Liquid Glass popularity.

[avkills]

When it first came out I thought, "Oh, that's sort of neat," and then basically forgot about it until I came to this forum and realized that hating it is a thing. It's actually not the kind of thing that ever would have occurred to me as something that would make people so angry, but clearly it does.

FWIW, the thing about it that's "sort of neat" to me isn't even the design itself so much as that they've unified the design between Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so there is a sort of seamless fluidity transitioning from one device to another. But they could have stuck to the old design and done that, or have done it with Liquid Glass. I'm fine either way.

I just do not get why people are so amped over this. This subtle design change has not degraded the usability/functionality of any device in any way...at least not for me.

Remember back in the day the people who basically made a career out of hating Nickelback, and they tripped over each other to let the world know that they hate Nickelback even harder than the last guy who claimed to be the world's biggest Nickelback hater? Wild. That's how hating Liquid Glass feels to me.

GUI buttons on the watch not working 100% of the time and weird GUI freezes on my phone are exactly what degraded usability/funcitonality is. Are you saying you have not had anything like that on any of your devices?

 

[melodibit]

GUI buttons on the watch not working 100% of the time and weird GUI freezes on my phone are exactly what degraded usability/funcitonality is. Are you saying you have not had anything like that on any of your devices?

Honestly, cross my heart and hope to die, no.

I would be inclined to say that this sounds less like a Liquid Glass thing and more like the sad reality that eventually new updates always slow down old devices, except I'm rocking an iPhone 14 Pro, an Apple Watch Series 8, and a 2021 M1 MBP, and I'm not experiencing any of this on any of this older devices.

My wife's iPad mini was experiencing this. It might have started with Liquid Glass, but then we reset it and restored from backup, and now it's operating normally.

 

[maxoakland]

Its funny, how things evolve, this time last year, people were losing their collective poop on how bad liquid glass is, how apple really screwed up, how apple lost its design language. One year later, everyone is lauding it.

Nobody is lauding it. But Apple has definitely made some small changes that have improved it

 

[jinnyman]

Apple has done several tweaks to initial liquid glass. Based on the latest iteration, I don't mind its implementation on ios/ipados devices. iPad OS's multi-tasking is still not upto a perfection level, but that's a different matter.

However, I despise it on MacOS.

 

[avkills]

Honestly, cross my heart and hope to die, no.

I would be inclined to say that this sounds less like a Liquid Glass thing and more like the sad reality that eventually new updates always slow down old devices, except I'm rocking an iPhone 14 Pro, an Apple Watch Series 8, and a 2021 M1 MBP, and I'm not experiencing any of this on any of this older devices.

My wife's iPad mini was experiencing this. It might have started with Liquid Glass, but then we reset it and restored from backup, and now it's operating normally.

Could be I need to backup, reset and start fresh with my watch and iPhone, but they are on the older side and probably shouldn't have been allowed the update, which I would have been mostly ok with.

Let's just say my Mac Pro journey has been a lot harder to swallow.

 

[Luftkopf]

There is no depth on a 2-D display. Depth is fake. Glass is fake. Double fake. Apple's UI team is all about fake.

Come on dude, this bit is getting old. Maybe you've heard of this thing that western art learned about 600 years ago called 'perspective'?

GUI buttons on the watch not working 100% of the time and weird GUI freezes on my phone are exactly what degraded usability/funcitonality is. Are you saying you have not had anything like that on any of your devices?

My watch is a series 2, so it doesn't count, but my M3 Pro MacBook Pro ran better with Tahoe than Sequoia, and my iPhone 14, and my wife's iPhone 11 run perfectly fine, no freezes or glitches.

 

[iLuddite]

Much better as of iOS 27 beta 1 and steadily improving.

Voted: It’s growing on me

 

[sleep/to/dream]

I love Liquid Glass now that they’ve increased the sharpness and contrast on icons, and made it more like Aqua with the highlights coming from directly above. The 45 degree/moving highlights drove me crazy 💀

They need to work on consistency in quite a few places, esp how the top and bottom of scrolling content are handled, but hopefully that improves by the OS 27 release. Hoping they make the most transparent option even more transparent too 🙂

 

[Ledsteplin]

I was a bit skeptical at first, as I didn't like it on my homescreen. But liked it everywhere else. But I like it now. I especially like a clear dock.

 

[Siliconguy]

Maybe you've heard of this thing that western art learned about 600 years ago called 'perspective'?

Perspective does not make text easier to read.

 

[Luftkopf]

Perspective does not make text easier to read.

Neither does a dead flat, lifeless interface.

 

[GenPDX]

I’m just here to enjoy the (currently) 56+% positive to the 24% negative. Hopefully Apple will now stop listening to the minority on this, especially those who seem to have been completely unhinged about it. And – no – ongoing refinements to Liquid Glass do not constitute backtracking or some sort of admission of any supposed UI “mistakes”.

 

[capamac]

Come on dude, this bit is getting old. Maybe you've heard of this thing that western art learned about 600 years ago called 'perspective'?

Perspective is useful for some things like photographs, movies, art, paintings, video games. UI, not so much. They already tried it; it went nowhere:

Even if a UI is "3D" and has "depth" it's only surface-level nonsense, not actually functional. Functionally such a UI is only 2D, which is how iOS and macOS work. 2D. Coz it makes sense.

 

[SDAVE]

Perspective is useful for some things like photographs, movies, art, paintings, video games. UI, not so much. They already tried it; it went nowhere:

Even if a UI is "3D" and has "depth" it's only surface-level nonsense, not actually functional. Functionally such a UI is only 2D, which is how iOS and macOS work. 2D. Coz it makes sense.

Bro this isn't 1997 with a Linux System from Jurrasic Park