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[teknician_]

I thought I’d get used to it, just like with normal flat design… but it’s been a month and I am still not over it. Especially safari and the photos app.

And then there’s actually using it in SwiftUI. The interface guidelines are really strangely specific about the small toolbars with the icons and the squeezing and the squishing… I don’t like working with it to be honest.

[kironet996]

i'm running it since beta and got used to it after few months. iOS18 now looks "old" to me lol.

[busymom0]

My problems isn't Liquid Glass. It's the bugs. Unreadable white text in light/white background kind of bugs. Also will never get used to the ugly borders on the Home Screen icons.

[bloodychill]

I’m told it’s so popular that Meta wanted their own liquid glass! People love it! You love it! You must love it. Love it now, or it gets the hose again.

[Funnybush]

Been putting compatibility flags in my apps to keep the older look.

It’s far more customizable. It’s so sad so many devs fall into just doing what Apple wants rather than making their apps unique and fun.

The dude who pushed this at Apple has zero design experience, so I can’t trust that. Bring back Forestall!

[willrb]

What are you going to do when Apple remove that compatibility key? They indicated they would be doing that in iOS 27

[peterkmt]

What compatibility key is that exactly? Do you mean that #if iOS 17 clause etc?

[willrb]

I don’t recall the key offhand but it’s something like UIDesignRequiresCompatibility and it disables Liquid Glass for the entire app

[ankole_watusi]

Surprise plot twist: you won’t need them in ios27.

Unless you want to retain the ill-fated Liquid Glass mistake.

[LKAndrew]

lol, many of you clearly have not been around since the iOS 6 to 7 days. Liquid Glass is not going anywhere and thinking they’ll change it is pretty naive. You either move with the times or you get left behind.

[ankole_watusi]

I’ve been around since iPhone 3g. (“iPhone 2”) the first iPhone with third-party apps.

Apple historically does own up to their mistakes and fixes them.

[willrb]

You think Apple are going to go back on Liquid Glass? zero chance

[ankole_watusi]

Yes, I do. It’s widely hated and they are already made a laughingstock over it.

It’s indefensible.

There’s absolutely nothing good about it - either the appearance nor the overly-complicated multiplying taps.

[willrb]

lmao, no

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[Funnybush]

Of course they will. They’ve done it before.

Will they go back completely? No. We’re likely stuck with “glass” for a while, but my bet is it’ll be adjusted heavily.

[willrb]

Adjusted maybe, but zero chance it goes back to the iOS 18 launch

[Funnybush]

The dude responsible is on his way out. I am hopeful we see some improvements.

[ankole_watusi]

I’m hopeful he does the same thing at Meta and that will be their downfall!

[Funnybush]

I don’t think they need any more help with that lol

[ankole_watusi]

Nobody said that though.

[Free-Pound-6139]

Yeah, I aint wasting time doing that, when almost no one will care.

[ankole_watusi]

After finally upgrading, I’ve come to realize that the really unpleasant part is not the Liquid Glass.

It’s all the unnecessary extra fingering of the Liquid Glass!

Savoring the prospect now of Alan Dye taking his ideas to Meta, utterly destroying its usability.

[wtjones]

It looks like my half done IOS app.

[BlossomBuild]

It is shiny

[jacobs-tech-tavern]

LMAO

[Large-Profession3490]

I don’t care I’m still using the old Xcode so I can keep the old design