iOS and iPad OS 26 have the worst battery life ever

And I can definitely say just how bad it is because my iPad Pro M2 was replaced after screen issues 3 months ago so it has a basically brand new battery, and I had my battery replaced in my iPhone 14 Pro not a month ago (and they exploded my phone so I have a replacement). After upgrading to version 26 I thought it was bad at first, but I have literally such worse battery life than I did with my phone which was down to 80% efficiency on the battery! Without walking and using the GPS my phone is down to 30 percent by 3:47 PM! And this happens every day! And my iPad Pro with almost no use is down to 70 when with the old battery would have been at 96%.. And I am sure half of it is from the awful transparency that makes everything look illegible, and constantly glitches and takes a while to redraw as most things show up transparent. And hopefully 26.1 which will allow you to limit transparency will bring some efficiency back, but likely this is mostly bad coding! My pet peace’s in an OS are making things less efficient (more steps to do the same things),, less legible (say with transparency, and running slower with each OS release! And these OS’s do all of these in spades!

Pinned music is in iOS 26 is a great idea, but why does it only work if I sync my music library?

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-music-just-added-my-most-wished-for-feature-in-ios-26/ I would love to be able to pin my favorite playlists to the top of my library, but I don’t sync my library, and I should still be able to use the feature! I tried music syncing when it first came out and thankfully I had most of my library well backed up because it literally ruined it! It put wrong artwork in files and mislabeled music and basically ruined my whole library. And I have a ton of music not available on the App Store, live tracks and the like that I listen to constantly. I still get 1 Tb phone to fit all my music (heck I would love 2 TB’s but I don’t want an iPhone Max).

Liquid Glass is fucking ugly and a user interface nightmare

OK so I have upgraded my iPhone and iPad to version 26, and while it certainly has some great new features and ability to customize, its signature feature Liquid Glass is just plain ugly! I haven’t upgraded my Mac to 26 yet as I am busy making sure I have digitized all of my DV tapes and Tahoe gets rid of FireWire support, so i have not seen it’s ugliness on the desktop as of yet, but on the iPad and iPhone it is just ugly. I have always hated transparency in a user interface because it lowers usability. By bleeding backgrounds into foregrounds things are harder to see and especially read! I hated it when Mac made the menu bar partially transparent and now it is fully transparent! WTF! And it obviously is more processor intensive, because it has screwed up the screen display many times! I have unlocked the phone and iPad and had it just freeze on the background! And I have had pages of apps all be clear, when I move to them. So I am sure it is more processor intensive, and I would rather have the os talk less processing more not more! Honestly it is so ugly, I feel like people will complain and iOS 27 will have to roll this back, it is just ugly, but also harder to use! And most reviews at best say you get used to it. I don’t want to get used to it!