They've been delivering empty-noop test updates through that new pipeline in the past couple weeks to beta users, which suggests that they considered it.
While I'm really glad they've fixed a bunch of important security vulnerabilities, I'm really hoping they fixed the screen flickering issue [1] they introduced in macos 26. It has been driving me insane and even impacts my Studio Display. My work computer is locked to 15.7.3 and has no such issues with either the internal or external display (The same display flickers in 26).
Really wish Apple would get their software quality up from the gutter.
iOS also flickers every time I exit an app back to the Home Screen.
Weird green tints for no reason.. bubbles that take so long to inflate, you think your tap was dropped. Round edges that no longer fit the text content. Stupid ellipses at the edges of wrapped text. And all the functions that now take two taps when one used to do it. Text rendered on top of text for crying out loud! Whole view panes clobberin* each other. WebKit is a mess of wasted black bars where menus were hidden. Multiple flashes of white and black between content changes. It hits Apple apps as well as trashing third party layout.
Too many defects to list.
Headline:
Apple celebrates 50th anniversary by burning down 40 years of human interface knowledge.
Is this related to the 'Screen Mirroring' problem?
When I connect my laptop to a projector, I can select an individual window, or at least I used to be able to select a window and just project that. However, now when I try to select the window, as soon as the mouse cursor gets near the selection button, the button disappears!!! It has been driving me absolutely insane.
I see flickering like crazy when I adjust the screen brightness on my M5 Macbook Pro on Tahoe.
But it's especially obvious when it dims itself based on ambient room brightness, I can actually see the vertical refresh happening as I move from a fully bright room to a dim one.
I hope they release a version of these fixes on iOS 18 in a form installable on an iPhone 14; I've been trying to stay away from Liquid Glass until it's actually usable. I really don't want to be forced to upgrade, since Apple seems to have replaced UX testing with "just ship it," as has become standard in the industry.
They won't, it already didn't happen for 18.7.4 and 18.7.3 (only via beta channel for the latter), and the present fixes are being released as 18.7.5 for the iPhone XS/XR. Still I think that staying on iOS 18 is the lesser evil.
I immediately enabled “reduce transparency” and “strong contrast” in the accessibility settings and didn’t really notice much difference to 18 then. Not a big deal at all.
Careful if you're still on MacOS Sequoia, Apple has hidden Tahoe as a default under updates. If you click updated now it automatically upgrade you to Tahoe.
Maybe they can fix Messages from bugging out all the time. Apple software has gone down the drain. I don’t want a million new features I just want the ones that make a phone a phone actually work 99.5% of the time
Have they fixed all the keyboard bugs introducted in iOS 26.0 yet? I’m not sure how much longer I can put up with issues like this - I might need to switch back to Android if they don't fix these soon.
Seriously, how hard is it to correctly measure the keyboard height and not render important UI elements, such as submit buttons, underneath it so you can’t click “Send”? It's getting close to unusable.
What a fucking shit storm you created Apple once again with shit software 26.3! iPhone 15+: Apps won’t open or can’t log into them or they just crash, screen glitches, saved passwords not working, every single time I have to reset it ( which is often do to your shit software) my sound disappears and I have to play with the silent button and sound buttons, etc. I can’t even get into the Apple community I’m sure it’s cause there’s SOOOOOOOOOO many other people complaining!!!!! ANDROID HERE I COME!!!!!FUCK YOU APPLE NO MORE MONEY FOR YOU BITCHES!!!!!!
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I suppose it’s not really working, or is the product of a team and no other internal team actually use it.
Really wish Apple would get their software quality up from the gutter.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/18/macos-tahoe-studio-disp...
Weird green tints for no reason.. bubbles that take so long to inflate, you think your tap was dropped. Round edges that no longer fit the text content. Stupid ellipses at the edges of wrapped text. And all the functions that now take two taps when one used to do it. Text rendered on top of text for crying out loud! Whole view panes clobberin* each other. WebKit is a mess of wasted black bars where menus were hidden. Multiple flashes of white and black between content changes. It hits Apple apps as well as trashing third party layout.
Too many defects to list.
Headline: Apple celebrates 50th anniversary by burning down 40 years of human interface knowledge.
When I connect my laptop to a projector, I can select an individual window, or at least I used to be able to select a window and just project that. However, now when I try to select the window, as soon as the mouse cursor gets near the selection button, the button disappears!!! It has been driving me absolutely insane.
But it's especially obvious when it dims itself based on ambient room brightness, I can actually see the vertical refresh happening as I move from a fully bright room to a dim one.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347
https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347
I have called and opened tickets, and I keep hearing it'll be fixed real soon now.
If I want to fix it on my iPhone 16 I'm forced to update to iOS 26.
[0]: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...
Relatedly, did Apple baseband have similar vulnerabilities as Broadcom WiFi/Bluetooth baseband?
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/software_update_tahoe_con...
Seriously, how hard is it to correctly measure the keyboard height and not render important UI elements, such as submit buttons, underneath it so you can’t click “Send”? It's getting close to unusable.
Update: No they haven't
I feel I should be at least given the security patches if I don’t want to update to Apple’s widely derided iOS 26 UI awfulness.