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It is great on paper for iPad Pros with larger screens, but absolutely horrible on both iPhone and iPad Minis. I had bought a new Mini during the Holidays and sourly returned it because it made it basically unusable. It was designed for the Vision Pro, which had "near-infinite" screen space, and for which made sense.
Following extensive use, I now personally hate the new Liquid Glass UI. I was hoping for the best, like an updated version of Aqua. But no, they actually made a worse Vista/Windows 8 UI instead.
Trying to unify the entire lineup with the same damn interface by not only throwing away the Human Interface Guidelines book, which was a masterpiece and a worldwide reference for the entire industry, and without truly taking into account of screen size was simply preposterous.
I have been an Apple fan since the 90’s, and for the first time in my life, I [still] regret upgrading both devices to OS 26. I truly hope they really fix everything in the next major release.
I‘m already exploring Linux. Both GNOME and KDE actually have sensible UI design and consistency in their own way.
I‘m starting to lose hope that this will become better. They have been stuffing macOS and iOS with endless features and their UI design is optimized for nice looking screenshots, not actual use.
The worst is everybody else is still copying Apple‘s UI design trends.
Photos.app has never reached the usability of iPhoto, that it replaced. System Settings is a convoluted pile of over engineering.
The hoops you to jumpt through to run software I download from a website have reached infuriating levels.
Yeah, those are my biggest fears as well…