The one time Apple customers were “undercharged.”
Last week, Apple fans ripped the tech giant apart over the newest iPhone 17’s “ugly” design, which will be released later this week.
Now the iPhone’s newly-released iOS 26 update is being lambasted for a function issue — it’s apparently draining users’ battery.
After installing the update, which was initially announced in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, many techheads noticed that their “juice bar” was being depleted within hours.
“Just fully charged my phone 58 minutes ago and it’s already down to 79%,” fumed one unsatisfied customer on X. “iOS 26 is turning my phone into a brick.”
“Dude wtf. My phone’s been burning up since the update to iOS 26 and voila my battery health just fell down to 80%,” exclaimed another. “I haven’t even changed any charging habits.”
“iOS26 evidently has a battery issue,” raged a third, the juice seemingly not being worth the squeeze. “I used my work phone less than I usually do in the mornings and I’m already down to 50%.”
However, Apple assured viewers that this initial power struggle is a normal hiccup, noting in a support doc that after “completing an update, particularly a major release, you might notice a temporary impact on battery life and thermal performance.”
“This is normal, as your device needs time to complete the setup process in the background, including indexing data and files for search, downloading new assets, and updating apps,” they wrote.
Apple added that there are new features that may “require additional resources from the device and that, “depending on individual usage, some users may notice a small impact on performance and/or battery life.”
However, a bleeding battery isn’t the only problem users have had with the iOS 26 update.
Many also took issue with the Liquid Glass design, which makes app icons, menus, pop-ups and more appear translucent like frosted glass, so background colors appear blurry as if refracted through them.
“Liquid Glass Design is the ugliest thing @Apple has ever done!” fumed one unimpressed Apple fan, while another wrote, “Steve Jobs would have never approved this.”
“Apple’s new glassy UI (user interface) design literally hurts my eyes to look at,” vented a third. “The notifications are a literal eyesore. It’s the definition of form over function. This OS update is going to be the worst thing Apple has done since iOS 7. No joke.”
Meanwhile, one Redditor user claimed that the new background effects, which mark the tech firm’s first interface makeover in over a year, “made me dizzy just looking at it.”
