Is there a way to completely disable the liquid glass functionality on iOS 26? I'm not going to get into a lengthy diatribe over why it's awful, I just want it gone.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18
There is no way to completely disable the Liquid Glass effect in iOS 26, but you can reduce its impact by going to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and turning on Reduce Transparency. This will make the interface less transparent, but it won't remove the effect entirely.
jeffrey512 wrote:
Where is there any documented guidance that recommends to force restart your device after every update?
Amongst those of us recommending it, a hundred years of experience.
I really hate it also, mostly due to my vision this gives and effect of more blur than I already have naturaly. Apple, please consider not all of us are perfect vision 20 somethings.
UI responsiveness is now muuuch slower
Google keyboard is much like ios18 format. I find the keyboard is better than original & typing is more accurate. very similar to a typewriter, i.e. old school
I wish I did not upgrade to iOS 26. For me liquid glass is not an improvement. Please give us an update that allow us to turn it off completely. Thank you!
It is horrific indeed ... maybe they will bring an option to go back to the previous theme upon next iOS release.
There should be a switch to turn off the transparent.
There is no reason for this change and enough people think that this "enhancement" is just weird and is working against the users.
I feel like apple should have a setting on whether or not to use it
You can make a suggestion to Apple here -
My battery is draining so much faster since this upgrade and liquid glass
If you have a backup you can downgrade to 18
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Report it to the European Union Data team. It is more difficult for people with poor eyesight to use, and is thus discriminatory against age.
Wrong. Hopefully, you were not thinking about nonsense like an IPSW file.
Just updated my devices and I find the transparency makes reading and writing very difficult. I have done all of the suggested help options but just want my old settings back.
There is an option under accessibility to reduce contrast on my Mac but the slider is turned off.
What iPhone did you have before? You may need to reduce frame rate.
How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?
