[metmac]

Liquid Glass is now mandatory if you care about security. Sigh.

I wanted to like it too, but some of the new UI modals of iOS 26 are just awful.

[dchest]

It's not, iOS 18.7.3 also released https://support.apple.com/en-us/125885

[bflesch]

It is not available. The release is 2 days old and the download is not showing up on the phone.

[chuckadams]

Some parts have improved: It's nice that alarms are now slide to cancel. Safari's UI however is now 98% mystery meat.

[konart]

At least they added an option to make it less glassy.

[Etheryte]

I wish they fixed the keyboard focus and UI shifts around that. It's one of the most buggy things I've ever seen, oftentimes I can't even see what I'm typing because everything is offset in weird and incorrect ways.

[the_other]

The pre 26.2 less-glassy options were bearable because they were mostly like pre-Tahoe. The post 26.2 less-glassy options are now so shit that I’m using glassy mode, despite it being also ugly, distracting and harder to read than ever before. Apple have absolutely trashed their OS and their “Apple make good UIs” pedigree. It’s such a disappoibtment. I hope they come to their senses in the next major release round.

[firefax]

>Liquid Glass is now mandatory if you care about security. Sigh.

Long live frutiger aero

[1over137]

Not sure why you are so downvoted, because indeed Apple only does full security updates for the very newest (now 26): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu...

[doodlebugging]

Thanks for that link. Before reading I was in the process of migrating all my stuff from a Windows7 machine, deduping archives and identifying software that I may still need to run in a VM somewhere or on a tablet. I had considered flipping to Apple devices since I have an iPhone but have never pulled the trigger on any of that. I was considering iMacs instead of a Linux box for a more seamless interface with the phone.

After reading that article where it is apparent that Apple has intentionally used terms that sound similar to obscure what the customer is actually gaining when they upgrade versus update and they intentionally omit the part about older devices not getting all the security updates that are pushed in the updates. I now have some clarity.

I can focus on moving to Linux and in time will be ditching the iPhone. Should've done this years ago.

[schmuckonwheels]

Because it's factually incorrect.

Ars Technica, a clickbait aggregator whom should have been banned from this site long ago, is hardly a reliable source.