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 threadJonathan Poh 📷 🏳️‍🌈Dec 6
@sinbad yeah I’ve been using it for a month now, some parts of it are ok, some of it definitely not. the legibility a lot of UI elements have suffered. the head of design at Apple that pushed for this Liquid Glass nonsense has just left, so maybe we will start seeing some improvements soon.
Show threadandrewwillmott

@jpoh @sinbad I hope so. The insanity that is iOS 26 is actively preventing me from buying a new phone, even though it's well past time, and I'd love a better camera. (Still on a 13 mini.)

Ironic given that their entire software ecosystem is supposed to be in support of flogging you pricey hardware.

Dec 8 at 1:11amWeb
Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveDec 8
@andrewwillmott @jpoh TBH now that I’ve disabled Liquid Ass via Reduce Transparency the rest of the OS is fine. Some things seem better such as Mail being much snappier
Show threadNeil HenningDec 8
@sinbad @andrewwillmott @jpoh yeah it’s definitely nippier in some things and useable with that mode on.
Show threadandrewwillmottDec 8
@neilhenning @sinbad @jpoh That's positive to hear given the stories about further slow-downs I've been reading. (Less relevant to a new phone I guess but it means I'm unlikely to 'upgrade' the current one.) Maybe they -- gasp -- spent spent some time on optimisation post-beta, Snow-Leopard style.