Tab-bar animations are still unusably buggy.
It's almost August.
We're supposed to ship software to our customers using these APIs in six weeks.
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@marcoarment I buy a new iPhone every year at launch, but I’m not going to this year if they come with iOS 26 (which I’m sure they will).
@marcoarment Curious if the Home Screen widget will work properly in iOS 26 or is it still buggy? The widget has been broken for more than a year and still will not populate podcast artwork for automatically downloaded episodes.
@marcoarment I don’t think anyone is FORCED to ship using these APIs?! If they don’t work, then just don’t do it 🤷♂️
I don’t know the user base of Overcast so maybe I’m completely wrong when I say: ist it an Audio-Player and people see the UI only shortly to select / start a new 1-3 hour podcast or a 5h playlist or such? 🤔 personally I don’t care if the UI is glass or not …
@marcoarment Yeah, I’m seeing very similar buggy behavior. Mostly with the entire scroll view being shifted down vertically after tabbaraccessory is filled and then jumping around to realign itself when scrolling. You can see the top toolbar go white in this sample:
Six weeks until this fundamental iOS navigation component ships.
I… can’t use this.
@marcoarment Is anyone at the helm? Is Tim Cook too busy kissing Trump's feet?
@marcoarment great UI for vision impaired people, when changes seemingly randomly. But even for everybody else: hitting a button with muscle memory, yep, no longer possible.
@marcoarment Why even use this right away? Overcast's current UI works fine. What's the rush?
@marcoarment wow that's really rough
@marcoarment switch to Android
@marcoarment even if it did, I just don’t want controls jumping around and merging together all the time. It gives me zero benefit and my flavour of ADHD brain is just dragged away from what I should be looking at every time they do their pointless pantomime. I never believed Apple world throw so bad a UI at me that I’d be wondering what Android was like.
@marcoarment no no, apple totally has a plan…
@marcoarment And a different question: what is the Point of merging those toolbars anyway? So after a scroll you cannot switch “Tabs” anymore because the UI is hidden?!
Was there anything wrong with the “old” UI Way of offering some tabs at the top all the time? 🤔 (generally speaking what I know from many apps)
Why bother with buggy APIs if the UX isn’t good anyway?
@marcoarment Yeah. Those bugs are pretty bad, but on the plus side, I think the UI looks good. I installed the public beta the other day, and I’m enjoying it! I like the way it looks, and I haven’t found it to be sacrificing usability as others have said. To each their own, but that buggy navigation indeed needs to be fixed regardless.
@marcoarment Were you able to customize your unselected icon color, or is it still just “hope it looks right?" I haven't tried the most recent beta but was having trouble previously.
@marcoarment why the twitches?
Just a theory, I know zero things:
It used to be that Tesla hired, or at least aspired to hire, mostly #Apple #UI/#UX/#IA people. Years ago.
Then Tesla's UI/UX/IA turned to shit, peaking right about, well, now.
I fear that Apple has been hiring, or aspiring to hire, mostly Tesla UI/UX/IA people lately because this is the kind of "we don't care about the customer's successful accomplishment of a task" shit that Tesla pulls every day in a no-accountability company culture.
@marcoarment
What a disaster.
@marcoarment Oh dear god.
@marcoarment do you have a non-liquid, “Glass only” back up plan?
@marcoarment what a UX mess
@marcoarment Looks like the typical quality we can expect from Apple these days.
@marcoarment it’s such shit
@marcoarment idk an unusable moving share sheet is great.
Can’t tap on anything cuz it’s constantly moving so have to quit the app and open it to try and share again till it works or I give up
Can’t tap on anything cuz it’s constantly moving so have to quit the app and open it to try and share again till it works or I give up
@marcoarment is there a law that says you HAVE to update?
Will Overcast be left behind without the blessings of 26?
@marcoarment So much inconsistency too. In the AppStore app, there are two X buttons near the input field: one beside the search and one inside the search. Both do the same thing and clear the search. The inner one just retains focus on the input field.
Video showing the AppStore app search field has two X buttons near the input field. One beside the search and one inside the search input field. Both do nearly the same thing except one retains focus on the input field.
@marcoarment If the glitchy Lock Screen notification animations in iOS 18 are any indication, this will probably ship like this and stay around for a while.
@marcoarment I loathe the update to Liquid Glass on my iPhone. I wonder how many users will leave iOS and try Android instead. At least over there, you have the option to customize the Launcher and avoid some of these issues.
@marcoarment even if the animation worked, why? Why be another Alan Dye hiding buttons in junk drawers. If people want that they can use Apple Podcasts.
@marcoarment It is not as bad as any UIToolbar loaded from a Storyboard crashing on iOS 17/18 if compiled for iOS 26 SDK 😆 FB18771900
@marcoarment pull the plist compatibility switch and maybe divert some attention to overcast download management then
@marcoarment does it make a “boing!” yet?
@marcoarment it works fine in the Apple Podcasts app though. Ur sure its not something ur doing?
@marcoarment I will say you have done a good job making sure all those button images are legible as you scroll! I’m not running the beta but all the legibility posts I see are wild!
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