If that option isn’t available at the beginning, I hope they add the ability to turn it off in a later update. Readability could be an issue.
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I don’t know that a majority necessarily wants that, above the age of 30 or so, especially when it comes with usability trade-offs. Regardless, they could have a standard utilitarian theme and visually fancy themes as an extra, similar to how Windows still offered the Classic theme throughout Windows 7 (so for roughly 20 years total). Yes there are accessibility options in iOS, but the resulting look is an afterthought and tends to be incoherent.
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There is a "Reduce Transparency" option in accessibility that turns it off.
Those are some p h a t toggles
I always use a black background. None of this stuff interests me. Hope it interests others..
Presumably it’s to accommodate fat-fingering.
Regarding the latter, it’s because it’s socially accepted to **** on Vista, but not on Aqua.
Vista and Aqua actually had significantly less legibility issues.
Aha. I’ve used the beta for the past two days and have zero legibility issues. Not saying I like it, just saying I’ve no issues.
Oh my god thank you. I myself didn’t even realize how much I craved to see this interface again.
God, I love how clear and legible everything is…
Plenty of contrast and delineation between elements.
Beautiful functional design.
This is the first time I’ve ever agreed with the “Apple take something old and push it as new”
Accessibility and legibility has taken a massive nosedive. Control centre is a cluster.
Accessibility and legibility has taken a massive nosedive. Control centre is a cluster.
You could argue regarding the translucent menus:
And the stripes somewhat interfering with text, compared to a uniform background:
It’s minor, but it’s not nothing.
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One thing is visual change; another thing is stupid visual change.
When I saw Minority Report, I remember wondering why anyone would want a see-through computer screen. Seeing things behind the glass would make my brain work so much harder to filter out the distractions coming through. I would want to see my text and numbers and pictures PLAINLY. Even if you frost the glass, why the heck do I want various shapes and colors showing through? There has got to be some physiological issues your head will be dealing with.
I’d love to see a follow-up article that shows “here's what iOS 26 looks like with increased contrast, and here with reduced motion, etc."
Go check macperformanceguide.com, Core Apple Rot section, and come back here when you’re done.
I know the flat design trend has been around for a long while, I just really never liked it. I never understood where the love for that came from. And I only occasionally had to work on Win 8-10 over the years, but now frequently have to use 11, and while it might be bringing back some 3D and depth, it's still horrible compared to contemporary macOS (which is a rather low bar to begin with).
Reminds me of this from Star Trek
Other than in a tv show or movie, it’s completely awful
There will be too much changing throughout the beta (the WWDC sessions already show some changes), so that probably wouldn’t make too much sense at this point.
You would be amazed at how inefficient large publicly trade companies become.
Eventually what happens is you end up where 10% does 90% of the work and they spend their having to work on what the Top brass feel is considered sexy and forget the rest.
Teams would have 20 employees but really 2-4 carry the whole team while the rest just exist and get in the way etc.
So yeah it’s not as simple as you think.
Not only that, there’s also a lot of butt kissing and a lot of the staff just does something to stay relevant and to have a “meets expectations” on their annual performance review. Combined you get that lazy lame “something” from a butt kisser who got their way for who they are friends with not what they know. And at Apple this is very much encouraged. When I saw the post WWDC videos for developers (look them up on Apple’s youtube page), you will see how clueless they are about what they’re saying, and yet there they are…
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I mean these operating systems will always have some sort of bugs. I personally haven't found the current OS's very buggy recently. Fixing bugs doesn't entice most users to upgrade their OS or hardware so can't really blame Apple for not solely concentrating on fixing bugs. They are still in it to make money at the end of the day.
I'm thinking the dark mode icons probably still look best overall vs either of the two clear?