Why Apple’s re -design falls flat

Forget the summer already; It’s the software season, and it is raining positive son. Between Android 16 and New iOS 26, I have been deeply in the mobile OSS and, okay … I have notes.

If you are a regular reader, you will know that I am not a huge fan of Google’s new content 3. I do not hate it, but definitely doesn’t love anything that reaches the right angle of anything. But compared to the food that Apple is making in iOS 26, the content 3 looks like Adam’s modern era.

Like Android’s latest design, iOS 26 and its new “liquid glass” UI is made to become more reaction and responsible for user’s aesthetic preference. It is also designed to unite the look in Apple’s product portfolio. However, it is better than the mark.

I am sure you have already seen many of his photos online, and it’s just as positive as everyone says. Excessive use of transparency and anxiety makes any overlay menu a dirt that causes headaches and, from a point of view, is a catastrophe.

The material may look flat compared to 3 expressions, but its sensible, arranging colors palette avoid this type of clashes and eyes. Reading and navigating is easy, and this is done with simple customization splash.

An UI needs to do first and most importantly, a tutorial Apple has apparently forgotten with liquid glasses. Apple needs to dial serious transparency before the ship. In addition, my iPhone 15 Pro has been incredibly warm and reduces battery life since updating iOS 26. It will be soon to tell if this graphics have been blamed for a huge impact, but one of the reasons is that Windows has drawn the aero glass theme of Vista.

Apple also introduced the icon in the themes with iOS18 and has a new oblique option to actively cement glass design. However, the lack of any color immediately loses the identity, making it difficult to visit the entire UI. Although Google’s colorful icon efforts are not very good, at least they are easily distinguished from the background. Regardless of your color palette, Android UI also provides a lot of smart customs therming, which is easy to see in a glance at the settings and options. Apple still doesn’t do so, and its latest glass icons are very difficult to sprinkle. It’s a bad design – simple and easy.

To be fair, the effect of the glass is not terrifying when the apps are folded with the most solid background colors. Nevertheless, it is not difficult to conclude that Apple is not interested in improving functionality. The camera app is a good example. The maze of large cartooning bubbles and hidden layers has replaced the sleek, easily accessible, camera -affected sequence.

Keeping the objectionable aesthetic selection for a minute for a minute, iOS 26 monkey content 3 express its custom “control center”, alias Android’s quick settings menu. Now you can reset the icons and change their size, which makes you fit on the screen at least according to your needs.

In some ways, iOS 26 allows even more customized with the ability to expand the toggle vertically and horizontally. For example, the media center can be made tall or small depends on how much information you want to disclose, and even move around, which you can’t do on Android. However, some toggles cannot be changed in each direction, so once again, it may look wrong.

However, Apple’s UI implementation is the real problem for me. Android separates the size of a long press on the toggle to change and replace the size. The iOS tries to do both simultaneously, meaning that it is very easy to drag the size instead of changing the size, which causes the layout chaos like Microsoft Word Style. I found it painful to use it.

Similarly, Android has addressed an important useless Big Beer. WiFi and Bluetooth toggle now open a small window directly to create the desired settings. The iOS 26 is stuck somewhere, which can allow you to togel the Wi-Fi quickly but not Bluetooth, which requires you to jump into several menuses to find a pairing page. Different results depending on the duration or location of the press only increase madness.

After spending a significant time turning through the latest version of Android and iOS, I have come away with a significant difference in my mind.

Although not perfect, the material 3 H3 expression is primarily focused on making Android more user -friendly. It’s more customized, the information has been tweeted to present more clearly, and it includes new additions such as direct updates. This is the improvement in the quality of life for an OS we already like. An upgrade instead of re -design.

IOS 26, in comparison, is practically about the hearing. The cherry puck liquid glass on the right background and it looks great, but the update is very fine with my long -running bug beers while visiting the OS. The customization is modestly better, but still the skin is deep and often breaks its aesthetic rules. The menu is a diligent and forward -arm boat that is now worst in places, and is a hindrance rather than helping to read glass design. This is a lick of paint at a cracking foundation.

The blasphemous Apple contained in me can be accused of trying to divert attention from Apple Intelligence’s real ideas and the extraordinary state of Apple Intelligence with a shiny new interface. However, these are the top two improvements in the IOS 26 Press Kit. However, its implementation is so bad that I am now really worried about the direction of the platform travel. Seriously, who gave this son quality control?

On the eve of the start of the IOS7 in 2013, the former Apple Design Chief, to refer to Jonny Ivy: “I think simplicity is a deep and sustainable beauty. In explanation, performance. Real simplicity is more than just disorder and absence of ornaments. This is about complexity.”

I will leave you to decide which modern mobile OS lives the best life.