Agreed. It just looks so busy with all of the background details.
I guess that’s the flaw with this design language. It looks kinda cool, but the effect is not very pronounced unless there are clear background details for it to do its whole refraction thing over. But then when there’s too much background detail, it makes the actual foreground interface harder to read.
I don’t hate it per se, but I think it’s just an unnecessary step backwards from the design languages popular today. But what I know I’m really going to hate is that now everyone is going to be trying to copy Apple’s design language, and we are teetering back towards the bubbly, glossy, skeuomorphic design of Frutiger Aero from the mid 00’s.
As some one who dœsn’t particularly care for frutiger æro , I at least hope peops do some thing (new|original) with this glass effect
Wonder what it’d lꝏk like if they still mimicked how glass worked in real life but used some thing like frosted glass for it for elements where readability’s important . Can maybe see tiny bits of refraction here :
That looks closer to where things are today, with a lot of mainstream UIs that aren’t quite superflat going for that frosted, acrylic sort of aesthetic. Translucent but not transparent.
Oh man that looks bad. Hopefully that’s like something going wrong in the beta version because I can’t see them shipping something that looks like that
Protip: if you requested the 26 beta and are regretting that rash decision… Reboot, then hop back into update settings and change it back to off. Thankfully, it resets and now you can wait out the far more sensible 0.2 beta, where they’ve ironed out the crazy kinks.
I haven’t reverted, but for every other version of iOS I’ve ever used, reverting requires a full wipe and then a restore from an old backup that was made with the old OS.
Are you saying that you reverted from 26 and downloaded and installed iOS 18 from the cloud?
Edit: everything I’m seeing in the developer forums is telling me nothing has changed. Reverting is not as simple as changing that toggle. Once you change that toggle, you will be locked into db1 until a new public release drops… unless you wipe and install the 18.5 ipsw
Once you toggle and request an update to 26, it takes a while for it to download and do the actual install. During that period, you can stop the install with no damage using what I described. I did that on an iPhone.
I went ahead and did the update to 26 on an iPad and about half my daily driver apps are borked, especially when it comes to resizable windows under multitasking.
Gotcha. Yeah, if you stop the request while you’re downloading or preparing the install package, you can cancel and stick with current OS.
But once you hit install and your screen goes to the white Apple logo, you’re kind of in it. If you want to revert, you need to wipe and restore from an iOS 18 install package on your computer.
Running iOS developer beta here. No mi gusta.
LFMAO blur radius needs to be lots higher
Agreed. It just looks so busy with all of the background details.
I guess that’s the flaw with this design language. It looks kinda cool, but the effect is not very pronounced unless there are clear background details for it to do its whole refraction thing over. But then when there’s too much background detail, it makes the actual foreground interface harder to read.
I don’t hate it per se, but I think it’s just an unnecessary step backwards from the design languages popular today. But what I know I’m really going to hate is that now everyone is going to be trying to copy Apple’s design language, and we are teetering back towards the bubbly, glossy, skeuomorphic design of Frutiger Aero from the mid 00’s.
As some one who dœsn’t particularly care for frutiger æro , I at least hope peops do some thing (new|original) with this glass effect
Wonder what it’d lꝏk like if they still mimicked how glass worked in real life but used some thing like frosted glass for it for elements where readability’s important . Can maybe see tiny bits of refraction here :
WIN10 ACRYLIC MENTIONED
…used before they frankensteined in the fluent around win11’s rollout 😔
That looks closer to where things are today, with a lot of mainstream UIs that aren’t quite superflat going for that frosted, acrylic sort of aesthetic. Translucent but not transparent.
Examples from Windows 11 and iOS 18:
See also some of the transparency and active transparency in KDE 5 (and friends): https://discuss.kde.org/t/krusader-and-kvantum-transparency/17533
This makes me nauseous
Oh man that looks bad. Hopefully that’s like something going wrong in the beta version because I can’t see them shipping something that looks like that
The UI elements are totally working as designed, but they’re 100% going to need to change the blur and opacity. This is embarrassing.
It’s not embarrassing, it’s a beta. This will 100% get better over the months. It always does.
sorry buddy but it’s “me” not “mi”…
Protip: if you requested the 26 beta and are regretting that rash decision… Reboot, then hop back into update settings and change it back to off. Thankfully, it resets and now you can wait out the far more sensible 0.2 beta, where they’ve ironed out the crazy kinks.
I haven’t reverted, but for every other version of iOS I’ve ever used, reverting requires a full wipe and then a restore from an old backup that was made with the old OS.
Are you saying that you reverted from 26 and downloaded and installed iOS 18 from the cloud?
Edit: everything I’m seeing in the developer forums is telling me nothing has changed. Reverting is not as simple as changing that toggle. Once you change that toggle, you will be locked into db1 until a new public release drops… unless you wipe and install the 18.5 ipsw
Once you toggle and request an update to 26, it takes a while for it to download and do the actual install. During that period, you can stop the install with no damage using what I described. I did that on an iPhone.
I went ahead and did the update to 26 on an iPad and about half my daily driver apps are borked, especially when it comes to resizable windows under multitasking.
Once installed, the only way back is to to hard reset and restore from iCloud backups. Big pain. Here’s a guide on how to revert: https://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-downgrade-ios-26-beta-1-to-ios-18.5-guide/amp/
Gotcha. Yeah, if you stop the request while you’re downloading or preparing the install package, you can cancel and stick with current OS.
But once you hit install and your screen goes to the white Apple logo, you’re kind of in it. If you want to revert, you need to wipe and restore from an iOS 18 install package on your computer.