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Three Days Until iOS 26 Launch: What Are You Most Looking Forward To?

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iOS 26 is coming in just three days, and it brings a new Liquid Glass design with translucent UI elements, rounded menu bars, simplified navigation, pop out menus, and more.

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Liquid Glass has been contentious during the beta testing period. Some people don't feel like there's enough translucency, and others think Apple has gone too far, impacting readability. Where do you fall on the spectrum? Let us know in the comments below.

The new design is the big iOS 26 talking point, but the update also has a bunch of new features, both big and small. Are you looking forward to screening your phone calls? Setting a custom snooze duration? Making Genmoji? Using Live Translation?

For a recap on all of the features that are coming next week, make sure to check out our iOS 26 roundup. We also have overviews of iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, both of which have some exciting new additions.

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Most looking forward to prominent UI bugs I’ve reported throughout the beta season to be fixed. The RC contains none of those, and even introduced a couple more 😭
 
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Live Translation, if it works, will be a game changer for me. My wife and (of course) her family are from China. She speaks rudimentary English, I speak (barely) rudimentary Mandarin. Her family speaks no English at all. If Live Translation works, I will be able to converse with her family for the first time. My guess is it will be slow, prone to errors and kludgy for the first couple of years, but with Apple now needing to keep up with Google's version, they won't just abandon it in its first or second iteration. If they do, and Google really takes off with this, which they likely will, that will be time for me to consider leaving the Apple Universe. I can foresee in 5 years or less, it being fluid, immediate, no gap in time, and maybe even speaking in your vocal intonations.
 
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Looking forward to everything new in iOS 26. I am already running the developer Beta since day one on an iPad Pro and a spare iPhone 15. I like it. And it runs very well. Waiting with the installation on my main device - too many important apps there, so no failure allowed…
 
michaeljk said:
My guess is it will be slow, prone to errors and kludgy for the first couple of years, but with Apple now needing to keep up with Google's version, they won't just abandon it in its first or second iteration.
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If Siri is any indication…
 
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the smart phone industry, who've been slagging off iOS26, iPhone17 etc, ape-ing iOS26 and liquid glass under a similar glass themed brand name.

With the C and N series silicon joining the A/M series silicon, completing the holy trinity of in house silicon, Apple is positioned to do stuff no one else can do in the next few years to come.
It'll be a single SoC before long and the advantage will be evident in power usage, size and performance.
Encased entirely in glass.
 
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