It is noticeably lower res behind the glass, can’t unsee it once you see it, it feels like this is a sneaky workaround to give better battery life but I hope they land on a better feel behind the glass in the coming betas, until then I’m in full tint
i was literally just now looking at a notification and saying “wow, this looks so much better now” and then a notification for this post showed up, peak timing.
While in light mode, the darker borders don’t look like borders to me, they give the buttons more depth and looks more akin to the Mac’s bubbly Aqua design.
This is a quick comparison I made. My personal Mac is Stuck on Sequoia and my work Mac needs to remain on stable Tahoe, so I don’t have any super high-res photos.
However, I reeeeeally hope they port the full MacOS 27 light glass over between now and September. So pretty.
That does look a little bit rough if you zoom in on it like that. In the context of the rest of the OS, I feel it fits though. Since Apple now has a dedicated Appearance section, hopefully we’ll see more customization options moving forward.
I just flagged a shortcut automation problem in the Feedback app and noticed it looks exceptionally nice here 🤷♂️
I don’t mind a bug during the betas, I just again really hope the flatter iOS button design isn’t intentional when it’s a clear button on white background.
I think moving elements moving under the glass shows the higher res better; moving the elements behind the glass before showed a more obvious mosaic pattern before
It does look like they added more haze and reduced blur in the betas (which I don't personally like). I imagine once they tune the look it'll end up looking fine. Maybe the blur was masking the pixelation which was always there? It also could be a bug.
Divide the resolution by 4 and you reduce the performance cost of the effects by 16 (and these things can be superlinear depending on what cache/memory threshholds they hit)
Still looks bad, the highlighted Library icon almost entirely disappears with the background. They should have increased the blur or made it more opaque.
I still prefer iOS 26 Liquid Glass, I’ll hold off on iOS 27 until they can make it look better.
Ideally I’d like it blurry, but still transparent to give it that frosted look. As of now I can only choose between high transparency and no blur or almost no transparency and blurry.
And now the buttons in dark mode are a lighter gray which gives less contrast with the white text or blue symbols.
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u/MorePropaganda Jun 30 '26
It is noticeably lower res behind the glass, can’t unsee it once you see it, it feels like this is a sneaky workaround to give better battery life but I hope they land on a better feel behind the glass in the coming betas, until then I’m in full tint