My M2 MacBook Air and M2 Pro Mac mini both took performance hits with macOS 26, but iOS 26 has been fine. I don’t mind Liquid Ass, though. It’s interesting, and no performance hit on 16PM, and I don’t have issues with the visuals. On iOS 26.1 I went with the frosted look, so the contrast is a bit better. Reduce Contrast takes it down too far and I love the glass effects.
My only issue with the Liquid Ass updates is how Finder windows look on the Mac. They’re more rounded in the corners than the MacBook Air’s corners are, so there’s a gap. My LG UltraView doesn’t have rounded corners at all (it’s perfectly rectangular), so the rounded corners just look dumb. I generally like macOS, but Finder looks stupid now. It looked way better before. But I feel like Apple doesn’t care about the Mac as much as they used to, and are shoehorning crap in just to check boxes.
I did not hate Liquid Glass as much as I thought I would. The only gripe I really have with it at the moment is that I can’t reduce the size of the clock on the lock screen. It’s big or bigger. Also, with one of the wallpapers, some of the complications on the lock screen are hidden in the wallpaper. Haha
My M2 MacBook Air and M2 Pro Mac mini both took performance hits with macOS 26, but iOS 26 has been fine. I don’t mind Liquid Ass, though. It’s interesting, and no performance hit on 16PM, and I don’t have issues with the visuals. On iOS 26.1 I went with the frosted look, so the contrast is a bit better. Reduce Contrast takes it down too far and I love the glass effects.
My only issue with the Liquid Ass updates is how Finder windows look on the Mac. They’re more rounded in the corners than the MacBook Air’s corners are, so there’s a gap. My LG UltraView doesn’t have rounded corners at all (it’s perfectly rectangular), so the rounded corners just look dumb. I generally like macOS, but Finder looks stupid now. It looked way better before. But I feel like Apple doesn’t care about the Mac as much as they used to, and are shoehorning crap in just to check boxes.
I did not hate Liquid Glass as much as I thought I would. The only gripe I really have with it at the moment is that I can’t reduce the size of the clock on the lock screen. It’s big or bigger. Also, with one of the wallpapers, some of the complications on the lock screen are hidden in the wallpaper. Haha