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Comment by ramesh31

4 days ago

Welp, I've been holding on out that liquid glass crap as long possible. Guess my phone is just going to suck now.

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neom  4 days ago

I thought the same thing but updated couple weeks back and actually really really enjoy the liquid glass. I don't recall what it was about the release that made me think I'd hate it, but I've half fallen in love with it, I was just thinking yesterday I wonder what all the fuss was about.

  • thejazzman  4 days ago

    I believe it's changed a lot since it was initially debut'd via the betas. And there was that Supabase post mocking it, where they made the whole UI glass, and that biased me a bit ha

  • Analemma_  4 days ago

    I don’t like it on the iPhone, but it’s more a “sigh, I’ll live with it” downgrade than a catastrophic one (at least once you go into the Safari settings and turn off the huge useless address bar by putting it in compact mode). It’s on the Mac where it’s truly a shitshow.

msk-lywenn  4 days ago

Apple is probably going to issue an update for 18. Heck they released a security update for coruna on 15.x last week. Same thing maybe?

  • lynndotpy  4 days ago

    No, they are not. Apple is choosing to only release the iOS 18 security patches for the XS and XR.

bombcar  4 days ago

If it's really as bad as all that, they'll patch existing older releases.

  • xoa  4 days ago

    >If it's really as bad as all that, they'll patch existing older releases.

    They have patched existing releases of iOS 18... but then they artificially restricted those patches only to a couple of phone models that don't support iOS 26. So if you're on a vaguely modern iDevice and are still on 18 because you don't want the new UI and other fuckups you are not allowed to install the patched 18. It'd be one thing if you had a phone that simply never supported iOS 18 at all, or if Apple wasn't patching iOS 18 at all for anyone, but that they've gone to the effort to fix it but then also used it as another lever for force upgrades is really sucky.

    • zzrrt  4 days ago

      To be fair, it would cost them more to fully test the iOS 18 patches on all devices, than what it cost them to test a few devices. So I wouldn't quite call it artificially holding the patches back. But yeah, it is probably mostly motivated by avoiding bad PR of letting slightly-older devices get hacked, and then forcing everyone else to be on the new release. (FWIW I'm running iOS 18 on an iPhone SE 2020, so probably going to have to embrace all the change and bugs in iOS 26.)

  • lynndotpy  4 days ago

    No. Apple already released the patch in February, and Apple chose not not patch older releases.

    Apple of 2026 is not the same Apple of 2025. The people at Apple have held back iOS 18.7.3, iOS 18.7.4, iOS 18.7.5, or iOS 18.7.6 for most iPhones that support iOS 18.

    These are dozens of CVEs patched in these updates, including numerous exploits as bad or worse than the one described in this one. (Article is paywalled so I couldn't read it, so I am getting the details from Google's post https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...

    - CVE-2025-43541, CVE-2025-43501 WebKit zero day https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/apple_follows_google_... (iOS 18.7.3)

    - CVE-2025-43529 and CVE-2025-14174, mentioned in the article (iOS 18.7.3)

    - The dyld exploit fixed in iOS 18.7.5, and the exploit in this article https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/apple_ios_263/ (iOS 18.7.5)

    Unfortunately, in iOS 26, there is a new bug where Lockdown Mode breaks call recording, which is something I rely on. Something to weigh for anyone on iOS 18 who is considering installing iOS 26.

dhosek  4 days ago

Liquid glass isn’t too bad on the iPhone or even the iPad. It’s mostly on the Mac that it sucks.