Apple Shares Liquid Glass Design Gallery

[Ericdjensen]

I know I’m in the tiny very small minority, but I love Liquid Glass. I think it looks great and isn't more difficult to use. The new bugs and Siri becoming even worse are a different story though lol

 

[wuxinli1025]

Beautiful!

Proves a lot of the initial criticism was unfounded. People are not having trouble reading anything.

I do NOT need the constantly changing colors to attract my attention when I look at my phone!

 

[wuxinli1025]

I'm loving Liquid Glass more everyday. It just looks so refined and the refraction effects add so much visual interest compared to the "flat" textureless designs from the decade before.

The CNN comparison is a great example to me:
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It's really nice to see the photos at the bottom extend fully downwards, bringing more color and life to the screen, rather than that large flat gray bar. A lot of people may argue this is not 100% "useful" or "necessary", but that's not the point. It looks and feels much nicer.

Are you able to tell me how many tabs are open😂?

 

[whatnot]

"teams of all sizes" are creating Liquid Glass experiences.​

the experience of looking at your wallpaper through a random menu - how 'delightful'!

 

[woolypants]

Yikes. I thought Apple might just brush this UX under the carpet and say no more about it, given the response. But it appears they're doubling down on it.

 

[woolypants]

I know I’m in the tiny very small minority, but I love Liquid Glass. I think it looks great and isn't more difficult to use. The new bugs and Siri becoming even worse are a different story though lol

I suspect it breaks down like this:

• 20% love it
• 60% don't care, or have barely noticed (e.g the regular mom and pop style iPhone users)
• 20% hate it

And because lovers and haters are in minorities, they are of course very vocal.

 

[oldwatery]

Apple is becoming an empty glass!

 

[anthony131]

Beautiful!

Proves a lot of the initial criticism was unfounded. People are not having trouble reading anything.

First of all, today’s Liquid Glass looks starkly different from what was initially criticized.
Second, there’s still a requirement to manipulate the interface to find or clarify elements in some apps.

 

[anthony131]

Been using since first beta, it’s so jarring going back to iOS 18 now.
Liquid Glass really helps focus on the main content and removing the slabs of blur background on tab bars etc from the home button days.

This is similar to my earlier reply to someone.

You’re focused on the content of the page but neglecting to mention the usability of the interface. It shouldn’t be difficult to find examples of something that looks off or incomplete or something that needlessly requires more engagement to clarify the transparent UI elements laid on top of the content.

The interface is objectively and measurably bad, as evident from Apple’s own showcase. It may be subjectively interesting or fresh but you can’t claim in good faith that it’s more efficient or ergonomic than previous iterations of iOS.

I think a lot of people are accepting something that’s sub-par from a multi-trillion dollar company when others expect them to at least meet the standards they’ve set over the past 40 years.


A lot of people thought (or continue to think) that large touch screen panels are a better way to operate a car.

They’re fresh and futuristic and they can dynamically display the buttons needed when it thinks you need them - ie, “focus on the main content”. But are they more ergonomic? Are they intuitive and safe?

Will people say yes because they’re accepting and re-learning a boundary pushing UI despite its measurable inefficiencies?

 

[radow]

Can't liquefy anymore, my glass!

 

[whatnot]

Liquid Glass really helps focus on the main content and removing the slabs of blur background on tab bars etc from the home button days.

why do you need to 'focus on your content' while navigating some menu, nobody opens a menu or a toolbar or some such to distract themselves from their content, they open it to do whatever it enables them to - menu closed/hidden, back to focusing on your content.

 

[msephton]

PR-App-aganda

 

[Atog]

Somehow it works better on iOS and iPad OS then on Mac OS for me but overall I got used to it. And I’m happy with all those small QoL upgrades.

 

[ypl]

I suspect it breaks down like this:

• 20% love it
• 60% don't care, or have barely noticed (e.g the regular mom and pop style iPhone users)
• 20% hate it

And because lovers and haters are in minorities, they are of course very vocal.

Not quite right. I read a lot of comments concerning LG and my statistics goes like:

- 20% - love it (cool, funny, fresh),
- 60% - go away, I use smartphone for calls, SMS and banking, what's Liquid Glass at all?
- 20% - don't accept it, it distracts me (ok - for some also "hate it").

That's huge difference. I for one always liked changes. Still, LG just makes phone hard to use for me! It distracts me from useful content - too much "cool stuff". It's a shame that Apple, company focused on health and accessibility, suddenly decided to left huge % of their user base in the cold! Real shame!

All of their customer base deserve to get usable product - younger users who like "cool stuff" and older with more "conservative" needs. LG definitely doesn't meet such requirements. And that's bad.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I for one always liked changes. Still, LG just makes phone hard to use for me! It distracts me from useful content - too much "cool stuff".

This is the problem I have with it.

It's been a long time since a critical mass was speaking like this about a new version. I'm thinking probably all the way back to iOS7 or thereabouts.

Making the device "harder to use", as it obviously does for some portion of folks, really should never be happening.

 

[Seanm87]

I know I’m in the tiny very small minority, but I love Liquid Glass. I think it looks great and isn't more difficult to use. The new bugs and Siri becoming even worse are a different story though lol

You're not in the very small minority. Its the vocal minority that moan all the time.

 

[turbineseaplane]

You're not in the very small minority. Its the vocal minority that moan all the time.

Are his complaints about the new bugs and Siri valid to you?

 

[markrath]

I don't DISlike Liquid Glass per say, I just don't get the hype. It's a UI, a gimmicky UI, but still it's a UI. For me it doesn't make my user experience any better. It looks cool, I guess. Notes and reminders and numbers, etc etc etc are SLOWLY getting better. I wish Apple would put more time and effort into those things - of course the assumption on my part is that there is more they can be doing, but maybe not.

Anyway, maybe Liquid Glass is more than a UI but for me, right now, it just looks like a hobby. Like HomePod or AppleTV (I do have two) or AirPad (which never saw the light of day) or iPhone C or iPhone Mini or . . . iPhone Air

 

[steve62388]

The Lowe's one is 🤦‍♂️ because there is clearly a point when the menu bar is unreadable. And this is what Apple is holding up as 'the best of the best'.

 

[AlanBeyond]

What’s sad is they can’t show off their own apps. iWork and iLife apps still have not been updated for Liquid Glass. GarageBand literally only received an icon change.

The haven't even updated their developer app and the Apple Store app yet lol! The old flat design was initiated in 2013, but it was not complete until the iOS 10. They had bigger design changes in iOS 11 and it was the most buggy and laggy iOS version of all time. Due to the backlash, apple gave iOS 12 little new functions and focused on bug fixing (they even mentioned it in their WWDC keynotes). iOS 26 is also very incompetent, so I assume this Liquid Glass design will also take years to complete.

 

[Steph.fr]

Text on the left is sharp, on the right it's like not having a 20/20 vision. It's a little bit blurred. Icons at the bottom are also blurred. I prefer the left; iOS 18.

Thank you, I thought I was the only one whose vision was blurry.

 

[Hank001]

Thank you, I thought I was the only one whose vision was blurry.

26.2 Beta (25C5031i) didn't fix it.

 

[Pedersenko]

I really like liquid glass on my iPhone Air, but on my MacBook Pro, I can't stand it at all. It's dislike it so much that I'm ditching it and sticking with Sequoia for at least the next year.

They are probably preparing mac to feature touch screen next year. Otherwise I can’t explain the gaps in the design.

My speculation is that the status bar will go as well

 

[turbineseaplane]

My speculation is that the status bar will go as well

I'm starting to speculate that I will go as well.