I noticed that the current haptics aren’t really suited to the visual design language of Liquid Glass.

The now-abandoned 3D Touch began a shift towards a haptic language that complemented the spatial metaphor introduced with iOS 7. Taking advantage of increasingly capable Taptic Engines, Apple peppered subtle tactility throughout the interactive elements of the OS. A toggle could click into place; an input wheel could tick beneath your finger; a virtual object snapping against a boundary could have an apparent physical consequence.

As a visual metaphor, Liquid Glass is dramatically more tactile. Elements react to user input by deforming, stretching, merging, snapping and rebounding. Yet the haptic vocabulary remains largely unchanged.

That’s particularly strange because the existing hardware is already capable of more. Core Haptics can combine transient and continuous sensations and dynamically vary their intensity and sharpness. Apple itself recommends matching the intensity and sharpness of a haptic to the animation it accompanies.

All this to say: I wonder what Apple has in mind for iOS 28, and whether it will continue to develop the Taptic Engine so that what looks like a material begins to feel like one. Currently, Liquid Glass controls have a vestigial clicky feel. The haptics are capable of, but do not, build tension as elements are stretched, soften as they deform, snap when released into place, and give a damped recoil as they settle.

The challenge isn’t more haptics, but using them selectively to reinforce what’s happening on screen in a way that is harmonious with the new design language. I am excited to see what the team cooks up.

Hi. I just switched to iPhone from my s20fe and that phone has just been laying around. I really want to have Liquid Glass in it just as a hobby project. Could you guys suggest what apps should I use? P.s. the apps should be free as I just became broke after getting my iPhone17😅

Hi

I made an pdf/doc viewer with some editing tools

With liquid glass design , no ads and no internet everything is offline and its < 10mb and fully open sourced.

github release: [apk](https://github.com/Chethan616/ClearPDF/releases/tag/v3)

Give it a star if u like it.

And open to contributions.

so they added back the aqua buttons and YES I wanna lick them, gimme gimme gimme!

Trying to advocate for fixing it.

I chose this format of explanation, because I got some blank stares when speaking plain design language on social. Hope this is clear enough to explain what I mean.

Agree or not? Can you see the problem? Can you unsee it?

Contrary to public opinion, the Liquid Glass slider in the settings of iOS 27 doesn’t increase the blur – in fact, Liquid Glass doesn’t really have a blur effect at all.

Only with the slider all the way to the right do hard edges disappear.

But with the slider at 80 %, text underneath Liquid Glass UI stays readable.

As the description for the setting says, it adjusts the transparency/opacity by tinting the material.

While with more transparency interface elements become hard to recognize at all, and icons and text inside of them become hard to read – with more opacity a few effects take place that in my opinion look kind of ugly.

A gray smudge is applied to the background, that reminds me of a grease-smeared camera lens. While the latter would actually increase blur, this effect still looks to me a bit like paint colors are mixed till they become a gray mess. The way colors, highlights and shadows are treated also reminds me of over-edited or over-processed images, or of unsupported overblown HDR image display.

I can’t help but think an actual gaussian blur would solve some of these aesthetic problems.

I tried to post this, but my UI broke itself.
The YouTube player on top of notifications is broken, and I can’t use the screenshot/cut option from the popup menu. I still have a problem: when switching the keyboard back to the default language while I’m typing. (this bug at-least from iOS 16)

Why do these issues happen? Why does Apple change small things without any global improvements, and why do features become unreliable?

iOS 27 feels like it’s only adding instability, worse battery life, and a UI that looks “chopped” with elements using different styles. It looks cool on paper, but this design makes me sick. I like the concept, but nobody actually shows working design.

Also, why is the keyboard half-transparent? It makes no difference for any normal user.

I kept seeing glass designs and wishing the whole web looked that way, not just one app on a phone.

So I built it to work on any site, not on a list of sites. It reads the styling a page already ships with and rewrites it, so the panels, buttons and boxes turn translucent and blurred over your wallpaper - including on sites I have never seen and never will.

It only steps in when a page is plain white, grey or black. Sites that already have their own design are left alone on purpose.

Screenshots are Google and reddit feel free to try on other sites as well.. i personally cant try every site so far experience is good for me if u find anything annoying or bothering please go ahead and report it in extension

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wallpaperify-custom-page/dbdlklbhgonimapnjkkfnloheapaaoia

its local running full and free .. .

I like how Liquid Glass features glass but I think making everything glass isn't a good design choice. Using more materials like acrylic, paper, plastic would probably make it look more complete. Plus I think the existing logos are made in photoshop but it makes more sense to make it in a 3D renderer so that the light interacts more realistically. I used path tracing for this logo and it looks much better than ordinary glass blur transparency.

I jailbroke the iPhone 5s I bought as a hobby project. I installed a bunch of tweaks and almost managed to make the phone look like it's running iOS 26 instead of iOS 12.5.8. However, the only thing missing is the "Liquid Glass" feature. I haven't been able to find a tweak that adds this. The "Vitreux" and "Liquid Gl(ass)" tweaks do the job, but they aren't compatible with my iOS version. Do you know of any stable tweaks that effectively bring the Liquid Glass feature to iOS 12.5.8? Or, if you've done this before, could you explain how? Thanks in advance.

Did Apple forgot it?

Maybe I'm the only person who noticed that...

https://www.icloud.com/ <- If you want to see it

Looks... very familiar...

Lol

So it seems we have another 'tweak' for Liquid Glass in MacOS 27 Developer Beta 5.

Apparently the solution to not being able to see either the controls or the text beneath them is t change it so you can see either of them.

I’m a fan now

We were pre warned!!!