With Monday’s launch of iOS 26 Beta 2, Apple has fastened one of many extra obvious points with Liquid Glass, its divisive new person interface design for the iPhone, iPad, and different Apple units, introduced earlier this month at its WWDC 2025.
The refreshed person interface modernizes the working system’s appear and feel with a design system impressed by the optical qualities of glass, together with the way in which it refracts mild and its translucency.
Nevertheless, early iOS 26 testers, considerably unfairly, have been fast to level out the failings with the up to date look within the early developer beta. Although the beta construct is just not but completed, customers shared screenshots and criticized areas the place Liquid Glass fell brief when it comes to readability and usefulness.
One of many customers’ bigger considerations was with how Liquid Glass made the Management Middle (the menu accessed by swiping down on the precise facet of the iPhone’s display) almost unreadable. Due to its semi see-through nature, it was onerous to distinguish the Management Middle’s buttons and sliders from the icons and widgets on the iPhone’s Dwelling 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 Dwelling Display content material beneath.
Notifications within the first beta have been additionally onerous 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.
These are usually not probably the ultimate changes, provided that iOS 26 doesn’t launch publicly till the autumn. Nevertheless, 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.
