More Apple Apps Get Liquid Glass Redesign

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its TestFlight and Apple Support apps, adding Liquid Glass designs to match the rest of iOS 26.

Both apps now feature Liquid Glass interface elements, such as more rounded buttons, floating navigation bars, and translucency in some areas. They also feature Liquid Glass app icons that look like multiple layers of glass stacked on one another.

TestFlight got an icon overhaul, and the new design features simplified propellers that work better with the Liquid Glass look.

TestFlight is an app that allows iPhone users to download beta apps from developers for testing purposes. Apple says that TestFlight also includes Accessibility improvements, including VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Larger Text.

TestFlight also appears to include a new Tester Matching feature that helps users discover apps they might like to try based on their interest.

Apple Support is Apple's dedicated app for getting help with your devices.

Both apps are free to download.

Article Link: More Apple Apps Get Liquid Glass Redesign

 

[ypl]

So I have to use Liquid Glass app to seek for help concerning Liquid Glass?

 

[crees!]

The Liquid Glass design reminds me of when OS X was first released. I hope they tone it down and refine it in future updates.

 

[LightProtector]

Find My needs to be updated

 

[turbineseaplane]

I can't think of a single thing I prefer about the design on the right.
Maybe the white color of "Locations", "Videos" and "Activity"?

(only changed, I'm sure, since otherwise they would be even harder to distinguish as stuff from behind the nav bar shines through the "glass")

 

[ChamomileTea]

Liquid Glass looks awesome!

Can’t got back!

Apps that still aren’t using it look like apps from the dial up era!

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I do not understand the lack of consistency with these icons.

Why are the propellers on TestFlight not glass but, well, you know actual propellers, yet the envelope on Mail is some bizarre frosted glass variety that wouldn’t even survive a mailbox?

There are loads of examples on macOS, it just goes to show how flawed this concept is.

 

[MilaM]

Still not a fan of those extremely rounded corners. Seems like a huge waste of screen real estate.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Good, now time for iMovie

 

[turbineseaplane]

Still not a fan of those extremely rounded corners. Seems like a huge waste of screen real estate.

Maybe that's why the next iPad Mini is rumored to get a larger screen ... again?

I totally agree with you.
Just wasting screen space. It's super frustrating.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I do not understand the lack of consistency with these icons.

Why are the propellers on TestFlight not glass but, well, you know actual propellers, yet the envelope on Mail is some bizarre frosted glass variety that wouldn’t even survive a mailbox?

There are loads of examples on macOS, it just goes to show how flawed this concept is.

I'm assuming somebody thought "flight" ... launching new Apps = "taking flight!"... "propellers look cool and sort of make one think about planes ... and flight, kind of? Sort of? right? ... anyone with me here?"

It's really a bizarre icon when one thinks about it, to your point.

 

[swrobel]

New TestFlight icon is killing me. Who is designing these?!

 

[trey_a_12]

Love it! Now I want to see apps like GarageBand and the iWork Suite get updated accordingly, and it'd even be cool to see a bump for iMovie and Clips. Wishful thinking, sure, but with the biggest visual refresh since iOS 7, it'd be cool!

 

[GioGiusi]

"This should have be done in June!"

- Some Macrumors user who has never worked on software in their life, probably.

 

[fede777]

Stupid new TestFlight doesn't show remaining days on a build

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Wishful thinking, sure, but with the biggest visual refresh since iOS 7, it'd be cool!

Would it? All I can say is, be careful what you wish for.

 

[transpo1]

I get all the haters here but I’m totally digging the Liquid Glass design. It gives the OS a feeling of space and luxury which it did not previously have (especially on the Apple Watch).

 

[MarkR]

It's incomprehensible to me that Apple would change the UI to Liquid Glass in iOS 26, but not update all their own damn apps to utilize it right away. It's just not a great look. They knew what the UI was going to be long before the developer and public betas began, much less when the official 26.0 release occurred on 9/15. Someone(s) in Cupertino dropped the ball.

 

[trusso]

I love how they’re forcing the new icons (with that godawful sheen) on those of us who’ve chosen to stay on iOS 18.

/s

**** you too, Apple.

 

[Selena Agna]

> More Apple Apps Get Liquid Glass Redesign

please no

 

[vegetassj4]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Apple Unveils iOS 26: Now with 400% More Alien Skin Eye Candy™

Cupertino, CA — In a stunning display of courage, Apple today announced iOS 26 — a software update so glossy, so hyper-beveled, and so dripping in layer effects that the entire design team now suffers from permanent lens flare like they watched five J.J. Abrams movies back to back.

“People told us skeuomorphism was dead,” said Senior VP of Visuosity, Dorian Bling. “We disagreed — and then we found Alien Skin Eye Candy in an ancient USB archive labeled ‘Aqua, Do Not Touch.’ We knew what we had to do.”

The result? Every icon now looks like it’s been dunked in liquid glass, buffed by a cherub, and lit by a thousand-point light source from an alternate dimension. The Weather app animates rain so realistically it voids AppleCare if your phone gets wet looking at it. Messages now feature real-time chrome refraction physics — because texting your friend “ok” should shimmer.

“Eye Candy is no longer just a plugin,” said Bling. “It’s our philosophy. We built the OS around it. It’s Eye CandyOS now.”

When asked about performance, Apple confirmed that iOS 26 runs smoothly on any iPhone 17 Pro with at least 64GB of GPU memory. Devices older than 2024 will instead receive a nostalgic “flat” version, rendered entirely in grayscale out of shame.

Apple CEO Tim Apple concluded the announcement with trademark subtlety:

“Other companies innovate. We emboss.”

 

[NVDA]

Liquid glass lol what a pointless gimmick

 

[Rayansb]

I wish I could liquid pass on this

 

[bLackjackj]

Apples priority, after how many Betas?? Did someone on the apps design team literally forget? Lol

 

[ypl]

So, Shortcuts seem useful? I've just created shortcuts in iOS18 to apps with "forced" LiquidGlass design icons - Apple Music Classical and Support (not using TestFlight). Seems like great solution for those who don't like LG icons.

EDIT: I found violin key in Shortcut resources. Fits better original icon (without LG borders) - 2nd picture.