Apple’s liquid glass was a wild change in my iPhone

After staring, scrolling and surprising Apple’s new liquid glass design on my iPhone for a better part, I don’t hate it. But I also think that it needs a little more time in the kiln.

Apple announced a liquid glass for all its devices in the WWDC 2025 on Monday. Perhaps the most notable thing about this is that the app’s icons, tab bars, and even text magnesifier you will see that when you shake words, well, liquid wi and glass.

The idea looks like they are “floating” a layer on things like your lock screen wallpapers or text, so “glasses” may be transferred to you to make you realize the bottom. It makes sense. IOS 26 Developer Beta Beta Early Implementation Many Apple’s Signage Flowers Flowers and Focuses on Details.

But when you see boys first, those changes are made.

Let me show you how it changes things in a dramatic way. Below, on the left is a photo of my iOS 18 lock screen that I shared with David Pierce for the Installer Newsletter last month, and on the right is my lock screen today, my iPhone 16 Pro has been installed on the iOS 16 Pro.

Even in my deliberately gray scale home screen, I hope you see the differences appear immediately. Everything is transparent and shiny.

If you want a different way to see it, my home screen with color has been added back. Many icons are familiar, but they are all… bubblers.

There is a control center, which is clearly dirt right now. The transparency of the liquid glass looks like it, and it is also with my brown home screen. I hope that under the Apple Control Center, everything will make everything more vague so it is easy to read.

The watch app shows a great example of better details that have changed. The bottom tab bar is rounded, and when you tap different tabs, the selector turns into an animation that can better describe the water drop across the tab. ۔

And there are some other conflicts I thought it would be able to share it. iOS is a perfect new form of keyboard:

The settings app have a lot of space between each sequence category (which is a problem I also saw in the messages list).

Due to the design of the liquid glass will “turn” things under the URL bar in the Safari:

And the system indicators look different:

At first, I hated major changes. He surprised me. I’m usually fine with UI opportunities. In the day, I was also riding with the early and worst versions of iOS 7. But after a few hours with iOS 26 developer son, the liquid glass is growing on me.

My iPhone still works as it used. I have many small complaints, especially with settings functions and control centers. But I expect Apple to deal with and fix many major issues before the official start of iOS 26 this fall this fall.