I'm not an Apple user, but I am genuinely curious.

@nuintari I was pretty hyped about it at the start on iOS, just because it felt fresh. They ironed out a lot of problems, but it does sadly have some issues that I can’t deny.

On macOS I refused to update for a long time, yet I recently did and it‘s fine.

@nuintari Feels like a gimmick. Doesn't have any impact on usability that I can tell, thus it boils down to preference... I could think of so many practical things they should have focused on instead

@nuintari I marked "tolerating," but to be fair I'm getting paid: my work laptop is a MacBook. Without that, it'd probably be a "refuse."

@nuintari Hate it. But even more than the playschool bright color palette the thing and annoying white outlines, is that the damned watch now assigns grades for sleep like I'm supposed to be some kind of child that needs to be coerced into naptimes. Today I bought an analog watch. Soon phone, soon....

@nuintari I bloody hate iOS 26 for all it brought. Most I consider to be a regression as a UX.

@nuintari "i dont care" / "you get used to it" / its not worse than a lot of other designs they made

@bojanlandekic My thought on mobiles games is more that because the devices aren't tethered to a specific location, and have even greater mobility than a laptop, their existed a chance to create some truly unique games,

What we got in that regard is Ingress, which is just boring. And Pokemon Go, which is a truly dull game that people only play because it has the branding behind it.

As for finding useful apps, I have turned to alternatives such as Accrescent and F-Droid. Because you are right, the official stores have 800 music players, and each one of them sucks and is full of ads.

@cy From the screenshots I have seen, it does not appear to be friendly to those of us with very poor eyesight. But I'll never purchase an iPhone, so my opinion really doesn't matter.

But it makes me a bit sad that the company that talks about usability so much, appears to have abandoned accessibility in the name of, "oooh! pretty!"

@Bumblefish Grades for sleep?

Smartwatches used to be cool. I used to use the hell out of my Samsung back in the mid 2010s. My wife got me a Pixel a few years ago to replace it, and..... it is garbage. I wear it for the step counter at this point, and I am constantly telling it to stop asking me to activate a Fitbit account.

I cannot wait until the day I no longer need a smart phone for work.

I am seriously looking into The Minimal Phone.

@nuintari https://www.change.org/p/allow-ios-users-to-disable-liquid-glass-effect

@alexanderdyas I literally have no stake in this issue. I've just heard so much bitching about LG, I thought I'd ask. I've never owned an Apple product, I'm not about to start now.

@nuintari I hate it. How can I get rid of it?

@karhutar No idea, not my ecosystem.

@nuintari I have an iPad still on iPadOS 18 until I'm forced to upgrade it because I don't like what I've been reading of iPadOS 26

@nuintari As a person with reasonably normal vision, etc…

All I can say is: I don’t love my phone or its interface enough to get too worked up about it either way. Took a day or two to adjust and then faded into the background.

@nuintari I need to tolerate it, as the only alternative to Mac in my company is Windows and god forbid I use a copilot OS.

@paride5745 Wait, does LG exist on MacOS as well? I don't stay on top of Apple products, I thought it was just an iOS thing.

Frack, I'm about to get issued a company issued machine, and my choices will probably be Windows 11 or MacOS. I don't like either, but I'm even less thrilled about MacOS if it is just going to be hell on my eyes.

@nuintari Indeed, now is not a good time to get interested.

@nuintari yep, since the last major version. Weirdly, I’m mostly ok with it on iOS, but on Mac is an eyesore.

@nuintari I installed iOS 26 on my iPad to test it out and threw it in the closest within hours. Since I can't downgrade it's now useless to me. Now you can't pay me to upgrade my iPhone to 26.