Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 3

[nCode]

Liquid Glass simply doesn't work well on smaller screen real estate. It needs some frosted elements to level it out, and make it readable.

 

[tim_apple]

Do they even test what they create?

Yeah! They should do something like have a Beta program or something so everyone can test it out.

 

[jz0309]

so sounds like Apple is listening to feedback.
Don't understand some of the posts here ... oh wait, its MacRumors ...

 

[GioGiusi]

Stop ****ing up your own design Apple! Stop listening to the whiners! If its all white, that’s not glass. The glass was beautiful. White is ugly.

 

[techno-Zen]

Apple needs a massive change in direction.

 

[tennisproha]

There have been some complaints about the changes that Apple is continuing to make, with some users suggesting that Apple is eliminating too much of the transparency that makes iOS 26 unique.

I agree, the backtracked changes look tacky and cheap. They're just reverting it back to iOS 18. Why even release iOS 26 with a new design language then.

 

[nfl46]

Lol! By time iOS 26 is released, it will basically be iOS 18 with some updated icons.

 

[teknikal90]

It’s almost like Jony Ive knew what he was doing in the first place

 

[Mr.Mozi]

Meh. They ruined all the fun…
Someone just tells Alan Dye and Craig Federighi to put a simple intensity slider in Display settings for liquid glass with 4 steps: Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and iOS 18

 

[Populus]

Gosh
They are making it worse every update 💔 😔 it’s looking more like a crazy version of iOS 18 now.

Yes, 100% my thoughts. They are watering down the cool transparency of glass, but keeping the shapes that, especially on macOS, look pretty hideous.

It seems like they are a bit lost.

 

[fullauto]

Disappointing they’ve dialed back the glass design. I almost don’t want to update from beta 2.

Why can’t they add a slider that allows the individual to control transparency? Seems so basic?

 

[Yr Blues]

Looks like they gave up the on Liquid Glass concept. I say make it smarter and able to adapt on its own, or give the user complete power over the UI.

 

[klasma]

Lol! By time iOS 26 is released, it will basically be iOS 18 with some updated icons.

“Built from the ground for Liquid Glass, which will be coming later next year.”

 

[TMRJIJ]

"A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." — Steve Jobs

Steve argued that relying solely on customer feedback can stifle creativity and limit the potential for groundbreaking ideas.

Apple should’ve told those complainers to **** off after Beta 2.

 

[Reason077]

”Apple has toned down the transparency of the navigation bars. The look is more opaque to make the buttons more legible.”

It’s an improvement, but still pretty bad. The old (current) design just looks so much simpler, cleaner, and more elegant to my eye.

 

[Aleh]

Beta 1: people freak out because they think the design is final and they will never adjust the transparency to make it more readable

Beta 3: people freak out because they think the design is final and they will never adjust the transparency to make it more like glass

THESE ARE BETAS!
THEY CHANGE THINGS ON PURPOSE FOR TESTING AND TO GATHER FEEDBACK!
Seriously all this fake outrage is tiring

 

[Websnapx2]

People seem to be confusing the design system with "transparency" — that's not it. Liquid Glass isn't about transparency, it's about the light affecting elements like they were made of glass — and glass can be transparent, opaque, and all stops in between. It's about the elements in space and how they interact with reflections, and refractions over perceived light, but transparency isn't the cornerstone of it. It's an oversimplification... like saying Material Design is only about replicating stacks of digital paper.

 

[Kylo83]

whats going to happen to the marketing material, it shows it as real liquid glass, would they have to change it when it ships and doesnt look like that

 

[Reason077]

in their new Human interface guidelines they suggest devs don’t use transparency in icons where inappropriate … yet they create a Mail icon with a transparent envelope.

I sense there may be some internal struggle going on at Apple between those writing the HIG, who care about things like UX, consistency, readability and accessibility, and the pixel-pushers who like to demonstrate the capabilities of the platform and show off flashy visual effects.

And at the end of the day we’ll end up with a watered-down middle ground that makes neither side particularly happy.

 

[marinersaptcomplex]

“We think you’re gonna love it [but if you don’t we’ll eat crow and backtrack on our radical change]”

 

[shornby]

iOS 26 beta 3:
Liquid glass without the glass - but with all the bugs you know and love!!

 

[sergekills]

Any word on stability + battery life? Considering getting this on my 13 Pro but worried it'll nuke my phone.

It will

 

[hsoj1006]

Yeah, but isn’t it ridiculous?
So much fuss about the glass effects on the event and then all the fanboys yapping all over the internet how genius it is just to dial it all down?
Do they even test what they create? How on earth no one said that this glassy design only looks cool in the promo videos?

"Do they even test what they create?"

Uhhhhh, that's LITERALLY what they are doing now with the beta!!

 

[sergekills]

Apple doesn't listen, people get pissed. Apple listens, people get pissed.

A toggle seems like the most logical choice, but you have to admit, the internet is never pleased 😂

It’s not about the internet.
There’s no news that GA doesn’t exist and people don’t know what they want.
The problem is that Apple has no idea where they are going.

 

[sergekills]

They’d have to optimize each custom variant for performance. They need to get the default theme optimized first.

What the hell have they been doing the whole year?