Mastodawn

Aha, I thought. I can get around Liquid Glass and return to my minimalist iOS 18 Home Screen, just by flipping the background from black to white! Genius! But no.

Whether I set a background to white (255,255,255) or use an image (255,255,255/#ffffff), iOS 26 makes it subtly darker, just so it can still show off its Liquid Glass effects around widgets. iOS 18 does not.

I don’t even.

This might not be news to anyone here, but, hey, I’m still discovering new things that annoy me about iOS 26.

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Daryl Baxter May 11

@craiggrannell I’m heading towards a point where I may have to update my iPhone to iOS 26 and I’m slowly dreading it.

Dreading to update some software - that’s where we are.

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Jo - pièce de résistance May 11

@darylbaxter I so relate. It triggers my ptsd so bad. It IS traumatic & is psychological & financial, seige warfare. Slowly I’m going offline.
It’s an occupation & seige of my available space that makes it closer & closer to my tablet being useless to me, adding things I don’t want. Making it harder to make secure and use. Forcing me to buy new so soon with even more storage space. They shouldn’t be allowed to sell anything that they then occupy with stuff just to run it. I feel conned.

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Jo - pièce de résistance

@darylbaxter
There should be two downloads. One for security & one for feature updates. All should have opt-in/out options somewhere. It can be done, because it used to be that way.
It just stops being accessible at a certain point because THEY want to control MY tablet. We don’t have any rights as owners of the product. It’s ridiculous. And we spend a ridiculous sum of money on them. And it’s less and less real value and more and more stressful.