Good grief, hopefully in v28 Lemay will also throw away the absolute crap that is Liquid glass. Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl.

Liquid glass should be taught in design school as an example of what not to do when you design UX. And also in business school as a case of how middle management can fudge up something that is working normally in the illusion of progress.

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akamaka an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My iPhone 13 performs better since the Liquid Glass update. Animations seem to have been optimized and are much smoother. I also replaced the battery last year, so it might be worth checking if you are getting degraded performance due to a old battery.

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knollimar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did they not learn from windows aero? Or are they comprised of pure hubris that they thought they could make it work

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GaryBluto an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Windows Aero did work, or at least the Windows 7 incarnation of it.

	▲	knollimar 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wasn't it a badtardized watered down version that cached the elements behind it and still gave a performance hit? They seem to be running into the same issues and didn't take the learned lessons with them
	▲	flohofwoe 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It was still ugly, but it did kinda work because it only affected the window chrome, and it could be set to opaque with an easy-to-find setting. On macOS the checkbox for "Reduce transparency" is hidden away in the Accessibility settings panel which is the last place I'd look for configuring the desktop theme.

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duskdozer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a constant "need" to churn UI revamps, so I guess eventually you run out of ideas before cycling around.

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js2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl

I have an iPhone 13 mini and have not experienced this.

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michelb an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Steve Lemay was a driving supporter of liquid glass, just like at least 2 other remaining designers at Apple. It's not going anywhere. Hopefully it will get toned down several times over though.

	▲	hbn 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is being toned down, at least in that they seem to be lightening up on that stupid lie that it helps you "focus on the content" because there were no toolbars. As if you're reading any text behind the buttons that are warping it and displaying another layer of text or an icon on top of it. And they ended up having to do an ugly fade at the top and bottom anyway cause you couldn't see the buttons on certain backgrounds. Toolbars are back!