Finished filing my initial Feedbacks from last week:

- Please provide an option for widgets to optionally have the glass background (FB18149747)

- Allow App Intents to indicate they need to run from within their host app (FB18149990)

- Add option to filter which iOS Controls appear on watchOS (FB18150151)

- Please add support for the new Power Profiler Instrument to watchOS (FB18150323)

My next Liquid Glass Design Diary post is up. This time discussing how all my initial attempts at "adopting" the new design just involved rounding all the corners and “LIQUID GLASS ALL THE THINGS!!”…this was misguided and missing the point of the new deisgn language.

Generally the best guidance I can find is that the new glass effect is to be used in cases where it draws a lovely layering with the content underneath the element, not just as an effect on its own.

https://david-smith.org/blog/2025/06/17/design-dary-liquid-glass-everything/

Do yourself a favor and turn on Debug > ”Slow Animations” in an iOS 26 simulator and then bounce around within an app. It really lets you get a sense of the fun merging effects they are doing with Toolbars and generally how so much "life" the system is imbued with.

The way the glass droplets combine and separate is gorgeous.

And just like that another WWDC in the books, my thanks to all the folks at Apple who put on a wonderful conference, the engineers and designers who have created so many fun new tools for me to use, and all the developers I got to spend time with.

I’m leaving Cupertino very excited to tackle a busy, but really compelling, summer of work. I’ve been doing this long enough to have a good sense of when it will be one of those “really good” summers…and I get the feeling this is gonna be of those.

I’m loving seeing all the little refinements to the in-person experience at Apple Park over the years. It is great that this year the upstairs area at the visitor’s center is now a freeform “developer lounge” to create a common space for coalescing.

And perhaps more importantly they deployed umbrellas so we don’t bake under the hot Cupertino sun.

As someone who has spent the last 5 years deeply immeshed in the world of home screen customization. I'm pretty sure the new light mode tinted is gonna be a massive hit this fall.

I also really love how the configurator for it can pickup the colors from your wallpaper to make it even easier to make it harmonious.

(PS. I also LOVE that “Edit Wallpaper” is an option in the Customize menu now)