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Comment by irjustin | Hacker News Reader

Yes please, liquid glass get out of here. This is the first time I viscerally felt: "Man I hate this update."

I'm still too locked in to consider switching, but my eye is on the door if this keeps up.

As negative as it may be, I refuse to update iOS until liquid glass is dead. Apple always gives us something we didn't ask for and don't want, and sometimes takes away things we do like and want.

It's not going away, but I remain hopeful it will be refined. macOS is the real casualty this upgrade cycle—iOS has problems but isn't fundamentally broken.

that's the right move. after i upgraded, i showed my wife and she simply hasn't moved yet either. if i had only known.

I avoided the entire butterfly keyboard/touch bar Macbooks by buying an older model (2015 MacBook pro, the last one with scissor switch until 2020) and not upgrading until M series. That turned out to be a good decision.

That's what I did as well, I waited until the touch bar and the butterfly keyboard were out of the flow and got a really fantastic MacBook Pro with touch ID. Dare I say it works better than my iphone.

My question is, how are they gonna fix this? Is it even possible? That’s what’s making me switch right now.

I’m just lucky. I’m a nobody that has nothing to do so I can easily switch over to android.

It’s a hack, but here’s what I did to make iOS less awful (credit to some HN thread I can’t find right now for the suggestion):

settings -> accessibility -> display and text size ->

reduce transparency ON

increase contrast ON

differentiate without color ON

That makes Liquid Glass marginally usable for me. Without those settings, I’d be doomed. What a horrifically bad design.

Thank you! Instant relief for eyes and brain.

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