I'm not against it per se but it looks like somebody applied anti-anti aliasing to the time that displays on the lock screen to my phone. I don't see "this is a cutting edge user interface that's visually consistent", it looks like the settings icon is weirdly dark grey, kinda like somebody did some subtle vandalism to whatever strokes the edges of things.
definitely not visually consistent - although I have to give credit to Apple for the scale of ambition to roll it out across all of their operating systems at once (macOS, iOS, iPadOS etc.)
Underlying that they have one hardware platform from iPhone to iPad to Mac now so at the framework level they're in the right place to do that.
It makes it more glaring though that the iPad Pro really ought to be able do everything a Mac can, whereas Microsoft was there with Windows 8.
One of the most progressive features of iOS 26 is multi-window mode for the iPad but my first experience of it was playing Arknights where the main game mechanic is you drag one of your "operators" from the bottom edge of your playfield and instead of getting the desired effect the whole window broke loose. That game went from flawlessly smooth to a little janky.
The main issue imo is it used to be "fuck you, our way is better" and that would usually end up being true or they could at least explain, but liquid glass seems only superficial at best and actively detrimental at worst with the added taps for actions that were previously 1 button. The worst offender I've seen so far is in the Phone app: go to the new Calls tab, tap on a recent caller, and tapping the Edit button in the corner expands into a single Edit Contact Info button. It's not even consistent within the same application because the Edit button on the Contacts tab goes straight into the edit contact mode.
Hopefully all of us complainers are wrong and this ends up being a smart strategic move by Apple but so far nothing is easier and many things are worse.
I'm not against it per se but it looks like somebody applied anti-anti aliasing to the time that displays on the lock screen to my phone. I don't see "this is a cutting edge user interface that's visually consistent", it looks like the settings icon is weirdly dark grey, kinda like somebody did some subtle vandalism to whatever strokes the edges of things.
definitely not visually consistent - although I have to give credit to Apple for the scale of ambition to roll it out across all of their operating systems at once (macOS, iOS, iPadOS etc.)
Underlying that they have one hardware platform from iPhone to iPad to Mac now so at the framework level they're in the right place to do that.
It makes it more glaring though that the iPad Pro really ought to be able do everything a Mac can, whereas Microsoft was there with Windows 8.
One of the most progressive features of iOS 26 is multi-window mode for the iPad but my first experience of it was playing Arknights where the main game mechanic is you drag one of your "operators" from the bottom edge of your playfield and instead of getting the desired effect the whole window broke loose. That game went from flawlessly smooth to a little janky.
It's definitely a very apple move to go "fuck you, this is what we've decided you want"
The main issue imo is it used to be "fuck you, our way is better" and that would usually end up being true or they could at least explain, but liquid glass seems only superficial at best and actively detrimental at worst with the added taps for actions that were previously 1 button. The worst offender I've seen so far is in the Phone app: go to the new Calls tab, tap on a recent caller, and tapping the Edit button in the corner expands into a single Edit Contact Info button. It's not even consistent within the same application because the Edit button on the Contacts tab goes straight into the edit contact mode.
Hopefully all of us complainers are wrong and this ends up being a smart strategic move by Apple but so far nothing is easier and many things are worse.