How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?

1. seems like you have limited options with a wallpaper that is not from your photos. Maybe try all the other options from this person's post. failed to load asset popup once I tap on … - Apple Community
2. seems like you fixed it. this is not a place to provide feedback to apple
3. for better reachability. you will get used to it but you are unable to change it
4. this is a problem with whatsapp as it is not in other apps. please contact their support teem

summary - as discussed already, liquid glass IS the ui, just as the flat design was. you couldn't switch back to skeumorphic design in ios 7 just like now. you have options to partially disable it which has been said throughout this thread.

5 - you have been able to change this for a long time. navigate to settings > display & brightness > auto-lock and configure it to your liking. also ensure that low power mode is turned off.

again, your feedback on the KISS principle and "average people" is not going to be read by apple. i'm sure apple is aware of this. that said, simplicity is valuable but does not make a unique look for an operating system that users may enjoy.

i disagree with this. the amount of blurred elements is extremely small in materials design 3 in comparison to liquid glass. can't even find that many photos of it that show any sort of blur. in the future they probably will though

If you want to turn of app Liquid Glass you simply have to hold down on the Home Screen to get the app to wobble or whatever they do and if you look to the very top left of the screen there is a edit button. Pressing that and then pressing customise will show app icon designs press either default or dark and they will no longer be liquidy

XD_Puppet43 wrote:

If you want to turn of app Liquid Glass you simply have to hold down on the Home Screen to get the app to wobble or whatever they do and if you look to the very top left of the screen there is a edit button. Pressing that and then pressing customise will show app icon designs press either default or dark and they will no longer be liquidy

You should check the date of a post before you reply. You do realize you've provided information, which has been shared multiple times over and over and to the original post written in September.

Leilabano wrote:

I already done that and it hasn’t made much difference. Everything is different,I hate it,I wish i could go back to previous display.

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They need to incorporate the option to turn this liquid glass effect off. It is annoying, looks ugly, has no real purpose and the founder of this company would never have allowed such nonsense.

Liquid Glass looks awful with my background photo. The photo is sentimental and I do not want to remove it for a dark background. There needs to be a way to turn this defeature off.

You can go to Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size and turn on Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast and that will do some, but you cannot "turn off" Liquid Glass.

I just discovered that reducing motion (Settings -> Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion) eliminates that weird glass distortion effect when you swipe to unlock!