The most annoying new feature is the double X next to each other in the URL in Safari. It’s so easy to tap on the wrong one. Also, sometimes the keyboard is hiding what you’re tapping underneath, in Grok and IG
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And they claim that “Liquid Glass brings even more focus to what you’re viewing on your screen”. Maybe they mean viewing search bars?
You’re misunderstanding. Safari had a navigation bar that shrinks down or disappears upon scrolling since iOS 7. This is not a new feature.
“Safari in the first iOS 7 beta still has the same general look and feel of its predecessor, with an address bar at the top of the screen and menu bar at the bottom. Also included are the typical back, forward, share, bookmarks, and tab buttons.
“But once users scroll down on a page, those menus immediately disappear, allowing them to focus on the content.
“To return the menu bar and full-size address bar to the screen, users simply scroll upward on a webpage. The controls also automatically appear when a user scrolls completely to the top or bottom of a page.”
(https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...ait-fullscreen-unified-search-bar-visual-tabs)
Let's be honest. All that really matters is how hard it spies on you. And I suspect it's the most advanced ios ever.
I found a few things, but none are ideal.
1. Swipe up the URL bar. Its awkwardly close to swiping up to close the app, and not as easy as a tap.
2. Press the menu button to the right of the URL bar and slide your finger up slightly until it is over All Tabs before releasing. Less clicks, but still an awkward movement.
3. There are options in Settings->Apps->Safari. “Bottom” is less compact and more like the old controls, but it annoying sits high above the bottom of the screen, wasting space and taking up more than the previous OS.
You're lucky that Google (do you mean its AI assistant Gemini, or real Google searches?) tells you useful things about settings in Apple's OSes. I've been trying ChatGPT for that for some time, with very mixed results, even with the latest version 5. Too many times it assumes I'm using some randomly older version of the OS I'm asking about, whose settings are differently arranged and named than the OS version I'm actually using, so that I have to specifically tell it I'm using the latest version. For some reason ChatGPT doesn't assume that someone is asking about the latest OS, but it doesn't tell you which OS it's describing unless you notice something's off and you ask it. But even then, maybe half the time, when you tell it what version of the OS you're using, it still gets things wrong, to the point where its ability to hallucinate still shines.
Something that doesn't help is that the Settings apps in Apple's various OSes can't find half or more of the settings you tell it to look for.
"...so you'll no longer get alerts for fake toll payments, suspicious job offers, missed deliveries, tax refunds, and other common scams."
Although well intentioned, I think this statement is unrealistic to make. Clearly, spammers will continue to fight against anti-spam efforts, so perhaps adjusting the statement to, "...so hopefully you'll no longer get alerts for fake toll payments, suspicious job offers, missed deliveries, tax refunds, and other common scams" is more reasonable.
Although well intentioned, I think this statement is unrealistic to make. Clearly, spammers will continue to fight against anti-spam efforts, so perhaps adjusting the statement to, "...so hopefully you'll no longer get alerts for fake toll payments, suspicious job offers, missed deliveries, tax refunds, and other common scams" is more reasonable.
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I don't use alarms on the iPhone since I got an Apple Watch almost 10 years ago, so I was curious about your complaint.
I thought it'll be in the actual alarm, so went to the clock app, sure enough there were some past alarms, clicked on one, and voila, change snooze time is right there...
Controls in the way of what??? The blurred unreadable content at the screen bottom??? How is that useful? What am I missing?
I think you have to dig deep to find 10 useful iOS 26 new features. We'll have to see how execution works because as it is now, auto-complete won't even suggest "probably" when I type "prob" until I sit there for about 10 seconds. So this new message translation -- hopefully they fixed something so you're not waiting.
What's funny is this crap never works. The most frustrating thing about iOS is trying to select part of a sentence and copy it. After about 5 times trying you give up! Does it actually work in iOS 26?
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MacRumors is the one saying it's new, not me.
It is different, for sure, though -- for me, it's just a small, translucent capsule in the middle of the bottom of the screen. The screenshot in the article shows a sort of glassy, full toolbar effect, but I'm not sure where that's coming from -- possibly an older beta or accessibility option? That isn't ultimately much different, but the real behavior does give more visibility to page content than before for me (some of it possibly even in a useful way).
I hear you on this one. You could set a focus mode though, even if it is an extra step. And you'd have to exit the focus mode afterwards...
That's silly. It's a phone first, data secondary. Sounds like you should put it in airplane mode while on podcasts. Or use an iPod or iPad
Yep. Yesterday I had to google how to share a single scanned document within a Note in the Notes app. Should be way more obvious. Plus a million other things over the past few years.