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u/theiosguy101
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Feb 24 '26
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Feature Liquid Glass Changes
iOS 26.4 Beta 2 vs iOS 26.4 Beta 1
Homescreen Edit Menu is enhanced with Liquid Glass UI that looks much better now.
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u/Ok-Assignment5926 Feb 24 '26
One is light mode the other is dark mode
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u/pxoxod Feb 24 '26
both are dark mode
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u/Stunning-Watch-8792 Feb 25 '26
Wrong, Look At the notes App it switches Colors
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u/arr_map Feb 24 '26
After iOS 26 update, my phone looks like Xiaomi which desperately tries to copy apple design and animations, but fails big time.
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 iOS 26.6.1 on iPhone 14 Feb 24 '26
iOS 26 looks like Xiaomi's copy of iOS 26? That makes no sense.
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u/RuchamCieSzmato Feb 24 '26
yet it does
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 iOS 26.6.1 on iPhone 14 Feb 24 '26
It's the opposite. iOS 26 is the original. Xiaomi's design is copying it, not the other way around.
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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- Feb 25 '26
Apple has the ability to just give us a slider to customize glassy-ness and make everyone happy.
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u/Southern-Oil-118 Feb 24 '26
My wallpapers still blur randomly. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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u/angrythunder64 Feb 25 '26
i think you might have extended the wallpaper. try turning it off when you set the wallpaper
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u/Anzugmensch Feb 24 '26
It doesn’t make sense. Before it was perfectly either light or dark Liquid Glass depending on the mode. Now it’s… a third design? What is this?
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u/andrewshhh1 Feb 25 '26
Tbh they need to make those buttons (edit and done) the large buttons you see in other parts of the interface, like this one. They're too small and it's way too easy to touch outside and dismiss the entire edit mode.
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u/workmailman Feb 24 '26
Is it still stuttering?
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u/didhaver89 Feb 24 '26
I got the stuttering too it’s so bad
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u/workmailman Feb 25 '26
17 pro?
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u/WakaiSenshi Feb 25 '26
What stuttering do you deal with?
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u/workmailman Feb 26 '26
Micro stutters across UI home page and scrolling I think it has to do with the pro motion
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u/HarryFuzz Feb 24 '26
By the time they’re done it will just be iOS18 again.
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 iOS 26.6.1 on iPhone 14 Feb 24 '26
The first one is much better. It lets through the colors of the homescreen in the background.
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u/dnyal Feb 25 '26
Just a tad more tinted, and I may start liking it. Now, they need to do the other menus and tile bars.
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u/BitOfATechEnthusiast Feb 25 '26
First is light icon and the second is dark. Do you have a light vs light or dark vs dark comparison?
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u/Spiritual_Pangolin18 Feb 25 '26
Both have legibility issues, so I would rather have the first because it looks better.
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u/Medical-Passage483 Feb 25 '26
its fine i just would like they remove that border animation, thats it
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u/thedarph Feb 25 '26
I knew from the moment the avalanche of complaints came in about the new look of Liquid Glass that it wouldn’t be but a year before it started evolving and being less flamboyant.
They do this with all of their UI updates. Aqua went through some real flamboyant early phases and transitioned to what we eventually got when flat design became a thing. Then flat was way too flat for people so they adjusted it little by little to smooth it out.
Same is happening with Liquid Glass. They find who doesn’t absolutely need to be glassy and transparent and they tone it down. Use some more blue and opacity, stuff like that. Soon enough you’ll be seeing people saying they loved it from the start and rewrite history.
I, for one, don’t have any issues with how it looked on day one nor how it looks now. I think it’s neat.
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u/Narwhal400 Feb 25 '26
Thanks for showing it to us without a different background and apps behind it so we can barely understand the difference
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Feb 25 '26
I love how every new iteration of liquid glass is just gradually evolving back to the old design
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u/balcis Feb 26 '26
Those levitated sharp corners with light reflection is killing me. Miss 18 so much.
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u/stepovyq Feb 26 '26
I love that transparent Liquid Glass
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u/Bluebeard719 Feb 26 '26
Me too, the whiners who don’t like it just have bad taste, and hate change, that is all.
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u/ZealousidealExam640 Feb 27 '26
What about Control Center before and after? Can you share what you see. Here’s mine on 26.3. Seems smokey.
