Apple need to tweak the Liquid Glass Design badly

[Aoligei]

First of all, I understand this is beta and things might change. But holy cow, the new Liquid Glass design isn't as I expected.

Control Center looks awful. It is like the icons are sit on top of blurred glass and on top of your Home Screen. You can see everything underneath from Control Center icons.

The Login screen looks like iOS 7 all over again, except it feels more 3D than flat design on iOS 7.

The folder edge looks very sharp, and they should turn more translucency. Everything is layered up.

Maybe it is just me. I feel like iOS 18 design is far better than this Liquid Glass mess.

 

[Cbarnett202]

It will never look worse than it does right now.

 

[WebHead]

No firsthand experience but I've certainly been getting Vista vibes. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[Rogifan]

It’s the first beta. I’m sure what finally ships will be dialed back a bit. That’s what happened with iOS 7.

 

[Aoligei]

Why does the pillow shape switch looks so long.

First: The keyboard looks off. The first q and p is too close to the corner.

Second: why is Siri suggestion is in dark mode even though I disabled dark mode?

 

[Maclver]

It’s the first beta. I’d suggest submitting feedback reports on your device.

 

[Aoligei]

It’s the first beta. I’m sure what finally ships will be dialed back a bit. That’s what happened with iOS 7.

I know. This is why said: This is first beta and things might be changed in later.

But the whole Liquid Glass on both iOS and MacOS looks very disappointing.

 

[Aoligei]

It’s the first beta. I’d suggest submitting feedback reports on your device.

I did. I understand this is first beta, and things maybe change. But this is forum, we can all express our opinions.

 

[baconcat_8964]

Glossy but way too transparent. I wish they have some adjustment for users in the Accessibility menu.

 

[Rogifan]

In certain contexts I think they need to blur the background more/make it darker.

 

[Aoligei]

In certain contexts I think they need to blur the background more/make it darker.

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Take the Control Center for example: It has three different layers.

First is the Home Screen. The Control Center as whole is blurred, but not blurred enough so that all the icons on the Home Screen is visible. This looks messy and not consistent.

The second layer is the Control Center itself. I think the Control Center itself needs to be blurred to the points that icons on the Home Screen should only be visible by shape.

The third layer is the controls inside Control Center. The whole thing is layer stacks on top of each other, and you can see through from the top layer. It feels off.

Take this as example: The Games App underneath is square with rounded edge. The rounded Camera button on top of controlled centre infuses the shade of red from Games App and filled the entire circle. So you just feel a deformed Games App icon. Then the camera icon is also set on top of the Games App but it is slightly off, so the two icons are overlapping. Then you have the whole Control Center, all the icons are overlapping with icons underneath, it just feel messy.

 

[8CoreWhore]

Please... we need to be able to turn of transparency.

 

[Rogifan]

Here’s another example where reduced transparency looks so much better. And it still retains the ‘glassy’ look. I will be shocked if this doesn’t come in future betas. I am a little surprised even beta one shipped this way. Apple has to know most people have colorful/distracting wallpapers.

 

[SebCohen]

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a da**…. We’ll always have Accessibility features. 😎🖖

 

[MakaniKai]

Here’s another example where reduced transparency looks so much better. And it still retains the ‘glassy’ look. I will be shocked if this doesn’t come in future betas. I am a little surprised even beta one shipped this way. Apple has to know most people have colorful/distracting wallpapers.

I like the first one more in your examples, personally

 

[contacos]

Please... we need to be able to turn of transparency.

You can

 

[bbfc]

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Why does the pillow shape switch looks so long.
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First: The keyboard looks off. The first q and p is too close to the corner.

Second: why is Siri suggestion is in dark mode even though I disabled dark mode?

These are bugs. They’ll be fixed in later builds.

 

[JPack]

Change for the sake of change.

The glass look makes sense for an AR device like Vision Pro. You’re viewing windows on top of the real world. But it makes zero sense for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

 

[TimFL1]

You can

Reduce transparency has side effects everywhere in the OS. I don't have problems with transparency effects, I only have problems with how the liquid glass effects make content illegible.

There should either be a separate toggle to explicitly reduce liquid glass effects or they should tone it down by default, turning this into more of a frosted / milky glass effect. As it stands, it's horrible design in terms of accessibility (something Apple prides themselves with, providing accessible software).

I don't see how they are not touching this in future releases, making content more legible and toning down the transparency of liquid glass elements. The backlash is already too big for them to ignore.

 

[winxmac]

They got burned by the reaction to the Photos app redesign in iOS 18 and the overpromised but underdelivered Apple intelligence. Now they are going to be burned by the reaction to the Liquid Glass in all of Apple OS and the still undelivered promises of Apple intelligence from iOS 18.

 

[virginblue4]

Here’s another example where reduced transparency looks so much better. And it still retains the ‘glassy’ look. I will be shocked if this doesn’t come in future betas. I am a little surprised even beta one shipped this way. Apple has to know most people have colorful/distracting wallpapers.

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I completely disagree. It looks much nice in the first screenshot. I don’t like how it looks with reduced transparency turned on.

 

[Rogifan]

I like the first one more in your examples, personally

Even though it’s harder to read?

 

[Rogifan]

I completely disagree. It looks much nice in the first screenshot. I don’t like how it looks with reduced transparency turned on.

But the text is so much harder to read. 🤷🏼‍♀️

 

[Rogifan]

Reduce transparency has side effects everywhere in the OS. I don't have problems with transparency effects, I only have problems with how the liquid glass effects make content illegible.

There should either be a separate toggle to explicitly reduce liquid glass effects or they should tone it down by default, turning this into more of a frosted / milky glass effect. As it stands, it's horrible design in terms of accessibility (something Apple prides themselves with, providing accessible software).

I don't see how they are not touching this in future releases, making content more legible and toning down the transparency of liquid glass elements. The backlash is already too big for them to ignore.

Everyone saying go to accessibility settings and turn on reduce transparency… that’s not the answer here. The answer is for Apple to dial back the transparency where necessary to make text legible. I understand that things get tweaked over the course of betas but I’m kinda shocked how some of this shipped in the first beta. but maybe I just don’t know how betas work and the next one will already have fixes some of this.

 

[Absrnd]

it's beta