I'm using Liquid Glass and it mostly lives up to its promise
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Apple’s polarizing new iOS design language is probably here to stay.
Apple has released iOS 26 Beta 4, and with it comes a bold revival of a concept first teased at WWDC 2025, the Liquid Glass interface.
iOS 26 brings a new translucent "Liquid Glass" look, the latest on-device Apple Intelligence perks (real-time translation and a smarter Visual Intelligence search ), and phone and text upgrades like built-in call screening and in-chat polls.
We’ve been playing around with the developer betas of Apple’s latest software, and now that we’ve spent time with iOS 26, Liquid Glass and more on actual devices, we have thoughts. From representation in Genmoji and Live Translation adventures to Apple Intelligence musings,
OS 26 isn't quite ready to launch yet, but we're far enough along in the testing process that Apple is seeding the update out to millions