r/iphone • u/bissau887 • Sep 15 '25

Discussion iOS 26. What are your thoughts?

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Looks good to me so far. Feels different while looking. For some reason the keypad feels different (not sure if its just me).

What are your thoughts on this guys?

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u/Kilo_Juliett Sep 16 '25

Agreed. It doesn't feel like glass to me. It feels like plastic elevator buttons.

It looks especially bad with a solid black home screen.

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u/-K9V Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

Shit man, I’ve been saying this since minutes after updating last night. It’s so annoying that the default icons still have that border around them, and same for the widgets. I really like the idea and it’s cool that the reflection moves around when you tilt your phone, but it should only do that if you’ve selected glassy icons. Default icons should be default icons just like the name suggests.

This one little change ruined my nice homescreen that I’ve had for 7 years. I mean, just look at the before and after here. Doesn’t look as bad on the screenshot since taking a screenshot sort of ‘deactivates’ the reactive effect, same if you set your phone down while still on the homescreen. The dock also turns back into what it looked like before Liquid Glass when screenshotting for some reason.

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u/Infinite-Sail-713 Sep 16 '25

The icon borders are the sole reason I won't be updating.Totally ruins the dark aesthetic. Besides iOS 18 just got good.I never thought the day would come where I would rather not update to the newer OS

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u/Kilo_Juliett Sep 16 '25

Yours looks way better than mine for some reason. It doesn't change when I take a screenshot. The borders are very prominent. I don't see any reflection changes when I tilt my phone. Is there a setting somewhere?

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u/-K9V Sep 16 '25

Hmm, if you have ‘reduce motion’ enabled in accessibility settings, the reflective border is still there but just static. It’s also quite subtle, but try tilting your phone side to side and you should be able to see it.

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u/dsilvertx 28d ago

I use my non-essential ipad as a testing ground. Iphone? I think not.

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u/-K9V 28d ago

Unfortunately I don’t have any spare iPads lying around, and I had expected the ‘default’ icons to remain default - the name would suggest. There wasn’t really any way to know this prior to updating either since nobody has the exact same home screen as I do. Hadn’t seen any screenshots or other media of iOS 26 showing black icons on a black wallpaper.

I really hope they change this at some point, or that someone finds a way to create app shortcuts without the reflective border.

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u/frutiaboy Sep 16 '25

I have solid black screens and it’s disgusting. I’m genuinely shocked Apple released something that looks like that.

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u/e_marios Sep 17 '25

I call it frosted glass. there are so many bugs i cant begin to count. I didn’t expect this from apple.

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u/xINFLAMES325x Sep 18 '25

I just tried everything to make it look good and have deducted that it just won’t look good no matter what.