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The search bar which should be at the bottom after having searched is floating in the middle of the screen then goes back down lmfao! Middle of the screen!

The tagline Apple used for iOS was the worlds most advanced mobile OS. Then they stopped. Good thing they did, because look at the mess known as iOS 26. Keyboard won’t show up in Messages, force quitted app restarted multiple times. Only thing that works is a restart of the phone. Steve Jobs would roll in his grave if you had to restart an Apple product for it to work properly

Despite my complaints about how buggy iOS 26 is, I do love the **look** of Liquid Glass, no matter how buggy its **implementation** is. And iOS is still by far the best when it comes to trying to protect your privacy (not perfect).

A couple iOS generations ago we got “Limited Access” to photos which is great. So many apps used to get unrestricted access to full libraries, and now, you may wonder how Google Gemini is the best at image generation (cough cough they used to give away free unlimited photo backups for a reason).

However, many apps still try to force you to give full access and try to deceive you with their own pop up’s in app.

Moreover, many apps don’t even support the “Private Access” feature, which let you not have to select photos that appear to the app like “limited access” does, instead it privately shows you the photos on device using Apple’s photo picker then you can upload only the selected photos to the app.

I think Private Access support should be **mandatory** given it’s been out for so long now. Apple imposes many guidelines on the App Store as rules for user privacy and safety, and in 2026 there should be no reason this can’t be one of them given how easy Apple’s API is. For example, Apple has imposed similar restrictions for Bluetooth access support in the past, as well as Sign in with Apple support. Huge kudos to Claude in the screenshot for being the only app to support it.

Are these two suppose to be different colors? If so it is outrageous. I can barely tell the difference in color between the two, let alone which legend applies to which graph and vice versa. I have a masters degree which is irrelevant but usually I’m great with reading graphs, but I have never seen such blatant disregard for design from Apple in my life.

7 variations of search bars, some thinner than others, some with a different sized X than others, and most crucially, some positioned at the top of the phone and some right above the keyboard.

Apple fanboys like myself had a long running joke about the Windows 10/11 right click context menus being a surprise every time you right clicked because of how inconsistent they were. Here I am today, because iOS 26 has turned into a hot mess, arguably as bad as Windows design. 4 trillion dollar company.

You can’t block a contact if you search for them, but in the same app you can block them on the other tabs if you manually scroll through a list of your contacts (for privacy I only added two, but if you have thousands of contacts and need to block a contact, maybe they’re incessantly nagging you). It’s the same page there should be no LACKING of buttons. When you search someone on instagram you can block them, just as if you go to their profiles for example.

Love or hate Liquid Glass - that’s subjective.
The implementation behind Liquid Glass (NOT LIQUID GLASS ITSELF) is so un-Apple like, and basically all recent Apple software updates are so Un-Apple like, riddled with bugs and UI glitches prominent corner to corner, that someone must be fired. Forstall was let go for the disaster of Maps (I’m sure other reasons) but look at Apple Maps now, arguably the best. Something MUST CHANGE!