Quick summary of v26.2 update likeability

[SalisburySam]

There are multiple threads about updating iOS and iPadOS to v26.n in which users are extolling its virtues and its foibles. So here for iOS and iPadOS only I have a poll to try to summarize overall opinion. Comments are most welcome but my intent is more to gauge whether the update is as unwelcome as many threads seem to make it, or not.

You can select only one choice, but can change your vote at any time.

Thanks to anyone participating.

 

[jz0309]

There are multiple threads about updating iOS and iPadOS to v26.n in which users are extolling its virtues and its foibles. So here for iOS and iPadOS only I have a poll to try to summarize overall opinion. Comments are most welcome but my intent is more to gauge whether the update is as unwelcome as many threads seem to make it, or not.

You can select only one choice, but can change your vote at any time.

Thanks to anyone participating.

Updated my iPad to 26 public beta when it was released - no issues.
Updated my 13PM to the RC when it was released _ no issues.
Got 17PM on release, only issue was the WiFi bug which got resolved with 26.01, otherwise no issues.
Updated my Mac Studio to 26 on release- no issues.
I have no readability/legibility issues with 26, on none of my devices.
26 has been rock solid for me on all my devices.
I’m totally fine with Liquid Glass… and I understand that I might be the exception here on MR for that opinion.

 

[I7guy]

Updated my iPad to 26 public beta when it was released - no issues.
Updated my 13PM to the RC when it was released _ no issues.
Got 17PM on release, only issue was the WiFi bug which got resolved with 26.01, otherwise no issues.
Updated my Mac Studio to 26 on release- no issues.
I have no readability/legibility issues with 26, on none of my devices.
26 has been rock solid for me on all my devices.
I’m totally fine with Liquid Glass… and I understand that I might be the exception here on MR for that opinion.

You’re not the exception. A quiet 👍 does not get as much attention as a loud 👎.

 

[AstonSmith]

I went from 18 to 26.2 a couple weeks ago. In general it's fine, the battery life is reduced a bit again (same with every major update) but it still gets me through the day, so no matter. I don't mind the aesthetic of glass.

There have been a few issues, like opening new Safari tabs sometimes shows the content as blank. Also, Face ID stopped working entirely a couple mornings ago - it didn't do the lock wobble thing, it just hung on a glassed lock screen and then requested the PIN. I had to reboot to get it working again.

So in summary, it's not brilliant, but it's fine. I think the average user who experiences these bugs would just put up with the issues and forget about them quickly.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Thank you for having the "I will postpone as long as I can" option.

After getting some time with it on a couple family devices, I want no part of it anytime soon.

It's most tolerable on Apple TV to me.

 

[HouseLannister]

How do you have a “likeability” poll without the option of “I don’t like it”?

 

[zarmanto]

I'm participating in the public betas on my iPhone; I like it fine, but I'm not overwhelmingly impressed with much of anything that I've seen, lately. I find myself feeling like maybe Apple is running out of ways to "wow" their userbase. Most of the more substantive features are just, "meh..." which in my opinion is probably why they went so hard with this whole liquid glass interface change; it's an update that doesn't provide much meaningful functionality, but it at least gets people talking where there might well be silent air waves otherwise.

Perhaps Apple is taking a page out of ye olde "any press is good press" playbook?

 

[SalisburySam]

How do you have a “likeability” poll without the option of “I don’t like it”?

Well, yeah. I expected the last two options to be equivalent to not liking it and keeping to parallel phrasing with the other options. I’ve been wrong before.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

iOS 26.x slowed my iPad mini 6 to a crawl. Even locking the screen pushes the open app out of memory.

 

[turbineseaplane]

What's really catching my eye so far is how there is just 1 single vote for "big improvement and I really like it".

Think about that in the context of the forum here and the demographic that frequents these threads.

 

[turbineseaplane]

iOS 26.x slowed my iPad mini 6 to a crawl. Even locking the screen pushes the open app out of memory.

My Mini 5 is going nowhere near 26
I already find it getting bogged down at times in 18 as it is.

 

[I7guy]

I'm participating in the public betas on my iPhone; I like it fine, but I'm not overwhelmingly impressed with much of anything that I've seen, lately. I find myself feeling like maybe Apple is running out of ways to "wow" their userbase. Most of the more substantive features are just, "meh..." which in my opinion is probably why they went so hard with this whole liquid glass interface change; it's an update that doesn't provide much meaningful functionality, but it at least gets people talking where there might well be silent air waves otherwise.

Perhaps Apple is taking a page out of ye olde "any press is good press" playbook?

Here are some substantive features over time imo:
- first with multi touch interface
- app store
- retina display
- touch id
- Apple pay
- front facing camera and face time
- 64 bit
- Face ID and oled
- pro-motion

Are these the benchmarks you are looking at? The following are in progress:

- Apple Intelligence
- revamped Siri

Not to mention EU, Japan Brazil get alternative payments app stores.

Seems like much substantive stuff over the years and stuff in the pipeline. Not to mention iOS 26 which is a major makeover with hundreds of new features. Maybe none on the scale of Apple Pay, but they are there nevertheless.

 

[HouseLannister]

Here are some substantive features over time imo:
- first with multi touch interface

Bell Labs was doing multitouch in the 80s and CERN in the 70s. The iPhone was just the first cell phone to bring it to the mass public as a commercial device. But that's besides the point, because he was saying nothing "lately" is impressing him. So an example of innovation from 2007 isn't going to change his mind.

 

[I7guy]

Bell Labs was doing multitouch in the 80s and CERN in the 70s. The iPhone was just the first cell phone to bring it to the mass public as a commercial device. But that's besides the point, because he was saying nothing "lately" is impressing him. So an example of innovation from 2007 isn't going to change his mind.

Doesn’t matter the time frame to me. I’m pointing out “substantive” at least in my mind irrespective.

Apple brought out multi touch into a commercially viable product and that is the point because it is substantive.

We all know tech are like building blocks and that future inventions and innovations are based on past innovations or inventions.

I don’t care if an example from 2007 will change anybody’s mind.

However I’ll add to the above list satellite communications to the iPhone 14, apple silicon and those are substantive and that is lately. And the op is entitled to not have this labeled as “substantive” but YMMV.

Apple and many tech companies cannot release something substantive like Apple Pay on a frequent basis.

iOS/ipados 26 to me meets the definition of “substantive”.

 

[FeliApple]

What's really catching my eye so far is how there is just 1 single vote for "big improvement and I really like it".

Think about that in the context of the forum here and the demographic that frequents these threads.

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Another cool option would be “if possible, I’ll postpone forever”

 

[I7guy]

What catches my eye is the ratio of 73 to 27 or rounding 75 to 25. Three to one. Even if people dont believe iOS 26 is perfect.

 

[UliBaer]

Another cool option would be “if possible, I’ll postpone forever”

^This!