5 quick ways to make your iPhone act more like it used to, before Apple’s iOS 26 update

Apple’s iOS 26 has been available for nearly six months now, but it’s still one of the company’s least well-received software updates for the iPhone.

Primarily, people have criticized the new Liquid Glass user interface design, which Apple now lets you tone down. But iOS 26 also changed the way many apps function on the iPhone, disrupting a user’s muscle memory and expectations, leading to many to pine for the way the iPhone functioned on iOS 18.

Yet while you can’t revert to iOS 18 once you’ve upgraded to iOS 26...