Yes, they really toned down the effect of Liquid Glass. Noticed it right away in safari. Bummer. But this will please a lot of people. Just not me.
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iOS 26 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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The thing is that it wasn’t removed, it has been toned down for readability reasons as some people had issues and surely it won’t come back to beta 1 levels.
Personally I miss it, at least we got this new cool floating tab bars and search buttons that are not on the top of the screen
Where in the rootin, tootin, flea bitten dog nabit has glass effect gone in B3?
Jumping jahosafats!
Jumping jahosafats!
It looks like the Files app now has a new interface. Also battery life seems better now.
Docks with three icons are centered again
Is it just me, or is there a new animation on the iPad when opening apps? It like swoops in to the front.
The issue is they shouldn’t have to listen to feedback they should have designed this years ago and made sure it was what we will get and they should tell us what we need not the other way round. Look at the photos up etc they keep walking back on stuff, something is very wrong with the software team. They used to be ahead of the game. There are twitter users making better liquid glass renders and icons etc. Apple is disappointing, this beta is making iOS 26 look more and more like iOS 18 and we don’t even have exciting new features like split screen multitasking. What have the team been working on for years. The whole main point of iOS 26 was liquid glass and that has been changing between betas for the worse. It isn’t even liquid glass anymore
If you hold down the tab in Safari, now you get to close all the tabs, instead of "Other tabs".. That's pretty cool!
No it shouldn’t. Give the option to turn off the transparency but don’t nerf it for the rest of us who like it.
I’m getting more lag on this beta than I did after installing beta 2, what I don’t get is shouldn’t the main design language been done years ago when they started working on this; why wait until the beta cycle to change how liquid it is. That should of been in house months ago
That’s what betas are for so they get feedback not just bug reports
It's not possible to include all of the known issues as Apple breaks them out by area or framework. You gotta read the actual notes.
It's weird. In some places things are dialed way back, such as the controls in Maps, whereas in other apps like Music, the frostiness is less drastic. I'd like to think there's some logic to it — like they don't want small controls to get lost on the business of a map view, but people know where to find the tab bar, so it can be more transparent — but I'm just not seeing the consistency. I'm afraid they're in the middle of dialing back transparency and we'll see more in future builds.
Well who is anyone to decide really. Nice to call people out though, isn't it?
So a major change for a decade and the main reason for the update can just be reversed because some people don’t like it. So why announce liquid glass in the first place. They should be telling us what we want not the other way round
Not perfect still obviously, but I’m shocked at how well beta 3 is running so far!
I'm sure that your slider is the very next thing on Apple's 'to to' list. I'd expect they are feverishly working on it as we speak ;-)
years ago? Who knows when they started work on this. Maybe they cobbled it together in a few weeks.
Why isn’t anyone posting images of the change in liquid glass transparency? There was like a single comparison in the entire thread lol
yes. nothing works
My workaround, I look away from the phone while I tap the screen to change wallpaper, it says unlock to edit then brings up passcode screen, then it works. but if the phone is unlocked and I try, nothing happens. I've reported this in feedback since beta 1 revision. it was fine for beta 1 OG
It's been an hour and most of us are at work. Is there something you wanted a screenshot of?
Super annoyed with how these betas started out as Liquid Glass but now are just Windows Vista.
Oh, and my MBP doesn't even see a beta.
Oh, and my MBP doesn't even see a beta.