Critique of iOS 26's User Interface

• Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
  • Bespoke 3D-printed mount
  • Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
• What betas are we running?
  • Virtual Buddy
• 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
  • iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
    • ProcessInfo
    • /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
  • Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
    • SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
    • null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
• Liquid Glass
  • Adopting Liquid Glass
    • Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things
  • Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  • Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
  • Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
• macOS Tahoe
  • Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
  • Squircle Jail
    • Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
    • Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
    • Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
  • Speaking of rounded corners…
    • Build an AppKit App with the New Design
  • Chonky stoplights
    • macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
    • -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
  • Missing title bars
  • Missing menu bar fixes
    • GlassBar
    • Boring Old Menu Bar
  • Alignment
    • Tahoe dialog
    • Tahoe dialog, center-icon mockup
    • Left-aligned title bar text images
  • Finder icon controversy
    • Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
    • Michael Flarup
    • D. Griffin Jones
  • Icons next to menu items
    • Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
    • Today in the HIG
  • Tabs contrast
    • Terminal tabs
  • Safari contrast
    • Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari
  • Arrow cursor has been updated
    • Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
    • Hand cursor as well
  • Floating elements & compartmentalization
    • Screenshot
    • We all float down here
    • Mario Alberto Guzmán’s observations
    • Steve Troughton-Smith’s observations
  • Clipboard history
    • Stephen Robles
    • Overview video
  • Future of Rosetta
    • Ars Technica
  • New disk image format: ASIF
    • Howard Oakley write-up
• iOS 26
  • UI impressions
  • New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
    • Video
• iPadOS 26
  • Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    • Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…
  • Slideover is 💀
  • UI impressions
• Testing Liquid Glass
  • UIDesignRequiresCompatibility
• Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
• Post-show: WWDC Favorites
  • Apple’s transcription APIs
    • John Voorhees’s write-up
    • Yap
  • Generable
  • SwitchGlass
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?
  • Interview roundup on MacRumors
  • Joanna Stern
    • 7-minute excerpt
    • Full 24-minute interview
  • Mark from Tom’s Guide & Lance from TechRadar

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