It doesn’t make my iPhone look like a toy like iOS 7-18 did. I have no idea why they didn’t make such a big redesign sooner (after all the backlash with iOS 7)
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Honestly, I kinda like the new design
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Haven’t tried it, but from all the pictures it doesn’t look that different. It kind of reminds me of when they changed the shape of macOS icons, and everyone lost their minds. People make fun of Apple for basically releasing the same thing over and over like in the flannel shirt meme but this is why. Even slight changes upset people. I couldn’t imagine if they actually changed the whole thing. I would like to see some major changes
I think it has a ton of promise and possibility, just needs refinement. I have had full time dark mode for years, but thought Beta 1 dark mode looked pretty bad. I switched to auto, and the light mode looks way better. I have a feeling they'll have this in a good place by September. There are too many people on here who forget that it's a beta and complain here rather than filing feedbacks to get things changed.
You can judge the design by it's UI and it's UX / accessibility. It's great looking UI with really bad UX / accessibility.
I have no doubts that they continue to refine it and make it more accessible, by e.g. tweaking how transparent liquid glass elements are or how frosty / milky the glass effect is.
I have no doubts that they continue to refine it and make it more accessible, by e.g. tweaking how transparent liquid glass elements are or how frosty / milky the glass effect is.
At least they added button shapes back, that alone is a huge usability improvement. Just need to make the actual buttons a bit more pronounced and obvious and we can finally end the reign of the awful iOS 7 era sometimes-the-blue-text-is-a-button (like a webpage in the 90s). The fact that toggling "button shapes" in iOS 7 resulted in the text having and underline was absolutely ridiculous.
But yes, the fact that text is often placed on glass elements is abhorrent for readability. Wish they just started out with frosted glass, like every other "glass UI" concept that's been done for the past 15 years or so.
Too early to say definitively but I like the direction it's heading toward. Big fan of OSX aqua and skeumorphism, everything is legible and easy on my eyes/brain, just need to glance at screen and know what' I'm looking at and good to go. iOS 7+ was mess for my eyes, find myself have to really look to see what I'm looking at.
It’s been growing on me. Like iOS 7 and 7.1, I except a fair amount of refinement over time. I do overall like it though. I would really just like to see the glass just a small smidge more blurred and the shadows slightly stronger, to give the better feeling that it’s floating.