The more time I spend with Liquid Glass, the more I don't understand Alan Dye's and the design team's obsession with minimizing UI chrome and "prioritizing content" instead.
With collapsed tab bars in iOS 26, it now takes me two taps to switch between Library and Music.
Is that…better? The animations are gorgeous, sure. But does it actually *work* better? 🤔
I mean, you know me, I'm not the kind of person who hates change. I love to switch between systems, try new stuff, and be on the bleeding edge of tech.
But things have to be an improvement, and most of Liquid Glass feels like a sidestep with beautiful animations, a great physics engine, and worse usability than before.
We'll see what happens I guess!
Like, let's be honest: does this look good? Is it readable?
The animations are fantastic. The glass effect is a marvel of engineering.
But does it work well?
@viticci best I can tell, transparent UI exists only in movies, and only so we can see the actors faces through the screens.
I’m not sure why else you would want all that stuff behind it making your “content” unreadable.
Federico Viticci 
Ben Kirton