> It had to be functional, it had to meet incredibly strict styling guidelines across every single Apple platform, and most importantly, it just had to work.

Not a single person at Apple ever tried liquid shit when accomodations for the sight impaired are enabled and even without those it sucks.

What a joke!

I remember the first time my phone booted into the new UI. The first thing I had to do was go into Accessibility and turn on the high contrast features. I have 20/20 vision and no impairments. But I couldn’t see any of the lock screen buttons well enough to read them in front of my wallpaper anymore.

I use the "reduce motion / avoid animation" setting from accessibility, and Apple's own apps including Safari completely ignores this setting. The UI does all kinds of distracting and disturbing animations regardless of it. (I've now switched away from it for Firefox.)

It's really frustrating to experience not only non-consensual UI changes that cause cognitive load, for many people unsustainable cognitive load, but also completely steamroll over any accessibility accommodations.

I only upgraded because of the OS incessantly nagging me to do it, even when I asked it to stop checking for updates. I'm honestly not sure what to do with Apple, because Android is not any better. I wish Apple would give accessibility more than lip service.