re: Slow iphone after IOS update.

Planned obsolescence.

Phone updates are made to eventually make you get a new one

Been that way for a few years now at least

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I’m convinced these updates are designed to frick up older phones so that you think it’s dying and will buy a new one.

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Google the term “planned obsolescence”.

You’re right.

My phone is slow too, but it's a XR. But it slows down even more when storage gets full. So check that out. Sometimes it's good to completely start fresh on a phone if you've been using it for a while.

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I hated the glass bubbles and found that this helps out a bunch.

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After 26.1 (I think) you can first try to select the tinted glass setting under Settings / Display & Brightness / Liquid Glass. If not enough then use the reduce transparency and also try turning on the “Increase Contrast” setting right under the Reduce transparency setting in Accessibility / Display & Text settings.

The reduce transparency and the increase contrast affect more than what’s normal considered the Liquid Glass items or buttons. In the past when any transparency added to iOS GUI reducing transparency could also help limit older devices getting bogged down when the transparency in GUI is too much for their chips or ram. Since iOS 7’s “clean” or minimalistic look went too far for me I always turn on the “increase contrast” accessibility setting.

Another option is the “Show Borders” setting also under Accessibility / Display & Text settings which adds a small border around buttons or floating menus if they are difficult to distinguish from background.

After adjusting the looks of iOS 26 to what looks best to you if any individual app looks bad with those accessibility settings you can go to Settings / Accessibility / Per-App Settings and then add the app or apps to then adjust the accessibility settings individually for each app chosen.

The problem is if you switch from dark mode or light mode a lot or automatically as the above changes don’t always help with the looks in the same way between those modes. Subjectively you might find that what helped in one can look bad in the other or vice versa.

This is what you get when your software team’s only idea for innovation for the new iOS is to convert an iOS look meant for a visual interface with those ski goggle looking Vision Pros to a touch screen interface devices.

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Pretty much every company does this now.. Phones, appliances, electronics... Planned obsolescence.

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Yep. Phones made 10 years ago should still be sufficiently powerful to run the latest Android, but companies drop software support so you’ll buy new ones. You can root it and install s third party android but that does you no good because of the app store duopoly between Apple and Google. So we end up with perfectly good equipment going to yet more landfills.

What phone you have?

I’m holding out on this update as well.

I turned off autoupdate before the one that the beta users were complaining sapped battery. 16 pro. Doesn’t sound like I’m missing it, Bob.