Apple adds a new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a caller enactment that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 truthful that they are much opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass astatine WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked precisely however glassy Liquid Glass is — aboriginal on, determination were some legibility issues — but this caller mounting gives you the prime of making things much transparent oregon much frosted.

The enactment is disposable present successful the iOS 26.1 developer beta that Apple launched connected Monday. You tin entree it from Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass, wherever you tin take betwixt “Clear” and “Tinted.” The latest iPadOS 26.1 and macOS 26.1 developer betas besides fto you tint Liquid Glass, MacRumors reports.

Here’s a fewer representation sliders showing however things look with the wide oregon tinted Liquid Glass. For each one, the screenshot connected the near features the app with the “Clear” Liquid Glass enactment portion the screenshot connected the close uses the “Tinted” one. The differences are subtle, but I overmuch similar the Tinted versions.

The Liquid Glass paper successful settings.

The Verge’s homepage.

The Apple TV app. Apple seems to inactive beryllium rolling retired the Apple TV rebranding.

The App Store.

The Liquid Glass toggle isn’t the lone useful caller enactment Apple added with the newest iOS 26.1 beta. The update besides lets you crook disconnected the quality to swipe to the camera from the fastener screen, which mightiness forestall radical who person your telephone from taking pictures adjacent if they can’t bypass your fastener screen. You tin entree the toggle from Settings > Camera > Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera.