I can’t even imagine how they tested this iOS; it's a complete mess.
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The 5 Most Important Apple Software Features Introduced This Year
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I know there has been a lot of bashing on Liquid Glass and I don't mean to pile on, but no matter if you like it or not, it is not one of the "most important" software features. It's cosmetic and provides zero functionality. It was the "most discussed" and the "most hyped", but nothing about it is important.
Haters gonna hate. I love liquid glass especially on iPad, mac and Apple TV. The Vision Pro always had it and I thought it was a gorgeous UI then and now.
Yeah, it’ll take them a couple more major versions to get it right. Currently, it leaves a lot to the imagination.
The ‘new’ spotlight is a pile of crap. Half the time it can’t find what I am looking for! The removal of launchpad was silly. I don’t want spotlight to launch apps. You install a new app and it doesn’t even show in the spotlight window anyway!
Liquid Glass is crap. Making using my Mac almost impossible to use.
Apple serious needs to tackle the bugs first before adding to it. This version is the worst I have seen and used since System 7.5!
Come on Apple sort yourself out.
Liquid Glass is crap. Making using my Mac almost impossible to use.
Apple serious needs to tackle the bugs first before adding to it. This version is the worst I have seen and used since System 7.5!
Come on Apple sort yourself out.
I can live with Liquid Glass on iOS. It's a little bit ugly, but at least it remains functional. The macOS implementation on the other had is really terrible. I'm so glad I haven't upgraded my main Mac yet.
You should be able to by going to the call, hitting the more button, then tapping hold assist to stop for that call.
I’m about the same. I don’t mind LG on iOS (not amazing but not horrible either), and like many of us, I’d prefer Apple focus on limiting the bugginess & improving stability for certain small things. My macOS experience has definitely been much worse and doesn’t feel as polished. Probably also doesn’t help that I’m running Tahoe on one of the last Intel supported devices…
Well, Apple 'screwed the pooch', as the old saying goes, when it comes to Liquid Glass and a few other poorly thought-out ideas, like the revamped Photo gallery.
Still, I am sure if the MR pundits and other internet pundits tell me enough times how great 26 and Liquid Glass are...I will one day believe them.
Still, I am sure if the MR pundits and other internet pundits tell me enough times how great 26 and Liquid Glass are...I will one day believe them.
An excelent assessment. As an aside... it's refreshing seeing a thoughtful and mature response here (in a sea of inane replies).
So the top two best features are distraction and battery drain. Awesome.
I can't even imagine how they imagined it!
Cadillac 1959 = looks like a Rocket! The huge fins really make the car more stable!
Apple 2025 = looks like Liquid Glass! It really does something!
AI examples of mass produced products with silly features similar to cars with fins included water sold in yellow gallon jugs and stoves with confusing contrls that don't match the cooktop - along with two Apple products, the Magic Mouse with charging port on the bottom and Apple TV Siri Remote (4th & 5th gen).
Apple 2025 = looks like Liquid Glass! It really does something!
AI examples of mass produced products with silly features similar to cars with fins included water sold in yellow gallon jugs and stoves with confusing contrls that don't match the cooktop - along with two Apple products, the Magic Mouse with charging port on the bottom and Apple TV Siri Remote (4th & 5th gen).
Live translation - knockout feature. iPadOS to me the jury is out. Liquid Glass I like it, but ultimately toned it down. Also like the new features and functions in iOS 26.l - which for me has been stable. I’m waiting a few days for my new iPad Air m3 to calm down. Turned in Apple Intelligence and battery life is worse by the wet finger in the air, then the iPad it replaced. We’ll see.
The right side of that graphic actually makes my eyes hurt. Great example of the problem though.
"All behold the rise of Liquid Glass. Sure you can fight it if you want to, but it has risen to power. We all must cower in its wake."
Cinnamon says no cowering required on M1 and M2. M3 and M4 will follow eventually.
If Zorin has eight desktops possible and Ubuntu six and Mint has three, why can't Apple manage two, say Monterey and the current Stupid Eye Candy?
A hammer is not always the right tool. A mostly transparent UI is great on a visor to keep you from walking into the lamp pole. That event is not going to be happening on a desktop or even a laptop. Apple needs to stop renting the marketing department from Sirius Cybernetics.
Reading this thinking...It all seemed a little underwhelming to me and mostly a nothingburger. Besides turning off AI, nothing has made my user experience better and the keyboard still SUCKS.
iOS 26 has been very solid. Mostly what I see posted are anecdotal cases of UI glitches not replicable by most members.
This is correct. Vote with your $$$. Just like the removal of the headphone jack in the iPhone 7, people criticized and voted with their $$$ even though we could have fused for how that was turn out .
Just an annoying falure and misallocation of effort during a much bigger AI failure. Also, not a bigger fail than.... Apple III, Lisa, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod Hi‑Fi, MobileMe, iTunes Ping, Xserve, Newton and Pippin.
It can aso be mitigated by turning on "Reduce Transparency." Dark mode and pure black wallpaper also help a lot.
Biggest fail, not even close. Fail, err no. If you don’t like it then turn it off.
What lag? What keyboard stuttering?
Switch to android. Let us know how it turns out for you.
Couldn't even throw the word "controversial" in there under Liquid Glass? I think that's about the most charitable word that can be used for it.
It was a total monkey wrench thrown into the gears, all to distract from what was until then one of Apple's most embarrassing public failures. To their credit, they managed to make an even more embarrassing public failure to distract from it.
And the cherry on top is that the architect of this disaster then just leaves, still quoting Steve Jobs without understanding what he's saying, and Apple is surprised all around.
Liquid Glass may be the single most disturbing and clear public symptom that there is a serious product and personnel problem at the very top.
It was a total monkey wrench thrown into the gears, all to distract from what was until then one of Apple's most embarrassing public failures. To their credit, they managed to make an even more embarrassing public failure to distract from it.
And the cherry on top is that the architect of this disaster then just leaves, still quoting Steve Jobs without understanding what he's saying, and Apple is surprised all around.
Liquid Glass may be the single most disturbing and clear public symptom that there is a serious product and personnel problem at the very top.
liquid glass can be pretty to look at, when it isn’t glitching… but it being the number one most important feature apple released this year is just SAD. i wouldn’t even consider a UI skin a feature. what a sad year at apple.
I don’t think Apple is embarrassed at all. Apple wasn’t even embarrassed by “you’re holding it wrong” meme.
Was Apple surprised? I don’t know. It may have been something worked out before hand.
Definitely is not. But I think “you’re holding it wrong” is at the top of the list.
Not for anything this “sad year at apple” had iPhone 17 flying off the shelves, so there is a lot of happiness in the executive hallway - not sadness.