I’m actually pleasantly surprised by iOS26 … overall, I like it better. I love that it fixes the photos app (mostly at least). Things that are different, I’ve rapidly got used to. I know people (on other social media where there is far more interaction than here) are hating on the design language and feel it’s a regressive step - what are your thoughts ?

Wrist flick function sounds good. Notes integration a positive. I’m not into the other stuff, but I’m sure things like the workout buddy will be welcomed for some.

This is a shockingly good announcement. Finally going to replace my very aged iPad because of this. Anything you didn’t like/thought was missed ?

I don’t hate it. It’s just not a priority that I was interested in. For instance maybe revert the Photos app to its old goodness, rather than its new crapness. Maybe even expand usage cases for the dynamic island, since they’ve had so much time to do so and seem to have lost interest.

That’s cool and all, but where is the ethical action to remedy for consumers who have bought based on false promises predicated on hope rather than reality. That a class action lawsuit would not overly damage the company, that the payout would be meagre on an individual basis, that consumers are apathetic and full of ‘just another example of how life is’ inaction, are why they can release some angsty words and still sleep at night surrounded by their money and market control.

Glad I’m not the only one with an intense dislike of Photos. I can’t see any upside.

How do you save photos etc ?

I agree. They look so good. Looking forward to reviews.

I’ve stopped playing it. I found it depressing.

Good to see Mythology getting some much needed love. So much untapped potential in that game.

Agreed. As long as Samsung keep providing inferior hardware to the non US/Canada world, it will remain a no from me - “specs sheet suggested the two non-Ultra flagships will come with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 only in the US and Canada, all the other markets are getting the Exynos 2400 treatment.”

Big move this one. I wonder, if they lose the patent dispute, whether features of these watches will be removed for users?

$159 here is Australia. That’s definitely some challenging pricing. I don’t know how I’m justifying Apple next time I’m replacing things with all their pricing increases here.

Not that I’ve found either. I want the same thing. Current cards do not align with how I want to journal, so I ended up disabling them. Only advantages of the app for me is no cost and not giving sensitive information to others via permissions.

Swiping between watch faces is back ! (I’m unreasonably excited about this I know).

FYI you have to (on the watch, not your phone) go into settings>clock to enable this.

Anyone else with any tips for this update in general, please share them. Would love this community to be active and supportive.

Why are there no comments, and no real reactions to this here? At the moment there’s more traction around some rando thief story.

The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States.

_The source said they did not know how long such information had been gathered in that way.

Most users give push notifications little thought, but they have occasionally attracted attention from technologists because of the difficulty of deploying them without sending data to Google or Apple._

Earlier this year French developer David Libeau said users and developers were often unaware of how their apps emitted data to the U.S. tech giants via push notifications, calling them “a privacy nightmare.”_

I love good humans. Great result for him and all that that worked so hard for it.

Definitely read the article for context. It does not reflect well on Apple at all. I know that’s probably unsurprising and not even close to the worst thing we have read about them, but it’s just another disappointing example. What an awful lack of options we consumers have in trying to choose products and services from ethical sources. Also, excellent speech by De Niro.

I started with C, but then clicked the links to compare what hey all looked like on a Home Screen (yes, I eventually followed instructions … look at me go). B is clearly the standout for me.

… and Wefwef updates are fast and constantly improving what is already very good. I’ve tried Memmy, but Wefwef is my favourite with some recent fixes of glitches in the matrix.