How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?
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
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.
I ment 26.1 sorry about that, also that post just came in my email today. Didnt know it was in September.. i will check dates next time. Thanks
lobsterghost1 wrote:
Did you check your facts?
Facts? AI bots never check facts. They just make them up.
It’s hilarious that you assume they’re ai/used ai in that reply
Please remove liquid glass. Its too bubbly, to much round corners. The straight forward browser navigation and access is gone. Its horrible and looks like theme ios of windows 7 10 years ago.
It has nothing to do with liking it. Liquid Glass is an accessibility nightmare. The fixes are inadequate.
100% agree. Poorest interface design I’ve ever seen. There are so many people with different vision issues and this is a nightmare for anyone with one
Thank you so much for the answer to the question I didn't know I had. I was trying to figure out how to get used to liquid glass. Reducing transparency makes it much more readable.
Awesome! I never went into customize. Love the option of having the time displayed in solid instead of Liquid Glass. Thanks for the note.
This might help?
Thanks for the very clear instructions.
Reduce transparency was enough for me, but I'll look at the other settings and change them if I find I need to.
It’s so ugly, prescriptive and not clean
apple is losing the design edge
Same. I'm so sick of the forced unnecessary display changes 😡
I can barely read the time on my lock screen and I can’t tell what apps are in some folders now. This is ridiculous.
I tried the accessibility changes and they don’t help at all.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256136970?answerId=261731477022#261731477022
here's my previous answer to this question.
Thanks. It worked. Unintuitive that it would be a per-wallpaper setting.
How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?