{"id":1929250,"date":"2026-05-11T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1929250"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:00:51","slug":"yes-apple-is-reportedly-retooling-some-liquid-glass-problems-for-macos-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1929250","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Apple Is Reportedly Retooling Some Liquid Glass Problems for macOS 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By providing a needed security patch to an older version of iOS last month, Apple tacitly\u2014but unofficially\u2014acknowledged that avoiding the Liquid Glass aesthetic is a valid choice.<\/p>\n

Now, according to anonymous sources who spoke to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, an upcoming update will address problems with Liquid Glass in macOS 26. If you haven\u2019t updated because you hate it, or are worried the design flaws make it unusable, you are seen.<\/p>\n

Gurman writes that Apple \u201cis preparing what people internally consider to be a \u2018slight redesign\u2019 for macOS 27,\u201d and that the company is looking to fix, \u201cshadows and transparency quirks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurman\u2019s sources sound a bit defensive, however. They tell him the Liquid Glass update \u201cdidn\u2019t necessarily suffer from design problems,\u201d but instead had \u201ca not-completely-baked implementation from Apple\u2019s software engineering team.\u201d The fixes, then, are supposed to \u201cmake Liquid Glass look the way Apple\u2019s design team intended it to from the start.\u201d Got it? The designers thought everything through from the beginning, but the artless neanderthals who built their designs into software\u2014this thinking goes\u2014let them down.<\/p>\n

My first impression was that it was overly generous of Gurman to give voice to this framing of the Liquid Glass story, but I have to admit that it\u2019s also a genuinely plausible explanation for just how hated the design scheme ended up being.<\/p>\n

For instance, while Apple has already chipped away at some of the bigger problems, Tahoe shipped with some issues that were beyond annoying and actually interfered with usability, particularly for low vision people. Before the 26.3 update in February, as OS X Daily noted, choosing the option to reduce transparency \u201cwould leave considerable transparent effects, including in sidebars, headers, titlebars, search boxes, and more, leading to situations where text would overlap and interface elements would be washed out with blurry colors and interface elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, some designs were heavily criticized on an aesthetic basis, not as bad implementation<\/i>. There\u2019s probably no bigger Apple fan than John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and his take on the redesign of some of the icons was scorching: \u201cI don\u2019t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good\u2009\u2014\u2009Apple has mostly lost its \u201cicons\u00a0look\u00a0cool\u201d game. But the new ones in MacOS 26 Tahoe are objectively terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurman has claimed in the past that Liquid Glass is sort of a long game, rolled out in advance of the release of the 20th anniversary iPhone, which he expects to be a huge design milestone for Apple. Supposedly, that phone\u2019s overall vibe will benefit from Liquid Glass. When all is revealed, maybe the world will agree.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, macOS is getting some tweaks, and we should expect, Gurman says, \u201cmore of a cleanup and refinement effort aligned with the company\u2019s wider push to polish its software this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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By providing a needed security patch to an older version of iOS last month, Apple tacitly\u2014but unofficially\u2014acknowledged that avoiding the Liquid Glass aesthetic is a valid choice.<\/p>\n

Now, according to anonymous sources who spoke to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, an upcoming update will address problems with Liquid Glass in macOS 26. If you haven\u2019t updated because you hate it, or are worried the design flaws make it unusable, you are seen.<\/p>\n

Gurman writes that Apple \u201cis preparing what people internally consider to be a \u2018slight redesign\u2019 for macOS 27,\u201d and that the company is looking to fix, \u201cshadows and transparency quirks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurman\u2019s sources sound a bit defensive, however. They tell him the Liquid Glass update \u201cdidn\u2019t necessarily suffer from design problems,\u201d but instead had \u201ca not-completely-baked implementation from Apple\u2019s software engineering team.\u201d The fixes, then, are supposed to \u201cmake Liquid Glass look the way Apple\u2019s design team intended it to from the start.\u201d Got it? The designers thought everything through from the beginning, but the artless neanderthals who built their designs into software\u2014this thinking goes\u2014let them down.<\/p>\n

My first impression was that it was overly generous of Gurman to give voice to this framing of the Liquid Glass story, but I have to admit that it\u2019s also a genuinely plausible explanation for just how hated the design scheme ended up being.<\/p>\n

For instance, while Apple has already chipped away at some of the bigger problems, Tahoe shipped with some issues that were beyond annoying and actually interfered with usability, particularly for low vision people. Before the 26.3 update in February, as OS X Daily noted, choosing the option to reduce transparency \u201cwould leave considerable transparent effects, including in sidebars, headers, titlebars, search boxes, and more, leading to situations where text would overlap and interface elements would be washed out with blurry colors and interface elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, some designs were heavily criticized on an aesthetic basis, not as bad implementation<\/i>. There\u2019s probably no bigger Apple fan than John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and his take on the redesign of some of the icons was scorching: \u201cI don\u2019t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good\u2009\u2014\u2009Apple has mostly lost its \u201cicons\u00a0look\u00a0cool\u201d game. But the new ones in MacOS 26 Tahoe are objectively terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurman has claimed in the past that Liquid Glass is sort of a long game, rolled out in advance of the release of the 20th anniversary iPhone, which he expects to be a huge design milestone for Apple. Supposedly, that phone\u2019s overall vibe will benefit from Liquid Glass. When all is revealed, maybe the world will agree.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, macOS is getting some tweaks, and we should expect, Gurman says, \u201cmore of a cleanup and refinement effort aligned with the company\u2019s wider push to polish its software this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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