I’m really frustrated with iOS 26. It was supposed to make better use of screen space, but when you combine the navigation bar, tab bar, and search bar, they eat up way too much room.
Apple actually did a great job with the new tab bar — it’s smaller, smooth, and looks great when expanding or collapsing while scrolling. The way the search bar appears above the keyboard is also really nice.
But why did they keep the navigation bar the same height in both portrait and landscape? In landscape it takes up too much space and just looks bad. It was way better in iOS 18.