Liquid Glass Appreciation Thread

[Mr. Awesome]

Amidst all the naysaying and beta 1 ranting that’s to be expected, I thought it would be nice to have a place to celebrate some of the technical achievements and beautiful parts of the new UI without any complaining about the bugs or UX issues that are still being worked out.

Some of my favorite details:

• The prism effect at the edge of the Lock Screen and some other glass objects.
• Folders are gorgeous and remind me of “lickable” Aqua.
• The new app icons for the most part look fantastic. The camera icon harkens back to the iOS 6 design.
• The automatically created glass icons for older apps are tasteful and, assuming they’re automatically generated, super technically impressive.

 

[C7 POWER]

I absolutely love it!!

 

[HouseLannister]

It's like appreciating a pug. It's gotta be cute to someone.

 

[iToph]

I absolutely love it. Wouldn’t go it back. I don’t know where the hate is coming from, everything is good to read, and its beta 1. there will be tweaks.

 

[sunapple]

Forgot how much better the camera icon used to be, that's a great change by itself!

 

[FSMBP]

The general consensus is it looks good but has usability issues. The screenshots in this thread seem cherry-picked. I've seen screenshots that look very busy/distracting and makes text unreadable.

Apple's definitely going to tweak it but the 'hate' is the feedback needed so that Apple tweaks it. It's like iOS's photos app, and Apple is reverting part of it back.

 

[TgeekB]

I’m sure there will be tweaks but I like it a lot.

 

[C7 POWER]

The general consensus is it looks good but has usability issues. The screenshots in this thread seem cherry-picked. I've seen screenshots that look very busy/distracting and makes text unreadable.

Apple's definitely going to tweak it but the 'hate' is the feedback needed so that Apple tweaks it. It's like iOS's photos app, and Apple is reverting part of it back.

Mine is not cherry picked lol, literally took 2 screenshots off my actual screen.

 

[memo90061]

I wish there was more color. It seems desaturared?

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

it's exhausting to read on glass

 

[tomtad]

Must admit it's growing on me having had it on my phone for a few days. It is fun to use.

 

[awshucks]

I installed it on my non daily driver cracked iPhone 13 Pro.
Broken Glass + Liquid Glass 👌

 

[london_apple]

Something about it is feeling nostalgic (probably the nod to the old camera icon, etc) and reminiscent of iOS 6 in a futuristic way. Excited to try it out come public release! Of course they will tweak things, and I'm sure they are seeing the future of tech as more translucent vs LEDs. Here we go!

 

[Parowdy]

It’s going to look all kinds of weird on aftermarket and broken screens. I wonder if they ever thought about that.

 

[Parowdy]

Must admit it's growing on me having had it on my phone for a few days. It is fun to use.

For a few days? It’s barely been a day since the keynote.

 

[TgeekB]

it's exhausting to read on glass

In what way?

 

[BagehotW1]

I honestly love it! It’s very polished already, and everything looks nice. I love the new Safari, Photos, and Music.

All looks really sleek, and I haven’t had any problems with readability so far. Honestly, great redesign!

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

It’s going to look all kinds of weird on aftermarket and broken screens. I wonder if they ever thought about that.

If Apple doesn't bother catering to those groups, then nothing of value will be lost.

 

[kucharsk]

How do you enable the new glass look?

My home page looks pretty much like always, there are transparent edges but not wholesale transparency like this.

 

[jschu22]

Apple: Yay! Liquid Glass everything!

iMessage conversations: Yay! What about us?

Apple: Huh, who are you?

 

[TgeekB]

Apple: Yay! Liquid Glass everything!

iMessage conversations: Yay! What about us?

Apple: Huh, who are you?

?

 

[timshundo]

I love the direction of everything in the liquid glass UI except for the app icons. I GET the intention and the concept which looks and sounds gorgeous in theory, but in practice, it just looks like highlights and shadow effects from the 2010s. I have no problem with "skeuomorphism." But the style of the icons specifically is like triggering to my visual design senses haha.

I think it's telling in their WWDC session videos that they love to show this view (attached) of their icon designs a lot. Because this is gorgeous. But you can't emulate this look by looking at the icon head on. Also the screens are not high resolution enough for better highlight details; it just looks like everything is outlined with 2px strokes and another 2px stroke inside that one for highlights. No 3D glass effect.

They also mention the highlights change based on the angle of the phone from the gyroscope but its way to subtle to notice, if its even there at all.

Idk, I hope they keep working at it and get the look right before launch.

 

[Tar Sniffer]

It looks wonderful in some pictures but then really bland in others. I imagine this is something you need to use and can’t judge just from a still image.

Therefore I’m holding off judgement until i get to use it for myself in September.

 

[VPsmith]

I don't like it

 

[TgeekB]

I love the direction of everything in the liquid glass UI except for the app icons. I GET the intention and the concept which looks and sounds gorgeous in theory, but in practice, it just looks like highlights and shadow effects from the 2010s. I have no problem with "skeuomorphism." But the style of the icons specifically is like triggering to my visual design senses haha.

I think it's telling in their WWDC session videos that they love to show this view (attached) of their icon designs a lot. Because this is gorgeous. But you can't emulate this look by looking at the icon head on. Also the screens are not high resolution enough for better highlight details; it just looks like everything is outlined with 2px strokes and another 2px stroke inside that one for highlights. No 3D glass effect.

They also mention the highlights change based on the angle of the phone from the gyroscope but its way to subtle to notice, if its even there at all.

Idk, I hope they keep working at it and get the look right before launch.

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I think some look better than others. I know little about these types of aesthetics but, for instance, the mail apps, both Apple and Outlook, look very cool to me. The iMessage app looks more dull. It could be that they need to change some icons to match the style in order to create a better overall look.
I’m enjoying it thus far and will be patient to allow them to modify it. Improve it. Make it even better.