sbird

I’ve been running the developer beta for about a month or so now, the updates have made the phone run cooler (good) and things have become more readable. Good that Apple is working on it, but there’s still a bunch of issues. In the clock app, when there’s the bubble in the swipe menu, the text and icons switch between yellow and orange and there’s also VERY small slivers of orange whenever you hover the bubble over the alarms and stopwatch icon that drive me crazy. The bubble effect is a bit overdone in my opinion and could be toned down a bit. The lockscreen swiping still has issues, as when you swipe down the lockscreen background doesn’t appear, but notifications are still adjusted to the colour of it so if you have a darker lock screen background and on a lighter/white web page and you swipe to see you notifications, it looks unreadable until you swipe all the way down where the lockscreen background reappears.

I’m on the beta 2, it’s still hard to read. My background has a very light sky with a dark tree. The buttons seem to adjust for the dark tree, meaning when the buttons are over the light sky (which is in the middle of the screen, where the buttons normally are…) it is unreadable! It’s better when the buttons are over the dark tree (still quite hard to read though), but that’s only when I have half swiped up…

Occasionally, the notifications switch to have a more contrasty background to make it easier to read. But not always. Which is incredibly annoying!

I’m also using the iOS 26 beta, when you swipe down from an app that’s light (e.g. a website) and have a dark lockscreen background then the notifications backgrounds can become unreadable since the lock screen background only appears when you finish the swipe down.