I bloomin hate IOS 26 , anyone else

[hattie43]

And is there any way of changing it back . Like a klutz I gaily accepted the update but for the first time ever I loathe the changes .
My photos have been put into categories I don’t want . I hate the google search options , I hate the weird glass interface . I want my old phone back .

I have no advice, but just offer sympathy. I updated a couple of days ago.. I feel like I now have a phone interface designed by a toddler.

Hate it too. It unset my alarm! So annoying to close browser tabs down. It is just awful.

Yes! I’ve told everyone not to download the update because it’s clunky and horrible!

Anyone noticed that when you are filling in online forms you can no longer see what you are writing? And what is the giant tick for? As a PP said, it's been designed for toddlers.

Ooh, I’m loving it!

Is this the new one Liquid Glass? HATE it!

It’s incredibly annoying.

It’s bloody awful.

Cannot anode it.

My issues are:

• it looks really childish now, particularly, the camera icon.
• the three step faff of seeing all your open tabs. Takes ages to see different pages!
• Notes - i dont want to be constantly prompted to share them, theyre private!
• cannot find my pictures now theyve all been jumbled up & moved!
• needless 'bloat' has been added in the form of games.

Honestly, I expect better from Apple. It now looks like a cheap knock-off from 2012.

I loathe it too, can’t find any photos and it’s making me feel more incompetent than usual.

Yes! And the maximum snooze time is only 15 minutes! Why?

I hate it. To add to all that’s been said it’s now difficult to make a FaceTime call from contacts. There used to be handy little icons to choose exactly how I want to contact someone. Now it is unclear and at least three or four taps to get there.
Enshittification.

Loathe it!! The camera icon is cringe and it’s all so clanky. There was absolutely nothing wrong with any of the previous stuff. So annoyed.

My first thought was nostalgic as it reminded me of my first iPhone. Then I tried closing tabs (a pain), looking for things in my history (now two steps instead of one), and searching for photos by date (yet to figure this out). Not good.

I had forgotten all about it until I saw your post.

i noticed the update was due last night & contemplated turning it off. But didn't, but for some reason it didn't update overnight.

thanks to your post i have turned the auto update OFF.

im not good with changes anyway. But this does sound like a particularly awful one.

Yep, hate it.

Yes that’s another awful update .

I allowed it to install without realising.

It is absolutely hideous. What were they thinking FFS

Is it slow for anyone too? Mine seems to get stuck between screens sometimes which is infuriating!

I hate it as well. Makes simple things like timer on photos or scanning stuff hard

I want 25 back 😢

And the icons are awful

I hate it too, I thought it was just me, anything that makes you do more clicks than previous isn’t an improvement in my book.

I can’t see my emails there’s no notification.

Yup.

Same.