June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces a pleasant and chic new software program design
A common design throughout platforms brings extra focus to content material and a brand new stage of vitality whereas sustaining the familiarity of Apple’s software program
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time previewed a stunning new software program design that makes apps and system experiences extra expressive and pleasant whereas being immediately acquainted. It’s crafted with a brand new materials referred to as Liquid Glass. This translucent materials displays and refracts its environment, whereas dynamically reworking to assist convey larger focus to content material, delivering a brand new stage of vitality throughout controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and extra. For the very first time, the brand new design extends throughout platforms — iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 261 — to ascertain much more concord whereas sustaining the distinct qualities that make every distinctive.
“At Apple, we’ve all the time believed within the deep integration of {hardware} and software program that makes interacting with expertise intuitive, stunning, and pleasant,” stated Alan Dye, Apple’s vice chairman of Human Interface Design. “That is our broadest software program design replace ever. Meticulously crafted by rethinking the basic parts that make up our software program, the brand new design options a wholly new materials referred to as Liquid Glass. It combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity solely Apple can obtain, because it transforms relying in your content material or context. It lays the muse for brand new experiences sooner or later and, finally, it makes even the only of interactions extra enjoyable and magical.”
Introducing Liquid Glass: A New and Expressive Materials
Impressed by the depth and dimensionality of visionOS, the brand new design takes benefit of Apple’s highly effective advances in {hardware}, silicon, and graphics applied sciences. The brand new materials, Liquid Glass, is translucent and behaves like glass in the actual world. Its coloration is knowledgeable by surrounding content material and intelligently adapts between gentle and darkish environments. Born out of an in depth collaboration between the design and engineering groups, Liquid Glass makes use of real-time rendering and dynamically reacts to motion with specular highlights. This creates a vigorous expertise that makes utilizing iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV much more pleasant.
This attractive new materials extends from the smallest parts customers work together with day by day — like buttons, switches, sliders, textual content, and media controls — to bigger parts, together with tab bars and sidebars for navigating apps. It additionally shines in system experiences, such because the Lock Display screen, Residence Display screen, notifications, Management Middle, and extra.
Up to date App Designs
Pushed by the aim of bringing larger focus to content material that’s immediately acquainted, Apple’s design staff thought-about each facet of Apple’s platforms to determine enhancements that may very well be made throughout the board.
Controls, toolbars, and navigation inside apps have been redesigned. Beforehand configured for rectangular shows, they now match completely concentric with the rounded corners of contemporary {hardware} and app home windows — establishing larger concord between {hardware}, software program, and content material. Controls are crafted out of Liquid Glass and act as a definite practical layer that sits above apps. They provide solution to content material and dynamically morph as customers want extra choices or transfer between completely different components of an app. And with considerate groupings, it’s simpler for customers to seek out the controls they want.
Tab bars and sidebars have been redesigned with the identical strategy. In iOS 26, when customers scroll, tab bars shrink to convey focus to the content material whereas retaining navigation immediately accessible. The second customers scroll again up, tab bars fluidly broaden. In iPadOS and macOS, up to date sidebars make apps like Apple TV much more immersive. They refract the content material behind them — whereas reflecting content material and the consumer’s wallpaper from round them — which ensures customers all the time have a way of their context.
These up to date design parts apply throughout contemporary new experiences in apps corresponding to Digital camera, Pictures, Safari, FaceTime, Apple Music, Apple Information, and Apple Podcasts.
An Enhanced Expertise Throughout Platforms
The brand new design extends throughout iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, with updates to system experiences just like the Lock Display screen, Residence Display screen, desktop, and Dock. To keep up the main focus with regards to picture wallpapers on the Lock Display screen, the time is now crafted out of Liquid Glass and fluidly adapts to suit elegantly behind the topic.
On the Residence Display screen and desktop, the Dock, app icons, and widgets have all been crafted from a number of layers of Liquid Glass. They appear gorgeous, with specular highlights, and permit for larger personalization choices whereas nonetheless sustaining the familiarity that customers depend on. For instance, in macOS Tahoe 26, customers can customise the desktop and Dock with widgets and app icons that come to life in gentle or darkish appearances, colourful new gentle and darkish tints, in addition to a chic new clear look. And it’s made even higher with a totally clear menu bar that makes the Mac show really feel even bigger.
Constructing Dynamic Apps
For builders utilizing SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit, an up to date set of APIs make it straightforward to undertake the brand new design. By utilizing Liquid Glass supplies and the brand new and up to date controls, builders have the chance to refresh the design of their apps to make each consumer interplay much more intuitive and pleasant.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
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