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0 pointsbavent8mo ago0 comments

Beyond that, it’s buggy and inconsistent. In dark mode, text boxes suddenly become light mode when they expand to add a second entry line. Buttons aren’t aligned within their containers properly. Some times buttons are in light mode when my phone is in dark mode, or if I open an app, it starts out in light mode and then suddenly switches to dark mode after a second or two. There is a noticeable lag when I back out of a message before it loads the other conversations in iMessage.

I think I had tracked 15+ things I would easily qualify as bugs the first two days after upgrading my phone - this would be absolutely unacceptable where I work, and we aren’t a trillion-dollar company with psychotic hiring standards.

Was this even QAed? I don’t like the look, but that’s a personal thing, these are actual issues that are not subjective.

0 pointsbavent8mo ago0 comments

Was this even QAed? I don’t like the look, but that’s a personal thing, these are actual issues that are not subjective.

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andix8mo ago

In my opinion Liquid Glass is still an alpha release. Nothing is really finished, it's conceptually unfinished, the changes are not well thought through, and it's really buggy.

I think they failed with Apple Intelligence (also a mess, without being useful) and needed something big. So they planned this big design change. When they realized they failed miserably, it was too late to undo it.

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emoII8mo ago

This is a fun one I think:

- Use dark mode

- Go to wikipedia (or any white page)

- Open the keyboard

- Watch the keyboard start in light mode and then resize very weirdly within its container as it switches to dark mode

Atleast it does on an iphone 12

ChrisMarshallNY8mo ago

One of the issues is almost certainly that the app developers didn't add the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility = YES[0] item to the Info.plist.

Set that, and it doesn't use Liquid Glass in your app.

I set it for all my apps. One was designed by a professional designer, who absolutely defecated masonry, when I showed him what it did to our app.

I'm worried that Apple may end up ignoring that flag, and will force us to use LG. That would suck. It says that it's temporary, but I'll bet that Apple will be hating life, if they ignore it.

I'm not freaking out about Liquid Glass, but I don't like it. I completely agree that it is quite unusable.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/In...

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mildzebrataste8mo ago

Sounds like it was QAd by AI.

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