Seeing as 26.1 is gearing up to ship more broken than 26.0 for my use cases (crucially tabViewBottomAccessory in SwiftUI), I am considering disabling Liquid Glass until Apple gets their stuff together. Working around the breakage is getting ever more awkward. I’m unsure how users will react, though. Has anyone else been able to use this API for a MiniPlayer?(FB20772137, FB20425139)
Here's an experimental build to get a feel for what it's like to drop the problematic iOS 26 tabViewBottomAccessory API. Also, because the tab-less UI relies on adding the "Saved Episodes" item to the home screen's list as a result of a swipe action, I had to enable UIDesignRequiresCompatibility because of FB19602925 (filed in mid-August, with minimal demo-project) which causes List animations to be very broken when resulting from user swipe-action.
To my eyes, the bottom part looks fine. The more reachable bottom Search button in Liquid Glass would perhaps be missed, but I suspect for most users, search is not a high-frequecny feature.
I have enjoyed the bar-less navigation "bar" in Liquid Glass, and would miss it, I think.
@jsalling Absolutely. I would be very sorry to see the design change.
@targiel Going with another solution after all. The design stays.
@jsalling there are definitely issues with this year’s OS updates, but now that I’ve gotten used to it, the previous design looks dated in comparison.