How one can flip off Liquid Glass when you’ve upgraded your iPhone, iPad or Mac to iOS 26
It’s truthful to say that Apple’s Liquid Glass design language hasn’t precisely been a roaring success. I feel it’s completely advantageous on bigger screens in equity – I’ve obtained used to it on macOS 26 Tahoe for instance and it’s not too invasive on iPadOS 26 both. And it’s basically a reduction that the newest model of the iPad software program has lastly nailed some first rate multitasking options. The windowing characteristic works properly.
However on the iPhone‘s smaller show, Liquid Glass is a special story for me and as I’ve stated in opinions, some apps have turn into tougher to make use of.
It’s laborious to learn textual content within the menu of the Apple Music interface whereas Safari’s deal with/search bar shouldn’t be solely small and laborious to focus on correctly however the textual content can be laborious to learn with the transparency. I discovered it so troublesome in reality, that I simply did what I believed I’d have achieved years in the past and changed Safari with Chrome on my iPhone’s house display.
Nonetheless, within the iOS 26.1 replace (and later variations), Apple offers the choice of lowering the impact of Liquid Glass with a brand new Liquid Glass toggle that lets you scale back the extent of transparency in Settings > Show & Brightness. An choice now offers you the choice to as a substitute add a tint to parts, moderately than making them virtually see-through – the Liquid Glass default, referred to as ‘Clear’ within the menu choices.
The outline on the characteristic says: “Select your most popular search for Liquid Glass. Clear is extra clear, revealing the content material beneath. Tinted will increase opacity and provides extra distinction.”
So what’s it like? Properly, it principally softens the impact. There’s nonetheless a touch of transparency, nevertheless it actually is only a trace and parts are almost opaque. It’s rather a lot higher to make use of for my part and can most likely assuage those that have made complaints.
As you may count on, the characteristic can be obtainable in iPadOS 26.1 and later – once more by way of Settings > Show & Brightness – in addition to in macOS 26.1 and later by way of Settings > Look.
All these options seem like just like the Accessibility setting referred to as Scale back Transparency that has been current in earlier variations of iOS 26. This toggle says it should “enhance distinction by lowering transparency and blurs on some backgrounds to extend legbility”.
Within the updates it has launched for iOS 26, Apple has additionally mounted the alarm display whereas iPadOS 26.1 and later introduced again the favored Slide Over multitasking characteristic for iPad customers, having beforehand eliminated it.
Additionally don’t overlook to take a look at a few of our favorite iOS 26 suggestions and methods together with Name Screening, Maintain Help, polls in Messages and much extra.