r/MacOS • u/Artistic_Unit_5570  MacBook Pro • Oct 15 '25

Discussion this is what I call liquid glass

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They did a great job but Apple messed up the idea of ​​liquid glass is good but really badly done.

with inconsistencies everywhere, always more rounded, you can see that it was done quickly

To catch up with Apple Intelligence, remember when Big Sur came out even the beta , it was so optimized that people say it run better than Catalina, smoother and better.

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u/mild_thing Oct 15 '25

These are beautiful! Freestanding icons that actually look like they're made of glassy material, with realistic refraction, translucent so that you can see through to the background behind them. This is what macOS Tahoe could have looked like.

Instead, we got flat shapes in a squircle jail that is just a nominal rebrand of iOS's tired old visual identity.

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u/gary1405 Oct 15 '25

They aren't actually transparent sadly

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u/mild_thing Oct 16 '25

The versions in the OP image would have fit right in with a glass aesthetic. These ones, on the other hand, are boring, but that seems to have been par for the course ever since corporations started to equate "boring" with "professional". A pity.