On 2025-12-20 09:57, Chris wrote:
How are you adding the album? From a CD? Other?
I've never been critical of major iOS updates because change is eternal and >> you need get used to that. However, iOS 26 is many steps beyond reasonable >> change. It is the worst example of form over function.
Latest issue is Apple Music. Adding albums to my library doesn't work. It
considers it for a bit and then the "download arrow" changes back to a "+". >> Despite my previous storage issue, I do have 8GB free so that's got nothing >> to do with it.
As to Apple Music I've always found the UI to be very unintuitive (back
to the iTunes app) and not getting better. It seems to "steer" one to
Apple Music store consumption too.
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
I've never been critical of major iOS updates because change is eternal and >> you need get used to that. However, iOS 26 is many steps beyond reasonable >> change. It is the worst example of form over function.
Latest issue is Apple Music. Adding albums to my library doesn't work. It
considers it for a bit and then the "download arrow" changes back to a "+". >> Despite my previous storage issue, I do have 8GB free so that's got nothing >> to do with it.
I donrCOt use Apple Music but the Liquid Glass is enough to piss me off. IrCOm
still holding out for more options to disable that abomination.
Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
On 2025-12-20 09:57, Chris wrote:
How are you adding the album? From a CD? Other?
I've never been critical of major iOS updates because change is eternal and >>> you need get used to that. However, iOS 26 is many steps beyond reasonable >>> change. It is the worst example of form over function.
Latest issue is Apple Music. Adding albums to my library doesn't work. It >>> considers it for a bit and then the "download arrow" changes back to a "+". >>> Despite my previous storage issue, I do have 8GB free so that's got nothing >>> to do with it.
As to Apple Music I've always found the UI to be very unintuitive (back
to the iTunes app) and not getting better. It seems to "steer" one to
Apple Music store consumption too.
I have a Music subscription. Can supposedly add any album. Not anymore it seems.
It's only the one album, it turns out. Weird.
On 2025-12-20 11:13, Chris wrote:
It's not just that transparency is such a bad idea, but it's so poorly
implemented. Plus, there's all the gratuitous movement of button and UI
objects whenever you touch them. It's confusing and distracting. It wasn't >> too bad to begin with, but now, 2-3 weeks in, I hate it.
We'll be stuck with this until at least 27, unfortunately.
26.2 addresses much of it with transparency options that lead pretty
much back to opaque.
I don't mind the "toned down" version - except on one seldom visited
screen (don't ask - I'm not diving to try and find which one) that
doesn't matter too much.
Not sure it's so much a bad idea as "something new has to be done!".
There are a lot of other areas that could use improving w/o wasting engineering and visual design on transparency.
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