Next. I fucking hate the pre-existing design of Screen Time warnings. But I need them, because I’m a goddamn obsessive and I need reminders to quit looking at socials.

But these MOTHERFUCKERS, in their endless pursuit of false tidiness, have HIDDEN THE OPTIONS BEHIND A SECOND TAP

you used to get the “one more minute” etc immediately. Now I tap one button and it POPS THESE UP?? halfway up the SCREEN? you assholes

Oh!! I just realized that I had my accessibility vision settings on; reduced transparency, high contrast, etc. I turned all those off so I can get the Genuine Experience and get real good and mad for a little bit

this floating shit above the keyboard? fuck you. these icons look so bad, the spacing is a fucking nightmare

some of these bloopy swoopy animations MIGHT be fine if they were twice as fast and didn’t have the goddamn glass blur

DONT MAKE ME WAIT FOR THE FUCKING INTERFACE YOU FUCKING AMATEURS

TWO TAPS TO OPEN ALL MY SAFARI TABS????

I OPEN THEM HUNDREDS OF TIMES A DAY

which, admittedly, I wish my life and brain were different but my ass reads a lot of internet

GUESS WHICH PART OF THE INTERFACE IS THE WEB PAGE AND WHICH IS THE BROWSER

bastards killed accessibility with a glass shovel

I’m going to turn ALL OF THIS OFF AS SOON AS IM DONE BEING MAD

but it’s a fucking travesty to ship this to a billion devices. truly, shame on everyone involved

why is this SO BIG AND UGLY
AND HALFWAY UP THE MOTHERFUCKING SCREEN

PUT THE CONTROLS DOWN NEAR MY FINGERS

AND DON’t MAKE EVEYRHNG A GIANT FUCKING CENTER ALIGNED ROUNDRECT

aahhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH

high pitched scream, all the fucking “glass” cracks and falls to the ground

hideous

to give credit where it’s due: I think a fair amount of the squash-and-stretch animations are cute. playful in a good way. when you pull down the command center, and the buttons all stretch? that’s cute.

glass looks like shit, but I’ll probably still think that’s cute when I Reduce Transparency

and I do appreciate the buttons that have big circles around them, in some of the cases I’ve seen. a big round checkmark is better than “Done” with no outline

and I appreciate how big the outlines get on lock screen buttons when held down. But I’ve been wishing they’d do this for the entire time iphones have existed, so points docked for being a decade late

every touch interface should visibly react when touched, BUT RESPECTFULLY

also nice: moving the Search button down to the bottom of Music.

But this is with Reduce Transparency, Higher Contrast, and several other accessibility settings. Let’s see what it looks like by default!

come on, MANNNNNN. this isn’t violently illegible, but it’s just nasty looking.

also noted: even when all transparency and everything turned off, the animation between tabs (Home, Library, etc) still briefly renders the glass as it scales and translates to the new selection. it’s “fine,” but looks unpleasant as it briefly shimmers

I know he was an asshole, and bosses shouldn’t yell at their employees because that’s not how you create a positive environment for good creative work

… but I keep imagining Steve Jobs yelling at the people who even presented liquid glass as a demo. he would have caught this shit day one (probably, who knows, but it troubles me to no end that current Apple seems to have lost all sense of what used to be good about their software)

again: this negative space with the mismatched curves above the keyboard, just to maintain Squircality??? so gross.

and making the arrows and checkmark a separate squovoid? A stunningly innovative waste of space and unpleasant neighboring curves

“Only Apple” could make this kind of mistake :[

I used to think the rounded corners of the display were cute. I have grown to loathe it for the way it pushes content ever-inward at the corners. And I fucking HATE how huge the curvature is on the app windows in macos 26.

A few pixels of rounding? Cute and unobtrusive. It’s so bad now though