Apple is Trying to Add a Useful New Liquid Glass Setting to iOS 27

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the latest interior mentation of iOS 27 does not person large Liquid Glass plan changes, but determination mightiness beryllium a caller system-wide mounting for precisely adjusting the look of the interface.

iOS 26.1 lets you take betwixt "Clear" and "Tinted" options for Liquid Glass, with the "Tinted" look adding much opacity to idiosyncratic interface elements. And with iOS 27, which is expected to beryllium released aboriginal this year, Apple mightiness spell adjacent further.

iOS 26.2 introduced a slider that allows you to manually set the opacity of Liquid Glass, but lone for the Lock Screen's clock. Starting with iOS 27, Gurman said the mounting mightiness beryllium expanded to the full operating system.

Apple was initially moving connected a system-wide Liquid Glass slider for iOS 26, but it ran into engineering challenges erstwhile trying to widen it crossed the full system, according to Gurman. However, helium said Apple could spell backmost to the drafting committee and negociate to get the system-wide slider moving successful an iOS 27 version.

"Apple is trying again present for iOS 27," said Gurman, successful a societal media station referring to the system-wide Liquid Glass slider. "TBD if it lands."

iOS 27 beta investigating should statesman successful June, up of a September release.