The Seven Voyages Of SteveDec 6

Ugh my phone updated to iOS 26 last night. Whoever thought Liquid Glass was a good idea needs a slap. Yeah let’s make buttons with text on them transparent, that will be suuuuper legible. Idiots. And to think they’re burning GPU time to make their UI worse. Who runs UX at Apple these days anyway? They clearly don’t know what they’re doing.

Luckily found Accessibility > Display & Text > Reduce Transparency so most of it is gone now

Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveDec 7

BTW yes I’ve tried changing Liquid Glass to “Tinted” rather than “Clear”. It’s still shite in certain background cases.

Check out Liquid Ass in Tinted mode vs Reduce Transparency mode on my lock screen. Because the flashlight happens to be on top of Pippin’s white paw it looks really indistinct, and Clear mode is even worse.

But in Reduce Transparency mode the predictably coloured dark buttons are perfectly clear with white icons and much more attractive IMO

Show threadGiles Goat
@sinbad The question is .. "why you keep buying Apple phones" 😎 ?
Dec 7 at 11:05amWeb
Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveDec 7
@gilesgoat because I hate Google even more
Show threadGiles GoatDec 7
@sinbad Seems like a NO WIN scenario in ANY case 😐 I have a Nokia can't remember what Android paid only 120 eur ..
Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveDec 7
@gilesgoat I loved my Nokia phones. If it wasn’t for the fact that you can’t get essential banking apps I’d try something like Sailfish