I don’t care how they do it but I want to be able to press and hold the flashlight icon and, without lifting my finger, immediately begin to slide my finger up and down to adjust flashlight brightness.
Boo form over function. Very minor nod to the increased granularity.
There are so many bad UI decisions in iOS 26.1. Phone dialer and camera are practically unusable. Just gratuitous changes with so many hidden options.
At least, for some of them they let you switch back to 'classic' mode. But it's like they brought back all the bad ideas from the skeumorphic days.