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I don't mind Liquid Glass but just don't really get why they did it. Change for the sake of change even if I like the look of it overall.

I do not like it on MacOS though. Feels weird on this OS.

 

The flat design, to me, felt very old and out of date at this point. I'm fine with the change.

 

People said the same thing about iOS 6, about it looking dated. We just get bored.

 

I know I asked in here before but I’m still looking for help. My son’s phone is under my family account and I have ask for permission turned on when he wants to download something but I never get the notifications. But now that’s expanded to texts. I’ve messed with all the settings but it’s been no help. And he even just got a new phone and still nothing

 

I was really excited for liquid glass…I like seeing the colors and vividness of backgrounds rather than big opaque blocks everywhere. It was more of an adjustment than I expected but now that I’m used to it I dig it and had always eagerly awaited the return of transparent notifications. I do agree with all the formatting/cluttering issues though. Embarassing that the UI/background doesn’t handle overlapping text better.

 

The wild thing is that it never has. The flat UI, when they introduced some transparency to it, always had issues with background colors. That was at like a 4, Liquid Glass cranked it to 10.

 

It's painful but have you tried removing him and setting that back up?

 

Well, iOS 6 was looking dated because of all the skeuomorphic design. So thankful we got away from that.

 

I do wonder how much power savings on an iOS device the tinted UI will cause. They're rendering a lot in the UI with Liquid Glass, I'd assume that's disabled some with the tinted look.

 

It doesn’t let me remove him because of his age. Says he has to have a parental account

 

Liquid Glass is skeuomorphic design though. Digital design intended to mimic real-world objects. I'm not for it or against, and I think it looks cool in certain scenarios, but we'll eventually tire on this as a design language.

And I'm going to be careful here because b/c this is an Apple thread, but Material 3 Expressive (Google's OS skin for Android) looks fantastic and is flat design. However, they added layers of haptic interaction and animation that make it feel different, fun, and fresh. I truly think Apple just did not know what to do with a design language that grew tired after a pretty lengthy stint and this is the result. It's fine, maybe even great here and there, but it won't age well.

 

It's not quite skeuomorphic, though. You're not getting all the real world comparatives in UI like we saw in iOS 1-6 with Notes, for example.

 

Considering making the switch to iPad from MacBook finally. Anyone got some opinions on iPadOS 26? Feels like windowed apps is a potential game changer.

 

I did it anyways. Pretty wild having CMD+Q functionality on an iPad now.

 

It rules. The bugs are getting worked out, but immediately it feels significantly better than what was available as a laptop replacement. I’m loving it.

High recommend on m4 pros. They are on sale for 800 new and im sure Black Friday they will drop lower. IMO unless you literally work in AI or do heavy video editing and need the newest thing the m5 changes will be completely unnoticeable to 99% of people.

 

Can anyone explain the screen time widget? It says I’ve had 3.5 hours of screen time but then adding the time on the individual apps below it is barely 40 minutes. What’s accounting for the other ~3 hours?

 

do you have a Mac?

 

I do but I didn't use it at all that day. I was at work and barely looked at my phone the majority of the day

 

Hm for the record my numbers look very similar and my phone usage doesn’t account for all the screen times it claims that I’ve had

 

I tried iPad OS 26 on an iPad I don’t use as much and I think leaving out Split View and slide over (even if reinstating a basic form) was one of the more boneheaded things apple’s done, especially since the OS generally needs more taps to use its multitasking but is self-aware enough to give you multiple other, less fluid, ways to multitask. I get wanting to make the device more robust, but now I feel compelled to use it with a trackpad and keyboard which is obviously not what I bought it for. In time I get used to all of apple’s reworkings but felt the need to provide the counter view.

I like liquid glass more than most, and it smooths out some issues with previous OSs, but I was not one of the users wanting my iPad to be a MacBook replacement, so it’s a mixed review for me. Also still don’t like the current way Apple Music queues songs.

 

I like liquid glass, it looks clean and aesthetically pleasing when swiping. lol week one I regularly swiped up and down to watch the effect. The best thing I’ve done to improve my iPad display is make the Home Screen super clean without a bunch of apps on it and a good row on bottom, and then the slide over screen is identical to my old Home Screen. It looks clean and Mac when I’m using it for work, but the full iPad functionality is one swipe away.

 

It’s remarkable to me how randomly buggy these OS’s are. I just had my clock/wifi/battery icons blur out for no reason on my iPhone and the only fix was to restart.

 

It kept crashing week 1 for me whenever I was moving windows to the monitor but that stopped and now it rules

 

I think this was the first iOS/ipad OS I’ve downloaded where I was one of the unlucky ones with bugs, but it’s been mostly lagginess (esp on iPad) and a few app crashes.