iOS 26.1 Beta Liquid Glass Battery Drain Test: Tinted vs Clear Mode

[Wieslawo]

Still waiting for an option to turn off liquid glass completely.

It won’t help It’s a realy bad design from the beginning.

 

[Mity]

It won’t help It’s a realy bad design from the beginning.

I agree. The fundamental problem is that Tim Apple isn't a product person. He doesn't understand design or really how to marry engineering and design. He belongs in the supply chain room counting widgets.

 

[HailstormX]

Hopefully this releases soon... 18.1 was released a year ago today.

 

[Powerbooky]

For better battery life remember to turn off Wi-Fi if away from usable Wi-Fi networks for a while (and you don't need the enhanced location accuracy). It's even easy to access in Control Center.

-R

With Short Cuts you can automate this. When I leave home it turns wifi off and when I arrive on again.

Also… wifi networks that have a lot of broadcast traffic, like on many corporate wifi networks, also causes more battery drain. Including some ISP provided wifi modems.

 

[victorvictoria]

Well, I always wait for a .1 update to any major upgrade like this one. I'll leave the public beta testing in the .0.0 release to y'all!

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Well, I always wait for a .1 update to any major upgrade like this one. I'll leave the public beta testing in the .0.0 release to y'all!

I leave the beta testing of the .1 update to all you beta testers out there. I’m waiting until the software’s TRULY done.

 

[scrane]

Still waiting for an option to turn off liquid glass completely.

Turn on "Reduce Transparency" and "Reduce Movement" in Settings. Voilà.

 

[Mity]

Turn on "Reduce Transparency" and "Reduce Movement" in Settings. Voilà.

That doesn't work. It's barely noticeable.

 

[aaronage]

That doesn't work. It's barely noticeable.

???

Surfaces are completely opaque with Reduce Transparency enabled…

 

[scrane]

I find "Reduce Motion" in Accessibility/Vision/Motion (not Reduce Movement, sorry) to be the major factor.
This is on my older 13 mini. I go all out with continuous Power Saver mode Shortcut, no Background Refresh, and Location services only where necessary. Works for me.

 

[jonahlee]

Some people on Reddit the other day were guessing that even in tinted/disabled mode, Liquid Glass effects were still being rendered and then just masked after-the-fact. Meaning the visibility, for those who needed it disabled, is helped, but there was no compute savings from it.

Yea I am getting the same glitches I got with transparency switched on so I agree, it is rendering the transparency and then covering it. So yes it is easier to read, but doesn’t increase performance.

 

[cbns]

People...
We are talking about Vista or Compiz/Beryl/Compiz Fusion like effects...we are talking about pre 2010 effects.
Do you seriously think that these effects have ANY performance impact on even 1st gen Iphone SE? And let's not even talk about fresh Iphones or Ipads.
If the graphics pipeline isn't horribly broken then both the new and old shouldn't have any noticeable impact. You have a supercomputer in your pocket, not a early 2000s Pentium II with 32 MB of RAM and Voodoo 2 almost exploding with a Windows XP and fancy Luna effects.
You honestly don't need tests to know glass or other graphical nothingburders use almost zero % of compute power considering how much of it is available.

Yeah, it’s like 5-10 more battery for a lot of menial tasks. Adds up fast
People did tests and compared