‘Beautiful’ and ‘Hard to Read’: Designers React to Apple’s Liquid Glass Update

Transparent Apple Design IOS 26 update, which is called Glass, is now available for developers, with a general experimental schedule for the next month. The update-the first main repair process for Apple in 10 years-has sparked the icons of applications, buttons, menus and population windows as if they were made of frozen glass, with unclear background colors.

Comprehensive software changes are not only for iPhone devices. This glass appearance – inspired by the operating system in the Vision Pro headphone – will eventually be offered to a full range of Apple devices, from smart watches to iPad devices.

After the end of Keynote WWDC 2025 on Monday, many developers focus on WIRED design with the main update, but they had remaining questions about how this transparent appearance of users affected.

“It is difficult to read each other,” says Alan Yu, a producer who is currently producing. “Basically because I think they made it very transparent.” Yu suggests lifting off clarity or setting backgrounds to make designs on the screen more readable.

“Similar to the first experimental version of iOS 7, what we have seen so far is cruel to the edges and is likely to turn into attention or challenge in reading, especially for users who suffer from visual weakness,” says Josh Bukit, the founder of repetition, who helps startups with designs. However, Puckkett is optimistic, based on the previous accessories of Apple, reading the ability to improve over time.

Serhi Popov, a MacPaw design software, is the company behind the Cleanmymac application, curious to see how the new operating system will search on Mac devices in bright lighting parking, as the glow already affects the vision. But in general, a bobov is fascinated by a “really new” appearance of Apple. “I think it will make everything look bigger and allow you to read or interact with the user interface with more comfort,” says Bubov. For him, the design and new updates appear especially elegant on iPad devices.

Besides reading the ability to read, the first impression of some designers is that this new appearance can distract users illegally to users.

“From a technical perspective, it is a very impressive effect. I salute the time and effort that it should make to imitate the refraction and distract light to a high degree,” says Adam and Icruoftt, designer of Owner.com, who makes the applications and websites of restaurants. “However, unfortunately, I haven’t seen a single example of the place where it is pulled in a complementary way to the broader context in which it is presented.” Whitcroft indicates the dispersion and breaking of the layers below the applications as visually dispersion, especially since the user interface changes the layouts. He says: “If I designed a user interface that attracts the attention of the eye away from the broader context, you have traveled in the wrong path,” he says.