Lock screen and customized
iOS 26 The lock screen features with a large watch face, which was technically part of the previous Android updates, so there is nothing new. However, the effect of liquid glass and the Paralex Lock screen wallpaper is new. A UI 7 And Android 16 Also proud of a ton of personal powers, including different clock faces, styles and colors.
Home screen and apps
Apple introduces a new “clean” appearance iOS 26Stock icons, which make it as if they are made of glass. For your home screen, free of distress, can be helpful to look at the least! At the same time, both A UI 7 And Android 16 The icon tinting feature, but you can technically get the same clean look with one of the thousands of icon packs available in the customs Android launcher and the Play Store. Still, there is no local solution!
Control Center/Quick Toggle
One of the more amazing display of liquid glass style. We understand that Apple will fix the appearance of the toggle here, as its ability is not good at all. Android 16 And A UI 7 No such quirk is suffering from this: Quick Toggle System is the heir of the color palette that you choose, and usually look very good.
Settings
I some small changes iOS 26With density reduction and the order of menu items changed slightly. The search bar has also been moved down. Android and A UI 7 The versions are mostly similar to each other and their predecessors.
Galle
Apple backed on its large extent in iOS18 on a back -to -the -designed photo app and more familiar with it iOS 26. You get a quick shortcut to both your photos and your collection (alias folders), and this is a great change honestly. Samsung’s gallery app itself looks great, while Android 16Stock Google Photo app should be familiar with most users.
Camera
iOS 26 The features of a newly designed camera app, which are mostly accustomed to iOS users, are quite different. If anything is, now it looks close to an UI and Android 16The setting of
AI and Smart Assistant
Siri has not been touched iOS 26: Since then it looks different iOS 18 And still Chat can tap in GPT, but underneath it all is the same ineligible smart assistant that is usually just good for applying alarms and timers. Gemini, which is available on both Android 16 And A UI 7Is a much more capable AI chat boot/smart assistant, which is capable of integration with LLM -powered reasoning as well as Android sub system.
Browser
Safari scored new shapes and now it is very clean with a very low look. However, many essential features have been removed within the menos, so this is not the most intuitive setting here. Samsung Internet and Google Chrome, who are default browser A UI 7 And Android 16 Take a look close to the standard browsers, but also fail in appearance in terms of appearance.
