*** The Official iOS and iPadOS 26 Thread ***

Cromulent said:
I get the felling it'll be tweaked over the next few point releases. At the moment this is just the first full public release so lots of time to improve things.
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I hope so. It’s disappointing. Sometimes if it ain’t broke…

I haven’t found anything that’s actually an improvement or better way of doing things yet… isn’t that the point when pushing a redesign? :(
 
Converge said:
I haven’t found anything that’s actually an improvement or better way of doing things yet… isn’t that the point when pushing a redesign? :(
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To me, it's the same, but a different look, and not much more. I feel like the rounded sections of the UI actually serve to reduce the usable space of sections displaying text compared to before. Things feel a little bit more cramped and closed in.
 
I think the only thing that really jumps out to me is the little flash of colour you get in longer liquid glass elements like the Safari search bar. That's pretty neat - they should gone with like an ionized gas (plasma) look but I guess they couldn't call it Plasma because of KDE Plasma on Linux. I also like the animated backgrounds in Messages and the Phone app on my iPad. That's all I've really noticed so far. :D
 
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I really find the UI for tabs a whole mess and less intuitive. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I keep getting the keyboard stuck on screen. I'm sure before you could simply scroll and it would disappear, but now I can't get it off the screen.

In the music app, I don't like how the 'home buttons' hide after scrolling, and you have to click the icon in the bottom left to show them again. Generally finding many things take a couple more interactions than they used to.

Other than the MUCH larger (and better) icons for the alarm (snooze and off?), I'm not really seeing much benefits on the whole.
 
On my 15 Pro I’m finding it’s not as polished. Unlocking the phone sometimes there’s a small delay before app icons pop in. Scrolling in Safari has micro shutters. Sometimes opening an app I get full screen pink for a split second. Keyboard lags as it appears often. Swiping between Home Screen pages has some weird lag to the start of the animation. I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting.
 
Cromulent said:
I get the felling it'll be tweaked over the next few point releases. At the moment this is just the first full public release so lots of time to improve things.
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Sadly Apple getting their customers to QA public releases rather than dealing with that during the beta/RC stages seems to be their MO for the last decade or so.
No doubt it's all due to their absolutely baffling need to pump out a major every year :rolleyes:

Certainly there's some oddities with iOS 26 but it mostly seems to be superficial. It's no way near as offending as MacOS 26, which quite frankly looks like ****.
 
LiE said:
On my 15 Pro I’m finding it’s not as polished. Unlocking the phone sometimes there’s a small delay before app icons pop in. Scrolling in Safari has micro shutters. Sometimes opening an app I get full screen pink for a split second. Keyboard lags as it appears often. Swiping between Home Screen pages has some weird lag to the start of the animation. I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting.
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Same for all of those and I’m in the 17 Pro! So it’s not down to being a slightly older processor, I’d say.

A particular annoyance of mine is when you press on the url/address bar (when it’s shrunk down from scrolling down a page a bit) there’s a strange horizontal scrub bar or animation of some kind for a split second down the length of the screen. It’s really shonky.

Also, going out for runs without my phone as usual, using my Apple Watch seems weirdly torturous. I add music to my watch the night before normally, a playlist or whatever, go to select it on the watch just before I start my run in the new music shortcut /flow and it doesn’t find the music and suggests playlists which aren’t even loaded on the watch. So you have to remember which ones are and aren’t loaded on it, as well as some not even showing up at all with no way of finding them unless you go into the ‘proper’ music app section rather than the workout app, which negates the point of it.

Did they actually test anything?
 
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On my iphone 16 pro camera app I have 7 options when I swipe up, flash, live, timer, exposure, styles, aspect and night mode. Her iphone 15 has one more, filters. Where's the filters option for the pro!
 
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Same issues as above, thought I was cracking up when my screen turned bright pink :cry: after a week it’s ok but I wish I hadn’t upgraded just yet. I like simple and after reducing motion and transparency I’m getting by. I like the big buttons as said above for turning the alarm off/snooze and the lack of full stop on the keyboard. Much welcomed and probably the only things I like.

Some icons seems blurry and overall just feels very gimmicky to me, probably in the minority though.
 
I’m not going to lie and say I have read the last 232 posts because I haven’t but I’ve found the first thing causing me rage.

The switch tab button has been moved to a sub menu in safari. What the actual…. were they thinking….. :confused:
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I’m not going to lie and say I have read the last 232 posts because I haven’t but I’ve found the first thing causing me rage.

The switch tab button has been moved to a sub menu in safari. What the actual…. were they thinking….. :confused:
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Just swipe the address bar. Having said that, I don’t like the actual menus location either
 
wingman said:
For the first time in a long time I'm considering swapping to a non iOS device.

Truly awful design, comment above about it being designed by a toddler is spot on.
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I considered it, but the other side isn’t faultless. Also I’m not keen to give up the conveniences of being able to interact with my son who has an iPad. At least the hardware is top tier and the software should get better over time.
 
LiE said:
I considered it, but the other side isn’t faultless. Also I’m not keen to give up the conveniences of being able to interact with my son who has an iPad. At least the hardware is top tier and the software should get better over time.
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Agreed, and I'm probably all talk and no action, as you're no doubt correct in that other phones will have their own share of issues.

I'll wait it out for a bit and see if they improve it.
 
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