[shantara]

Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability.

[argsnd]

If you set Liquid Glass to the more opaque mode in settings I find iOS usability to be fine now, and some non-flashy changes such as moving search bars to the bottom are good UX improvements.

The real stinker with Liquid Glass has been macOS. You get a half-baked version of the design that barely even looks good and hurts usability.

[microtonal]

Still takes multiple taps to find something on a page in Safari.

[JensenTorp]

iOS 26 is a disaster on devices with 4GB RAM though, so I'm not upgrading my iPhone 13 Mini again (that was a traumatic few days).

[Someone1234]

Apple released iOS 18.7.5:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

[supernes]

18.7.3 and newer are not published for most devices that support them in order to coerce people to move to 26.x

[shantara]

Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation

[burnt-resistor]

It's a rug-pull going against the tradition of supporting the most recent 2 OS versions until the autumn refresh simply to technofascistly force users onto 26 with an artificially-created Hobson's false choice between security and usability. This is bullshit.

[MYEUHD]

No.

They have been doing this every year for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...

It's being noticed just now because iOS 26 has controversial UI/UX and many users don't want to update.

[halJordan]

I'll never understand how people actually believe that their refusal to adapt, and refusal opening them up to harm, is ever not their own fault

You're choosing to not have the update. And that's fine- own it.