I think the idea of a new design of some sort was a good one. We’ve been in the same world since iOS 7, 12 years ago.
The glass effects are fancy, but in a HUGE percentage of places the transparency makes things worse.
A lot of the animation/liviness, the “liquid” part of “Liquid Glass”, is very nice and welcome.
My problems are almost all from:
1. difficulty reading/using things since the background shows through unnecessarily and makes things hard to read
2. iOS fighting to change the color of things to keep up with the background during scrolling, all for the stupid effect I just complained about
3. far more wasted space by pulling away from the edges of the screen leaving less useful area
I’ve seen people theorize it will all be great and make sense when some future iPhone with a true edge to edge screen launches.
Great. My new phone was made manifestly worse to help the experience of a phone that I can’t even buy yet. If it exists at all. And that’s why this design is the way it is.
I don’t know how they saved this. Other than just getting rid of some of the fundamental concepts. But they’re gonna have to tone a lot of stuff WAY down in the next few years to try and get this back to usable.
