iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect (www.gsmarena.com)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 18:17
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SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 20:42 next collapse

As long as it’s an option that’s okay. We quite like the look of the original somewhat so as long as we can have that version and make adjustments as necessary then it’s okay.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 24 Jun 23:54 collapse

Options? Apple? Seems unlikely…

unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 Jun 16:40 collapse

I don’t get the downvotes, Apple is religious about avoiding configuration where not absolutely required.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 25 Jun 16:43 collapse

I joke. Apple has gotten a lot better about giving options in recent years.

TehPers@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 21:53 next collapse

If everything got updated like this, then that’s an awesome change. What made Aero so nice was that it didn’t interfere with legibility, while Glass threw legibility out the window. Striving for a proper foreground to background contrast ratio should be the bare minimim for a company like Apple, and this improves that significantly.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jun 13:36 collapse

What is ios 26? I thought we were on ios18??

notfromhere@lemmy.ml on 25 Jun 14:37 collapse

They should have just called it appleOS 26 since they are bumping all of it to 26 and unifying the look and feel between all of their OSs.

StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk on 25 Jun 15:33 collapse

And the explanation for 26 is that it’s the version for 2026. Seems like a good choice when settling on a common number for all the operating systems. Similar to MY26 in cars etc.

smeg@feddit.uk on 25 Jun 15:51 collapse

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 25 Jun 16:02 collapse

What do you mean?

smeg@feddit.uk on 25 Jun 16:15 collapse

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.

unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 Jun 16:39 next collapse

Apple bumps the version number for everything every year nowadays, so not a problem for them.

smeg@feddit.uk on 25 Jun 17:30 collapse

What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

tangentism@beehaw.org on 25 Jun 17:38 collapse

At the mo, it would be something like macOS 15.5.1, iOS 18.2.2, etc

It will just move to year. major point update. minor point update so for example: 26.5.2

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 25 Jun 18:22 collapse

Ah, I get you.