They love it!!

[Santig]

Man….everyone I’ve showed iOS/iPadOS and MacOS absolutely loved it…

It’s funny how the general public reacts compared to the niche community that we are!! (By general public I mean the people around me that do not care about this as much as us)

I think Liquid Glass might be it, in comparison to the childish nature (my opinion) of the new version of Android.

There’s a lot left for Apple to polish but I like it more every day that passes.

Just wanted to share it!!

 

[aperfectcircle]

My 68 year old, tech-hopeless mother absolutely loved iOS 26 on my 14 Pro Max when she had a play around. So much so she wanted me to install the beta on her 13, which I wisely convinced her not to. I think she just wants the iMessage backgrounds feature

 

[UliBaer]

Eat more crap, billions of flies can't be wrong...

Joke aside, legibility should be number one priority for an UI, not "beautiness".

 

[Pudlo]

Man….everyone I’ve showed iOS/iPadOS and MacOS absolutely loved it…

It’s funny how the general public reacts compared to the niche community that we are!! (By general public I mean the people around me that do not care about this as much as us)

I think Liquid Glass might be it, in comparison to the childish nature (my opinion) of the new version of Android.

There’s a lot left for Apple to polish but I like it more every day that passes.

Just wanted to share it!!

Yeah you can show them Apple AI ads and they will love it too...still using AI as an iphone user is a joke. Same with io26 and macos26, like no idea how they are planning to release the full versions, forme it is the first time where betas should be called early alphas at best. Safari on macos is like completely useless right now, liquid side bar is an amazing idea but every other website is not showing correclty with it, for some stupid reason they deleted the icons to change between bookamrks and tab groups and the number of bugs and design failures is immense. Checking all the betas for last 10 years, it is the first time where most of the changes are worse then the original.

 

[HouseLannister]

I have shown it to multiple coworkers at both my jobs and not found one person who didn’t ask “so what did they do besides make it shiny?” and then I shrug. Zero excitement from them.

 

[Macbookey]

It’s gonna be divisive for sure. Those I’ve shown it to also cannot wait to use it. Way too small a group to be anything scientific, but people seem to see it as more lively and fun. Actual use and living with it will determine the outcome at the end of the day. iOS 18 looks and feels stale to me now. I guess I am biased towards seeing anything that un-JonyIves software as a good thing. A monolithic utilitarian white room with pretentiousness isn’t my thing.

From a functional perspective they have a long way to go, and iOS 26 clearly isn’t anywhere there as it is more a look and feel update, but steps to something different is welcome. The way they manage resources for software is puzzling and worthy of criticism for such a wealthy corporation, and something for leadership to answer to. In use though, I am enjoying it and hope it goes the right way down the road.