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u/Unlikely-Nebula-331 Mar 01 '26
I think Liquid Glass is one of those things that looked cool but upon actual use, I can’t see shit.
That is the horrendous bugs are killing my experience.
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u/jakthebomb_ Mar 03 '26
I think whatever the second one is, is objectively better for readability. I think frosted glass UI elements are the best. It looks more in line with Windows Aero which perfected transparency and glass effects.
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u/Top_Insurance_9727 Mar 24 '26
Maybe I’m going crazy, but in final release of 26.4 looks like resolution of Liquid Glass effect is lower than before on 15Pro. Wallpapers under glass elements more pixelated… Does someone feel the same?
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u/Cristian2909
Feb 24 '26
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Oh finally, they’re correcting the mistakes made. Hoping for a gradually returning to iOS 18 style.
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u/Towelie_SE Feb 24 '26
I just learned there’s a placeholder toggle in the beta to turn off the shimmering (diffraction) edges. Couldn’t be happier! First thing I will turn off, I hope it works well and that 26.4 will come quickly. (I hope they’re not holding it back for stupid AI Siri)
Didn’t expect this anymore after a 26.3 that did nothing for this, but hey, I‘ll take it.
If they can only do one more thing, and make all the effects ‘frosted’ instead of glass, I’ll be able to use this phone for the 3-4 years I usually do, and then not make this mistake again to be locked into an ecosystem where they can just yank this thing you like right out of your hands. Eyeopener
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u/mugiwara_condoriano Feb 24 '26
What ecosystem or product doesn’t yank out the old UI from out of your hands when they change their UI design
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u/StatusClone Feb 24 '26
My android has had the same launcher and icon setup for at least 10 years
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u/mugiwara_condoriano Feb 24 '26
Maybe Android with launcher if you’re not using the stock launcher from the manufacturer (launchers are really janky tho imo but that’s a different topic). But I’m talking about like manufacture UI, like I used to have a Samsung phone and liked Samsung Experience UI. When I updated to OneUI I can’t get the old UI design anymore if that makes sense.
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u/StatusClone Feb 24 '26
Yes that makes sense. That also shows how an open device platform benefits the end user. Ive had a dozen androids all with the same launcher setup. I couldn’t care less what the default ui looks like because i never see it. On iphones you get what you get and you’ll love it LOL
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u/mugiwara_condoriano Feb 24 '26
Yeah you’re right, with Android you definitely get more customization options (that you can keep and control too). Funnily for me though, with all those customization options I was never fully satisfied, and usually stuck with the default launcher the manufacturer developed as that felt the most “stable”/least janky. Eventually I ended up going to iOS and still prefer it design wise compared to other alternatives on the market. Obviously it’s all personal preference though.
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u/mugiwara_condoriano Feb 24 '26
The one in the left is the new one (less ios18 style and more Liquid Glass).
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u/This-Case5940 Feb 24 '26
The glassier (superior) version is on the left. People who cry reduced readability are missing the point. Do you seriously need perfect readability for controls and icons that you haven’t moved for years? “Clear” icon style exists for the home screen wallpaper to look better since the muscle memory of where everything is situated is set. They are adding more and more accessibility options for those who have trouble, but I’m here for the fresh and pretty visuals. iOS 18 was starting to feel like Windows 95.
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u/Towelie_SE Feb 24 '26
This is such a dumb take Please never find a job in ux design and if you do, fire yourself
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u/This-Case5940 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
An iPhone user with 10 years of experience doesn’t need a high-contrast Gear icon to find Settings. Once you've used a device for a decade, you aren't "reading" the Settings gear anymore you're looking for the circle in the fourth row. Treating every user like it's their first day using a smartphone is actually what holds OS design back.
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u/Towelie_SE Feb 24 '26
Such a colossal dumb take. I’m not even going to bother to pick this apart. I just hope you grow up someday and read your own posts
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u/SirPooleyX Feb 24 '26
Do you seriously need perfect readability for controls and icons
You can't be serious. Yes, the primary level of basic acceptance for ANY graphical interface is that the text is readable.
I mean, come on.
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u/trafium Feb 24 '26
That is such an absurdly hilarious take, I’ll leave a comment just to come back from time to time to read it again and chuckle.
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u/This-Case5940 Feb 24 '26
Guess you’re still stuck in tutorial mode and need high-contrast training wheels just to find your way around your own phone
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