Apple’s liquid glass was a brutal change on my iPhone

After staring, scrolling through, bewildering on the new Apple Liquid Glass Design language on my iPhone for a better part than the afternoon, I don’t hate it. But I also think it needs more time in the oven.

apple Declared liquid glass On Monday for all its devices in WWDC 2025. Perhaps the most obvious thing in this matter is that app icons, tabs, and even the enlargement of the text will see when you hover on the words, well, liquid and glass.

The idea seems to be that because they “float” a layer on things like a background or the text of the lock screen, “glass” can be transparent to give you a sense of what is under it. From logical. Initial implementation in iOS 26 Beta developer He has many Apple signatures flourishing and caring for details.

But the boy is the changes that wander when seeing them for the first time.

Let me show you how much things change greatly. Below, on the left, there is a picture of the iOS 18 lock screen that you shared with the David Pierce for Installer Newsletter only last month, and on the right is the lock screen today, on the iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 26 Developer Beta (Outside now(Installed.

Even in the gray screen deliberately, I hope you can see that the differences are clear immediately. Everything is transparent and shiny.

Here’s my optimal screen with the color that is added again, if you want a different way to look at it. Many symbols are familiar, but they are all … bubblier.

Here is the control center, which is frankly chaos now. The liquid glass transparency makes it look confused, even with the optimum gray screen. I hope Apple makes everything under the control center a little more mysterious so that it is easier to read at a glance.

The watch app shows a good example of the fine details that have changed. The bottom tab is rounded, and when you click on different tabs, the specified in the animation that I can better describe as a water drop moves via the tab. (Pressing and keeping the drops allows you to pull it through the tab bar, which is a great recognized effect.) You may also notice that the button to run the alert and stop oval is more oval than the generalization.

Here are some other tales that I thought deserved to participate. IOS keyboard has a completely new look:

The settings app contains a large area between each set of preparation (a problem that I also noticed in the messaging list in messages):

The things will be bent under the URL bar in Safari due to liquid glass design:

The system’s demands look different:

Initially, the big changes were hated. This surprised me. I am usually well with user interface modifications. Again a day, you are on the plane with the first and worst versions of iOS 7. But after a few hours with the iOS 26 Beta developer, liquid glass grows on.

My iPhone is still working like it. I have a lot of small complaints, especially with the settings of settings and control center. But I expect Apple to adjust and fix many biggest problems before the official launch of the iOS 26th system this fall.