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Small personal news: a few weeks ago I started a new job at Superhuman, as the head of design for Superhuman Mail.
Had a truly wonderful time at Figma, but have been feeling the itch to try something new. Excited to work on communication tools again (it's my happy place)
Hello Weather is the app of the day all over the world today! Amazing to see this rolling out globally 🥹
Doing a custom solution instead is also annoying, because Apple seemingly uses a different glass effect for the TabView vs what you’re allowed to use in the public APIs. So you can’t make a custom element match the aesthetic style of the tabs.
You can see the difference here in Slack’s implementation:
We’ve been using an iOS 26 TabView bottom accessory for our radar controls in Hello Weather, but in iOS 26.1, we can no longer condition it to only show on one tab. Now it shows up on every tab, which isn’t gonna work.
Anyone have a trick for this?
OK I installed iOS 26 on my phone. I’ve concluded that the Liquid Glass idea is fundamentally impossible to get right, because the aesthetic ambitions are directly opposed to the functionality of the interface.
You can’t make elevated UI elements nearly transparent, while also keeping them readable on top of background content that can have any combination of colors.
The only way to solve this is to not do this—the UI just has to be more opaque.
