Liquid Glass - first impressions

[Content warning: a lot of complaining]

So, I finally gave in and started updating my iDevices to Liquid Ass, after the latest big vulnerability story with the DarkSword hacking toolkit leak – starting with my iPad for now. (I'm still pissed at Apple for withholding the security updates for iOS 18 for devices that support iOS 26 – they've released security patches from 18.7.3 to 18.7.7, but they're only available for iPhone XR & XS… if you have e.g. an iPhone SE3, you can't install it, even though they have everything implemented and packaged. If they really cared about users' security, they would just make it available like they do with macOS updates 😒)

(Update 1.04.2026: they've actually released 18.7.7 for all devices now! For real 😲)

Some random first impressions: