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Apple Announces All-New 'Liquid Glass' Software Redesign Across iOS 26 and More
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Yup! I've never liked when the screen is visible behind content I that I want to quickly glance at. This makes that tab bar look incredibly difficult to see.
Not really. All OS' have accessibility features to help you change the default to your liking.
They didn’t even turn it up to 11. iOS 7 was meh and this is meh x2 they make good phones and software works with hardware. Why can’t they make great software that is new. And what others aren’t doing.
100%. Skeu was about usability. This glass stuff is not.
You're missing the point. This won't just be for people with visual handicap, this is needed because this glass thing is misguided design.
I think you might be missing the point... yours is a subjective take. Just because you find it difficult to read doesn't mean it will be for everyone else. Don't take it so personally.
So it cracks, gets covered in bird poop....
Like the new design. Hopefully there will be no bugs. Cannot wait to test it out.
wow so many unhappy people. i personally like the update and look forward to it....
This change is gonna be very controversial, but I like it for the most part. I think the glass look is not quite true to life. But I've been a fan of the frosted look on macOS and this is an extension of that. I absolutely love the redesigned context menus. Much needed change.
I think this will grow on people and they'll continue to refine it.
I think this will grow on people and they'll continue to refine it.
To each their own. Personally, a lot of these icons are now difficult for me to see (photos, mail in particular). They appear blurry. I do hope there will be a possibility to change this in the accessibility center.
This looks like a bad theme on a jailbroken iPhone, lmao
Wasn’t Microsoft’s design called Fluent Design System where they introduced lots of blur and glass-like effects when selecting things and lots of layers 6-7 years ago? Of course blur etc. aren’t trademarked and Apple used it combined with the flat design.
I think it works better on MacOS than on iPhone but I’ll reserve judgement. But I don’t think the current designlanguage is so bad. And my personal take would be that interface and icons should be as simple and timeless as possible. I think I would like to see the current a bit simplified but maybe with small animations without it intruding.
I think it works better on MacOS than on iPhone but I’ll reserve judgement. But I don’t think the current designlanguage is so bad. And my personal take would be that interface and icons should be as simple and timeless as possible. I think I would like to see the current a bit simplified but maybe with small animations without it intruding.
I don’t know… I don’t like this glas concept on the small iPhone screen. It feels unnecessary and sometimes it looked like they compromised contrast for the sake of it.
The invites app in the current OS looked "overlayerd", luckily they are not doing this across iOS26 at least. But why the "uber focus" on the search icon? Having this in its own menu bar next to multiple others looks very cluttered.
Having said alll of this, I think the glass design looks much nicer on Mac and iPad. If I saw it correctly, it seems like the glass effects are more complex there too.
The invites app in the current OS looked "overlayerd", luckily they are not doing this across iOS26 at least. But why the "uber focus" on the search icon? Having this in its own menu bar next to multiple others looks very cluttered.
Having said alll of this, I think the glass design looks much nicer on Mac and iPad. If I saw it correctly, it seems like the glass effects are more complex there too.
Seriously. It's just an extension of the frosted glass look on macOS. Comment boards are just hot takes now
I really like it. What I really don’t like is how EVERY MacRumors news post is full of pages and pages of negativity. Reading comments on this site seriously just ruins my mood sometimes.
It makes me feel awful when someone says something positive, like “Simply breathtaking,” and then people use the laugh reaction on it. It is so incredibly rude. It really disappoints me how grown adults can be so childish. I thought this site was better than that.
It makes me feel awful when someone says something positive, like “Simply breathtaking,” and then people use the laugh reaction on it. It is so incredibly rude. It really disappoints me how grown adults can be so childish. I thought this site was better than that.
It's weird because in some ways it seems less drastic than iOS 7 did, but in other ways it feels more distracting. I remember the betas for iOS 7 really dialed in the look more, so hopefully they fix some of these issues with legibility, especially for people with accessibility issues. Apple knows better than most companies about that. But does anyone else think the glass effect is kinda distracting when things are moving in the background like scrolling or video? They seemed to think the update will put more focus on the content in the background, but I'm inclined to disagree with this first public iteration.
Sorry this is gorgeous. So clean.
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It's like a police press conference where everyone has to get up at the podium to kiss each others asses when they should just do their damn jobs - it's pathetic "main character syndrome" and increasingly worse and worse.
Also, Apple knows how half-assed they are lately and this way no single presenter appears associated with the entire mess themselves.