tvOS 26 is getting Apple's new Liquid Glass design language
Apple is updating tvOS alongside its different working methods at WWDC 2025, introducing its new Liquid Glass design language, naming conventions (tvOS 26) and up to date built-in apps.
The brand new design language provides smooth, translucent finishes to completely different components of the tvOS expertise, with up to date app icons, glassy menus and fluid animations that reply to your clicks and swipes.
Within the Apple Music app, you can join iPhones to make use of as karaoke microphones, add songs to your karaoke playlist out of your machine and use your iPhone to react with emoji whereas your mates sing. Translated variations of a music’s lyrics might be accessible in tvOS, too, identical to within the iOS model of the app.
Related translation options are coming to the tvOS FaceTime app, with the choice to view translated captions when you’re on a name. The Contact Poster-focused homepage that Apple is bringing to different variations of the FaceTime app is coming to tvOS 26, making it doable to view visible voicemail out of your TV and leap right into a name with a buddy simply by clicking on their image.
Apple can also be including new aerial screensavers that includes footage filmed in India, and supplying you with the power to decide on which screensavers you need to show or disguise in your TV. Your Apple TV can now even be set to launch right into a profile choice display screen whenever you flip it on, so content material suggestions in tvOS are utterly personalized to every consumer.
Apparently, Apple is not making its new Liquid Glass design accessible on all variations of the Apple TV. The corporate’s weblog publish particularly mentions that tvOS’ new look is simply accessible on the 2nd-generation Apple TV 4K and later.
The tvOS 26 beta is out there for builders to strive at the moment. A public beta of tvOS 26 might be accessible for everybody to make use of in July. The ultimate model of tvOS 26 might be accessible within the fall.