It appears that the target metric was how much the visual effects attract the user's attention. I think they succeeded in that.
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The 5 Most Important Apple Software Features Introduced This Year
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2025 was the year the iOS went into the burning dumpster! Liquid Glass is the most pathetic software around.
I think Liquid Glass has a more important role to play with the upcoming VR/ AR hardware disclosed by maceumours recently.
Anything that brings iPad closer to MacOS I'm all for. I'd love to make iPad my daily driver but I'm tired of using crippled iPad apps.
This might be a little off topic, but how about a 3rd party watch face store? That would bring me back to Apple Watch from my Garmin. Apple's watch faces are beyond stale. Let people design / program their own.
This might be a little off topic, but how about a 3rd party watch face store? That would bring me back to Apple Watch from my Garmin. Apple's watch faces are beyond stale. Let people design / program their own.
true. apple hardware is strong. i don’t think iphone 17 sales have anything at all to do with new software features, however.
I'd like my iPad to work more like a desktop IF I'm docking it to a KVM setup.
The problem with turning off Liquid Glass through the various different accessibility options just gives you a half arsed, unpolished OS though. Turning it off doesnt take you back to a working, legible OS like 18. When it comes to the purpose of an OS, it is a fail. It was sold on putting your content first, but it does completely the opposite by making things hard to read, contrast issues, over the top nauseating animation and the usual yearly sprinkling of bugs on top of the previous years that never got fixed.
It's a very confusing project. Some apps designed to give you more space (to the eye, not actually useful space) like Safari, but then basic elements have been oversized taking up more space (such as close buttons etc).
As I said previously, I think it's great on Apple TV. It's nice eye candy. But when I'm using it on a device designed for productivity on a small screen, it's a disaster.
At this point I would just settle for making the keyboard fully functional for more than 30 seconds at a time. My autocorrect just completely stops working, and suggested words/phrases disappear many times a day. Restarting doesn't even help half of the time, so I don't even bother with that anymore and instead slowly tap out texts like I am 75 years old when it bugs out.
Liquid Glass sucks.
And every time I say it here I get a 10:1 ratio of likes to dislikes, so clearly I’m not in the minority.
And every time I say it here I get a 10:1 ratio of likes to dislikes, so clearly I’m not in the minority.
How did someone at Apple not raise their hand and say “Ummmm … maybe this is a bad idea.”
IMO, this is not the case on my 15PM.
It does. It just does it thing on iOS 26.2.
As I said I disagree having used it both turned up and toned down.
I discovered I like the bar at the bottom of the page. Took some muscle memory to get use to, but for me works out well.
IMO, I don’t believe there are oversize buttons in Safari.
Maybe on a mini type screen it’s a “disaster” but on my 15PM it works well.
Yeah Liquid Glass. The reason of why I ditched the iPhone.
I hope, in maybe 5 years, Apple will erase that terrible UI and a new design will appear to come back to the iPhone.
For now, no thank you. iOS 26, neither Macos 26.
My M1 Air will be on Sequoia for a long time (after all, there will be a couple more of OS updates and that's all)
I hope, in maybe 5 years, Apple will erase that terrible UI and a new design will appear to come back to the iPhone.
For now, no thank you. iOS 26, neither Macos 26.
My M1 Air will be on Sequoia for a long time (after all, there will be a couple more of OS updates and that's all)
For a company that prides itself on “inclusion” for those with various disabilities, they’ve done a magnificent job of excluding the low-vision / visually impaired community with Liquid Glass.
I wholly endorse voting with your $$$ and sending apple a message.
Liquid Glass is the most awful thing ever. How can anyone think that a transparent and distorted background is a good UI idea to place elements in? I hope that with the departure of Dye a lot of these things are going to get fixed eventually.
Things eventually come to a middle ground. I remember when iOS 7 came out the hue and cry that came from the community members.
IOS went from skeuomorphic to stark. Many different opinions. The first iterations of iOS 7 imo, wasn’t as polished as the first iterations of iOS 26.
But things will eventually come to a middle ground.
I don't have to imagine. This 17 Pro Max has had more Springboard crashes than all the previous iPhones I've had combined. And yeah, the keyboard is laggy and the animations are buggy. Meanwhile the hardware in this thing is amazingly impressive. They just wasted their time on window dressings instead of taking advantage of its power.
Let's hope, but I don't remember iOS 7 commiting so blatant and fundamental errors of design. The frosted glass material is essentially different in understanding the need of opacity in the background. It's no surprise Dye has a background in branding and marketing design and not so much in what was called Human Interface. I was really looking forward to a change in the overall look and feel of the OS.
Liquid Glass is a retroces, not an advance!.
Dynamic Volume switch in iPads is a mess.
Sooo many things are unreliable now in iOS 26, like left behind items, display jerkiness in even Apple apps, like the Watch app, keyboard is laggy and autocomplete is miserable, etc.
Dynamic Volume switch in iPads is a mess.
Sooo many things are unreliable now in iOS 26, like left behind items, display jerkiness in even Apple apps, like the Watch app, keyboard is laggy and autocomplete is miserable, etc.
Havent tried dynamic volume on my iPad but no display jerkiness, or laggy keyboard. Autocomplete has been what it has been, not really worse than iOS 18. YMMV I guess.