Apple’s liquid glass was a wild change for my iPhone

After I appeared, I went and threw over the brand new liquid glass design on my iPhone for the perfect a part of a after -I do not hate it. However I additionally assume it takes slightly longer within the oven.

Apple has introduced Liquid Glass on Monday for all his units at WWDC 2025. Maybe essentially the most seen factor is that the applying icons, tab bars and even textual content magnifying glass you will notice while you stroll over phrases, effectively, liquid and glass.

The thought appears to be that as a result of they “float” a layer over issues just like the wallpaper or textual content for the lock display screen, “glass” may be translucent to present you a sense of what’s under them. It is smart. The preliminary implementation within the developer of iOS 26 Beta has lots of the Apple signature blooms and a spotlight to particulars.

However the boy are the adjustments that play while you first see them.

Enable me to point out you ways dramatic issues change. Under, on the left is a picture of my IOS 18 lock display screen that I shared with David Pierce for the set up bulletin proper final month, and to the best is my lock display screen right this moment, on the iPhone 16 Professional with the developer of iOS 2 (out now) put in.

Even in my intentional grey display screen, I hope you’ll be able to see that the variations are instantly obvious. Every part is clear and vibrant.

Right here is my house display screen with the colour added again, in order for you a special approach to have a look at it. Many icons are acquainted, however they’re all … extra bubblier.

Right here is the management middle, which is truthfully a multitude presently. The transparency of the liquid glass makes it look clogged and that is even with my grey display screen. I hope Apple will do every thing underneath the management middle slightly extra opaque, in order that it’s simpler to learn from it.

The Clock app present an excellent instance of finer particulars which have modified. The underside tab bar is rounded, and while you contact completely different tabs, the selector adjustments right into a animation that I can finest describe as a drop of water that strikes on the tab. (Urgent and sustaining the drop permits you to pull it on the sheetbar, which is a really chilly impact.) You can even discover that the button to start out and cease the alarm is extra oval than round.

And listed below are another articles that I assumed can be price sharing. The iOS keyboard has a very new look:

The Settings app has an excessive amount of area between every setting class (which is an issue I seen within the messages listing):

The issues underneath the URL bar in Safari will “bend” due to the liquid glass design:

And system prompts look completely different:

At first, I hated the good adjustments. That shocked me. I’m normally good with the ui adjustments. In the course of the day, I used to be on board even the earliest and worst variations of iOS 7. However after a number of hours with the developer iOS 2, the liquid glass grows on me.

My iPhone continues to be working because it used to. I’ve plenty of small complaints, particularly with the space of the settings capabilities and the management middle. However I count on Apple to vary and clear up plenty of larger issues earlier than the official launch of iOS 26 this fall.