Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.

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This article sums up how I’ve been feeling these weeks: the #LiquidGlass is visually distracting, with performance, battery and readability issues, on top of that developers now have to test and maintain 2 different designs, it feels like design-first, usability-second🥲. #iOS26

Building a new app using Apple Intelligence + SpeechTranscriber.
Supporting iOS 18 means extra work for AI fallbacks and two different design systems.
Going iOS 26-only helps me to stay sane 😅 but limits users.
What would you do? 🤔

#iOSDev #IndieDev #AppleIntelligence

Using a #SwiftUI bindable Environment value to change the selectedTab from anywhere in the app, feels cleaner than creating an Observable class for just one property:

With #SwiftUI, I skip wireframes entirely.
Need a button? Code it.
A screen flow? Build and test it within minutes.
Designers can tweak values and fine-tune animations. ✨Figma just can’t beat that.
#iosdev #wireframes #prototyping