So My iPads upgraded to the new 26.2 last night, and I hate hate hate hate hate hate, and hate it.
I’m fighting all morning to try to find out where stuff is, how the new pages are arranged, how to get back to some semblance of order. All my bookmarks show up in some other place, it takes twice as long to launch anything, and when it does there’s about a 50/50 chance it will freeze. Not to mention being unable to find out how to get a webpage off the screen; I’ve had to reboot three times already this morning.
So I looked for commentary. Wired says it well:
Here is a partial list: the slow speed (every action takes twice as long), the animation of text bubbles, the incongruous mix of sensitivity and imperviousness to touch, the swipes to nowhere, the difficulty posting downloaded photos, the fact that almost nothing is where you left it (search fields, files), the unsolicited status sharing regarding dwindling battery life (“24m to 80%”), the lack of visual contrast, the screenshot fussiness, the requirement that users drive up to a mansion on Long Island and whisper “Fidelio” in order to toggle off the “Liquid Glass” function. You have to admit: It’s a little funny to get a transparency feature from a tech company.
If Steve Jobs were still alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
Yikes! But, yeah, he’d be lopping off heads at Apple Headquarters for sure. Still miss that guy, real life jerk though he may have been. Although Tim Cook and Apple stock have done VERY well by me since Jobs’ passing, I wonder where the company would be now if he was still in charge.
I updated to iOS 26.2 on my 11” M2 iPad Pro a few weeks ago and didn’t notice any changes other than what I thought was a little nicer looking interface. All my apps are still organized the same on my several screens, and groups/folders contain the same apps. But I don’t really use the device at all any more. I spend all my time on my Lenovo Ideapad, my Samsung A15 Tracfone, and my new Kindle Fire 8”.
I hate all the upgrades as well. 99% of the time it just seems to be a way for coders to justify their job. I wish there was an option of “security updates only” but eventually you get forced into the new iOS.
As someone said about this sort of thing, “just because you can does not mean you should.”
They have severely rounded the corners of pages, making the page resizing unintuitive. You have to actually grab OUTSIDE the box to catch the corner. Who thought this was a good idea? (I know Jobs liked radius corners, but there’s a limit.)
I now have to punch down three times to get to a bookmark. Maybe it makes the cute little box even cuter, I wouldn’t know, but it’s a PITA for an actual USER.
It’s harder for write short and snappy than long and verbose. (I should know, I drone on too long often enough.) Coders should take a lesson.
But, yeah, he’d be lopping off heads at Apple Headquarters for sure. Still miss that guy, real life jerk though he may have been. Although Tim Cook and Apple stock have done VERY well by me since Jobs’ passing, I wonder where the company would be now if he was still in charge.