A new update.
  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    9 days ago

    These guys spend a billion dollars every couple years to invent the lock screen again

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      reading text isn’t the easiest with all the colors and blurs everywhere

      Agreed - I like the look of these things in an abstract sense, but it makes the text really hard to read. I assume hope there’s a way to disable it in accessibility settings.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there’s effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Wow, that is bad. The music one is probably the worst of the examples. The artist name is barely readable most of that clip.

      The notifications are rough too, a big wall of white text against a burry multicolor background is not fun to read.

  • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
    218·
    9 days ago

    This is such a step back to 2005 and those glassy Winamp skins. It looks absolutely terrible. I wonder how Apple users put up with that

    • accideath@feddit.orgEnglish
      163·
      9 days ago

      I beg to differ. It’s not a „putting up with“. I don’t hate modern flat designs but if I was putting up with anything it’s that.

      Loved the translucent look back then, still love it now. Am very looking forward to the design update. Especially since the new design is not just some standard windows aero like transparency but actually has glass like refractions.

      I’m very glad we’re getting something with a little more depth again, without going full 180 to the clutter of peak skeumorphic iOS <7.

      I’m a little bit concerned about readability of text on the translucent backgrounds but on the other hand, it feels unlikely that Apple didn’t think of that…

      Edit: typo

  • trailee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    102·
    9 days ago

    Almost everything in that list of new features sounds negative to me. A few are neutral, and one might be positive depending on how it’s implemented (having the phone monitor a phone call while sitting on hold). Pretty disappointing, Tim Apple.

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    jfc. that is one ugly looking ui. really scraping bottom of the barrel. that is soo last years.

  • sturger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    93·
    9 days ago

    Guess this means Apple has run out of ideas on how to make iPhone better.

    What can we do to distract attention away from the fact that we don’t have any decent new features?

    • “Rename the business unit so we can print new letterheads and business cards?” Our customer don’t work here, sir. “Dammit!”
    • “Release a new color that nobody wants? How about a light blue that is so close to the regular silver no one can tell?” We did that last year, sir. “Dammit!”
    • “Oh, I know: Repeat the year 2000 mistake by naming our OS versions after the current year using only 2 digits. That will never bite us in the ass in the future.” Brilliant, sir.
  • alehel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    9 days ago

    I never understood products that use the next year as their version nr. Why isn’t this iOS25?

    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      I presume because due to it releasing in September, it’s lifetime will mostly lie in 2026. But honestly Idk, I am godawful at naming things.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      yeah i don’t remember the last time i liked something Apple made (probably over a decade by now) but this actually looks great.