iOS26 Beta 9 - Significant Improvement

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Some feedback across the web:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/10/design-is-how-it-works-2/

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Thanks. I guess we will see soon enough if the general public, who doesn’t go through the roller coaster of beta season, agrees with the tech bloggers.

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I think it is an incontrovertible fact that we all get used to it eventually. Unless anyone here is still on iOS 6?

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Yes, but I plan to wait a couple of months (or more) to start getting used to it. I wonder how long it will take for them to get to iOS 26.3?

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I think I’ll need a wallpaper with depth to make Liquid Glass “work” (a little). I’m currently trying one of these:

Tips for other wallpapers that work well with Liquid Glass?

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Dark wallpaper works better than light wallpaper. It helps with displaying the icon text.

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I’m currently using one of these as my Lock Screen:

Additionally, I use a simple gradient of a dark gray color as my Home Screen.

Using these two Liquid Glass is becoming a bit more bearable…

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Or when he leaves Apple… Rejoice?!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/apple-design-executive-alan-dye-poached-by-meta-in-major-coup

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I wouldn’t call it a ‘major coup’, a lucky escape for apple lol

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Or, as Jason Snell puts it, “a major coup for Apple”… :wink:

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