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Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As well as offering this new degree of customization, Apple is also changing the default way the glass material is rendered, to improve contrast and provide an even more vibrant visual look.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It’s definitely improved. I’m not sure it’s better than pre–Liquid Glass, though. I’m reserving judgement until I use it more, but I’m skeptical of the slider being a good solution. Previously, even going “full” opaque with the Reduce Transparency accessibility setting didn’t make it look good. The slider doesn’t even go as far as that, and I’m not really sure what the point of providing the intermediate options is.<\/p>\n\n

Gui Rambo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I laughed out loud when that slider showed up in the keynote 😂<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Chris Turner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Can confirm that if you want to reduce the effects of Liquid Glass as much as possible, using Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility settings on iOS is still<\/em> the way to go over the new slider that was introduced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A setting to tint or clear liquid glass?!? Adding UI sliders like this isn’t design.<\/p>\n

Design is making a choice, weighing the options and picking the best option.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Michael Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’m disappointed at the lack of deeper changes to Liquid Glass, they’re not really addressing the fundamental problem that this is an AI designed to look good superimposed over colorful feeds or photos or whatever and looks annoying and bland on top of plain text<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ryan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iOS 27 Liquid Glass is more “bubble” than glass to me. More sharp on the edges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Tell me that’s not Aqua<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“We improved Liquid Glass by letting you reduce the effects until there’s no more Liquid Glass”<\/p>\n

Well, that’s nice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The line weights on the new Liquid Glass button elements are so thin that it looks pretty bad when not at 100% scale…<\/p>\n

Which it will almost never be on macOS, iPadOS, in the iOS Simulator, or in screenshots… 👀<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Apple Knowledge Navigator<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Since the release of macOS 26 Tahoe, some users have defended the changes made by Apple - specifically, the implementation of Liquid Glass - as being a forward-thinking design was unproblematic, despite many clear and obvious objections that had sound reasoning. These were routinely dismissed as a “You’re holding it wrong” mentality.<\/p>\n

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Apple should never have released Tahoe in the state that it was, and I was pleasantly pleased to see that Golden Gate looks like a return to focus on quality and attention to detail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Saagar Jha<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I think this is about how close we will get to “yeah we messed up Liquid Glass lmao”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

David Kopec<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact that they’re rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took user feedback, shows just how bad some of it was.<\/p>\n

Yes, we need to be able to read text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Well, that’s the closest Apple is ever going to get to saying “We fucked this up and are rowing back.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Joe Fabisevich<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Translation for this new Liquid Glass: We fucked up, our bad.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’ll take it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Two conflicting things can be true at the same time:<\/p>\n