The effect is very nice. I don’t use it on my personal phone. Reduce Motion inhibits the glassiness, and having motion on a phone that I actually use a lot is annoying. I loathe waiting for an animation to finish before I am Permitted to interact with anything.
Clear icons aren’t… bad. Unless they’re dark. Then they’re not clear anymore, which makes me wonder if people in Cupertino actually understand their own language. I don’t use clear icons on my personal phone, because I like the auto-dark mode. Ironically, between color filters to greyscale (to make the phone less attention-hogging) and Reduce Motion, normal icons are not that far off their clear counterparts.
On the impersonal phone, clear icons and Liquid Glass look pretty nice together, at least on the iOS 26 wallpapers. I have them set to “always light” due to their lackluster dark variants, but they look fine that way when the rest of the phone is in dark mode.
Opening an app brings up a solid-background splash screen, and app. There’s so much 💖new💖 look, until it is touched, and then the glass disappears. A subconscious wrongness suffuses it. Apple took it halfway. They Microsoft’ed it. I can use it, but it keeps me wondering… why?
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