With Monday’s launch of iOS 26 Beta 2, Apple has mounted one of many extra obvious points with Liquid Glass, its divisive new person interface design for the iPhone, iPad, and different Apple gadgets, introduced earlier this month at WWDC 2025.
The refreshed person interface modernizes the working system’s feel and appear with a design system impressed by the optical qualities of glass, together with the way in which it refracts gentle and its translucency.
Nonetheless, early iOS 26 testers, considerably unfairly, had been fast to level out the issues with the up to date look within the early developer beta. Although the beta construct shouldn’t be but completed, customers shared screenshots and criticized areas the place Liquid Glass fell quick when it comes to readability and usefulness.
One of many customers’ bigger issues was with how Liquid Glass made the Management Middle (the menu accessed by swiping down on the suitable facet of the iPhone’s display screen) almost unreadable. Due to its semi-transparent nature, it was exhausting to distinguish the Management Middle’s buttons and sliders from the icons and widgets on the iPhone’s House Display that appeared beneath.
Within the newly launched beta, Apple has addressed the issue with the Management Middle by adjusting the background blur, which higher obscures the House Display content material beneath.
Notifications within the first beta had been additionally exhausting 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.
iOS 26 seems to be modern, however customers need management—allow us to customise Management Middle format and modify blur/transparency ranges. Not everybody desires a frosted-glass overload. Personalization > one-size-fits-all. #iOS26 #AppleFeedback https://t.co/yFuav2v6og— Tech-reviewit 👨🏼💻 (@craigmlambo22) June 23, 2025
These will not be probably the ultimate changes, on condition that iOS 26 doesn’t launch publicly till the autumn. Nonetheless, they’re indications that Apple is actively listening to early person 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.
