#LiquidGlass ...😒 The contrast of notifications is now so low that I can hardly distinguish them from the apps underneath. When I first saw this, I thought my #VSCode had gotten a new #Fantastical integration.
Oh my gods, just noticed how many different keyboard layouts ⌨️ there are in #iOS26 right now. Completely inconsistent! Every app seems to use its own version 🤦
And I honestly don’t get what this whole “liquid” glass design in #iOS26 is supposed to be good for. Sure, the buttons look kind of squishy – and “liquid”. But so what? You can’t drag them around, interact with them, or do anything meaningful. They just sit there. I’m no design expert, but this “liquidness” pretends to have functionality while being nothing more than cosmetic fluff without purpose.
Btw, this is how images with fine textures (like screenshots) look in the #iOS26 Photos app right now…thanks to all those #LiquidGlass menu overlays cluttering the view.
What also seems to have changed in #iOS26: switching tabs in #Safari by swiping up from the address bar now often sends me straight to the Home Screen instead of the tab overview. Either I suddenly lost motor control, or #Apple quietly changed the gesture tolerance. This never happened in previous #iOS versions. #LiquidGlass #LiquidAss
Another example of #Apple’s sloppy #LiquidGlass design in #iOS26: in the screenshot editor, the UI clearly wasn’t tested in landscape mode. The top buttons now stick directly to the screen edge without any margin. Visually off, ergonomically worse. Seems Apple only checked the portrait layout. #LiquidAss 👎
Another thing that bothers me in #iOS26 #LiquidGlass: the new text-selection menu. It used to be a neat scrollable list. Now it only shows three options, hiding the rest behind an arrow. One more tap for every edit, and to top it off, it’s inconsistent across apps. #Apple 👏
During all this #LiquidGlass frenzy, #Apple somehow forgot to port the feature where tapping the top bar in #Safari’s in-app browser scrolls to the top. Progress! 🙃
Neil Brown
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Yesterday evening I unceremoniously and sadly deleted, one by one, every app every photo every video and every document - all data from icloud - using a lovely pink iPad Mini.
The day before was the same, for several iphones, then a purged Apple Watch too. The laptops were before, long ago. My favorite was the 1Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook - I'll always miss that perfection.
So, goodbye to modern Apple Inc. I loved your ways and means, your engineering prowess, industrial design, and the inspiration in every direction offered over so many decades.
I'm keeping the water-cooled Quad Core G5 PowerMac (PPC64 970MP A1177). You can attempt to pry it from my cold dead hands alongside a GP101... but please do not touch that one last, beautiful, and forever best example of IBM + Apple innovation - before Apple leadership sold out to Intel, pushed upon every emacs user the worthless Touchbar, and the scissor-chicklet keyboards with a lawsuit. But never forget Liquidass, crowning achievement and example of Apple's downfall.
How sad; sorry about your demise, Apple. I'll miss who you once were.
Yesterday evening I unceremoniously and sadly deleted, one by one, every app every photo every video and every document - all data from icloud - using a lovely pink iPad Mini.
The day before was the same, for several iphones, then a purged Apple Watch too. The laptops were before, long ago. My favorite was the 1Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook - I'll always miss that perfection.
So, goodbye to modern Apple Inc. I loved your ways and means, your engineering prowess, industrial design, and the inspiration in every direction offered over so many decades.
I'm keeping the water-cooled Quad Core G5 PowerMac (PPC64 970MP A1177). You can attempt to pry it from my cold dead hands alongside a GP101... but please do not touch that one last, beautiful, and forever best example of IBM + Apple innovation - before Apple leadership sold out to Intel, pushed upon every emacs user the worthless Touchbar, and the scissor-chicklet keyboards with a lawsuit. But never forget Liquidass, crowning achievement and example of Apple's downfall.
How sad; sorry about your demise, Apple. I'll miss who you once were.
I made the stupid choice of updating my iOS device to liquid glass : the design looks childish and straight out of the nineties. There is stuff flickering everywhere. Sometimes it makes things completely unreadable.
Are there no decent UI/UX designers left at Apple?
It‘s #iOS26 launch day. I have NOT updated my devices and I WILL NOT do so for there foreseeable future. Most likely I will completely skip this release because I cannot read text anymore.
Yet, Apple Maps has become completely unreadable even on iOS 18 because now Apple delivers #liquidAss visual style Maps tiles and labels. The result is literally a blind map.
I‘m still flabbergasted how this UI and UX disaster ever made it beyond the “internal experiment” stage.
What I will say is that I think the Apple commentary bubble is catastrophising a bit about liquid glass. I'm a UI designer myself, and I absolutely appreciate that there are usability and general taste concerns with this redesign, but I truly don't think it will be seen as a catastrophe in most people's eyes.
Cut to a couple weeks from now when #liquidass is trending on all the social networks, but color me skeptical at this point. There are always complaints with the new OS releases, so I expect something to get complaints, but some are expecting an apocalypse 😅
Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
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I collected some advice for designing and developing websites for Apple's new design language, Liquid Glass™:
I collected some advice for designing and developing websites for Apple's new design language, Liquid Glass™:
Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
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Who thought this is a good idea?! #ios26 #liquidass
Who thought this is a good idea?! #ios26 #liquidass