The biggest problem I am finding, and I’m sure it’s because it early betas and will be sorted, is that sometimes one element over the other looks like it’s been badly designed, it looks out of place. The frosted glass look isn’t frosted enough in a lot of cases. You can see so much of the image or the text below that it makes seeing what’s above it to hard to read. And as I’m typing this, the sentence I’m writing is being covered up by both the frosting fade out and the little bar that shows the website address.
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Liquid Glass design language will need to reintroduce some colors at some point.
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This tinting only applies to the app icons. The UI still has the clear/transparent look no matter which color you select.
Personally, I feel like we should have two options when it comes to Liquid Glass:
- Allow us to set the tint that is applied everywhere (app icons and the UI).
- Allow us to set the opaqueness, rather than having to rely on the 'Reduce Transparency' setting which we may not want applied elsewhere.
I agree. Considering it doesn’t even really look like glass as it’s so thin in the Control Center for example, maybe it should have a little more volume and thickness, like Aqua did.
I would, personally, refrain from comparing someone installing this beta on their daily driver to someone being addicted to drugs.
There aren’t even enough updates per year to allow an addiction.
I do agree with the rest though.
Actually, the App Store icon is basically 3D. I can see it a little better with a dark mode Home Screen and a semi bright color.
Same with the Photos icon.
For now you basically have to shake your phone to activate the shimmer and 3D effects, but they are very, very minor anyway.
Same with the Photos icon.
For now you basically have to shake your phone to activate the shimmer and 3D effects, but they are very, very minor anyway.
I think iOS 18 and the versions before it have been functional and beautiful, improving step by step toward perfection. This iOS 26, at least based on the pictures, looks absolutely awful. I can’t understand why they had to do this. Why they ruined everything?
Ruining everything may be a bit much.
I assure you this place is like an echo chamber sometimes and people who are satisfied are usually a lot less vocal that the ones who arent.
iOS still feels like considerable step in the right direction, just, not in a straight line. Wait until you test it. It really not all that bad.
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I was looking at iOS 7 today on an old iPhone 4 I have lying around. I see that The flat design introduced in iOS 7 has changed quite a bit since its inception. I think Apple is laying a good foundation for the future of the OS. It’s rough around the edges right now (sometimes legibility really takers a hit) but I really think liquid glass puts the fun in functionality. I like how it responds to touch. Others have said that iOS should be boring and stay out of the way, I have a different opinion though, I think the phone should be fun and a delight to use and interact with and I think Liquid Glass bends towards that end. Definitely it should not get in the way of people trying to use their devices though, and it needs a few tweaks in that regards. I do hope they add color back into the clear icons option as OP suggests, I think that will look really good, as it is it’s a little too hard to identify the icons. Anyways, the point of this post is to say I’m a huge fan of liquid glass and think it has a lot of potential.
If everyone were satisfied with 'boring software that gets out of the way' we'd never get past CP/M.
I've switched to tinted mode. They're all one color but at least there is color. It's still basically translucent as I can tell.
I would recommend a "Thank you" to the Beta people finally offering you something cleaned up "new and shiny". It would probably be less shiny without all the Beta testers...
It's a difference in severity, not in kind. Think less "hard drug addiction" and more "Funko pop addiction".
The people I'm talking about do not submit feedback to Apple.
It's one of several things:
1. The design team were bored and had nothing better to do than fix what wasn't broken.
2. Make everything look like VisionOS to sell more Vision Pro devices
3. Seed design changes to quietly get the public ready for a potential AR future
4. Seed design changes to prepare for some future iPhone that looks like a Galaxy S8
Actually I'd imagine they put all the real time animations in to make it harder to copy.
I found the liquid glass to be neat looking for around 15 minutes on my iPad. Makes for a good demo. But then you try to use the device, and all the sudden it’s less appealing.
Exactly and my visual cues are gone. And as someone who moves things around often i cant rely on muscle memory.
I need my visual color cues back.
To be fair - this was exactly what loads of the internet said upon the introduction to the changes in iOS 7 (and therefore iOS 18). You can’t please everyone obviously. They want to move forwards and I want that too. This needs a big ironing out (hopefully doable in the short term), but I quite like it.
I don’t at all like the roundness. But the most of the rest I don’t like are more like bugs or not fleshed out designs.
...based on the pictures.
Wait until you see it on your screen - live. I do have it. It is still in a process of development and optimization and I must admit, that I like it. I have it on an iPad and an iPhone.
On X, there were some great mockups by this one guy that combined the glass icons with colours. It was beautiful.
If they don't implement that form, I'm not really that interested in this new redesign.
If they don't implement that form, I'm not really that interested in this new redesign.