Apple has launched its iOS 26 developer beta 3, making additional modifications to the Liquid Glass design language launched at its Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) 2025 that was held final month.
Liquid Glass, impressed by the reflective and refractive properties of actual glass, was launched throughout Apple’s platforms as a part of a broader visible modernisation. The replace comes after an inflow of person suggestions elevating considerations over earlier builds making interface components tougher to learn on account of extreme transparency.
Nonetheless, its early implementation in iOS 26 beta 1 led to usability considerations, particularly in areas just like the management centre, the place the background was so translucent that house display components grew to become visually distracting.
Apple addressed these considerations in beta 2 by decreasing transparency within the management centre. Beta 3 expands these changes to different elements of the working system – notably the notifications and the interface in first-party apps like Apple Music.
In Apple Music, the navigation bar now incorporates a extra stable background, decreasing visible bleed from the underlying content material. Equally, notifications have had their background shading darkened, enhancing distinction and textual content readability.
Whereas the newest modifications purpose to enhance readability and accessibility, some customers on developer boards and social media reacted negatively and have famous that the brand new aesthetic feels nearer to Apple’s earlier frosted glass method, dialing again a lot of the dramatic transparency initially proven at WWDC.
Because the software program continues to be in beta, these modifications should not closing. Apple is predicted to proceed gathering suggestions and making modifications to Liquid Glass by means of the summer time forward of iOS 26’s public launch this fall.
This has been an entertaining timeline, as Apple slowly walks again liquid glass into extra… frosted glass https://t.co/hTh4TFKTqF
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) July 8, 2025
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apple cease ruining liquid glass pic.twitter.com/sUs0EILLAC
— Holly – I like tech (@AnxiousHolly) July 7, 2025
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iOS 26 beta 3 fully nerfs Liquid Glass.
It appears a lot cheaper now and appears like Apple is backtracking on their authentic imaginative and prescient. pic.twitter.com/WNG8O2qjeg
— Sam Kohl (@iupdate) July 7, 2025
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(This text has been curated by Arfan Jeelany, who’s an intern with The Indian Specific)
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