The Problem With Liquid Glass Liquid Glass is Apple’s newest user-experience design, and it will be included in all of its operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

Apple's Liquid Glass made a splashy debut this week, but it might not be for everyone. Some social media users have been quick to criticize or poke fun at the "beautiful, new" software design for ...

Liquid Glass has a focus on transparency, just like the Fruitger Aero style popular in the 2000s (Image credit: Apple) Frutiger Aero was a major influence on Windows 7 (Image credit: Shutterstock) ...

The Liquid Glass interface also now enables a third way to view app icons on the iPhone home screen. Not content with Light and Dark modes, iOS 26 now features an All Clear look -- every icon is ...

Others said they hoped they’d be able to turn it off. Some also pointed to the similarities between Liquid Glass and Windows Aero, the design language brought to Microsoft Windows Vista in 2006.

The Liquid Glass design will be available as part of Apple’s upcoming software updates, including iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 261.

It's true that the Liquid Glass redesign is less than revolutionary, but at least with macOS 26, with it, Apple is making users be more productive.

Mundane as it may seem, glass is a surprisingly mysterious material. Now scientists at the University of Konstanz have identified a new state of matter called liquid glass, which has some unusual ...