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Aha, I thought. I can get around Liquid Glass and return to my minimalist iOS 18 Home Screen, just by flipping the background from black to white! Genius! But no.
Whether I set a background to white (255,255,255) or use an image (255,255,255/#ffffff), iOS 26 makes it subtly darker, just so it can still show off its Liquid Glass effects around widgets. iOS 18 does not.
I don’t even.
This might not be news to anyone here, but, hey, I’m still discovering new things that annoy me about iOS 26.
@craiggrannell I’m heading towards a point where I may have to update my iPhone to iOS 26 and I’m slowly dreading it.
Dreading to update some software - that’s where we are.
@darylbaxter There’s a point where it just won’t be feasible to keep all my kit on the previous systems. I’m dreading the upgrade. I can’t imagine the 27 ones will be much better.
What’s somehow even worse about this: if I open up the image in Photos on both of my phones, the *same* thing happens. In iOS 18, it’s #ffffff, but in iOS 26, it’s #fefefe. So iOS 26 is not accurately showing me the content of my (admittedly insanely simple) image, for… reasons. Good grief.
(If I’m wrong here or there’s some kind of weird setting I’ve turned on, please do say. But I cannot find anything. I’ve already turned off all accessibility stuff, just to check.)
@craiggrannell Man, Apple just keeps getting worse the more I hear about it.
@coffee_tomorrow My hope is that with the guy responsible for this shit now gone and a product-first veteran about to be CEO, there might be some course correction. My fear is there won't be.
@craiggrannell I actually like the Liquid Glass but dear God, don’t force it onto people.
@craiggrannell @coffee_tomorrow
as a non apple user, this is an honest question - is there any (non forensic IT super sysadmin) OS rollback capability? Its not pretty under Windows (and I've never even considered it under linux) as you have to use Recovery mode and restore to a snapshot, but its do-able. I presume there's some snapshot/recovery/rollback on apples?
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