Printed on: June 10, 2025
On iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and extra, your apps will tackle an entire new look based mostly on Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign. All that you must do to undertake this new fashion in your apps is recompile. As soon as recompiled, your app could have all-new UI parts which suggests your app will look contemporary and proper at house in Apple’s newest OS.
That stated, there are a lot of the reason why you would possibly not wish to undertake Liquid Glass simply but.
It is a huge redesign and for plenty of apps there will likely be work to do to correctly adapt your designs to slot in with Liquid Glass.
For these apps, Apple permits builders to opt-out of the redesign utilizing a selected property listing key which you could add to your app’s Data. While you add UIDesignRequiresCompatibility to your Data.plist and set it to YES, your app will run utilizing the previous OS design as an alternative of the brand new Liquid Glass design.
In response to Apple this flag ought to primarily be used for debugging and testing nevertheless it will also be used to remain on the previous design for some time longer. A phrase of warning although; Apple intends to take away this selection within the subsequent main Xcode launch. Because of this regardless that in Xcode 26 it is possible for you to to opt-out, Xcode 27 will most likely make adopting Liquid Glass obligatory.
That stated, for now you may hold the previous feel and look on your app whereas you determine how Liquid Glass impacts your design selections.
