not happy is an understatement.

 

[Eureka20]

I was very lucky to have a second phone for work that I installed it on-- it was heinous! A coworker warned me about the update he woke up to and it gave me a chance to turn off updates for my personal phone.

The design is terrible and it's jarring and overly stressful to use.