Just installed.... these icon's look like a time warp back like 2 decades. My Home Screen looks like it has been dipped in Chrome. What is going on?
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Liquid Glass... Liquid 2009
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it looks exactly as an android phone from samsung 10 years ago with some cheap custom icons when samsung started to provide customization...really ugly piece of s
In the demos it looked good, but of course those are under ideal circumstances. In practice, it looks like it has a bunch of problems.
In order to streamline the experience and accessibility, they’re going to have to :
- Frost the glass!
- Start adding drop shadow to the glass. Will begin to muddy up the colors, but that’s the price of transparency
- Start darkening background layers and brightening foreground
- dare I say, maybe start introducing *slight* glows
And before you know it, we will be back to full skuemorphism, because that’s what this will inevitably lead to. 😂
In order to streamline the experience and accessibility, they’re going to have to :
- Frost the glass!
- Start adding drop shadow to the glass. Will begin to muddy up the colors, but that’s the price of transparency
- Start darkening background layers and brightening foreground
- dare I say, maybe start introducing *slight* glows
And before you know it, we will be back to full skuemorphism, because that’s what this will inevitably lead to. 😂
Liquid Glass looks incredible the way they showed it. Does it actually suck?
No, it does not. It actually looks pretty cool but…the internet.
+1 for "it looked better in the demos." I was quite excited for the change, but not thrilled now that I'm seeing it in action (on iOS, iPadOS and macOS). That said, I fully expect they will iterate and improve between now and full release, so I'll withhold actual complaining until the full release.
Is there any sort of 'Reduce Transparency' option in Accessibility settings?
Yeah it kind of sucks in the beta. I’m confident they’ll get it right before final release though.
I genuinely feel this is the worst design I’ve seen from Apple 😕
Everyone's a critic. I actually quite like it! I think the icons and widgets look great. Obviously developers will have to put in a bit of work to make their icons look even better when this fully rolls out.
Some people think they’re critics and enjoy being negative. Yet they’ll continue to use it. Makes little sense.
It seems to be an improvement on iOS and iPadOS but a downgrade on the Mac. I hope things will get better with subsequent betas. As a reminder, there's still 3 entire months for Apple to make refinements.
I wish clear looked more glassy. Like layered glassy. And dark notifications don’t look as glassy as I’d like
I thought I am the only one who thinks this. Takes away the „premium“ look of IOS imo
After the initial shock, and a change of wallpaper, its actually growing on me.
Needs refinements, but i think it’s pretty cool.
Needs refinements, but i think it’s pretty cool.
It looks like ass running on my iPhone 15. Here's the real problem: the new design language is muddy and inefficient with space. Apple just spent 12 years dragging android and the internet into THEIR world with iOS7 esthetics and subsequent refinements of what a modern mobile interface is. Is also gave some standardization across iOS and Android for apps like youtube. So now either each company gets on board with this hideous new esthetic or we have disjointed looks within iOS and between iOS and android. will youtube etc keep their clean esthetic they have been refining for years or does everyone jump on nasty glass? I can't see premium Android launchers like oneUI trying to copy this.
I swear we went through this same thing when iOS 7 was announced
We did…. But things are just weirdly circle and weirdly square… something’s are to pronounced and others aren’t pronounced enough… Just feels inconsistent. It feels like a theme from the jailbroken days….. No flow to it. If that makes sense….
What it feels like, is that it’s not made for the current devices…
It's ugly. Apple comes out with Liquid Glass UI to bog down your CPU so that you have to upgrade to the next product. That's all that their smoke-and-mirrors come down to.
I thought they were moving away from skeuomorphism.
I thought they were moving away from skeuomorphism.
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