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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works

Anyone trying out the iOS and/or iPadOS 26 betas? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works

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i’ve never made a Mega thread before, and I have no idea how to do it, but would anyone be interested in chatting and/or bitching about our experiences with this liquid glass nonsense?

first thing I’ll pointed out that you may notice is that it has a nasty habit of not capitalizing the first letter in the first sentence that I type in a text input box. to clarify, it will type it, but then when I submit it changes it to a lowercase. I can’t honestly fathom this one and I don’treally want to think too deeply about it.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I’m honestly so far not seeing anything particularly liquidy or glassy. Everything now has white outlines, like it’s for the visually impaired. That part I think I’m actually cool with, because of course it’s easier to make things out. Unfortunately, they have added required clicks into things that used to need fewer clicks, like screen grabs, and I am not seeing the benefit to that, and it’s definitely aggravating.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I tried it on iPhone and iPad (developer beta 4)

Honestly, the only feature worth the upgrade for me was ability to force add any website as a PWA. Other decent features were pinning folder to dock and using a custom wallpaper for chats.

The downsides were massive for me-

iPad is basically not a multitasking device anymore. It hangs or lags with screen manager and the new mode. And there is no option to move back to the old mode.
The performance overall was sluggish which might be fixed in future betas.
New UI visuals are flashy and okay but definitely not anything that warrants an update.
The preview app is pointless. The files app already did everything that the app did, without the added load.

This would be the first major update that I will be skipping. I will keep my devices on iOS 18 till they die. I have never had to do this before.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, keep the damn slide-over/side-by-side. There are people who want windows. It terribly interested, personally.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Huh, while I’ve had plenty of problems, I haven’t had those problems. What models are your devices.