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@adamengst@mastodon.social joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about how to tame Liquid Glass in all of the OSes 26. Enjoy the fun as you hear us refer to some changes as “horsey” and others as “blurpy”.
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With Apple’s OSes 26, You can export Notes to Markdown. In a worked example, we'll create formatted text in iPadOS 26, export to Markdown, and see how the files and any images look in plain text editors as Markdown. It’s really cool!
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I knwo it's so much more satisfying to complain like this, rather than spend the time making threads about some of the great stuff in the new OS 26es. But this kind of thing, once it starts to go bad, takes years or even decades to ever be “fixed.”
So here's a positive! The back and forward […]
The Music app control capsule at the bottom of the Music app home screen in macOS 26. The capsule utilizes Liquid Glass, so the album art behind it is visible, warped and somewhat darkened. It does indeed make osme of the controls very hard to see, especially the greyed out ones.
And all the horrible, empty space on the sides of the new control capsule! It's ridiculous.
I guess until you notice that this capsule floats over every single thing in Music now. Which, of course, it NEEDS to do to be always available for use.
Here it is […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
I hated that the playback progress bar in Music had, years ago, eschewed the time indicators (current time, total time), which, amazingly, I used to look at all the time. You have to ROLL OVER the playback for the times to appear IN EMPTY SPACE at each end of the bar! Why not make then […]
A screen capture of the music playback information panel in the Music app in macOS 26. The controls have been moved to the BOTTOM of the Music window, UNDERNEATH the scroll bars, even! All controls are now in a capsule, which remains the same size, no matter how wide you expand the Music app window. It also prevents the Music app from being any narrower than this capsule (not counting the sidebar). Controls left to right: shuffle, skip back/rewind, play/pause, skip forward/fast forward, repeat, album art, name/artist/album info, playback progress bar, quality indicator, three-dot menu, lyrics toggle, playlist toggle, AirPlay, volume button (but no volume indication until you click it).
A screen capture of the music playback information panel in the Music app in macOS 15. The controls are at the TOP of the Music window, where they have been since time immemorial. Controls are in segments. This area ALSO prevents the Music app from being any narrower than the controls (see previous image), but these controls expand apart in segments to fill the space as the Music app window is enlarged. Controls left to right: shuffle, skip back, play/pause, skip forward, repeat, album art, quality indicator, name/artist/album info, favorite (star) indicator, playback progress bar below name/artist/etc., volume slider which indicates current volume, AirPlay, lyrics toggle, playlist toggle.
A screen capture of the music playback information panel in the Music app in iPadOS 26. The controls are also at the BOTTOM of the Music window. All controls are also in a capsule, but this capsule will compact and change location if the Music window on iPad is drastically en-smallened. Controls left to right: shuffle, skip back/rewind, play/pause, skip forward/fast forward, repeat, album art, name/artist/album info, NO playback progress bar, NO quality indicator, three-dot menu, lyrics toggle, playlist toggle, NO AirPlay, NO volume. Some of these things only show up in the full-panel slide-up, just like on an iPhone.
…The playback information in Music on the Mac is now... AT THE FUCKING BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN?
What is the most important thing you need to see when your'e playing music in a music app? Yes, all the searching, browsing, organizing is HUGELY important, but what […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
But I am still genuinely baffled when Apple makes the dumbest possible changes. I know there are hours of debate over some of this stuff, but I don't get it. Some of it here seems to be a "feature parity" across all the OSs. For instance… #AppleOS26 2/
Okay, after some days now with v26 of the various Apple OSs, I am, in general, liking it quite a lot. I still have trouble with all the blobbiness of the space and being able to see less information (thread: https://mastodon.online/@lekowicz/115210704207529190 but overall, it feels genuinely […]
iPadOS 26 Beta 2, Update Requested…
iOS 26 Beta 2, Update Requested…
watchOS 26 Beta 2, Estimated time remaining…
Sweet, second beta of (Device)OS 26 dropped this morning. #appleOS26 Now comes the part where it’ll take an hour to update. Time for coffee.
