Liquid Glass feels like one of those tacky themes you’d download to a computer or Android phone, run for 10 minutes, then delete. I’m not some anti-change guy, I loved the flat UI when it came out, it felt sleek and modern yet professional and unpretentious.
It’s not the end of the world or anything, I don’t hate it, but my phone interface feels childish now where it didn’t before.
LOL for a split second I was like “probably but how do you touch it without getting severe burns?”
Then I saw the community.
I agree.
It’s change for change’s sake I guess. The flat UI was near perfection, but I guess when you have to push updates constantly to keep the wheels of commerce turning, software products don’t ever get “done.”
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Feels like windows vista all over again lol. I can deal with it. But there seem to be a lot of inconsistencies
Yeah, personally I like UI with as little flair as possible. It should be flat, with clear colors. The background should be a neutral color. Corners should be minimally rounded or 90°. UI is supposed to be functional first. If something hinders function there better be a damn good reason.
I have a work iPhone 11. First word that came to mind after rebooting iOS 26 was… slop.
It’s kind of nice on iPhone. On Mac… I’m not sure. The new Finder icon is trash, and the glass effects are just not necessary.
I personally am all for flair, but it must be optional, i have so many silly bits of flair on my phone that l chose to be there, it makes it mine. I refuse to use an apple product (unless absolutely necessary) due to the lack of being able to personalize it.
I loved the flat UI when it came out
I remember the flat UI being called tacky when it started. You will give the glass thing in a few years.
I honestly remember the reception being really positive. I think the problem with LG is that for many of us it reminds us of the old days when companies would add all sorts of tacky effects to these UIs to try and differentiate themselves. So much of what’s in LG just feels unnecessary. It reminds me of an old MySpace page.
You mean windows 95?
I actually think windows (at least) ui peaked with xp.
Also, my phone is too small to accept any graphic frivolities.
Yet, when XP arrived, it was dubbed “fisher price ui” Every ui change tends to irritate users.
But it didn’t replace a particularly good UI that inspired pretty much every OS and website that came after it, and people still call XP a Fisher Price UI. My point is that successive UIs should be an improvement, this is a downgrade, it’s just change for the sake of change. It’s somewhere between the original iPhone UI and the flat one.
Which I turned off for the standard Windows theme.
And turned off Glass in Win7
And run Open/Classic Shell on every version of Windows since, to get a usable start menu.
And turn off all the shiny nonsense on my phone too.
We still call Vista “fisher price”.
Fashion repeats itself every few years.
