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Apple iOS 26 Released

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I updated my iphone and I really regret it. I really dislike the new effects. The new overlays are very hard to read, my iphone 13 mini feels slower than before. Also I find the UI in a bunch of places very annoying. Like for example now I have to tap twice in the url bar in safari to enter an url. Once to make the bubble bigger then to be able to input...

I hope I can downgrade...

Oh wow, that sounds awful. Do you think the performance hit is due to the temporary indexing and downloading that happens in the background? [1]

I also have a 13 and definitely don't want it to get slower. This could happen just as a result of less storage space, which eventually impacts performance.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255780

Agreed. There are so many "what were they thinking" aspects of the new UX that I have to wonder whether the designers at Apple even use their products.

Everything is less legible. A lot of the new UI requires additional taps/button presses because they want to hide everything to make it look pretty. I had to change the default layout in Safari so I could avoid extra taps to view my tabs, etc. I still don't understand the point of the new Phone app UI and am grateful I can choose not to use it. Even something as simple as as the Now Playing screen in CarPlay seems to be oddly aligned in my car with uneven spacing between the album art and controls, suggesting that they aren't even paying attention to simple details. Sigh.

Same. I often need to use private windows (calm down, I need to sign in to multiple accounts for work on an app that doesn’t support them) and I immediately hate this experience.

It was kind of bad before where safari would just open the new tab in whatever mode you were in last, but you could see and switch if you wanted to. Now they’ve removed that info and are doing the same thing so I never know what mode I’m in until I come up and down through the menus.

I can’t understand how no-one vetoed these changes.

Also TvOS 26 has noticeably impacted my TV 4k and it lags just when browsing the menus (which it never did before).

I'm so insanely disappointed that they removed 'slide over' in iOS 26 for iPad. It makes it so much harder to properly 'multitask' with 2 apps side-by-side on the 11" version. I've been using it for the past ~2 hours and it's just a frustrating experience.

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