Apple’s Liquid Glass interface improves with launch of iOS 26 Beta 2
With Monday’s launch of iOS 26 Beta 2, Apple has mounted one of many extra obtrusive points with Liquid Glass, its divisive new consumer interface design for the iPhone, iPad, and different Apple gadgets, introduced earlier this month at its WWDC 2025.
The refreshed consumer interface modernizes the working system’s appear and feel with a design system impressed by the optical qualities of glass, together with the best way it refracts gentle and its translucency.
Nonetheless, early iOS 26 testers, considerably unfairly, have been fast to level out the issues with the up to date look within the early developer beta. Although the beta construct just isn’t but completed, customers shared screenshots and criticized areas the place Liquid Glass fell brief when it comes to readability and value.
One of many customers’ bigger issues was with how Liquid Glass made the Management Heart (the menu accessed by swiping down on the fitting aspect of the iPhone’s display) almost unreadable. Due to its semi see-through nature, it was laborious to distinguish the Management Heart’s buttons and sliders from the icons and widgets on the iPhone’s House Display screen that appeared beneath.
Within the newly launched beta, Apple has addressed the issue with the Management Heart by adjusting the background blur, which higher obscures the House Display screen content material beneath.
Notifications within the first beta have been additionally laborious to learn, as many had identified. Within the up to date beta, they’re a bit sharper however nonetheless want work, particularly for readability on brighter and lighter backgrounds.
These aren’t doubtless the ultimate changes, provided that iOS 26 doesn’t launch publicly till the autumn. Nonetheless, they’re indications that Apple is actively listening to early consumer suggestions and making tweaks accordingly.
Additionally in Beta 2, Apple has added an Accessibility part to the App Retailer’s product pages, enabled iCloud sync for the Journaling app on iPads, added order monitoring options to Apple Pockets, launched an Apple Music Radio widget, and extra.