iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

Post by kcplate » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:03 PM UTC

mcswell wrote: post #163

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> If you had themes, everyone would deactivate that liquid glass shite I’ve been using iOS 26, iPad 26, and MacOs 26 since the initial developer betas and it’s perfectly fine and perfectly usable for me . I like it well enough that I would prefer not going back at this point. I downloaded the 26.1 beta today, flipped off all the standard settings to minimize the Liquid Glass effects. It’s not exactly the iOS 18 exper…

> Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again. 1) A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't complain about the change, it's only because I don't remember enough to recall what it used to be. 2) Exception: Windows 8. Nobody complained when Windows 9 came out, because they remembered what…

Post by BugsJustFindMe » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

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aylmao wrote: post #50

IMO a big problem with Liquid Glass is that you're trying to recreate an effect that's highly reliant on the sense of depth we get from binocular vision in a 2D screen. When looking at glass in real life, your left eye and your right eye see slightly different refraction patterns since they're looking at the surface from slightly different angles. It might be minimal, but light refraction patterns can change a lot wh…

> When looking at glass in real life, your left eye and your right eye see slightly different refraction patterns since they're looking at the surface from slightly different angles But if you close one eye, you can still make out the depth. Brain is still able to tell what is glass, what is on top of glass or below it.

Post by freehorse » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:27 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #213

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> When looking at glass in real life, your left eye and your right eye see slightly different refraction patterns since they're looking at the surface from slightly different angles But if you close one eye, you can still make out the depth. Brain is still able to tell what is glass, what is on top of glass or below it.

Only across time via parallax motion and depth refocusing, neither of which are available on the screen. And both of those signals are extremely secondary to binocular sight. There's a reason that people with strabismus lose depth perception. Their point stands. (Though Apple could technically do a parallax effect by face tracking if they wanted)

Post by rkomorn » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

freehorse wrote: post #215

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Only across time via parallax motion and depth refocusing, neither of which are available on the screen. And both of those signals are extremely secondary to binocular sight. There's a reason that people with strabismus lose depth perception. Their point stands. (Though Apple could technically do a parallax effect by face tracking if they wanted)

> There's a reason that people with strabismus lose depth perception. Still we don't stumble onto things nor do we fail recognise what is on a glass vs inside. Even if we do not have binocular depth perception, we actually perceive depth irl just fine. And people with binocular vision also fall for depth illusions just fine, too. The brain does a lot of predictive processing. It would be too inefficient to be constan…

Post by etempleton » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

hu3 wrote: post #124

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Unifying the look and feel to such a literal degree on desktop was a weird choice and I hate it a lot on my personal and work machine.

Do you like the enormous round borders?