iOS 26.2 (and all of 26) worst upgrade ever.

SravanKrA wrote:

The list comprises approximately 4000 posts across all iOS versions, indicating that the issue is not with the iOS but with device management.

No it doesn't!

There isn't anything even suggested in your list that it has anything to do with Device Management. What it does show quite well is certainly there is a case for users that are uncomfortable with any change in the way they use their device and will report that they hate the update. That has been consistent for years.

Also it is not uncommon for initial releases of new OS versions to contain bugs that are usually quickly resolved in the point updates that follow shortly after release. It happens every year. It seems you are suggesting from your list that any user reporting a problem with an update is due to their device being managed, and when another update resolved that bug apparently you think Apple has somehow removed this Device Management that was causing the problem. Makes no sense.

Get ready for the next major iOS release and you will see the same posts saying it is the worst update ever and it has NOTHING to do with device management.

Edmundakov wrote:

My iPhone 13 Pro serves me just fine, the way it is at 18.7.2!!! Liquid glass does not excite me.

You can certainly do that if you want. But you will no longer get security updates to keep you safe, nor any bug fixes going forward.

I am currently running Sequoia 15.7.3 and got the notice to update my MacBook Pro. Hard pass. 26.2 is such a huge failure on my iPad AND my iPhone that it WILL NOT be installed on my Mac.

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I have the latest iPhone SE which I bought last year. The previous operating system allowed me to enlarge the character size on the keyboard for emails and texts. It used the full width of the screen in the landscape mode. This morning I discover the character size has shrunk and there seems to be no means of enlarging the size. Apple speak about ACCESS but this is a step backwards. For any one with visual or impairment of dexterity it is making any form of communication from the phone more difficult. the previous levels of keyboard access need to be restored! Please!

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I can’t get photos to save to my phone. Forcing everything to iCloud. I cloud photos not accessible anywhere on my phone. Can’t wait to stumble into all the other issues awaiting. This is seriously the first thing I tried to do in my phone after the update last night. Download photos sent via text to post on NextDood. Really cutting edge stuff I’m trying to do. My frustration is coming out.

I too are having all the issues you just described. Is there anyway to go back to a previous version, most likely not. Did they conduct beta trials before this horrible 26.2 release. I hope a patch is released soon. My wife is still on 17.7.10 and so I turned off her auto up date to avoid this disastrous up date!

Deseno wrote:

Even before the update I couldn’t get Siri to work anymore in my phone, after the update Siri still is not working. It’s inconvenient especially when setting timers I have to manually do it.

Since this thread is about iOS 26.2 and you had an issue even before the update, your issue has little to do with the update, so you'd have more success if you started a new thread about your issue with Siri, where it would get more attention and support.

See if anything in this link helps you --> If Siri isn't working on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Hi, former Apple Store manger here (I’m retired) and I doubt any of the employees you ran into were working Apple Retail when the iPhone UI was changed back in 2013 when iOS 7 was introduced. In fact most were probably in elementary school. It’s simply the design Apple has chosen to go with, for now. Apple’s user base is literally over 1 billion users. Making a single user interface perfectly compatible for every user is literally impossible. Apple will make changes (or not make changes) based partially on the feedback they receive through their official channel, linked below and good luck.

Product Feedback - Apple

It’s simply the design Apple has chosen to go with, for now. Apple’s iPhone user base is literally over 1.5 billion users. Making a single user interface perfectly compatible for every user is literally impossible. Apple will make changes (or not make changes) based partially on the feedback they receive through their official channel, linked below, and good luck.

Product Feedback - Apple

i got an update last night. But the whole transparency and web browser thing. Why ever try to make it work. Every time this is changed we complain and need a way to change it back. I don’t like the layout at all. And transparency is a no go.

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It has been horrible. I have the circles that pop up all the time every time I open up a contact and then I find out my contact no longer has a phone number.

Does anyone know if you can roll back to your last upgrade?

21skidoo wrote:

Unable to add appointments to calendar. Getting a weird set up page. Doesn’t allow changes. This is a horrible update. Please fix it! Pro 15

You are going to need to provide much more information. Nobody knows what weird set up page you are referring to. If we did we may be able to help and provide a fix for you. If this was a bug in iOS, we would all be seeing it (along with the millions of other users), but I have no problem adding appointments to the Calendar, just like I was able to do with iOS 18.

21skidoo wrote:

Cannot set events/appointments in calendar. Stinks!

There is absolutely nothing in iOS 26.2 which prevents setting calendar events. NOTHING. If it was an iOS 26.2 issue, it would prevent everyone from doing so, but it's not. I think you're the first person to suggest you can't add a calendar event. So, there has to be something else which is preventing you, like perhaps:

Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Calendars - make sure Allow Changes is marked Allow.

chaosinall wrote:

I wish to go back to iOS 18! This iOS 26.2(all of 26) is be difficult to navigate. I don’t care for the shadows, the pre text (Help me write) and I don’t like the automatic changes that happen with the updates. Every time I do an update changes are made on my phone that I didn’t ask for or change. One in particular is not seeing at the top of my phone who is calling, I can’t even answer because I don’t see it only hear the ringtone. PLEASE put this back to an updated USER FRIENDLY operating system. Thank you

Kathy J

Did you read past the first post? Clearly not. You cannot downgrade. Apple has never supported downgrading. You have to know Apple owns iOS, not us users. And every year, when the next major iOS version is released, it goes through months of user Beta testing before it is released to us the general public. Yes, things change. And every year when they do, people complain because things changed. Yet, we all somehow manage to learn what's new and how to use the iOS version we've been given.

You can read about the iOS 26 update here --> OS - iOS 26 - Apple

chaosinall wrote:

Every time I do an update changes are made on my phone that I didn’t ask for or change.

Yes, things change with updates and that is also true for Android phones, Windows computers and Mac computers. Companies that do not continually evolve with technology are viewed as stagnant and don't last very long. Think Blackberry (RIM).

You can even look back on this Support Site when iOS 18 was released and see the same posts where some hated it and wanted to go back to the previous version. Yet, we all seem to adapt and now that is the iOS version you want to go back to. Wait until the next major release and it will all start over again.