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Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability

Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability.

argsnd 8mo ago
If you set Liquid Glass to the more opaque mode in settings I find iOS usability to be fine now, and some non-flashy changes such as moving search bars to the bottom are good UX improvements. The real stinker with Liquid Glass has been macOS. You get a half-baked version of the design that barely even looks good and hurts usability.
- microtonal 8mo ago
  Still takes multiple taps to find something on a page in Safari.
  - bobbylarrybobby 8mo ago
    You can just type the text to find in the address bar — “find on page” will be the at the very bottom of the list of suggestions.
  - ndiddy 8mo ago
    You can restore the old UI by changing the “tabs” setting from “compact” to “top” or “bottom”.
  - argsnd 8mo ago
    This is, again, something you can fix in Settings
- JensenTorp 8mo ago
  iOS 26 is a disaster on devices with 4GB RAM though, so I'm not upgrading my iPhone 13 Mini again (that was a traumatic few days).
  - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
    Imagine running iOS 26 on an iPad Air 3 from 2019…
  - doubled112 8mo ago
    Interesting. I haven't had any noticable problems on my 13 Mini. What are you seeing?
  - argsnd 8mo ago
    Are you sure that wasn't just a beta thing?
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Someone1234 8mo ago
Apple released iOS 18.7.5: https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347 https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347
- supernes 8mo ago
  18.7.3 and newer are not published for most devices that support them in order to coerce people to move to 26.x
  - sandinmyjoints 8mo ago
    That's terrible.
- shantara 8mo ago
  Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation
burnt-resistor 8mo ago
It's a rug-pull going against the tradition of supporting the most recent 2 OS versions until the autumn refresh simply to technofascistly force users onto 26 with an artificially-created Hobson's false choice between security and usability. This is bullshit.
- MYEUHD 8mo ago
  No. They have been doing this every year for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-upgrade/ https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up... It's being noticed just now because iOS 26 has controversial UI/UX and many users don't want to update.
halJordan 8mo ago
I'll never understand how people actually believe that their refusal to adapt, and refusal opening them up to harm, is ever not their own fault You're choosing to not have the update. And that's fine- own it.

Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability.

argsnd 8mo ago

If you set Liquid Glass to the more opaque mode in settings I find iOS usability to be fine now, and some non-flashy changes such as moving search bars to the bottom are good UX improvements. The real stinker with Liquid Glass has been macOS. You get a half-baked version of the design that barely even looks good and hurts usability.

microtonal 8mo ago
Still takes multiple taps to find something on a page in Safari.
- bobbylarrybobby 8mo ago
  You can just type the text to find in the address bar — “find on page” will be the at the very bottom of the list of suggestions.
- ndiddy 8mo ago
  You can restore the old UI by changing the “tabs” setting from “compact” to “top” or “bottom”.
- argsnd 8mo ago
  This is, again, something you can fix in Settings
JensenTorp 8mo ago
iOS 26 is a disaster on devices with 4GB RAM though, so I'm not upgrading my iPhone 13 Mini again (that was a traumatic few days).
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  Imagine running iOS 26 on an iPad Air 3 from 2019…
- doubled112 8mo ago
  Interesting. I haven't had any noticable problems on my 13 Mini. What are you seeing?
- argsnd 8mo ago
  Are you sure that wasn't just a beta thing?

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Someone1234 8mo ago

Apple released iOS 18.7.5: https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347 https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

supernes 8mo ago
18.7.3 and newer are not published for most devices that support them in order to coerce people to move to 26.x
- sandinmyjoints 8mo ago
  That's terrible.
shantara 8mo ago
Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation

burnt-resistor 8mo ago

It's a rug-pull going against the tradition of supporting the most recent 2 OS versions until the autumn refresh simply to technofascistly force users onto 26 with an artificially-created Hobson's false choice between security and usability. This is bullshit.

MYEUHD 8mo ago
No. They have been doing this every year for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-upgrade/ https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up... It's being noticed just now because iOS 26 has controversial UI/UX and many users don't want to update.

halJordan 8mo ago

I'll never understand how people actually believe that their refusal to adapt, and refusal opening them up to harm, is ever not their own fault You're choosing to not have the update. And that's fine- own it.