Yes you can: Settings => Display & Brightness => Liquid Glass => Tinted
Gets rid of 90% of the BS.
Gets rid of 90% of the BS.
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The Joy of Turning Off LiquidGlAss
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Boppi
macrumors regular
I certainly appreciate your enthusiasm on the topic, but please know this has been an option in Settings for the last six months or more. It's well known.
addamas
macrumors 65816
The best way is to stay at iOS 18 and vote by wallet by not buying anything shipped with liquid ass :0
Yet if somehow when I will be forced to update I would remember… or switch to Android
Yet if somehow when I will be forced to update I would remember… or switch to Android
Grayburn
macrumors 68030
Mitthrawnuruodo
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System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency
Works quite well with Tinted in Dark Mode.
Works quite well with Tinted in Dark Mode.
iOS 26.3 patches several more remote vulns so you are going to have to consider whether staying on iOS 18 is tenable.
After looking at it, this weekend I will probably allow iOS 26 onto my 16Pro.
People think that a visual refresh is the apocalypse and malware is fine lol.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Nah, I'm pretty sure the tinted feature was introduced in iOS 26.1 that was released in November last year.
Abydos
macrumors 6502
good try, the group seems to feel liquid glass is as attractive (in any form) as dog feces on sidewalks
klasma
macrumors G4
Better the remote (chance of a) vulnerability than the local exploitation that is Liquid Glass. 😉
Actually it's just a very vocal minority.
I really like the glass effects. Looks very slick. Especially like how the transparency works when you slide an element over content. Not sure what everyone's problem with it is.
I remember in Beta 1 it did make some elements hard to read, but I haven't noticed anything like that in a very long time.
I remember in Beta 1 it did make some elements hard to read, but I haven't noticed anything like that in a very long time.
Parowdy
macrumors 68000
People think that their own opinion is better than that of others.
But in all honesty, NO ONE thinks a visual refresh is the apocalypse, it’s just that many people are, rightfully so, disappointed by how unfinished iOS 26 is and how LG single handedly reduced the clarity of many and important parts of the UI.
Also no one thinks malware is fine but keep telling that to yourself if it makes you feel better.
Parowdy
macrumors 68000
Actually?
Do you have actual proof for that claim?
It’s the same vocal minority pandering after the iPhone mini, yet sales bombed.
Most people just use their phones. People have a lil moan about change then move on with their lives. I only really see people moaning about it on this site. On Reddit there’s only really complaints about ui glitches which should be fixed by apple.
I’d be interested to see how many posters here actually hate it and how many posts are the same user cross posting.
Apple changed iOS. Get used to it.
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I base my apocalypse joke on the insane amount of toys being thrown out of the pram on this site. God forbid your other half wanting to repaint and rearrange your living room.
Obviously, it’s always going to be anecdotal evidence because this is a nerd centric forum, but there has been poll after poll after poll taken here and other similar websites, and people liking liquid Glass always wins. Not by a massive margin, but by a pretty large amount.
For example this one…
What do you think of the new icons
I personally don’t know what to think of them, that’s why I made this poll
forums.macrumors.com
Or this one…
This one from 9 to 5 Mac is directly about what the original post of this thread is about, default liquid glass, or tinted Liquid Glass? The results seem pretty definitive with almost 7000 people voting…
It's decision time for Liquid Glass – what do you choose? [Poll] - 9to5Mac
The Liquid Glass user interface is both the headline feature of iOS 26 and one of the most controversial things...
9to5mac.com
I'm sticking to the default look4,154 votes65.26%
I've used the new toggle to essentially switch it off1,554 votes24.41%
I've made my own modifications to it in the settings247 votes3.88%
I'm still undecided410 votes6.44%
Even on the macOS Tahoe side, there’s definitely quite a bit more negativity in the results are certainly closer, but for the most part time and time again you see about 50-60% are either positive or neutral and 40% or so are negative or have no plans on upgrading anytime soon.
Again, very nerd and enthusiast eccentric, but given those are really the only people who are going to care very much about a UI and given that between all of the polls, thousands and thousands and thousands of people have given their input, it seems for the most part to lean on the positive side with a very loud minority.
Your average consumer is likely going to be neutral no matter what, most people don’t really concern themselves with the minutia of user interface materials, they just use the device and are mildly annoyed when it changes, no matter if that changes for the positive or the negative, most people just don’t like change at all.
Edit: also I think the biggest indicator that at least from Apple’s perspective the liquid Glass reception has been positive enough is that, after a summer of going back-and-forth and making tweak after tweak, once they settled on the look for the final 26.0 release and introduced the “Tinted” option in 26.1, they have pretty much left it alone ever since. They have even let it continue to spread, the new Apple TV iconography in December and the new version of iWork in January, if reception was truly that awful, we would see them immediately taking steps to mitigate it like they did last year with the Photos app where between 18.0 and 18.5 they simply just would not leave it alone. Or that one year where they introduced a new layout for Safari in iOS 15.0 I believe, only to completely wipe it away and revert to the old one in 15.1. Or the year they moved the “End Call” button and then it was literally on the news, like actual television news, how much people were struggling with it so they reversed that back to the way it was before. We have seen no such reversals this time around which I think says a lot.
Even Aqua went through an insane amount of revision between first introduction and final release, not to mention the last big redesign with iOS 7 which looked pretty different between first build shown of 7.0 and final build before 8.0.
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cjsuk
macrumors 68010
I think that just proves that most people have **** in their eyes when it comes to user interface design.
I mean have you seen the average person's home decor?
I mean have you seen the average person's home decor?
Abydos
macrumors 6502
my home decor makes the average good will store look like a fashion decor outlet, there is no disputing taste (in English this time not latin)
People think that malware is going to flood their devices spontaneously if they don't immediately update the same way people used to think flies spontaneously formed.
Both takes are wrong and deeply uneducated.
indefinite
macrumors regular
Even with Tinted on, it has the tendency to switch into light mode/dark mode depending on the background.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Yea, tinted improved things for me but I'm hoping for a tinted mode 2.0 :-D
Fingers crossed iOS 27 will offer a bit more, i'd say they are up to their eyeballs trying to fix small visual bugs.
But I can also see a challenge for developers if they have to design their app with two different standards in mind. iOS 18 and 26. So not to sure an "improved" tinted mode is on the roadmap really.
SalisburySam
macrumors 65816
So lemme get this straight: a 40% negative response anecdotally or otherwise is considered a “win?” Terrific.
cateye
macrumors 65816
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