Tahoe here and there

I agree with what John Gruber has to say about Tahoe on the iPhone and the Mac:

I like iOS 26 just fine, but I also still like iOS 18, and the differences just don’t seem that significant. For me at least, it’s nothing like switching between MacOS 15 Sequoia and 26 Tahoe. iOS 26 makes some highly opinionated choices, but it feels like it was thoughtfully designed by people who know and love the core longstanding idioms of iOS. MacOS 26 Tahoe feels like it was carelessly designed by people who’ve never used a Mac and wish it would just go away.

My thought after updating to Tahoe on my phone: it’s not that bad. My biggest problem, aside from the constant shifting between white and black in the Safari address bar, and the purple Enter key in Safari that results from Reduce Transparency, was this weirdness:

[I know: what?]

I searched for a fix and realized that even describing this glitch clearly — bar at top of screen in iOS Tahoe Safari — was going to be a problem. I finally figured it out: my choice of background color for a new tab in Safari on the Mac created this problem on the iPhone. When I switched to no color on the Mac, the problem disappeared.

For anyone who hasn’t switched to Tahoe: it might be helpful to know that Apple has now made its latest iOS 15 update available for phones that can run Tahoe. It was first available only for phones that were too old to update to Tahoe. So there’s still a way to avoid Tahoe if you want and still be safe from the DarkSword exploit that prompted the update.