I Have Shards of Liquid Glass in My Eyes

I am normally very good about not upgrading for the sake of upgrading but curiosity got the best of me today when I saw that iOS was making the jump from version 18 to 26 and I am way out of the loop on the reasoning behind this. I decided to install the upgrade without doing any research… sigh.

I am hoping that I wake up tomorrow and it is Monday again. I want a do-over. This must be a bad dream because Liquid Glass can’t be real. Between the excessive animations or the lack of contrast that makes it hard to see things on the screen, I don’t know what’s worse.

I went into the Accessibility settings and reduced the transparency and motion. That helped a bit in some areas but made it worse in others.

Using dark text on a dark background as an accessibility feature is a bizarre design decision. Thank goodness for the subtle glow otherwise I wouldn’t see anything at all. I went back into the Accessibility settings and increased the contrast, that did nothing.

I have to imagine we will see a few updates in the next week or so addressing some of these issues and hopefully toning down whatever is going on with most of the native app icons. It’s like Apple turned on a firehose and they are spraying Liquid Glass right into my eyes.

This might be the first version of iOS where the Accessibility settings need their own Accessibility settings.

I’ve only had this iPhone 16 Pro for a couple weeks and I’m wishing I'd chosen anything else. No worries. Tomorrow we will all wake up in the morning and it will be Monday, September 22, again, and none of this will have happened.

And if I’m wrong, then this must be the best April Fool’s prank ever. Nobody was expecting it at all seeing as how it is September. Good one, Apple! You got us!