Apple’s new “liquid glass” aesthetic is difficult to see and Microsoft’s too much abusive OS, not thinking about Windows Vista, which also considered the effects of transparency and glass as a bold new vision for computing. You can see the matching with Apple’s UI and Vista’s “Windows Aero” design language, iOS 26 and Macos Tahao 26, which look more like Vista’s sparkling icons, which are like transparent backgrounds used in dropdown menos, which are returned to Vista’s transparent window. The important difference is that Apple is just doing it all. (Sorry, not sorry, Windows fans.)
When Microsoft started with an interesting idea, it failed to perform Windows Aero UI in Vista well. Mostly, the reason is that Vista itself was a huge mess – it was much slower than Windows XP, it was notoriously smaller and he handled the drivers badly. And if you really want to participate in the glory of aerospace bars, you need a powerful GPU computer. It was far more rare than today in 2007, when integrated graphics can also run the basic 3D and Fancy UI elements well. Along with its ancestral home chips, Apple also provides decent graphics’ graphics capabilities in its devices, which releases iOS 26, iPados 26 and other new software with liquid glass.
It also helps that unlike Jump from Windows XP to Vista, liquid glass is not really a big change for Apple. Ever since the IOS7 was released in 2013, Apple has been moving towards a more wide use of a shiny UI and transparency, which dropped the archeological script design trend in favor of a flatter and more stylish aesthetic. So sure, your icons and menos can be a bit more shiny for them in iOS 26, but they mostly work in your way of remembrance. –
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I can at least discuss the overall wisdom of Apple’s liquid glass compared to Windows Vista, and personally I also think that it gives iOS a very essential dose of personality. But I really can’t please you, otherwise if you think it looks ugly, as many of my companions do. Senior News Editor -in -Chief, Aurie Alice, called it “busy and notorious”, and the editor -in -chief and chief Aaron Sopores noted that “it really feels like aero, which is rooted in mid -00s …. I don’t need a lightweight light around my pause button.” Fair Complaints! And as always, you can also reduce the effects of transparency in Apple’s access settings and the elements of movement, if these elements really bother you.
But after spending a little time with the first iOS 26 developer beta, I’m more interesting than anything liquid glass than anything. This makes the app’s icons look like small jewelry I just want to touch, and I dig the effects of transparency throughout the OS – it looks like a future preview where we are using holographic Apple devices. (This is also something I felt using Vision Pro at Visionos, which worked as a liquid glass launch pad.) I really love iOS 26 refined safari, which allows you to brow completely on the entire screen. When you scroll down, the location at the bottom of your screen shrinks and turns off. But if you scroll or tap in the location bar, it returns to you to provide sharing and navigation options you use.
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It may also be that I am a victim of novelty. In my Windows XP days, I used apps such as window blinds to customize OS and add transparent effects. And there are signs that Apple may be going a little far away with transparency, such as the control center of iOS 26 (above). It may sound fine if you are inside an app, but if you are on the home screen, it is one of the many levels of glass -like windows. I could see that for some users to be a bit dubious.
It is also worth noting that the new designs of the interface are often rejected at first glance, especially since you see them summarizing them through screenshots and videos. Even Apple’s smart marketing does not copy the experience of using magic liquid design. In my experience, iOS 26 is not really different from everything before. Once you get out of the initial shock of a new interface, you can see it with new eyes.
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Although Apple’s new operating system still arrives in this fall, there is still a lot of time left, and if beta consumers complain about them, the company often hurries major design changes. I can see that Apple down the control center’s transparent background, or even better, which gives users more control over the amount of liquid glass elements on your screen. Personally, I don’t mind when companies increase their interface theories a little too far – there is always room to go back. It is much better than being conservative and never really pushes your aesthetic view.
