Best to wait and see what iOS 27 looks like before you can relax.
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I absolutely loathe iOS 26
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Best to wait and see what iOS 27 looks like before you can relax.
"Totally transparent UI"
"Shake device to see anything on the screen"
"Fully powered by SIRI+, now part of iCloud+"
"New iPhone Mini with a 6.6" screen"
The new iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPad Pro M5 running iOS 27 "Solid Glass".
Nice to see how they look in Sky Blue!
Also, are those with or without the Bumper "case"?
I can't quite tell.
I upgraded my mum's phone to 18.7 because iOS 26 doesn't look ready for mum to use given how different it is. What I do hope that based on past experience there will be two 26.x update before the end of the year that address the usability and legibility issues that some have raised. At the rate things are going Apple has some how made One UI 8 from Samsung appear to be the 'adult in the room' as so far as releasing an update that makes improvements that benefit users rather than change for the sake of change (or to distract users from their AI over promising and underdelivering).
Well... iOS26 has been installed for a few days now.
I actually really like it. Yeah there are bugs that need to be sorted and some of the transparent options aren't appropriate with all background types. But, overall I like the animations and the, speed of use etc. As with most things there are areas that could be improved but reading some comments you'd think the sky has fallen and the world was about to end. It hasn't.
I actually really like it. Yeah there are bugs that need to be sorted and some of the transparent options aren't appropriate with all background types. But, overall I like the animations and the, speed of use etc. As with most things there are areas that could be improved but reading some comments you'd think the sky has fallen and the world was about to end. It hasn't.
You can make the clock solid. When you customize the wallpaper just tap on the clock and then at bottom switch from glass to solid and pick a color.
I had a bad feeling about iOS 26 from looking at videos of the public betas so I kept my iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 18.7.
That’s not going to fix the inferior legibility compared to iOS 18.
My eyesight isn’t the greatest but I’m having no trouble at all with legibility.
I usually update early on, but I decided to wait to see the general verdict after the issues on iPadOS 26 I have had. It does get tedious sifting through the dislike of the UI (which is subjective to each person), but using it on my iPad I really don't think it is horrible (at least it is not that video-game-looking skeuomorphism nonsense). I am more interested in the functionality of how things WORK and not what they look like (I will have to see if there is a forum about that).
I do have to say it is pretty difficult waiting to do the update but after looking up how to roll back eff that....I'll wait
I do have to say it is pretty difficult waiting to do the update but after looking up how to roll back eff that....I'll wait
Waiting seems like the smart move. Even those who are reporting they like the concept of liquid glass seem to be acknowledging that there are still lots of things to work out.
Plan B worked. No one that bought an iPhone 16 to get AI is talking about being misled by Apple.
My eyesight is not the best and I had no issues with legibility. I thought the overall look of iOS 26 was nice. I decided to go back to iOS 18 because my iPhone 13 seem to skip a beat with iOS 26 and once Apple stops signing iOS 18 there's no way of going back.
Should do. I got one for my 6S running iOS 16 a couple of weeks ago.
Alternatively we should continue to publicly lambast Apples dei turn of their UX that’s ushered in an “I can’t hear the smoke alarm chirp so you’re the idiot” cognitive regress arrogance as experience that seems to be pitted against their majority of their userbase and driving a legacy (competent) consumer revolt.
It will likely receive security updates on all 26 capable phones through mid December and the release of 26.2, by which point 26.2 will be released in the second week and will become the new standard upgrade for everyone. At least if past years patterns areanything to go off of, and with Apple, they usually are.
If you are currently on 18.7 you will likely get an 18.7.1 and 18.7.2, but by mid December, these will be no more and the only upgrade path will be to 26.2.
The only devices this is not the case for are devices that cannot update to 26, which will continue to receive 18.7.X and likely a 18.8 next September. These devices are the iPhone XR, XS, XS Max and iPad 7. For these devices only, iOS 18 will likely receive security updates through 2027, and possibly even longer.
It’s impossible for me to state just how much I HATE ios26. I hate absolutely every single last god forsaken thing about it. I hate using my brand new iPhone air now because every time I pick it up I have to have the HORRIBLE experience of this vomit inducing nightmare of an OS. This will absolutely be the thing that moves me to Android. I can NOT use this.
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Nope nope nope. This is not the same.
Will it be a case of just manually keep checking I’m guessing, or do they get notified on a website somewhere?
My unpopular opinion: this is the best update and redesign in ages.
You knew the Air runs ios26, you’ve read the reams of comments on here about how everyone hates ios26, so why did you spend $1000 on the Air?