Apple Announces Liquid Glass Improvements and Transparency Slider

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced a series of improvements to Liquid Glass, the translucent design language the company introduced last year.

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.

Sidebar behavior is also being updated. Sidebars will now expand to the full edge of the window, with refraction effects continuing beneath them rather than cutting off at the sidebar boundary. Sidebar icons will also retain their color, a change that addresses a common complaint about the original Liquid Glass implementation.

Apple also announced updates to its app icon design language. Having redesigned all of its first-party icons last year to create a more consistent look across apps and platforms, the company said it is now taking that work further by incorporating additional layers of Liquid Glass directly into the icon artwork itself.

Article Link: Apple Announces Liquid Glass Improvements and Transparency Slider

 

[Dmoney77]

Good! So people can finally stop crying about it. Looking forward to iOS 27!

 

[d5aqoëp]

This is already the best WWDC presentation since 2019

 

[Leobreaker]

"Hey Siri, make my phone look like iOS 18."

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

That's gonna go all the way to the right... 😀

 

[vertsix]

They listened. Impressive.

 

[Sensamic]

Major fail recognizing a vast majority of users weren't happy with Liquid Glass because legibility was terrible.

 

[Skylar.]

Happy I can get my transparent Liquid Glass while those who dislikes it can be happy with their “frosted” glass too. Thank you Apple!

 

[Johnny907]

Good! So people can finally stop crying about it. Looking forward to iOS 27!

Wrong. We didn’t ask for it to be changed, we asked for it to be GONE.

 

[Sensamic]

Either you go full in or you don't. Now what about third party developers and apps? It makes inconsistency throughout the OS. Not good.

 

[MistaBungle]

I’m in the minority group but I want more glass, so I’m going left!

 

[Samplasion]

Apple today announced a series of improvements to Liquid Glass, the translucent design language the company introduced last year.

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.

Sidebar behavior is also being updated. Sidebars will now expand to the full edge of the window, with refraction effects continuing beneath them rather than cutting off at the sidebar boundary. Sidebar icons will also retain their color, a change that addresses a common complaint about the original Liquid Glass implementation.

Apple also announced updates to its app icon design language. Having redesigned all of its first-party icons last year to create a more consistent look across apps and platforms, the company said it is now taking that work further by incorporating additional layers of Liquid Glass directly into the icon artwork itself.

Article Link: Apple Announces Liquid Glass Improvements and Transparency Slider

By the way, I wonder why the accent color is purple in that screenshot

EDIT: It's Podcasts, not Music. I thought they were going to add an accent color picker

 

[Aleh]

Either you go full in or you don't. Now what about third party developers and apps? It makes inconsistency throughout the OS. Not good.

How is it inconsistent lol? It’s system wide. As long as the app was already using Liquid Glass.

 

[Alex.ne]

Adding more layers to the UI looks more like "lets make sure that old hardware will work even worse"

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

So… does that mean that the apologists arguments are now invalidated?

 

[ghostface147]

I’m in the minority group but I want more glass, so I’m going left!

Same here. More glass!

 

[svish]

Great to have a transparency slider. Happy to see that users get to set the option they prefer. I like it clear and will set it that way.

 

[Seanm87]

I’m in the minority group but I want more glass, so I’m going left!

You're actually probably in the majority but the minority are more vocal.

 

[1rottenapple]

the UI on the iphone is nice, but on mac it feels like an after thought enough that I have not updated my software. When I try liquid glass on mac at the apple store it feels disorienting and I don't want my home laptop to be on this software. I wonder the extent they fix this on mac.

 

[ls1dreams]

Great let me disable the turd that is liquid glass

 

[vertsix]

Major fail recognizing a vast majority of users weren't happy with Liquid Glass because legibility was terrible.

Companies are allowed to make mistakes as long as they correctly address them with their customers.

 

[rp100]

They fixed a contentious feature. Great. Now what’s the CPU/battery cost for fully variable opacity?

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

This was as close to an apology as Apple was going to get. They even mentioned the corner radii! I may upgrade to this and skip Tahoe entirely.

 

[jorisw_]

A slider. The ultimate admission that they couldn’t make up their mind and shipped something in a shape they never should have.

The reversals from the floating toolbars and side panels on macOS, are good fixes.

 

[Tozovac]

A slider. The ultimate admission that they couldn’t make up their mind and shipped something in a shape they never should have.

The reversals from the floating toolbars and side panels on macOS, are good fixes.

Reminds me of the too-white-out-too-plain iOS7 that begat Dark Mode (which ironically and too often, is just as cumbersome and non-intuitive/non-optimized as non-Dark Mode).

Before: A middle-ground that just worked.

Plot twist: Let's fix what's not broken with white-out iOS7 and flat design Liquid Glass.

After: Let's fix iOS7 and flat design Liquid Glass with Dark Mode a de-Liquid-Glassifier, yada yada yada 🙂

What "improvement" is next in 10-13 years?