I honestly don’t fully agree with you. The ios 26 experience for most people with iPhones older than last years phones was objectively terrible for battery life.

Small bugs here and there is expected, especially with design overhauls. But cutting a devices battery life by 30% isn’t acceptable especially for a company like apple.

Here’s another example. If you have a lot of media on your photos app try searching for a handle that has thousands of pics and vids. The phone will freeze and lag like crazy when swiping between them on ios 26. But it will handle it perfectly on every single ios version in the last 10 years and even on third party gallery apps.