[braebo]

I like the new iOS design, despite having low expectations after seeing nothing but hate online leading up to the release.

It’s non intrusive and neat to look at. There are some decisions that are annoying, like a hidden button that takes an extra click now, but it’s also something I spend such a small amount of time interacting with that spending any time fretting over it seems like a wasteful overreaction.

That said, I empathize with your frustration, and I have plenty of things that trigger me into passionate “overreaction”, so I totally get it… and things like “more battery consumption” are objectively bad.

Hopefully my experience will be similar with macOS once I try it out though.

[citrin_ru]

Aesthetics may be subjective (liquid glass looks bad to me but I don't like flat design either) but what objective is that new design leaves much less space than old one. Here is HN site on IOS 18 and IOS 26 (both iPhone SE): https://www.citrin.ru/tmp/403/safari-ios18-26-side-by-side.p...

Also in IOS 26 fonts are bigger for some reason (Large Text is Off on both), it can be reduced (using Large Text slider) but interval between lines and UI block is still bigger than in 18.

Settings waste even more space because of less dense design, and the same spacing problem is in most (all) applications.