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Is Apple second Nokia?

Astrohunter

Astrohunter

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Hi,

Just installed iOS 26, and I can't believe it, I can't believe how ugly this UI is...
Those "3D" looking fonts are something I did in Photoshop 20 years ago as a child and thought it looks cool, those animated margins around apps and widgets are so bad I really can't believe it.

A lot of my apps icons look like low resolution, and I'm talking about stock Apps.
It's obvious that the people in charge of Apple now are completely disconnected from reality and super incompetent.

Not to mention how they are in deep *** in AI department, their rubbish "AI" is so good that they integrated ChatGPT. 🤣

I can't believe that I actually started thinking about selling all my Apple devices and making a switch, Apple seems to be second Nokia.

I could get better UI and Apps design off Fiverr for probably 50 bucks.


I mean wtf is this 2005 design? And let me tell you it looks much worse IRL than on the internet.
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If they can't even do acceptable looking design anymore, that is a really bad sign.
All iOS 26 did is messed up the design, and we got things like the option to generate fake kitty images?

Just my little rant
 
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Bro chill! It's a first beta and a complete overhaul in design which get refined over time. You don't have the patience to wait till the public release and now you threaten to sell all your Apple devices over a beta. Do you even hear yourself?

But then again if you're using a 15P or later and wanna get rid of it I'm more than happy to take them off your hands. I'll even pay for shipping.
 
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Artemiz said:
Bro chill! It's a first beta and a complete overhaul in design which get refined over time. You don't have the patience to wait till the public release and now you threaten to sell all your Apple devices over a beta. Do you even hear yourself?

But then again if you're using a 15P or later and wanna get rid of it I'm more than happy to take them off your hands. I'll even pay for shipping.
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I understand it's beta, but they would have to completely redesign it for it to look acceptable, which they obviously won't, since that liquid glass gimmick is their selling point, lol.
 
Astrohunter said:
Hi,

Just installed iOS 26, and I can't believe it, I can't believe how ugly this UI is...
Those "3D" looking fonts are something I did in Photoshop 20 years ago as a child and thought it looks cool, those animated margins around apps and widgets are so bad I really can't believe it.

A lot of my apps icons look like low resolution, and I'm talking about stock Apps.
It's obvious that the people in charge of Apple now are completely disconnected from reality and super incompetent.

Not to mention how they are in deep *** in AI department, their rubbish "AI" is so good that they integrated ChatGPT. 🤣

I can't believe that I actually started thinking about selling all my Apple devices and making a switch, Apple seems to be second Nokia.

I could get better UI and Apps design off Fiverr for probably 50 bucks.


I mean wtf is this 2005 design? And let me tell you it looks much worse IRL than on the internet.
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If they can't even do acceptable looking design anymore, that is a really bad sign.
All iOS 26 did is messed up the design, and we got things like the option to generate fake kitty images?

Just my little rant
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I think it looks pretty good on lighter backgrounds, but it is certainly going to be divisive it appears. I like it for the most part so far.
 

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Astrohunter said:
I understand it's beta, but they would have to completely redesign it for it to look acceptable, which they obviously won't, since that liquid glass gimmick is their selling point, lol.
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Apple in the UI dept has definitely gone downhill no doubt. With a total do-over in design language and last year's AI goals I'm sure they rushed a lot of things.
UI gets refined fast before public release and slowly further into point releases. There's no need to add the dramatic effect. If it looks this way in a public release in September then you have every right to go wild.
 
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Yes it's bad, but it's often like this on the very first beta. They do it, and then listen to our complaints (maybe even here and other forums).

So for the record Apple

No.
 
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Macalway said:
Yes it's bad, but it's often like this on the very first beta. They do it, and then listen to our complaints (maybe even here and other forums).

So for the record Apple

No.
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I'm pretty much always installing betas and I don't recall being so disgusted by the design.
 
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Lobwedgephil said:
I think it looks pretty good on lighter backgrounds, but it is certainly going to be divisive it appears. I like it for the most part so far.
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Yeah it looks better on your screenshot. But I only use dark themes since it's better if you are using OLED and it doesn't burn my eyes at night.
 
Artemiz said:
Cuz it hasn't changed in over 11 years.
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Well they changed it completely in iOS 7, and I didn't like the new design as it looked too childish for me, but then they did slight changes with each iOS and I started to like it.

Btw. what is there not to love about this easy to read control center? :D
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Did no one at Apple think perhaps we should add more blur?!
 
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Astrohunter said:
Well they changed it completely in iOS 7, and I didn't like the new design as it looked too childish for me, but then they did slight changes with each iOS and I started to like it.

Btw. what is there not to love about this easy to read control center? :D
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Did no one at Apple think perhaps we should add more blur?!
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Too many features with no labels. Also, I think certain 'childishness' is the bane of all 'modern' UI. Beats me why they stick with it so ardently.
 
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Scrooge MacDuck said:
Too many features with no labels. Also, I think certain 'childishness' is the bane of all 'modern' UI. Beats me why they stick with it so ardently.
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I believe you can have beautiful easy to look at UI that looks modern and doesn’t look childish. I think Apple just tries to target a lot of teenagers and older people perhaps?
 
Astrohunter said:
Well they changed it completely in iOS 7, and I didn't like the new design as it looked too childish for me, but then they did slight changes with each iOS and I started to like it.

Btw. what is there not to love about this easy to read control center? :D
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Did no one at Apple think perhaps we should add more blur?!
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I about died when I saw that. They gotta turn up the blur to at least double what it is now.
 
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