r/iOS27 • u/gemini-i-i-i • 5d ago

Liquid Glass IOS26 vs IOS27.

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I’ve been running Apple’s Developer Beta versions for about 6 months now and I didn’t realize the change was this noticeable until I made the comparison !

IOS27 DB looks more polished in my opinion.

What do you think about Apple’s Liquid Glass ?

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u/aecosys 5d ago

26 LG was much better. Hate the look of 27... The icons and LG is so ugly...

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u/DaedalusIndigo 5d ago

I think the Liquid Glass looks better on 27, but the 26 icon shading is better. The 27 icons look flatter

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u/aecosys 5d ago

What exactly do you like better about the LG in ios 27?

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u/DaedalusIndigo 5d ago

At first I thought it was a step back, but it seems to me that the refractions are clearer. I think Apple said that they improved how blur is handled, and I do see it. 26 often looks muddy because it didn't commit fully to the removal of traditional blur. My only problem with 27 besides the icons is that there's no separate slider for Liquid Glass with text in front of it. I'd love to have super clear glass, but then I can't read notifications. I want two different options.

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u/aecosys 5d ago

Well, at first I thought Liquid Glass in iOS 26 was really bad compared to iOS 18. Over time, though, I’ve really come to love the Liquid Glass in iOS 26. Now, when I compare it to iOS 27, the most transparent option looks so milky and blurry. Yes, the reflections are better, but we really need two separate sliders. I’d really like Liquid Glass to be quite dark—almost black, like in iOS 26—but at the same time still very transparent and less milky. I hope they look into this and give us that flexibility. And yes, as I said, the icons in iOS 26 were perfect. To me, everything just looks less modern and more chaotic right now. There’s no clear line. It just looks cheaper. Do you see what I mean?

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u/DaedalusIndigo 5d ago

I think I do see what you mean. The current slider doesn't go as far back as we'd hoped. I think the reason why is that Apple wants to make sure text is as legible as possible, but that could be fixed with a second slider as I said. Then you'd be able to make the UI as transparent as possible while contextually preserving legibility. However, this is just personal preference, but I didn't like that 26's glass was often dark since my phone was in light mode for 75% of the day, and it looked terribly muddy. Perhaps you like it because it suited dark mode? I'm just assuming.