I can read the text both with glasses and without…and I’m blind as ****. Sounds like a ‘you’ problem. IOS 6 and earlier was a huge problem for me.
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Apple Announces All-New 'Liquid Glass' Software Redesign Across iOS 26 and More
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I can read the text both with glasses and without…and I’m blind as ****. Sounds like a ‘you’ problem. IOS 6 and earlier was a huge problem for me.
You’re the one making it personal. I’m just pointing out distracting software design.
ummmm? What about this is "so clean?" Here's to hoping accessibility options save us.
Without a doubt. Same every year. Why can’t a multi billion dollar company do the things someone in their basement can do. It’s ridiculous. They pay people to find bugs in their software. But won’t employ someone who’s done better from rumours and leaks in the last two months. That apple have been working on for 1 year.
I don't like them removing the navigation bar background - you can barely see the back/camera buttons, for instance.
It's too much. I hope they incorporate feedback and don't launch what they're showing us now.
distracting... to you. Lol we haven't even held this in hand yet. I think it's looks great and find it perfectly legible from the visuals we've gotten. I'll probably want to customize a bit for personalization, but most of the default should be exactly as intended: less distracting / disappearing based on my focus.
Well thank goodness there’s a few months left before this goes out the door so this can be tweaked. I just hope you can turn off all this glass nonsense so I have a hope of being able to read the text and glance at icons without squinting at them. As presented this is an accessibility and UX nightmare.
Note to Apple devs: Aqua leveraged excess processor and graphic card cycles to enhance the screens appearance and make it more inviting, not to fill it with bling that make the user experience more cumbersome and difficult to read and distracting.
Note to Apple devs: Aqua leveraged excess processor and graphic card cycles to enhance the screens appearance and make it more inviting, not to fill it with bling that make the user experience more cumbersome and difficult to read and distracting.
Some will love it and some hate it I guess
I like the fact it’s different. It got boring
I like the fact it’s different. It got boring
I’m waiting until I have a beta on my phone to give a firm opinion.
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I am told Liquid Glass looks better on a real device than in the keynote. (I sure hope so) It really reminds me of teenage Photoshop days recreating awful bulbous glass effects and glossy UIs. Maybe that's what a lost generation of design gets you; the kids who grew up with iOS 7 are designing...
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Frankly, this is a light overhaul design-wise (we are STILL in updated iOS 7 frosted /blurry glass) nothing groundbreaking but it will also not alienate usual BFUs. What is concerning for me is how many extra swipes there will be to perform old functions, too many pop in and out menus. Maybe looking good at first but once novelty will worn out, oh boy ..
I liked it until someone pointed out how close it is to windows Vesta Aero....but i'm not broken up over it. I'll learn to live with it i guess
I like the new design, the iOS7 aethertc was way overdue for a change. While it is not as nice or a drastic overhaul as some of the concepts made it out to be, it does give iPhone that "a fresh coat of paint" feeling. Over time, I am sure they will continue to refine and improve it.
it look horrendous
Agree 1000000% with your second paragraph and I have vocally said as much. It didn't matter though and the wrong people got pissed off and I lost my posting privileges in the Political Stories area. That's ok though.
In any case, I think the negativity with this story is due to the buzz about a "big new redesign" and then you look at the end product and it takes really close examination to notice a difference.
Hopefully all that can be disabled using accessibility reduce contrast feature. 
Doesn't raise my hopes that any of this will be addressed (other than in Accessibility)
jsut installed ios 26...looks exact like androind 10 years ago with some cheap custom icons ;/
oh and the animations are a mess
well, it's an early beta, I wouldn't expect otherwise