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/

80•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•1h 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•1h 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•56m ago

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

bubblewand•1h 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•59m ago

Chrome has them too :)

TheDong•38m 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•1h ago

this would make me so happy!

joezydeco•36m 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•58m 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•31m 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•1h ago

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

snarf21•1h ago

I thought the person responsible was already gone...

troupo•1h 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•36m 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•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago

Never considered this but I'd love this feature

stetrain•1h ago

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

walterbell•1h ago

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

haritha-j•1h ago

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

kdheiwns•58m 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.

v3xro•12m ago

And if it detects persistent negative sentiment it triggers a 'bug' in the battery management software that causes the device to explode when in proximity of your face.

(;-_-)ノ

throwuxiytayq•38m ago

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

crazygringo•8m ago

Oh man. That would be incredibly cool. I use dictation all the time on my iPhone, for example I'm dictating this comment right now. It's just almost always faster than typing. But I'm never going to dictate anything at the office or on public transportation. But if I could just hold the phone up closer to my lips and have it transcribe just as well while I "talk" silently, that would be really interesting. And in the same way we've completely normalized people who seem to be talking to themselves, until you realize they're having a conversation over their earbuds, we'll completely normalize people silently mouthing sentences to their phones. What a weird but fascinating idea.

bikelang•59m ago

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

dgxyz•56m ago

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

Someone1234•56m 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•51m ago

We need another Snow Leopard era.

usrnm•41m 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"

lnsru•4m ago

I need three new phones in close future for the family and I think I will go with Google Pixels and GrapheneOS. There is foldable phone available! It’s cheaper, I can deduct phones in full in the same year since the phones are <800€ before taxes (relevant probably only in Germany). And imho Apple’s premium promise is gone with glass design. Too many small errors.

Brajeshwar•56m 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•52m 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•52m ago

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

zelifcam•52m 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•42m ago

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

iamleppert•41m 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•38m 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•31m 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].

varispeed•24m ago

Apple should focus on security and verifiability. At the moment, when another zero day for iOS is released, users have no way to check if their phones have been compromised.

Meaning from security point of view Apple devices are not trustworthy.

Apple should cease doing security by obscurity.

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