Ever since announcing the big iOS design change during this year’s WWDC conference, the Liquid Glass effect has sparked controversy among fans of Apple and many of them insisted on the option of its complete exclusion. The company seems to have heard their calls, because MacRumors reports that with the arrival of iOS 26.1, we … Read more
There is still criticism of the look of iOS 26: A large number of users find the transparent, glassy liquid glass look of the operating system confusing to illegible. With iOS 26.1, which is expected in October, this is now set to change: After there has been a kind of anti-transparency switch somewhat hidden in … Read more
It is no surprise to anyone that Apple is among the companies whose software and hardware products become extremely often a reason for inspiration among its competitors in the mobile market, and this is most noticeable among some of the Chinese brands such as Xiaomi and Vivo. It is Vivo that has approached exclusively Innovative … Read more
Finewoven aka Feinbissen was a fiasco for Apple: the material for iPhone covers and other accessories decomposed itself after a surprisingly short time, was susceptible to scratches and quickly looked very ugly-despite high prices. Apple finally pulled the ripcord and set the fabric (almost). With the iPhone-17 models, the successor has now appeared: he is … Read more
IOS 26, MacOS 26, IPADOS 26 and Watchos 26: Since Monday, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Watch users have been able to install Apple’s 26 operating systems. In addition to the functional renovations, the design is crowded this time: Liquid Glass causes heated discussions. Hardly any way leads past this, even the first apps have already … Read more
If the iPhone suddenly looks very different: Apple’s new liquid glass design faces a multimillion audience with the publication of iOS 26. After a three-month beta phase, the operating system upgrade has been available for the general public since Monday evening. In parallel, upgrades are available for iPados, macos, watchos, tvos and visionos, all of … Read more
Why did Apple started a new change in its user interfaces this year – felt unmotivated? Are things like a reasonable AI competition with Openai, Anthropic, Google and Co. more important? Craig Hockenberry, long-time developer of MacOS and iOS apps and founders of the Iconfactoryhas to do so In his blog some thoughts made. In … Read more
Anyone who has the opportunity to test Apple’s developer beta from iOS 26 has been experiencing up and down for months: the new surface, Liquid Glass, is always given new changes from the designers from Cupertino. If, for example, Developer Beta 2 was again towards more “frostiness” (which increased readability), the elements became sometimes glassier … Read more
New beta, new excitement: Apple has changed another classic Mac icon radically, which has been an integral part of the operating system for 25 years. The preliminary version of MacOS 26 Taoe, which is now intended for developers, replaces the hard drive icon for the “Macintosh HD” start drive with an icon, which apparently represents … Read more
Quite controversial, but also interesting: Apple’s basic design converted into iOS 26 and Co. Apple developers Apparently for great demand, at least as far as trying out. As CEO Tim Cook announced on Thursday evening in front of analysts when announcing the latest quarterly figures, many developers wanted to test the Developer Beta, which has … Read more