Hey, but the release of iOS 7 was the worst release in the entire history of iOS releases. At least my personal impression is so. This release completes with that. So I agree, sure thing, we can substitute iOS 7 for iOS 26, and it would be the same. But what’s the sameness we discuss? Is it some corporate culture that inevitably brings us the mediocrity, or us, the users, being thankless plebes with some weird wishes of usability? To me, that’s the first, obviously. You leave them alone for a while and they’ll bring you … this.
I personally believe iOS 7 was terrible but it was step in the right direction and continuous iterations on that design make overall user experience better than it was before. Currently, I'm not a big fan of iOS 26 but I'm willing to give a benefit of the doubt to Apple and see if the vision they have is actually make things better
I’m in a similar position, but also I am so angry that none of the bugs from iOS 18, those I encounter daily with, none of them were addressed. Not even in the slightest. I am so sure there would be a proper release one day, but the plebs with once perfectly working iPhones, won’t get that bug fix and optimisations release. That makes me angry. I remember my iPhone 4S was almost perfect, but the iOS 7…9 made it slow and not very usable in comparison to iOS 6. Same thing I see with my perfectly good iOS 18 iPhone 12 mini, which just brought me back to these 4S times I forgot about.
Plus, I’m ten years older (ten years more experienced) now, and I’m very sceptical that is being some vision. That is rather being a great failure, but since the company basically in the same position as Microsoft with their Windows, they don’t feel they’ll lose their customers, as most of them are willing to give Apple this benefit of the doubt. Then they’ll have at least a couple of years to do something about it.
