iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-plans-snow-leopard-cleanup-ios-27/

66•tosh•1h ago

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postexitus•1h ago

Just drop the liquid glass farce and you will save 5% battery life already.

baq•1h ago

ios 27 being ios 26 minus liquid glass is literally the only thing I want from the next ios version.

bouke•57m ago

Same with macOS. I'm sticking with Sequoia, but don't know what to do if macOS 27 turns out to be just as ugly as Tahoe.

sturza•49m ago

I'm sticking with Sonoma as long as they still provide security updates, then i go +1, hoping to skip the whole liquid glass phase.

dgxyz•31m ago

Just give me my fucking corners back. I paid good money for them.

bubblewand•50m ago

I would like them to also fix all the weird rendering bugs they introduced in Safari.

Though maybe those are also liquid glass’ fault.

soared•34m ago

Chrome has them too :)

TheDong•13m ago

Yeah, because chrome is required to use -safari- webkit too, apple won't allow alternative browsers on the app store.

Except in the EU, but they don't allow it globally so no sane company is going to invest time into building a browser for iOS while apple is intentionally region-locking the ability to install them.

So yeah, on iOS, rendering bugs on Chrome are quite often apple's fault, and the Chrome team can't fix em.

jtbaker•45m ago

this would make me so happy!

joezydeco•12m ago

I'd even settle for it being on a switch, call it "minimal UI" or something, but I have a feeling that Apple doesn't work like that. It's burn-the-boats, we're going all in on Glass and there's no going back.

Someone1234•1h ago

But what if I want my iPhone to look like Windows Vista?

data-ottawa•34m ago

I actually liked how Vista looked, but it had a lot of artificial sheen that Liquid Glass doesn’t have.

Looks were never Vista’s problem.

Hamuko•6m ago

I don't remember my Vista installation being this illegible.

_diyar•1h ago

I wonder if anybody at Apple is bold enough to lose face over this, given that there‘s a leadership shuffle underway.

lou1306•49m ago

They might manage to pin it all on Alan Dye, who recently jumped ship to Meta.

snarf21•46m ago

I thought the person responsible was already gone...

troupo•36m ago

People keep blaming Alan Dye as if he was the only one responsible.

Federighi—who's in charge of implementing this and was busy praising it on stage—is completely blameless. As are all other managers big and small at Apple.

newsclues•11m ago

I don't think they can or will change something that drastic right away, but I'd wager that there is at least one team, rethinking it.

Maybe a year or two of bug fixing updates, while they entirely refresh liquid glass?

Seems like a BIG job.

pavel_lishin•1h ago

Hey, maybe they'll fix the keyboard, too, and then that guy won't have to switch to Android for two years!

k33n•1h ago

Apple got brutally frame mogged by the keyboard frat leader

nan60•50m ago

This is both the best and worst comment I’ve ever read on HN.

kachapopopow•1h ago

I'll believe it when I see it. iOS 26 has been having 5 fps in the home screen all the time and I can see the effect constantly pop up, go away and even spaz out on a 3 year old pro max model. I have a pitch black home screen as well and the glass effect is completely inconherent and looks horrible so would be ideal if glass can be disabled in the homescreen entirely or have the same opaque effect as it is in-apps.

kiririn•58m ago

A bug(?) exists to disable liquid ass on the Home Screen that still works in 26.3 - enable Reduce Motion globally in accessibility settings, then add a per app accessibility override for “Home Screen & App Library” with Reduce Motion off, then reboot. Somehow this disables liquid ass throughout the Home Screen, back to iOS 18 gaussian blurs

hulitu•1h ago

> iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

I'm trying to imagine a world where, instead of affirmative or negative, we use conditional.

"We could search for a new candidate". "Honey could you go buy some bread ? There isn't any. / Yes honey, i could". "Your salary could raise with 3%". "I'm a journalist. I could write an article if i would". And so on and so forth.

P.S. They forgot the "could" before "update" and "clean".

9dev•1h ago

This is the one thing users have asked for for years now. Apparently even Apple eventually listens.

walterbell•1h ago

Will iOS 28 bring silent voice interface? https://www.newsweek.com/apples-2b-ai-acquisition-could-have...

> users [could] interact with Siri and future Apple devices without speaking out loud.. AI systems capable of interpreting facial expressions and subtle muscle movements to understand so-called “silent speech.”

canxerian•52m ago

Never considered this but I'd love this feature

stetrain•51m ago

I would expect this to be a feature of a specific product, like AR glasses.

walterbell•36m ago

It's from the creator of FaceID, so might be possible on other devices.

haritha-j•49m ago

Yeah I'm really looking forward to frantically sticking my tongue out in morse code to subtly communicate with my phone.

kdheiwns•34m ago

Israeli AI software that's constantly watching my face and surroundings to read what I'm talking about? If there's anything I do not want, it's this.

throwuxiytayq•14m ago

I'm assuming by now they have realized that they got scammed in this acquisition.

bikelang•35m ago

Literally all I want from Apple is a year (or multiple) spent laser focused tackling tech debt and improving software performance.

dgxyz•32m ago

I want them to have invested in this already so we don't have this miserable shit to deal with.

Someone1234•31m ago

Yep; and all Apple fans ever say is "report feedback!!!" but what is the point when seemingly Apple never gets to their backlog of bugs/broken features? I mean, sure, some big stuff gets fixed, but there is a lot of stuff broken going on years they haven't even touched.

gannonburgett•26m ago

We need another Snow Leopard era.

usrnm•16m ago

I care more about numerous bugs than I do about performance, to be honest. I'm starting to to regret not switching to Android last time I was upgrading my phone. Even if it is the same bugfest, at least I wouldn't have paid premium for the priveledge of using a device that "just doesn't work"

Brajeshwar•32m ago

I wish Apple would pause the Major Number bumps across all the OSes. Perhaps a 3-year OS update cycle. No Rush. They can still do the Marketing thingies with feature additions and bug fixes, like, “This WWDC is all about the 0.5 update, and you will love it.”

lenerdenator•27m ago

Tim, honey, darling, baby.

Just do this for like, the next six months. Go in, clear out tech debt, get stuff fixed.

Tell the creative and features guys that they look like hell and need to take a vacation. Unless it's the guy who says you can't make colorful MBP finishes. Just fire that guy.

Do that and you'll have my money for another MBP sooner rather than later.

uxjw•27m ago

Less than a month after Microsoft announcing this for Windows https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-is...

zelifcam•27m ago

How about fixing their calendar widgets? I didn’t think it was possible to make a non functional calendar. But here we are… https://lemmy.world/post/18872755

BoredPositron•18m ago

At least not as useless as the windows taskbar calendar. It's nearly a decade without any functionality or integration.

iamleppert•17m ago

All I want from Apple is to get rid of that atrocious frosted glass interface. It looks like a Sharper Image catalog from the 90's!

newsclues•14m ago

Apples own Apps need serious attention. The iOS Podcast app doesn't allow me to delete certain podcasts from the downloads section. Seems like silly bug for the ecosystem that "just works".

p_ing•7m ago

Why is an oft-wrong rumor site which churns out clickbait left and right being pushed up on HN? There's no story, here. It has no reliable source and nothing coming directly from Apple.

macrumors.com, 9to5mac.com should have been [dead].

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