644: You Have to Invert
Impressions of iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass after a week of using the first developer betas. Surprisingly, we have thoughts.
Episode 644 of the Accidental Tech Podcast podcast, hosted by ATP, titled "644: You Have to Invert" was published on June 19, 2025 and runs 142 minutes.
June 19, 2025 ·142m · Accidental Tech Podcast
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Episode Description
- Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- What betas are we running?
- 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get
19.0; new ones get26.0(via Gui Rambo)ProcessInfo/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns
16when reqiured for compatibility and26otherwise (via Howard Oakley)SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1=16nullorSYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0=26
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get
- Liquid Glass
- Adopting Liquid Glass
- Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
- Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
- macOS Tahoe
- Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
- Squircle Jail
- Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
- Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
- Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
- Speaking of rounded corners…
- Chonky stoplights
- macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
-[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
- Missing title bars
- Missing menu bar fixes
- Alignment
- Finder icon controversy
- Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
- Michael Flarup
- D. Griffin Jones
- Icons next to menu items
- Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
- Today in the HIG
- Tabs contrast
- Safari contrast
- Arrow cursor has been updated
- Floating elements & compartmentalization
- Clipboard history
- Future of Rosetta
- New disk image format:
ASIF
- iOS 26
- UI impressions
- New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
- iPadOS 26
- Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Slideover is 💀
- UI impressions
- Testing Liquid Glass
- Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Post-show: WWDC Favorites
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?
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