Apple released iOS 26 On Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the World Developer Conference in June. The update has a handful of new features to your iPhone, including calls,, New ringtones And more. But the biggest change iOS 26 brings to your device is its new visual design that Apple calls liquid glass.
This is the biggest visual update that Apple has brought to your iPhone since the company published iOS 7 in 2013. The overhaul means that the menus and other visual elements appear translucent, and certain elements crush and use when you interact with them.
Some people have been torn in connection with the design when Apple has published the IOS 26 developer Beta 26. Apple changed the design during the beta iOS 26 process to improve readability by adding more than one frosty look, but you may not be satisfied. Fortunately, you can adjust the design of the liquid glass in a few steps, considerably reducing its transparency.
Here is how to make the liquid glass design in iOS 26 more readable.
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How to adjust the liquid glass
1 and 1 Open Parameters.
2 Faucet Accessibility.
3 and 3 Faucet Text display and size.
4 Press the rocking for Reduce transparency.
This will darken all menus or elements affected by the design of liquid glass, including in applications such as messages and your control center.
On the left, we see the design of liquid glass in its full effect, and on the right, the reduction transparency adjustment has been activated.
In the Text display and size menu, you can also press the switch next to Increase the contrast To help distinguish liquid glass elements. When I allowed this rocking, it gave many of these elements a white outline.
Increase the contrast adds contours to the elements of your iPhone.
If you want to use the Clear App Icon option, I would not recommend activating transparency reduction or increasing the contrast. I really like clear icons because it guarantees that your background is the main objective, but the icons are always visible enough to distinguish each. When these other options are activated, it is as if the icons occupied the front of the stage.
Liquid glass without alterations (on the left), liquid glass with reduction in activated transparency (center-left), liquid glass with an activated increase (center-right) and liquid glass with reduction in transparency and increase the activated contrast (right).
If you want to bring back the liquid glass design elements to your device, follow the steps above again to deactivate Reduce transparency.
For more new iOS, here is My criticism of iOS 26how to activate calls for calls in the operating system and all New ringtones on your iPhone. You can also consult our IOS 26 cheat sheet.
