Saw this on Threads:
To commemorate Alan Dye moving from Apple to Meta, here's one of his best quotes.
Konstantin 🔭
boosted
Digging this new transition between tracks.
#daftmusic #buildinpublic #macos26 #liquidglass #indiedev #macosdev #swiftui
Digging this new transition between tracks.
#daftmusic #buildinpublic #macos26 #liquidglass #indiedev #macosdev #swiftui
Something j don’t like about #iOS26 and #LiquidGlass just clicked for me: It’s like they allowed Jonny Ive into the software to rip out genuinely useful features in an overzealous pursuit of form over function.
Example: IIRC from iOS 18, the message view in Mail lost triage features. You need to back out of it to do anything with it. Needless extra taps.
Music: The toolbar disappears all the time now, requiring multiple taps just to get back to my library. Tedious, neeedless.
Sketch is liquid glass now! (thanks for the tip @kslazinski)
I'm testing some apps on iOS 26.1 and at this point, I can't tell anymore what's me misusing the API, what's a SwiftUI glitch or expected behaviour.
#LiquidGlass ...😒 The contrast of notifications is now so low that I can hardly distinguish them from the apps underneath. When I first saw this, I thought my #VSCode had gotten a new #Fantastical integration.
Oh my gods, just noticed how many different keyboard layouts ⌨️ there are in #iOS26 right now. Completely inconsistent! Every app seems to use its own version 🤦
And I honestly don’t get what this whole “liquid” glass design in #iOS26 is supposed to be good for. Sure, the buttons look kind of squishy – and “liquid”. But so what? You can’t drag them around, interact with them, or do anything meaningful. They just sit there. I’m no design expert, but this “liquidness” pretends to have functionality while being nothing more than cosmetic fluff without purpose.
Btw, this is how images with fine textures (like screenshots) look in the #iOS26 Photos app right now…thanks to all those #LiquidGlass menu overlays cluttering the view.
What also seems to have changed in #iOS26: switching tabs in #Safari by swiping up from the address bar now often sends me straight to the Home Screen instead of the tab overview. Either I suddenly lost motor control, or #Apple quietly changed the gesture tolerance. This never happened in previous #iOS versions. #LiquidGlass #LiquidAss
Another example of #Apple’s sloppy #LiquidGlass design in #iOS26: in the screenshot editor, the UI clearly wasn’t tested in landscape mode. The top buttons now stick directly to the screen edge without any margin. Visually off, ergonomically worse. Seems Apple only checked the portrait layout. #LiquidAss 👎
Another thing that bothers me in #iOS26 #LiquidGlass: the new text-selection menu. It used to be a neat scrollable list. Now it only shows three options, hiding the rest behind an arrow. One more tap for every edit, and to top it off, it’s inconsistent across apps. #Apple 👏
During all this #LiquidGlass frenzy, #Apple somehow forgot to port the feature where tapping the top bar in #Safari’s in-app browser scrolls to the top. Progress! 🙃
Liquid Glass rhymes with kiss Trump’s ass… coincidence? 🤔
Continuing on updating @bridges. I've been playing around with the toolbar design a bit. Which do you prefer? 🧐
A screenshot of my app Bridges on macOS. It's got the second design of two images in this post. This one shows the app which is a three column app where the toolbar is a clear color in the middle column but hidden in the right column. This design is more like other macOS Tahoe apps.
A screenshot of my app Bridges on macOS. It's got the first design of two images in this post. This one shows the app which is a three column app where the toolbar is a solid color in the middle column but hidden in the right column.
I think a way that Liquid Glass could be improved is having “aggregate states”. Liquid when there’s movement, and frosted (or “solid”, if you will) when static.
That way you get the cool effect when you’re scrolling, and legibility is better when you’re not.
The Liquid Glass effect really only comes through when something’s moving, anyway. When not, it more often looks like a graphical glitch to me.
@tbernard Surprised they didn't call it "liquid glass" vs "frosted glass"