Disable glass effect in iOS 26 for better battery life

Dustyland wrote:

I feel your pain. I don’t like seeing a button by looking through another button. There’s a reason why important information in cockpits and on highway signs are opaque (easier and quicker to see).

I do understand that the furniture must be rearranged sometimes. Otherwise it gets boring. We’ve had it good for a while. This simply will not be our time.

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Reduced transparency actually might drain more battery.

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Voidtrace wrote:

Who thought the glass effect was a good idea? Please add an option to disable it — my eyes aren’t a GPU benchmark, and it murders the battery.

You might want to read what this article says about battery drain after an update:

About Apple software updates - Apple Support

You’re wrong because it is directly related buddy. Suddenly I curiously switched back to non-glass home screen and my phone battery percentage stayed the same for hours which is very strange because ever since i updated to ios 26 i always get huge drop in battery even when the phone is locked. So yes my battery draining problem is solved finally. Can get a good sleep🤣

just because you like, no, love it, doesn’t mean everyone does. the post owner never mentioned replacing it, the request here is to just be able to disable it for those who don’t want it, frosted glass was a sweet spot for visibility and aesthetics. just because your folder looks good doesn’t make the theme good. that is more frequently used than opening a folder and admiring how good the open folder looks.

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Please get rid of the Liquid Glass. Or at the bare minimum be able to turn it off. It’s seriously messing with my eye sight It makes all the apps look blurry through my glasses and my eye doctor said this prescription is correct.

Honestly, who thought this was a good idea?!?! Makes me want to switch to android!

That’s a bummer that Apple “isn’t here.” I know they have their feedback channels, but if they’re truly not using some form of automated mining in this discussion platform, they’re really missing out on a wealth of helpful information.

you can't assign causation with correlation. Go back to glassy in a month and see if the drain returns to prove you were not simply riding on the natural slope after updating

That’s counterintuitive but apparently true. At least it’s easier to see things with reduced transparency, at least for some of us.

Yes I want it to be removed

adie209 wrote:

Yes I want it to be removed

Read two posts above.

Apple needs to give an option to turn this off, i have a condition with my optic nerve and this has now made my phone unusable.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Questionable science indeed! I tested it myself using two iPhone 17 Pro phones. One with Transparency turned on and one with Transparency turned off. In neither phone was battery life diminished or enhanced. Both were connected to Wifi. I do believe that having motion on in Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion could have some minor affect on the battery. I personally didn't like the animation, so on my iPhone, Reduce Motion is turned on. Even that in itself should not have a significant impact on the battery.

The thing that has made the biggest difference in my battery life is the Adaptive Power. It's much better than just flipping on Low Power Mode when you think you might need it.