You Have to Invert — Accidental Tech Podcast

Impressions of iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass after a week of using the first developer betas. Surprisingly, we have thoughts.

• Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
• What betas are we running?
• 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
  • iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
    • ProcessInfo
    • /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
  • Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
    • SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
    • null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
• Liquid Glass
• macOS Tahoe
• iOS 26
  • UI impressions
  • New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
• iPadOS 26
• Testing Liquid Glass
• Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
• Post-show: WWDC Favorites
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?

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