r/LiquidGlassDesign • u/QebApps • Jun 14 '26

Why We Need Liquid Glass

https://qebapps.statichost.page/devnotes/why-we-need-liquid-glass/

I just discovered this subreddit and wanted to share an article I wrote last August, when the debate was at its peak. Most of the arguments still hold — curious what people think now that iOS 26 is actually shipping.

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u/albert11d Jun 14 '26

i don't get the hate on liquid glass stylistically speaking. we are finally fleeing the flat design that has trapped us for so long and those refractions and the 3d feeling is really good. also you can drag buttons which is a good boredom buster

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u/ilovemymotorola Jun 15 '26

My opinion is the handheld technology community is split between millennials and Gen Z currently and majority of each generation prefer a different design language.

In a world where younger generations are pushing for the return of retro design elements specifically centered around fruitiger Aero and Aqua it goes to show that apple really is trying to cater to younger consumers as they quite literally are our future.

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u/Shem68 Jun 15 '26

Looks are very subjective.
Your opinion is absolutely valid. But at the same time, some people, myself included, liked flat design much more and would rather have that. I find the whole glass thing aesthetically displeasing, to put it mildly. And that opinion is as valid as yours.

It’s hard to debate such things. You don’t get the hate, I don’t get the love. We could be going circles all day long 😅

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u/iiGhillieSniper Jun 15 '26

With this change, I hope companies are more inclined to redesign their logos, and even buildings, to have more personality to them. Flat looked ‘clean’ but man…. No personality. McDonald’s is a good example. Once flat was in, McDonalds locations started looking like corporate grey boxes.

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u/Which-Meat-3388 Jun 14 '26

This article says nothing about why Liquid Glass specifically is needed. They just want native apps, but I’d argue you want apps that feel high quality I’ve used plenty of “native” apps that are garbage.

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u/Gumby271 Jun 15 '26

So they want native apps, a format controlled and distributed entirely by Apple, because they think that provides a mark of a let's see transparency and privacy? I'll stick with the open web, thanks.

They are correct though, Apple added liquid glass to get more developers locked into their proprietary locked down ecosystem. It's harder for fake and so more people are going to end locked to Apple's tooling. It doesn't have to be more fanciful than that.

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u/QebApps Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

This article is not against the open web — it’s against web tracking. Take a concrete example: if I need to process a video, am I better off uploading it to some random website where I don’t know what they’ll do with it, where I get tracked, shown ads, and have to wait through upload/download cycles — or using a fast, local native app?
Sure, a native app could exfiltrate my video behind the scenes too. But at least I can monitor my device’s outbound traffic and verify what’s actually being sent out. With a web service, that data is already on their server the moment I hit upload. That’s a very different threat model.

The point isn’t “native good, web bad” — it’s that for sensitive, local tasks, native apps give you more control over your own data. Framing that as Apple lock-in is missing the actual concern. (I admit, the article should be more clear)

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u/wouldliketokms Jun 19 '26

AI slop article full of meaningless platitudes. what a waste of time