Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.
#apple #ios26 #liquidAss #design #decoration #BigTech #fascism #aesthetics
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LAUREN
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •sortius
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •about 15 years ago I started buying the cheapest new phones with the best battery life, and bought myself a DSLR. I run my phones into the ground, my DSLR is still taking awesome photos.
I've never looked back
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Apple cares so much about accessibility that they are now baking accessibility needs into their interfaces just so you can experience their accessibility features.
If you’ve been tricked into updating to iOS 26 also (because, really, what numbskull in their right mind would subject themselves willingly to that Shakespearian clusterfuck?), the reduce transparency and reduce motion accessibility settings are your friend.
Sure, your phone will look and feel worse than before but that’s a small price to pay for progess, amirite? Now stop your bitching before Apple sets ICE on you or something.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.
Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.
*smdh*
#ios26 #accessibility #design #decoration
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Paco Velobs
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •It's now "even what Apple used to do right, is no more".
ChasMusic (he/him)
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Actually, for better or for worse, menu animations are a separate setting: Prefer cross-fade transitions. Right below the Reduce Motion setting.
And that said, while looking that up, I just got zapped by something else that ignores Reduce Motion and I don't even know how I did it so that I can report it.
#ios26
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Nah, fuck it, turned everything back on again. Why should I fix your damn broken interface and fool myself into thinking this piece of shit is anything but? Going to experience iOS 26 in all its enshittified glory. Will make it easier to hate this phone and move onto something more ethical once it finally croaks.
Apple is likely one release cycle away from going full Microsoft/Google anyway.
#ios26 #BigTech #apple #theAestheticsOfBurgeoningFascism
Reddog
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I have a mid 2012Macbook pro, running OS Catalina.... 2 x 1Tb SSDs, 16Gb ram....probably the last decent OS IMO.
Use mostly 3rd party apps for better functionality...
My partner has 2 ( 1 work, 1 personal ) M2 MB pros, latest OS.. Can't bide them
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw • • •schrotthaufen
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to schrotthaufen • • •schrotthaufen
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •macOS 27 Liquid Glass updates leaked.
#apple #LiquidGlass
Solène de Montmarin
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Nicovel0 🍉
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This one weird trick will make you love Liquid Glass.
#apple #LiquidGlass
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 • • •Yann 不停 Heurtaux🔻
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This is me, unable to send the previous post on @MonaApp on iOS 26 because the keyboard is covering the send button.
(The workaround, as I’ll soon be employing for this post also, is to go to close the post, tap outside it to close the pop-up confirmation dialogue, and then use the send button, which becomes accessible again.)
🤦♂️
#ios26 #LiquidAss
Metin Seven 🎨
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Metin Seven 🎨 • • •eruwero
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Mona app
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Quinn Comendant
in reply to Mona app • • •@MonaApp I’ve also had trouble accessing the send button.
The quick fix for me was to go into the post settings and enable `Show “Send” button on top bar`.
caitp
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •fmarl
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to fmarl • • •Tormod
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Shades of Kai’s Power Tools!
As I loved Kai’s wacko interfaces back in the mid nineties, I actually don’t mind Liquid Glass at all. These devices have more compute power than I need anyway 😄
Erik Ableson
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Datarainbow Privacy Assistant✅
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