iOS 26, Liquid Glass design and Apple’s AI shortfall
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Explore the iOS 26 Liquid Glass design, featuring transparency, depth, and dynamic motion for a stunning and intuitive user experience.
Who did the glass-like design first? Was it Apple with its Aqua transparency effects in 2000, or Microsoft with its Aero Glass theme in Windows Vista in 2007? Either way, Microsoft seems to think Apple’s Liquid Glass design bears some resemblance to its glass look in Windows Media Center,
Apple introduced a new, compact design for Safari in iOS 26 that serves as the default layout, but there are two other design options available
What I’m getting at is that the main features of watchOS 26 are the design and name. Apple Watch will get the same Liquid Glass design as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.
At WWDC, Apple announced its new Liquid Glass design language, which is coming to all of its devices, including Macs. I’ve been tinkering with the macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta on the M4 MacBook Air for about a day. So far, the aesthetic changes range from slick to slightly overwrought, but the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful.
Apple’s forthcoming upgrades will solidify the company’s device leadership, but they arrive just as the tech industry questions whether devices will matter at all. The rise of generative AI has given us a new mode of interacting with technology.
During Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, they unveiled their new Liquid Glass design, which makes all app icons look see-through. It's already gotten a lot of flack from consumers, and it's taken attention away from other Apple product updates that are just as,
Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year’s WWDC felt especially Android-y — not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year’s announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design language front and center.