naw, his vision must be 'more than perfect' cause... those of us with poor vision noticed ALL the UI issues immediately 🤣
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SolidGlass "A very simple application to disable the Liquid Glass effect in specific applications."
https://github.com/rafaelSwi/SolidGlass
"What does SolidGlass do?
SolidGlass runs terminal commands to disable the Solid Glass effect for specific apps or system-wide. While you could technically do this yourself through the terminal, SolidGlass simplifies the process with an intuitive interface and a collection of practical, easy-to-use features."
https://github.com/rafaelSwi/SolidGlass
"What does SolidGlass do?
SolidGlass runs terminal commands to disable the Solid Glass effect for specific apps or system-wide. While you could technically do this yourself through the terminal, SolidGlass simplifies the process with an intuitive interface and a collection of practical, easy-to-use features."
wow thanks @bogdanw for this^^^
I don't see any specifics on the Readme. Curious how it might compare with simply adjusting Setting (Reduce Trans/Adj Contrast/etc)? Im excited to see what it holds for non-LGers 👍
(I wonder if it'll end up being a constant 'wack a mole' thru the beta process as Apple changes/updates things—Issue #1 for Beta 26.1) though, I hold high hopes
I don't see any specifics on the Readme. Curious how it might compare with simply adjusting Setting (Reduce Trans/Adj Contrast/etc)? Im excited to see what it holds for non-LGers 👍
(I wonder if it'll end up being a constant 'wack a mole' thru the beta process as Apple changes/updates things—Issue #1 for Beta 26.1) though, I hold high hopes
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As far as I can tell, the app writes com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium YES in the preference file of the app (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Music.plist)
This would be the global disable
"Léo Natan August 14, 2025 3:23 AM
It's possible to disable Liquid Glass UI elements using:
defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
This will make Tahoe look ~ like Sequoia, bar some visual glitches in Safari."
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/10/liquid-glass/
"Léo Natan August 14, 2025 3:23 AM
It's possible to disable Liquid Glass UI elements using:
defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
This will make Tahoe look ~ like Sequoia, bar some visual glitches in Safari."
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/10/liquid-glass/
I tried
and nothing looked different AFACIT until I came upon this.
put it back to normal.
Code:
defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
Code:
defaults delete -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolariumoh so this setting reverts to the disgusting center-aligned alert dialogs (not to mention UI glitches). it's worse than useless then.
I’m 77,and I love it!
I am 53 and I like liquid glass flawed as it is now.That's great!
That's outside the range I mentioned though.
I am pretty sure most of the complaints will be resolved in terms of glitches and UI errors.
I guess I am just one of those people that likes flashy things and garish tastes. Lol
In my opinion, I like a pretty UI and I liked the original liquid glass a lot. I know Apple will not make an exact replica but in general I like 3d effects and nice animations. I like a nice looking desktop.
Efficiency in Windows and MacOS has gone down in terms of clicks per task. I don't like this aspect of the past several MacOS and even further with 26. This is a general direction that I hope changes but nice graphics on my graphic user interface is something I appreciate. One of the things I hated about Windows 2000, ME, and even XP. Win 7 and after improved the GUI to now. I hope MS continues to improve the look of their GUI.
I don't mind command prompt or terminal commands ot Text user interface and I don't care what those interface look like since I am dealing with code. I can see that a pretty desktop can be distracting but then I would just use Linux with terminal and XCFE light desktop UI. However for me, I am so ADHD that the 3d GUI helps me. I don't know how to explain it other than I feel more calm in MacOS gui than Windows in general. There are exceptions to this but more often than not MacOS just feels better to use for me and even more so now.
One example I like better is the 3d circle around the back button in iOS. This helps me find the arrow that was a huge pain point for me in iPadOS and iOS was the back button. It is not a perfect solution like a gesture would but it is much, much easier to see now than in the past when I was always searching for the damn back button. So that is just one improvement in my opinion on MacOS the same type of graphic bars are used. It looks cleaner to me.
There are other examples but I see this release as mostly an improvement.
For those who like Liquid Glass, the app "Added an option to force Liquid Glass on apps"
v1.1 https://github.com/rafaelSwi/SolidGlass/releases
v1.1 https://github.com/rafaelSwi/SolidGlass/releases
What's the consensus with these menus? I just think they look absolutely ridiculous with some items having icons, others not.
Why does Settings - the most clear and obvious command to have a 'cog' graphic - not have one, yet the Finder one does?
I hope I'm correct in thinking Apple has included these to assist those with reading impairments because, honestly, it's a waste of space having only some commands visualised.
This should be an Accessibility option; a toggle in Settings to turn them on or off.
you would think... having commands greyed-out + the transparent background is counterproductive. they arent even helpful anymore. 's whole "have the UI get out of the way" is failing here.
And I agree the expanded dropdown menus are ridiculously 'expanded' and the icons are not necessary IMO. A toggle in Settings would be great for "Text labels with or without Icons" (similar to the old Toolbar customization)
I find it absolutely hilarious that Appple engineers called the liquid glass config toggle inside macOS "Solarium". Ironic.
The menu icons are recipe for inconsistencies, there are way way more when you start to look for them.
Tim Cook disagrees with you (he's 64 currently).
I'm not sure age has anything to do with it. Most of the complaints about liquid glass are about inappropriate use of transparency for information that needs to be clearly delineated from other contexts -- making things harder to understand/follow/read just for the sake of adding transparency to it.
Settings doesn't have a cog icon because they used a double cog icon for Services. Of course, Services is a Menu header for a submenu and shouldn't have an icon anyway. There are simply far too many inconsistencies to list, and no obvious style guide for when a menu item should have an icon or not. It's a dog's breakfast. 🙃
I don't see liquid glass anywhere. I see white on top of white with poor definition and blurry drop shadows. Where is the liquid glass?
That's...interesting. I'm curious what happens if you turn on the accessability settings to hide transparency effects while turning off liquid glass.
It's weird too (too me) that the transparency and offset of elements behind the dialogue box is still on.
What's wrong with centre-aligned dialogues?
I seriously doubt Cook gives one single flying [beep] what macOS looks like. Tell him how to squeeze 0.5 cents more out of the next iPhone production? That's where he gets excited.
We have a spreadsheet person in retirement age leading Apple, and it shows.
Surely he's noticed some of the issues since he uses "every single product every day", right?
On Tahoe Apple - finally - fixed one of the most disgusting UI changes they ever made: centering text in alert dialogs on Big Sur.
Center-aligned text is not suitable for human consumption. Especially in alert dialogs which can contain file paths, error descriptions, and other highly specialized text.
Have you noticed that pretty much everything you read and write - including your own message - is left aligned?
Ideally Apple should have just restored the pre-Big Sur alert dialog appearance:
But what they did on Tahoe is at least better than nothing.