How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?

CraigMac wrote:

Nope. Nice try. If this were anything like aqua, it wouldn’t be revised by pretty much the entire Apple community. People would love to see aqua make a comeback. I’m not one of them, but there are fans of it and those people aren’t fans of this. Let me tell you read any forum about Apple products and you’ll find all the feedback you need to see. Apple should’ve done the same before they shipped this.

Forums are filled with gruntled people. What about the millions upon millions of people who are seeming happy with Liquid Glass and iOS 26, who aren't bothered to chime in and say "hey, I like this new look?" Your assertion that those who complain should be the primary consideration, honestly doesn't add up or make sense. In fact, the complainers are statistically insignificant as is almost always the case.

sorry I installed iOS 26 liquid glass not attractive messes up my viewing. Also I used to be able to toggle between my email in Yahoo and my Google search now I got a sign into Yahoo every time to get to my inbox.I can’t toggle back-and-forth

CraigMac wrote:

If this were anything like aqua, it wouldn’t be revised by pretty much the entire Apple community. People would love to see aqua make a comeback. I’m not one of them, but there are fans of it and those people aren’t fans of this. Let me tell you read any forum about Apple products and you’ll find all the feedback you need to see.

Some people hated Aqua when it came out and there were the same disgruntled people making the complaints back then who do not like any change at all. The same thing happened when Jony Ivy went to the flat design in the UI to get rid of the skeuomorphic icons. You don't even need to restrict the complaints on the UI, remember when Apple got rid of the floppy disk on the computers, and then the CD drive. Oh, the uproar of complaints how Apple could do something like that.

The one thing that is consistent with all of them is Apple never went back, and competitors jumped aboard to follow suit. Even Google moved away from the skeuomorphic icons just a year later after Apple dropped it and created their own Material Design approach, which was the same thing that Apple was doing with the transparency used in the flat icons, even with the complaints they had received.

I think Steve Jobs said it best himself: “Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”

Just wait for the next UI update where users are going to say this one was the best and complain about the next change. It happens all the time, and the cycle continues.

It's usually just complainers that post, so I'll chime in on behalf of my 60 year old wife. She actually needs to take motion sickness pills when we take road trips,( i only say that bc some people mentioned it lol). She loves the new look, didn't want to reduce anything. Says it just seems clearer to her. So, it doesn't have to do with age, but more with people who have trouble adapting to change.

I have played with her phone a little, and don't see the big deal. As long as a new OS doesn't permanently affect my battery life, I can deal with most of it.

This liquid glass effect is ugly its look like android.. please apple care put option to disable liquid glass effect. Or maybe were going to switch apple to android .i dont like the liquid glass effect so very ugly

Because of the mixed opinions here, is why I believe there should be an option to toggle it on or off. I mentioned how I feel, and others may disagree, which is fine. It is really a personal decision. So I hope that future updates will allow more customizable control.

However, I noticed that people here are only talking about the liquid glass part of the update, but not talking about how the UI of the different apps have changed. There is also no longer a default video player for the Files app. When wanting to watch a video, it randomly selects an app, and you can’t choose which one. That can also include an app that does not even play videos. That is quite a problem.

>>People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

This is completely unrelated nonsense, you did not understand what you quoted. This is not showing people what they didn't know they wanted yet. It is showing people something they then hate and absolutely not want.

tgwaste- wrote:

I can not express enough how much I absolutely hate it. This will be the thing that drives me to Android. I can NOT look at this horrible UI every single day.

You are free to choose whatever platform you wish. It makes no difference to any of us here. The only thing that is consistent is your attitude towards Apple. It is hard to take this seriously.

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I am so happy to hear I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it. Apple goes on and on and on about how gorgeous it is. It’s like a middle school art project. And the color of the Apple apps (in particular games, music and find my) are just awful. And no I won’t get used to it. I’ve been using iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe since the public beta came out. I kept thinking they would “fix” the not so gorgeousness of it before the final release. I just don’t get it.

Most everyone that I spoke with ( family, friends & coworkers) aren’t crazy about it. They can live with it but they’d like the option to be able to toggle it off as would I. I’ve made the adjustments in my settings but I’m still not completely satisfied. Apple really should’ve given us the right to choose for those who aren’t interested. The one feature that I’m glad that they did think ahead about was giving us the option to make the time solid.

It is 100% doable and quite simple to go back to iOS 18 if you have a Mac and cable capable of data transfer (not just a cheap charger cable). I know this because I did it.

You are talking about deleting a Beta version of iOS 26 and going back to iOS 18. Apple provides instructions on how to do this.

But.....if you have installed an official release version of iOS 26.....you cannot go back to iOS 18.

Big difference. If you are going to reply to try to help other users, at least provide them with all of the facts.

Totatora wrote:

It is 100% doable and quite simple to go back to iOS 18 if you have a Mac and cable capable of data transfer (not just a cheap charger cable). I know this because I did it.

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It is only doable if you used that same computer to upgrade to your last iOS18 and the legal update file is still on the machine. You are in that situation? ? Good for you. Any other situation is illegal jailbreak.

This is a visual effect and not a request for a downgrade. Honestly, I’m surprised they’re reintroducing this Windows 2000 approach as it causes graphics to work harder, which was one of the issues MS had to address at that time. This has nothing to do with the operating system.

3mack wrote:

This is a visual effect and not a request for a downgrade. Honestly, I’m surprised they’re reintroducing this Windows 2000 approach as it causes graphics to work harder, which was one of the issues MS had to address at that time. This has nothing to do with the operating system.

It has EVERYTHING to do with the operating system. It is hard coded and a fundamental part of the operating system.

I want a way to turn off Liquid Glass. I cannot “see” the display as easily as before. I updated my iPhone 16 as well as my iPad Pro, to IOS 26 and am very disappointed. Please fix this with an update to give us a choice.