The new glass appearance of the iPhone decreased with Monday’s release of the third developer Beta of iOS 26. This follows users’ complaints that the update has made parts of the user interface more difficult to read.
At WWDC 2025 in June, the Te USNICA Giant introduced its A new drawing language, known as liquid glass, Which is inspired by the optical qualities of glass in the real world, including how it refracts light and its translucent nature.
But the early version in the first programmer Beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple’s other devices still left room for improvement in usability, accessibility and readability.
Last month, Apple has fixed some of the more prominent problems With liquid glass, as it made the control center so transparent that the iPhone home screen icons and widgets shone, creating visual shear and confusion.
Monday’s update sees that Apple is taking another step to mark things from an over-glass look in some key areas. While Beta 2 addressed problems with the control center, Beta 3 turns its focus to other areas of the mobile operating system, such as notifications and navigation in Apple’s first -party programs, such as Apple Music.
For example, the navigation bar in Apple’s streaming music no longer sees the background shining slightly, choosing a more solid white man.
Notifications are also less translucent, as the background behind the text darkens, increasing contrast.
While the changes are arguably facilitating reading, some users now complain that Apple has gone too far in the other direction with a return to more “frosty glass”Aesthetics.
However, it is worth remembering that these are only developers – early versions of the mobile operating system, which will not end until its public release this autumn. The point of beta software is to allow Apple to collect feedback, find errors and deal with problems before the software will expand.
This means that Apple could continue to set the liquid glass look and feel over the next releases to find the sweet location for the new glass look within each app and screen.
