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No Major Changes to Liquid Glass Expected Across iOS 27 and macOS 27

Apple's new Liquid Glass interface introduced across iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and its other latest software platforms is apparently here to stay.

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the latest internal versions of iOS 27 and macOS 27 do not have major Liquid Glass design changes. He also mentioned how Apple's new software design chief, Steve Lemay, was "a driving force" behind Liquid Glass and was "deeply involved in its development."

Lemay joined Apple in 1999. He succeeded Alan Dye, who left Apple for Meta at the end of last year. Under his leadership, it is likely that Apple will focus on gradually improving Liquid Glass. This would be similar to Apple's approach with iOS 7, which did away with skeuomorphism in favor of a flat design and was then refined over the years.

Apple already provided iPhone users with a few Liquid Glass customization options through software updates. iOS 26.1 added a "Tinted" option that increases the opacity of Liquid Glass elements across the system, and iOS 26.2 introduced a slider that allows you to adjust the opacity of Liquid Glass for the Lock Screen's clock.

Apple was initially working on a system-wide Liquid Glass slider for iOS 26, but it ran into engineering challenges when trying to extend it across the entire system, according to Gurman. However, he said Apple could go back to the drawing board and manage to get the system-wide slider working in an iOS 27 version.

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Top Rated Comments

2 weeks ago
Basically, a new person arrives, makes an overconfident but poor design choice, and the decision becomes irreversible because egos are now at stake?
Score: 44 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MacUserFella Avatar
2 weeks ago
Not even an option to get rid of it?
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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2 weeks ago

He also mentioned how Apple's new software design chief, Steve Lemay (https://www.apple.com/leadership/steve-lemay/), was "a driving force" behind Liquid Glass and was "deeply involved in its development."
Oh dear god what nightmare is this
Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Sputman99 Avatar
2 weeks ago
IMHO

1 . Get rid of the silly lines
2 . Put the icon colours back to what they were
3 . Reduce the stupid round corners
4 . Please please stop all the popping of menus that don’t work with dark/light

In fact just roll it back - and MacOS as well - who was in charge for this ? Oh .. he left
Score: 27 Votes (Like | Disagree)
UliBaer Avatar
2 weeks ago
Oh well, just another year on iOS 17.7.2 for the win! 👍
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
turbineseaplane Avatar
2 weeks ago
Another year of Sequoia and iOS 18 / iPadOS 18 for me it is then!

This solidifies my decision to get a refurb M4 MBA.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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