FeliApple
macrumors 603
I love iOS 6 (and as somebody who never updates anything, ever, I’d be extremely tempted by a return to the iOS 6 design), but the flat iOS 18 is far more beautiful than Liquid Glass, imo.
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Money is fake too. We enjoy lots of fake things in this short life.
avkills
macrumors 68000
My biggest gripe is when buttons fail to work because of "what?" My guess is the CPU/GPU being taxed too much. Happens a lot on my Apple Watch.
capamac
macrumors 6502a
Eye candy animations and transparency are far more critical than mere functionality according to Apple.
Those 2D displays are really 3D because the layers have depth (until a company figures out displays with sub-atomic thickness). 😉
FeliApple
macrumors 603
I keep devices forever and iOS updates eventually obliterate performance and battery life, and they’re irreversible, sadly.
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Nah! It's really just because that's @FeliApple's way of getting back at Apple! 😉 😀
You can't make me!!!! 😀
FeliApple
macrumors 603
They technically can, and they have. But well, I have hope. It’s a one-time thing and they won’t do it again, right?
Right?
I refuse to use Liquid Glass until it’s absolutely necessary.
I’d use iOS 6 if compatibility weren’t an issue.
But you’re right in a way: Apple, prompt me all you like. I’ll do everything I can NOT to have more glass on my device than hardware. It’s already fragile enough…
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
I was on iOS 9.0.3 from October 2015 to November 2020. That was with my 6s+. One of the last fully-untethered jailbreaks. Only reason(s) I upgraded was because my JB tweaks were all starting to break, I needed a new battery, and that phone had become a secondary phone by that time.
One DFU restore/upgrade and that was the end of five years on iOS 9.
FeliApple
macrumors 603
I would die for a 6s on iOS 9. As you know, I lost mine (and my 9.7-inch iPad Pro on iOS 9) thanks to the activation malware of iOS 9 on A9 devices, in which Apple deactivated my devices and forced me to update to their malware.
Unjailbroken, without activation tickets, and without tools to do anything, I had to choice but to update them.
The 6s+ on iOS 9 would be a perfect phone for me. Honestly I was a little sad when you updated it😂
I had already lost my iOS 9 devices by then.
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Yeah, I was too, a little bit. Unfortunately, I needed to restore (to replace the battery) and going back to iOS 9 wasn't possible. My consolation prize was getting dark mode, and as my primary phone was a Pixel at the time, it was a decent trade off for me.
I don't think however, that I could have handled being back stock iOS 9 with this phone as my primary. I had like over 250 tweaks just to make things the way I wanted. So my iOS 9 experience was never what everyone else's was.
FeliApple
macrumors 603
Wait… they ask you to restore for battery replacements? They don’t honour the iOS version that is currently installed? Even if you ask? I’m glad battery health is largely irrelevant if the device is on its original version, I wouldn’t be able to replace it anyway.
Yeah, by 2020 iOS 9 was alright, but I’m not sure how much longer it had. Still, I’d use it for music, just like I use my iOS 10 6s nowadays (funnily enough, I have one of the rarest iOS versions ever. iOS 10.0, which has NO IPSW and Apple deleted it from public servers after three hours. The only way to have it is to have an iPhone that was set up for sale within those three hours (like me), or to update within those three hours. Some people estimate that you can count the worldwide iPhones running iOS 10.0 on a 6s or 7 in the single digits).
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Knowing what I know now, I might have made a different choice. But, after 5+ years with my setup, I was bored. Since this was a secondary phone where stuff was consistently breaking, I really saw no need to keep it jailbroken.
There's a certain point with tech stuff (at least for me) where the benefit of using something old starts to be outweighed by the benefit of using something newer. I had a good run with that jailbroken iPhone, but I was spending more time trying to make it function than I was actually using it. I was also interested in seeing how dark mode looked on the newer version of iOS.
I remember that period of time fondly. But I wanted to move on with other ideas for that phone. Staying with a broken iOS 9 wouldn't have allowed that.
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I passed a Ford Model T on the freeway once when I was going to pick my son up. Guy driving it was doing his best to go as fast as he could in the slow lane, but people were zipping right by him. It was cool to see, but I would not have wanted to be him in that time and situation. Same sort of thing for me with the 6s+.
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TracerAnalog
macrumors 65816
I voted 'I don't see a difference...' because my real opinion is not listed. Which is: I don't care too much, just fix the effing bugs already.
Apple couldn't care less about the bugs, so good luck with that. If that were the case, they would have fixed the keyboard years ago.
Yup, been this way since iOS 7. Every release the OS gets less and less efficient and functional. You can throw iPad OS into this statement as well.
There's also been a lot of work going into making Liquid Glass better. In iOS27 it isn't too bad. When it first came out there were so many little inconsistencies and bad design choices everywhere that it wasn't fun to use. So it makes sense that people are lauding it one year later. It really shapes to be what it was meant to be from the beginning.
This 100%. I’ve been on iOS 27 since day one of DB1, and every time I come across an older iOS 26 screenshot in my photos app, I can’t believe how nasty, blurry, and milky it looks.
Kardinal1911
macrumors regular
When it first came out I thought, "Oh, that's sort of neat," and then basically forgot about it until I came to this forum and realized that hating it is a thing. It's actually not the kind of thing that ever would have occurred to me as something that would make people so angry, but clearly it does.
FWIW, the thing about it that's "sort of neat" to me isn't even the design itself so much as that they've unified the design between Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so there is a sort of seamless fluidity transitioning from one device to another. But they could have stuck to the old design and done that, or have done it with Liquid Glass. I'm fine either way.
I just do not get why people are so amped over this. This subtle design change has not degraded the usability/functionality of any device in any way...at least not for me.
Remember back in the day the people who basically made a career out of hating Nickelback, and they tripped over each other to let the world know that they hate Nickelback even harder than the last guy who claimed to be the world's biggest Nickelback hater? Wild. That's how hating Liquid Glass feels to me.
FWIW, the thing about it that's "sort of neat" to me isn't even the design itself so much as that they've unified the design between Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so there is a sort of seamless fluidity transitioning from one device to another. But they could have stuck to the old design and done that, or have done it with Liquid Glass. I'm fine either way.
I just do not get why people are so amped over this. This subtle design change has not degraded the usability/functionality of any device in any way...at least not for me.
Remember back in the day the people who basically made a career out of hating Nickelback, and they tripped over each other to let the world know that they hate Nickelback even harder than the last guy who claimed to be the world's biggest Nickelback hater? Wild. That's how hating Liquid Glass feels to me.
Timpetus
macrumors 6502a
I feel the same. Aqua was the best version of what Liquid Glass is trying to be.