I don’t care.
I want battery life and no Liquid Glass.
Everything else is useless fluff.
And I definitely don’t want ai.
So get anything but an iPhone 17 Pro (or newer) or iPhone Air. It won’t get the new AI. If you’re looking for a new iPhone, the base 17 is awesome and it won’t get the new AI.
You can turn the Liquid Ass mostly opaque. I’m on the iOS 27 dev beta and I have it mostly transparent — more so than iOS 26, I think. That’s how it should be for anyone who devs (I don’t but I’m not missing the point). Everyone who makes apps should have it locked on most transparent so they can make their apps not look like [liquid] ass. For everyone else, I think it should be able to be fully disabled. Bring back brushed aluminium!
So I’m running the iOS 27 beta 2 and the major bugs so far are
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Shortcuts not working anymore (tried to reset them in different ways to no avail)
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Keyboard getting stuck on the screen or not appearing at all and needing to close and reopen the apps quite often.
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The usual iOS unresponsiveness (from years ago I guess)
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