Wiredfire
Nooooope.. there’s a reason people call it “liquid ass”. I’ve turned off auto updates and will stick on iOS 18 as long as I safely can.
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Wiredfire
I dislike how it starts to obscure screen space that was previously clear. As a design philosophy I heartily object to at least core apps having their easily accessed functionality dumbed down hiding the useful stuff under more taps. It looks dated (we moved away from skeuomorphic UI 10+ years back)
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Wiredfire
From a UX point of view it’s a massive backward step & is going to be needlessly disruptive to a lot of users who depend on Apples (fading?) reputation for good usability.
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Wiredfire
Apple have always, in the last couple of decades at least, sucked at big change. Apple is at its best when it iterates. Apple doesn’t innovate well. At all. That’s their strength - they let everyone else throw crap at the wall and watch to see what sticks then do it better. This is not better
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Samuel
I also have a crazy concept in my head where it looks more the Safari nav. The left item would be the app navigation, the right item would be New Post, and the center pill would be your current Feed. swipe up on it to change! I bet I could get @pfrazee.com on board because he loves making browsers
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jordan silver 🔵
you could probably use the accessory view thing for a feed carousel, and somehow work the compose button into that
Samuel@samuel.fm· 5 Aug 2025
I also have a crazy concept in my head where it looks more the Safari nav. The left item would be the app navigation, the right item would be New Post, and the center pill would be your current Feed. swipe up on it to change! I bet I could get @pfrazee.com on board because he loves making browsers
Safari tab bar pill
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jordan silver 🔵
(hasn’t watched the tutorial video, does not write or know react native) i am wondering if the whole “liquid glass buttons morph to form menus” expectation will cause problems with whatever mix of native and RN components will be used to do this
Rusta Bhymes
I think that’s unsupported by the native bottom tabs :( Really sad it’s reserved for search only. Would be nice with custom actions.
midwest emo fan
lmao at least make search rightmost. new post would be cool but youd really want a native modal in that case
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Alessio Maffeis
This is so much more usable than the actual thing (in its current beta state, I still have some hope for the final release) 🥲
Rusta Bhymes
This is my current approach in react native. Using a custom liquid glass view as an absolute fill background.
Christopher Jr Riley
There might be an accessibility option to do that, or at the very least, the "reduce animations" option might make it where it doesn't do that.
Snowjob
Going to the Renaissance Faire and asking the glass blowing people to drop a dollop on my phone
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shreyan (wise)
As an Android user I don't have much of an opinion but I think yes simply because it would look cool on iOS
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Samuel
yep, if they’re using the native tab bar! we’re currently using a custom one though
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Peter Lewis
the sequence of animations there is unhinged, and this thing is an accessibility nightmare (still hoping apple makes some significant changes before shipping public release)
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LL 💛
Liquid Glass spits in the face of usability and readability in favor of cool aesthetics. Please don’t. I beg you. 🙏🥺 - A very tired UX designer
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Fruity Koala 🎄
Yes it’s cool! But then what about older devices which don’t support iOS 26? Will you just stop support for those versions or have the current tab bar? If you end up keeping it then why not have the option of both? (No idea how hard this would be)